Outlook for Mac and iCloud

As a recent convert to the world of OS X from Windows/PC, I want to keep with Outlook and have made the huge investment in Office for Mac Business version - emails work fine, but I was hoping to be able to Sync my iPad Contacts and Calendar via iCloud.
I now realise this is impossible and so am resorting to using Outlook for emails and iMail for contacts and calendar. This may not be the best way.
Does anyone have a suggestion how one can best have these contacts and calendar synced between iPad and MacPro (Outlook ideally)?
Many thanks

Which email provider do you use?

Googlemail. Thanks

Then use can use google sync to sync your mail, contacts and calendars across all your devices.

It uses googles exchange server rather than iCloud but the result is the same.

I've been doing this for a long time now.

Google Sync for your phone