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Aravind Sridharan - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Data, Analytics, and Applications at FTC Solar, Inc
Real User
Nov 5, 2023
A scalable and stable product that offers excellent integration and is worth the money
Pros and Cons
  • "The product integrates well with Windows and Microsoft solutions."
  • "The configuration could be faster."

What is most valuable?

The product integrates well with Windows and Microsoft solutions.

What needs improvement?

Group and membership administration in Teams is confusing. It could be improved. The configuration could be faster.

For how long have I used the solution?

We use the solution for AD and user management.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

I rate the tool’s stability a nine out of ten. The permission management feature doesn't seem to work as we think it would, especially when external teams are involved. It is complicated.

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What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

I have no complaints about the scalability of the product. Around 300 people are using the product in our organization. We might increase the usage gradually as the company grows.

How are customer service and support?

I am not super happy with the technical support. I rate the support a six or seven out of ten.

How was the initial setup?

The setup is okay.

What was our ROI?

The features offered by the tool are worth the money.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The solution is moderately priced for what it offers.

What other advice do I have?

I recommend the product to others. User permissions and administration take a little bit of time, especially if we have external parties who also need to access our AD and the resources inside. It needs a bit of digging around. Overall, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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ElastosChimwanda - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Internal Audit at Zimbabwe Women's Microfinance Bank (ZWMB)
Real User
Nov 5, 2023
A scalable and easy-to-deploy tool that performs well and provides good security features
Pros and Cons
  • "The security provided by the solution is valuable."
  • "The stability could be improved."

What is our primary use case?

I use the solution for emails.

What is most valuable?

The security provided by the solution is valuable. It works well.

What needs improvement?

The stability could be improved.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using the solution for some years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

I rate the tool’s stability an eight out of ten.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

The tool is scalable. Approximately 200 people are using the product in our organization. We need ten people to deploy and maintain the tool.

How was the initial setup?

The setup is easy. I can do it by myself.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

The solution is not very expensive.

What other advice do I have?

I recommend the product to others. Overall, I rate the tool an eight out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

On-premises
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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Microsoft 365 Business
April 2026
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Business Head at MCS india
Real User
Nov 1, 2023
An easy-to-use business solution that needs to improve its interface
Pros and Cons
  • "Microsoft 365 Business is an easy-to-use solution."
  • "The tool should improve its interface."

What is our primary use case?

We use the product for business processes. 

What is most valuable?

Microsoft 365 Business is an easy-to-use solution. 

What needs improvement?

The tool should improve its interface.

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using the product for ten years. 

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

I rate the product's stability a nine out of ten. 

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

Microsoft 365 Business is scalable. 

How was the initial setup?

Microsoft 365 Business' deployment is easy. Deployment is completed in 10 days. 

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

Microsoft 365 Business is expensive. 

What other advice do I have?

I rate the product an eight out of ten. 

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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Business solution Manager at NFPC
Real User
Oct 29, 2023
Scalable product with a good user interface
Pros and Cons
  • "The platform has a good performance. It helps us in finding emails."
  • "There could be more integration with different platforms for the product."

What is our primary use case?

We use the product for sending and receiving emails.

What is most valuable?

The platform has a good performance. It helps us in finding emails.

What needs improvement?

There could be more integration with different platforms for the product.

For how long have I used the solution?

We have been using Microsoft 365 Business for four or five years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

I rate the platform’s stability an eight or nine out of ten.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

We have more than 200 Microsoft 365 Business users in our organization. It is a scalable product. We plan to increase the number of licenses. However, it will be expensive.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup process takes less than a day to complete. It requires one executive to work on it.

What about the implementation team?

We have a technical team and a consultant to assist with product implementation.

What was our ROI?

Microsoft 365 Business generates a return on investment for us.

What other advice do I have?

I recommend Microsoft 365 Business and rate it an eight out of ten. Its user interface works fine.

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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Assistant consultant at Vvolve management consultants
Real User
Jul 24, 2023
Stable solution and offers ability to slice and dice data for focused analysis
Pros and Cons
  • "The setup is straightforward."
  • "I would like to see more integration options."

What is our primary use case?

I  use it for Microsoft Excel, which helps with data analysis. It integrates Power BI, allowing us to perform various slicing and dicing of data.

Mostly, I have only used Microsoft 365 Business for emails and PowerPoints as of now.

How has it helped my organization?

The solution includes most of the things we need. We can use it to integrate other source systems as well, like Power BI.

What is most valuable?

It's helpful to even use it to build queries, like Microsoft queries. We can write SQL queries by joining two tables present in Excel itself. So, it's like having two tables in separate sheets, and we can build a query using a common column as a join condition. We can see the key dataset with common columns using the join condition. 

Moreover, we can also perform outer joins, making Microsoft 365 Business ideal for data analysis as well.

What needs improvement?

In future releases, I would like to see more integration options. 

For how long have I used the solution?

I've been using it for the past around one year. We currently use the latest version.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

It is a scalable solution. There are over 10,000 end-users in our organization. It is extensively used in our organization. We do have plans to increase the usage.

For example, I primarily use Excel in Microsoft 365 Business. So, we have options like Excel options; we have add-ins. So under the data tab, we have a data streamer, and we also have Microsoft Power Query for Excel. So using these, we can include the data-related menu bar in Excel software.

How was the initial setup?

The setup is straightforward. We have Excel, and we can use it as it is. It might need an add-in to be included.

We need maintenance primarily for data analysis. We use it to analyze the data, especially when we have a large dataset that we want to segregate and analyze specifically for a particular functionality. In such cases, we can use Excel for slicing and dicing the data. It allows us to focus on a specific chunk of data to make informed decisions.

What about the implementation team?

The deployment was done by our in-house team. It's a direct tool like Microsoft Excel, but there is an add-in that can be used to integrate with other source systems. It may extend the functionality.

We don't have a separate deployment process. Excel is a file that we have as part of Microsoft Office. It's a direct use, but we might need to include an add-in to display or the data-related menu in the Excel menu bar.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

There would be licensing costs because Microsoft 365 Business requires a product key and a license to be present in order to use its products, including Excel and other supportive products.

What other advice do I have?

I would suggest you to start using Excel as a basic step because Excel has its own formulas and functions. They can begin with lookups in Excel and then subsequently move ahead with building queries. 

If a person has only Excel to work with, they can start with that. But they would need to have Microsoft 365 Business to proceed further with other features.

Based on the Excel work that I have done using Excel, which is a part of Microsoft 365. So, for Excel, I would rate it eight out of ten.

Therefore, I would rate the solution an eight out of ten. 

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

On-premises
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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Chandrakant Bharadwaj - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Data Management at Zeno Health
Real User
Top 10
Aug 16, 2021
Stable, scalable, and feature-rich
Pros and Cons
  • "The features such as meetings connected with Microsoft Teams and the integration is fabulous."
  • "The features such as meetings connected with Microsoft Teams and the integration is fabulous."
  • "The dashboard is an area of improvement."
  • "The dashboard is an area of improvement. It is needed for the summary of the device, telling how many emails you have and what needs to be responded to."

What is our primary use case?

We use Microsoft 365 Business for emails in Outlook.

How has it helped my organization?

Having everything in one platform, that is integrated, helps us to save time. We have better Communication and Collaboration.

What is most valuable?

Managing the complete mailbox, the email thread. The features such as meetings connected with Microsoft Teams and the integration is fabulous.

It works perfectly.

What needs improvement?

The dashboard is an area of improvement. It is needed for the summary of the device. Telling how many emails you have, and what needs to be responded to. 

AI-based intelligence should be more intuitive. For example, in Google, you can schedule a meeting and Google will ask you if it should schedule a meeting based on your email. It will tell you the times that are available. 

For how long have I used the solution?

I have been using Microsoft 365 Business for one year.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

Microsoft 365 Business is a stable product. We have not experienced any issues with bugs or glitches.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

It's a scalable product. My organization has 20,000 people who are using it.

How are customer service and technical support?

We have not contacted technical support.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

Previously, we used G-Suite, Google, and Gmail but we find that Microsoft is better.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup is quite easy for me, but it was done through my team.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

I am not aware of the pricing.

Which other solutions did I evaluate?

We are currently evaluating MDM software for implementation in our company.

We are looking for a new product. We are doing comparisons and analyzing different products.

What other advice do I have?

I would rate Microsoft 365 Business an eight out of ten.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Private Cloud
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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Telephony manager at Allied Global
Real User
Jun 8, 2021
Great video conferencing feature; SharePoint is a great collaboration tool
Pros and Cons
  • "Valuable features are video conferencing, email, and Office suite."
  • "Employees are working from home and this solution has enabled us to continue functioning."
  • "Video feeds cannot be disabled which is a distraction during video conferencing."
  • "The product lacks features and is quite expensive so I rate this solution a nine out of 10."

What is our primary use case?

I work for a contact center in Guatemala and this is a contact center platform. We use the 365 tools for our daily operations including email and back office tools. We're customers of Microsoft and I'm the telephony manager. 

What is most valuable?

Videoconferencing using teams allowed us to keep our meeting cadence during the transition to working from home. SharePoint allowed us to keep sharing content for mobile and work from home users without breaking the company security protocols.

We completed the transition to Microsoft outlook company wide Data leak prevention policy templates added the additional security required for WFH.


What needs improvement?

We have 5,000 employees and 75% are working from home. It's very stressful when you're video conferencing and you can't disable your own video feeds. I'm always having to look at myself during a conference call. One of our consultants suggested disabling our own self video feed to reduce the stress during a long conference call. It's something small but it bothered everybody.

The other issue is when you want to connect the publicly accessible telephone network to Teams, it requires a paid service and additional models and hardware. If I invite you to a Teams session, you need to have Teams installed. It requires a specific phone connection and for you to have a phone in order to dial into the conference switch. Zoom has a pool of telephone lines already included in the base service and you can just call up the conference number without needing to install anything. That's not the case with Microsoft. 

For how long have I used the solution?

I've been using this solution for three years.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

The tool works, but we have had a couple of blackouts. It was a global problem where the entire platform started behaving badly. The more you rely on the tool, the bigger the concern is for a cloud platform, but so far so good. We had a couple of issues, but that was worldwide. Of the 5,000 people in the company, probably half of them are users.  

We have three people in the company responsible for setup and the actual migration, and they deal with upkeep and any problems. We'll increase use for everybody because we're continuing to work from home and this is going to be the defacto communication tool for our working from home agents. 

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

We previously used Google but moved to Microsoft.

How was the initial setup?

The initial setup was straightforward. We did it ourselves and we paid for gold support, so we just raised a couple of questions, but it was pretty straightforward. Implementation took about one month. 

What was our ROI?

Employees are working from home and this solution has enabled us to continue functioning. 

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

Licensing is on an annual basis. 

What other advice do I have?

It's important to take advantage of the adoption project managers at Microsoft. Our initial setup was without hiccups, but the team at Microsoft responsible for the early adoption for a successful implementation are key. They really helped with the initial setup. When you start from zero, it's not as intuitive as you might think and it helps to have people with more knowledge to point you in the right direction. It's not rocket science, but trying to do it yourself can be a nightmare. 

The product lacks features and is quite expensive so I rate this solution a nine out of 10.

Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

Hybrid Cloud

If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
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Syed Fahad Anwar - PeerSpot reviewer
Principal System Developer at DiwanDubai
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
Mar 16, 2026
Microsoft online solutions for business with support
Pros and Cons
  • "You can access Microsoft 365 Business from anywhere. You have full access to Office 365 or Outlook 365, and the support is there."
  • "The technical support could be more knowledgeable."

What is our primary use case?

We are using Microsoft Office and Teams for collaboration purposes, Microsoft Teams specifically helps us during the COVID phase, increasing productivity for both remote work and onsite work.

How has it helped my organization?

We see a productivity increase and a better collaboration platform. Instead of booking a meeting room for discussion, we can just use Teams to meet. 

What is most valuable?

You can access Microsoft 365 Business from anywhere. You have full access to Office 365 or Outlook 365, and the support is there.

It's always updated because Microsoft does patching regularly.

It's easier to configure, and you don't have to worry about supporting the solution.

What needs improvement?

The price could be cheaper.

The technical support could be more knowledgeable.

For how long have I used the solution?

We have been using it for two years.

We use the cloud-based solution.

What do I think about the stability of the solution?

It is stable.

What do I think about the scalability of the solution?

It is scalable. We have more than 1000 users.

How are customer service and support?

Technical support is okay, but they could be more knowledgeable.

Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

We were using the on-premises version before the cloud solution.

What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?

We have a yearly license, and it could be cheaper.

What other advice do I have?

On a scale from one to ten, I would rate Microsoft 365 Business at nine.

Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
Last updated: Mar 16, 2026
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