Microsoft 365 Business Reviews

We always use the latest version. 

We use the solution for SharePoint, documents and email.

The OneDrive part could be more user-friendly, because many people want to use it. The sharing of the documents, such as files, should be addressed in respect of using a personal user. 

We have been using Microsoft 365 Business for two years.

The solution is stable.

The solution is easy to expand to accommodate multiple users. 

We have an internal tech support team that helps us with issues that arise. 

Our cloud solution was with Microsoft.

The installation is convenient and they handled it for us from the office. 

The installation and deployment are easy to undertake, as we already have a Microsoft package. This comes with Teams, Outlook, Excel and PowerPoint.

The organization is responsible for the license. 

I believe we have around 10,000 users.

I would definitely recommend the solution to others. 

I rate Microsoft 365 Business as a nine or nine-point-five out of ten.

We are using Microsoft 365 Business for our organization's productivity. We use many of the applications in the package, such as Outlook, Excel, and Word. Additionally, we use it for collaboration.

The collaboration is very good.

The integration is good but could be better.

I have been using Microsoft 365 Business for approximately five years.

The solution is stable.

Microsoft 365 Business is scalable.

We have approximately 6,000 users using this solution.

The support from Microsoft has not been very good in my experience and it is expensive.

The installation is not very easy.

We are on a monthly subscription for the use of Microsoft 365 Business. There is an additional fee for support.

I rate Microsoft 365 Business an eight out of ten.

We use this solution to manage emails. We mostly use Outlook.

I prefer Outlook. It gives me a lot of feature sets.

There are too many products included in Office 365, most of which we do not use at all. They should concentrate on the ones that are mostly being used.

I have been using Microsoft 365 Business for three or four years.

We are using the latest version.

Microsoft 365 Business is a stable product.

There are no issues with the scalability of this solution.

All of the members of our company are using this solution. We have approximately 350 members who use Microsoft 365 Business.

We have not contacted technical support. We have not had any issues.

We are in the training phases with Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS. We have not deployed these solutions in our environment.

The installation is straightforward. You don't need a technical team to install it.

The price for the license is always expensive. We need to bring it down.

The licensing fees are paid yearly.

For sure, I would recommend this solution to others.

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

The main use of the solution is for business applications. 

Microsoft 365 Business is user-friendly.

I have been using the solution for approximately two years. 

The solution is stable. 

I find the solution scalable. 

One of the most valuable features of the solution is that it can be quickly procured and installed. This is because is SaaS-based and does not require installation. There is only the configuration that is required. 

The solution requires a license which is expensive. 

I would advise people before purchasing Microsoft 365 Business to evaluate it to make sure it contains and supports applications required by their organization. 

I recommend the solution to others.

I rate Microsoft 365 Business an eight out of ten. 

We primarily use it as a business solution. We're using it for applications such as Microsoft Word, SharePoint, Teams, et cetera.

The solution has been very stable. It's very reliable. 

The scalability is good. When a company needs to expand it, it can do so.

We would like to see the solution use more artificial intelligence bots in future releases. 

I've used the solution for about two years now. It's been a while at this point.

We have found the solution to be very stable. It's reliable and the performance is good. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze.

You can scale the solution if you need to. 

We have more than 2,000 people on the solution currently.

We have always used Microsoft. We did not use a different solution. We likely used an earlier version of Microsoft.

I didn't take care of the implementation part of the solution. I cannot speak to how easy or difficult it was or what was involved in the process. I also cannot say how big the technical team was that rolled it out. 

We pay a yearly licensing fee, however, I do not have insights into the exact costs. I don't handle anything related to licensing. 

We're using the latest version of the solution.

I'd rate the solution at a nine out of ten. We've been pretty happy with its capabilities. 

I'd recommend the solution to other users and companies mostly based on its stability.

My use case is internally, as a seller communicating with my fellow colleagues. We use the OneNote package for Windows 10 to share internal knowledge. That gets used every day, all day. We use Microsoft Dynamics as our CRM, and we have done something really wonderful and are able to have them all talk to each other. We put in an account code in one area and it is documented in many different areas.

There are a couple features that I have found most valuable. Recording is a major feature for us, at least internally. It took a lot of conversations and I can't type that fast. We are able to capture and then go back and repeat. Dictation is huge. I use that on client calls when the client is speaking, I can give you a play-by-play of that conversation, with their permission, of course. Then the obvious features, Outlook and email are just spot on. I never have any glitches there. It's sent and received within the timeline of five seconds and life is good.

In terms of what could be improved, it has always been my question why can't we just have one solution? Everything is an add on. You've got Microsoft Office or Microsoft Business, and I think Outlook should be the primary. I think Outlook should tie into a backend database and everything should be done in the Outlook screen. When I take notes, go to the conversation with the client or my client folder, and I've got a notepad in there as I'm documenting notes, anybody in the company should see it. I should not have to then cut and paste my notes and put them into CRM or Dynamics, things of that nature. As an operation tool, there should be just one central place. I don't care where it goes from there, but my boss can then go right to Outlook and click on my customer folder and see exactly what's been happening.

Microsoft 365 Business has been very steady. One of my pet peeves would probably be that as you get over 15 megs in communication between your clients, it does tend to bottleneck a little bit.

I wouldn't be able to talk to scalability because I work on it as a single user, but I would say that if you and I are communicating back and forth via email and by day five, we've already got five megs of communication going on between us because you've got signatures with pictures and I've got signatures with pictures and it's chewing up tremendous amounts of space. Then it kills the bandwidth. My thought would be, why can't Microsoft Office be as smart as saying, this logo has been represented seven times already in this communication chain, let's just keep the most recent. That would be great. Then as you're sending around version control for documents and you have version two on Monday and you're up to version eight by Thursday, all those versions are still stuck in the email. Why can't Microsoft be smart enough to say, would you like to keep all the previous versions, yes or no? It could eliminate that bottleneck and be a little bit more productive.

I have to give support a grade 100. When you call Microsoft, you actually get a Zones employee that says, "Hello, you've reached Microsoft's concierge desk." They outsource that to us. I have to say 100 perfect, they were great.

The initial setup is a one button set up.

I just came from IBM before I rejoined Zones. They are still on Lotus notes there. I would say Microsoft is always on the cutting edge and I feel every time when I come back to Microsoft, Outlook and all the other tool sets engaged in there, that it has always been a better experience. Absolutely.

On a scale of one to ten, I would probably give Microsoft 365 Business an 8, just because of those things that we spoke about. I spend a lot of hours a week cutting and pasting, when I think it should all be connected somehow.

In my case, I have a lot of different email domains and they're all hosted in the same environment. With the older exchange on-premise, that gave a lot of conflict with the user IDs, as the client runs on the same workstation. That usually started a lot of headaches for me and my IT supplier. With Office 365, that's no longer a problem.

The solution is stable.

The scalability is very good.

When you're looking at the management of the endpoints, for example, Intune leaves a lot to be desired.

If you're looking at Microsoft 365, Intune is part of that as well and Intune is kind of a nightmare.

The Office platform hasn't changed too much, apart from the fact that the server backend has moved to the cloud. In the cloud, some things work a little better and then some things work a little worse than before.

I've been using the solution for about one and a half years at this point.

The solution is very stable. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze.

The solution can scale well. If a company needs to expand it, it can.

I don't have experience with technical support. We got it outsourced, so I don't need to contact Microsoft myself, apart from when I put my IT architect hat on. For my employer, I need to deal with Microsoft in terms of license procurements and so on, however, for the rest, for the technical stuff, we don't need to contact Microsoft.

I'm a customer and an end-user.

I'm looking at it from two perspectives, one from my employer and one from my own company. And yeah, within my own company, I don't have problems with managing endpoints or whatever. The only thing I had was, with the multiple user IDs on the same backend, which now is no problem anymore. That used to be a big problem. They've fixed it now.

I'd rate the solution at a seven out of ten.

I would recommend, if you have an extensive older environment, and you're migrating towards Microsoft 365, to get a partner who has a lot of experience in doing these kinds of migrations. I would take very much into consideration that, if you have a company that has extensive contact with the outside world using email, and then generic mailboxes, and all that stuff, group mailboxes, the world actually changes when you move to Microsoft 365. That takes a lot of adjustment and it takes a lot of work during the transition. The quality of the IT partner that advises you, assists you, manages this for you, can to a large part be graded upon how this piece of the entire puzzle is managed. The problem we had was that there were a lot of changes from the older setup compared to the new setup in 365, and that cost us months of trouble.

I like that it is very comprehensive.

Everything that you need is included inside.

Microsoft 365 Business is considered to be one of the best when you compare it with other operating systems or Office suites. I don't think that the free versions are compatible with what Microsoft 365 is carrying. The OpenOffice Suite is not as well received and Mac is also using Microsoft Office Suite because they are considered to be the best.

There is always room for improvement.

They should have a consolidated app, rather than have different applications with a different app. It is a bit annoying.

Consolidated apps are better than having individual apps for different applications.

Recently, they have upgraded a lot. They even have the RPA for automation and RPA for using Power Automate. They even have the power apps that create the power apps themselves.

They do have something in SharePoint that is not really very flexible in creating SharePoint as the internet website.

If they could convert SharePoint to become an internet website where you can create your own internet website for the public, it would be much better.

With SharePoint, there is always a header at the top that indicates that it is SharePoint, and most websites don't like that. If you are using a platform for SharePoint, they always have that. They could always change that to become a footer to say that it is SharePoint.

People would need to look for another developer to develop a website that is not really that user-friendly from an integration perspective.

We use the Enterprise Suite.

I would rate Microsoft 365 Business a nine out of ten.