I use Office 365 for communication and file sharing. We use Outlook, Teams, and SharePoint for our tasks.
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User-friendly tools facilitate seamless communication and integration while AI-enriched features enhance productivity
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
The features I find most valuable in Office 365 include its user-friendly interface. We use Outlook, Teams, and SharePoint for various tasks, and overall, it is helpful. The solution integrates well with other tools and platforms that we use. The Editors and Designers are also good features of the AI-enhanced services offered.
What needs improvement?
The mobile phone applications are too heavy and should be lighter.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have two years of experience with Office 365.
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What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The stability of Office 365 is high. I would rate it between eight and nine.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Office 365 has high scalability. I would rate it between eight and nine.
How are customer service and support?
Microsoft Technical Support is good. I would rate them an eight.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I did not use a different solution before Office 365. I used other solutions only afterward.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup of Office 365 is almost straightforward.
What other advice do I have?
Based on my experience, I would recommend Office 365 to other people. I would rate the overall solution around nine.
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?
Other
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Last updated: Apr 20, 2025
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Chief Information Officer at BeeBryte
Allows us to collaborate through Microsoft Teams and maintain a documentation repository
Pros and Cons
- "We use it for documentation management, to collaborate with Microsoft Teams, web calls, web conference calls, chats, and as a documentation repository mainly. We have an Office pack suite to be able to write documentation, make spreadsheets, and create PowerPoints."
- "The integration with mobile services is not so good. It's coming, but they could improve a lot."
What is our primary use case?
We use it to collaborate. We use it for documentation management, to collaborate with Microsoft Teams, web calls, web conference calls, chats, and as a documentation repository mainly. We have an Office pack suite to be able to write documentation, make spreadsheets, and create PowerPoints.
We are also using Microsoft Bookings to have calendars and automatic booking with people. At the moment, we are also using Microsoft Flow to be able to integrate between our CRM and SharePoint.
What is most valuable?
It's a very good suite. I did a survey, and our people are very happy using Microsoft.
What needs improvement?
The price is getting more and more expensive. They increased the price recently.
We are thinking about the way we are using our ERP and our CRM. The integration with ERP is not so good, but mainly due to the ERP, not due to Office. For integration with CRM, we are using Pipedrive.
The phone systems are expensive at the moment. The integration with mobile services is not so good. It's coming, but they could improve a lot.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using this solution personally for many years. My company moved to Office 365 in September.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
It's magic. We had many issues with our previous open source solution Nextcloud, and now we rarely have any incidents. Those who are using this solution in my company are very happy with it.
How are customer service and support?
We installed the solution by ourselves and encountered some issues. We had some questions for technical support and they provided the answers, so it was quite efficient.
I would rate them a 5 out of 5 because they were very fast and precise.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
We were using the Nextcloud open source tool.
How was the initial setup?
It was quite easy considering our expertise, which was not very high. I trained my team thanks to Wiki and online documentation. It was okay. We did not use any partners.
What about the implementation team?
We did the installation in-house.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
For the moment, we are paying on a monthly basis because we are still adapting the support and how we want to proceed. I think we will move to paying for the annual license.
We are planning to switch from Office 365 to Microsoft 365, because we will deploy the security part and the configuration management part with Microsoft Defender and Intel.
What other advice do I have?
I would rate this solution 9 out of 10.
Some people might be disappointed with this solution because I discovered that for my team, it wasn't so easy for them to use at the start. I provided all the links for online training for Microsoft, but sometimes when we have new people, they don't know. The training is really well done. Everybody's able to manage and to use it after following the online training.
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Assistant Administrator at PostsTechnohub Limited
High level support, flexible, and useful automation
Pros and Cons
- "The most innovative feature of Office 365 is the Power Apps, which allows us to automate literally everything that we want automated. For example, sending attachments to specific folders on SharePoint, adding people's SharePoint when certain apps are performed, or emailing certain people at certain instances, such as when you've done a follow-up with the CRM and you need a marketing email to be sent out at a particular point."
- "I rate the support of Office 365 a four out of five."
What is our primary use case?
We are using Office 365 mainly for emails, document storage, SharePoint, and the Power Apps to build our own in-house applications.
What is most valuable?
The most innovative feature of Office 365 is the Power Apps, which allows us to automate literally everything that we want automated. For example, sending attachments to specific folders on SharePoint, adding people's SharePoint when certain apps are performed, or emailing certain people at certain instances, such as when you've done a follow-up with the CRM and you need a marketing email to be sent out at a particular point.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Office 365 for approximately two years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Office 365 is stable.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
We have found Office 365 to be scalable.
We have approximately 25 people using this solution in my organization. All of our departments are using it.
The organization is growing rapidly, as we onboard more users, we'll be using Office 365 a bit more. We typically recommend Office 365 to our clients. The feedback that we have received from our clients is it's a solution they're willing to stay with.
How are customer service and support?
Support Office 365 is at a high level. Any time I have an issue, support is always there. Whether it's by email or call back, the response is very prompt. I usually receive my issues resolved within less than eight hours.
I rate the support of Office 365 a four out of five.
How was the initial setup?
The setup of Office 365 was straightforward because I'm the one who did the initial setup as my background is in web dev. Additionally, starting the configuration was pretty easy for me.
A hybrid deployment of Office 365 took approximately two days to have all their emails migrated and everyone up and running.
What about the implementation team?
We did the implementation in-house.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
We have a license to use this solution. We have an E3 license which covers many different solutions.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
We have evaluated other solutions and we settled on Office 365 because of the stability and flexibility.
What other advice do I have?
Office 365 itself is very organization-friendly, if you're an organization that is looking for a solution that will sort out all your office problems, then definitely it's a solution that you'd be looking for.
I rate Office 365 an eight out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Microsoft Azure
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Strategy Manager at InPpost
AI features boost productivity but discovering Excel functionalities poses challenges
What is our primary use case?
I use Microsoft 365 for the office package and Teams for calls and meetings. With Microsoft 365, I use applications like Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
What is most valuable?
The most helpful feature I find in Microsoft 365 is the use of AI features, like Copilot, which allows for creating PowerPoint presentations through AI. It can increase efficiency, for instance, by enabling automated summaries in Word documents for different roles. This provides significant time savings and boosts productivity overall.
What needs improvement?
There could be an easier way to find features in Excel. For example, implementing formulas could be made simpler by improving feature discoverability.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Microsoft 365 for three years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
Sometimes with Excel, if different Excel files are related and access to one is unavailable, the Excel file in use may collapse. This means some data cannot be seen, which is a stability issue.
How are customer service and support?
I have never contacted Microsoft's support because my company's IT team handles any issues I face.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I only work with Microsoft tools.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
I find Microsoft 365 to be cost-effective, and it offers good value for the price paid.
What other advice do I have?
I would rate Microsoft 365 a seven out of ten. I would rate Office 365 a seven out of ten.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
On-premises
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Last updated: May 4, 2025
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Collaboration and productivity have improved with secure document sharing and team communication
What is our primary use case?
I utilize the product in multiple ways. I am using SharePoint, OneDrive, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
What is most valuable?
Office 365 is reliable and enhances productivity by allowing my team to use the same documents with multiple versions. The Outlook calendar simplifies meetings, and Teams improves communication. The uniqueness of working on the same file together is valuable as it prevents missing any information, and encryption and multi-factor authentication are crucial for security.
What needs improvement?
The language feature in Copilot for Arabic specifically needs more machine learning enhancement, and the tables in Microsoft Word need to be more flexible, similar to those in Microsoft Excel.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Office 365 for about two to three years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
The stability is very high.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Office 365 is very scalable.
How are customer service and support?
From one to ten, I rate Microsoft technical support as an eight.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup went very smoothly and very fast.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
As we are an educational organization, we think we have a very big discount, but I do not know the price.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
During the conversation, Google is mentioned as a competitor.
What other advice do I have?
I rate Office 365 as a ten for teamwork and a nine for overall work. I suggest providing advice to someone from Mars if they decide to use Office 365. I rate the overall solution as a nine out of ten.
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?
Other
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Last updated: Apr 17, 2025
Flag as inappropriateManager, Cybersecurity Engineering and Audit at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Suite of tools for productivity and collaboration, is straightforward to set up and quick to deploy
Pros and Cons
- "The most valuable features of Office 365 are Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Teams. Teams helped us to collaborate more through its call and document sharing features."
- "Performance-wise, Office 365 needs a lot of bandwidth. The problem is, the solution requires very high bandwidth and internet usage. Meaning, the desktop application consumes a lot of internet data. Sometimes, when the connection is slow, it won't work and it won't load. This is an area for improvement for Office 365."
What is our primary use case?
We use Office 365 for documents, like Microsoft Word, PowerPoint Excel, and Teams.
How has it helped my organization?
Microsoft Teams helped us to collaborate more. We use the call feature to communicate with colleagues, and the document sharing feature is a secure way of sharing through the cloud.
We use it more for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. With the addition of Teams, which is an added feature that I like.
What is most valuable?
In terms of the most valuable feature, I use Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Teams, but Teams is new for me.
What needs improvement?
Performance-wise, Office 365 needs a lot of bandwidth. The problem is, the solution requires very high bandwidth and internet usage. Meaning, the desktop application consumes a lot of internet data. Sometimes, when the connection is slow, it won't work and it won't load. This is an area for improvement for Office 365.
In the next release, I would like for Office 365 to be more of a finished product. It should have the ability to place calls and do system messaging. Those would be good improvements.
I would also like for the license to include a video cloning feature.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Office 365 for five years.
How are customer service and support?
I never contacted Office 365 support because we have our IT support person who resolves any issue we face.
How was the initial setup?
The initial setup for Office 365 was straightforward.
What about the implementation team?
I deployed Office 365 in my machine. The deployment was really straightforward and took just half an hour.
What other advice do I have?
Before choosing Office 365, we didn't evaluate other options, because we've been using Microsoft Office products over the last decade. Microsoft Office is the preferred choice here in my country.
We purchased the Office 365 license for 40 users. The solution is deployed in a single location. We are only 55 people in the office.
My advice to others looking into using Office 365 is to go for it because it's an all-in-one solution that they can use for collaboration and other things.
My rating for Office 365 is eight out of ten. I would give it a ten if the bandwidth issue was solved because currently it uses up a lot of bandwidth, plus if they added more features to it.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
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IT Manager at a non-tech company with 11-50 employees
We manage Windows platforms and experiment with AI-driven task automation effectively since using this solution
What is our primary use case?
We use Intune to have control over all our Windows units, to enroll packages, update software, and manage all Windows platforms in Denmark and Norway.
What is most valuable?
I use Outlook, Excel, and Word as the primary tools within Office 365. I have used automation and flow to enable a few simple tasks to learn how it works, but I have not enabled them at a high level yet. I am also experimenting with CoPilot in collaboration with AI solutions like ChatGPT.
What needs improvement?
It is difficult for me to access actual experts quickly as Microsoft support is slow.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using the Mobile Control platform from Soti since 2016.
How are customer service and support?
Microsoft's technical support is slow when addressing issues directly.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
Before using Soti, I was not working with any other Enterprise Mobility Management tools.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
I was initially using Soti based on a perpetual license, but now I must move to a cloud solution due to changes in the licensing model. Pricing for Intune as an MDM solution is over budget.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
I am considering 42Gears as a potential option because our local vendor, who understands our business well, has it available on their shelf.
What other advice do I have?
I rate Office 365 a nine out of ten. It is comprehensive with its functionalities, and I am not currently missing anything. I do intend to integrate its automation features at a higher level when possible. Overall, I would give Office 365 a nine out of ten.
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Other
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Last updated: May 7, 2025
Flag as inappropriatePresales engineer at G-Core Labs S.A.
Intuitive interface offers seamless access and collaboration across devices
What is our primary use case?
Our company uses Office 365 for almost all operations, including Office, PowerPoint, Excel, Word, and collaboration with Teams.
What is most valuable?
Office 365 is popular and easy to use due to its intuitive interface. The collaboration with OneDrive allows us to access anything, anywhere, in the same format across devices, including mobile phones. It is very efficient and helpful for most people.
What needs improvement?
Office 365 can be too heavy at times. I have had issues with Teams, such as experiencing many blue screens two months ago.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Office 365 for at least five years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I encountered connectivity issues specifically with Teams, which affected stability.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Office 365 is clear enough for scaling out, especially with SharePoint.
How are customer service and support?
I have never interacted directly with Microsoft support, as I often rely on internet resources or colleagues for troubleshooting.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Positive
How was the initial setup?
The installation of Office 365 is very easy.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
Office 365 might seem expensive, but it is valuable and efficient for our customers. The experience gained is significant for saving time.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
We also use tools like Teams and have used Skype and Office 365. Sometimes, we work with GitLab and Teradata.
What other advice do I have?
I rate my overall experience with Office 365 as an eight out of ten. Microsoft products are beneficial and help save time due to their efficiency. I rate the overall solution an 8 out of 10.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Other
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Last updated: Apr 25, 2025
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