Office 365 Reviews

I use Office 365 to make PowerPoint presentations, Microsoft Word to put together memos, and Excel for building financial models.

The most valuable features with Office 365 are Excel's robustness around financial modeling, which is super helpful for my job.

Office 365 brings a very strong return on investment through time savings and different efficiencies. We would never cut it as it is table stakes - it is necessary to operate in our world. The biggest KPI is functionality, specifically the ability to execute the work that needs to be done.

Office 365 could be improved in areas such as their collaboration functionality. I have used it before, but being able to work on documents in a cloud-connected manner with co-workers simultaneously would be super helpful. This feature is not available in the version we have.

I have approximately 15 years of experience with Office 365.

We haven't used a different collaboration tool before this; we've always had Microsoft. We currently have both Microsoft and Google Suite.

Some main differences between Microsoft and Google Suite are that Google is cloud native, enabling collaboration with people working on documents simultaneously. Google Sheets, compared to Excel, is not as robust. You sacrifice some robustness for sharing functionality. The same applies to PowerPoint versus Google Slides, where PowerPoint is much more powerful. The ability to work with others in a cloud native product is the selling point for Google Suite and represents a real benefit.

I would recommend Office 365 to other businesses due to its robustness and functionality.

We haven't been using AI in Office 365 for document management or data analysis because we don't have Copilot, which is their AI feature. It hasn't been integrated into our work.

I primarily use Office 365 for presentations, Word documents, and Excel with some macros.

Office 365 allows me to access documents and work on them much quicker. I find it beneficial as it includes Outlook, which improves my workflow efficiency.

At times, Office 365 closes and restarts by itself.

I have been working with Office 365 for the last seven to eight months.

I faced challenges during deployment. The authentication process was problematic, especially due to network restrictions in some areas, impacting mobile authentication. Additionally, migrating emails from Lotus and loading archives was time-consuming. Overall, the deployment took nearly a week for many users.

The stability of Office 365 is mostly fine, but sometimes it closes and restarts unexpectedly.

Microsoft support is generally good, but there were one or two instances where issues took longer to resolve.

Neutral

The initial setup posed challenges with authentication, primarily due to network restrictions and migrating emails from Lotus Notes to Outlook.

I do not handle the pricing, setup cost, or licensing, so I cannot provide information on this.

Overall, I would rate Office 365 as the best because I have not used any other solution, and it meets my needs comfortably. I give it a 10 out of 10.

I use Office 365 for communication, specifically for sending emails. I also use SharePoint for official documents, internal communication, and a combination of private and public SharePoint for Teams use. Additionally, I use OneDrive.

I primarily use Office 365 for email and SharePoint. The email capabilities are very handy to use, with no hidden options, allowing me to use them efficiently at any moment. Since transitioning from a simple, normal Outlook to Office 365, there has been an increase in productivity due to the larger amount of space available to handle emails without needing to delete older ones.

From my side, I don't see any improvement needed in Office 365. However, there should be more integration of Copilot.

I have been using Office 365 for more than three years continuously.

Before, we were using just a simple, normal Outlook. The switch to Office 365 has increased our productivity, primarily due to the larger amount of space available for emails.

Everything is going well. On a scale from one to ten, I would rate Office 365 a ten. I would rate the overall product a ten.

My current use cases for Office 365 include normal Excel, Word, Exchange, and security.

The most valuable features in Office 365 for me are productivity, as all my productivity requirements are fulfilled, and communication capabilities.

The main measurable benefit that Office 365 provides to my company is that it serves as our primary productivity tool.

I am not satisfied with the integration capabilities of Office 365, as we have not done any integration with third-party vendors.

I would like to see more AI tools in the next version of Office.

I have been working with Office 365 for more than 10 years.

I rate the technical support from Microsoft as seven out of ten, and I have feedback regarding their tech support.

I would like to improve the quality of services provided by technical support.

Neutral

The main competitor for Office 365 is Google, as I have used some of their solutions.

I prefer to work with Microsoft over Google.

I only use Microsoft 365 products and do not use other products from Microsoft such as Visual Studio.

I sometimes use AI options in Office such as OpenAI or Copilot.

It doesn't matter what the company size is.

I can recommend Office 365 to other users.

I rate Office 365 an eight out of ten.

Public Cloud

Microsoft Azure

Office 365 is mainly used for communication in meetings and utilizing collaborative tools within my organization.

Office 365 is a good tool for daily tasks and collaborative activities. We mainly use Microsoft SharePoint, which integrates with other tools to facilitate collaboration such as file sharing among colleagues. Additionally, we use Teams and the email solutions provided within the Office 365 environment. The tool enhances productivity if the team is collaborative, helping us speed up work.

There should be RAM optimization related to Teams and desktop applications since they are very RAM hungry. Performance optimization should be prioritized to improve efficiency. Additionally, cost optimization should be considered due to the recent price hikes.

I have been working with Office 365 from 2014 to 2023.

I haven't faced any challenges with the stability of Office 365. I would rate its stability a nine out of ten.

Office 365 is good in terms of scalability. I would rate it between eight and nine.

For customer support, I rate it nine out of ten. I have no complaints about the support.

Positive

Setting up Office 365 is very easy. I would rate it nine out of ten for ease of setup. The deployment process depends on the internet connection.

The cost of Office 365 has become a bit costlier in the last few years. We manage expenses based on user requirements, but cost optimization should be considered.

Office 365 is user-friendly, especially when working with Windows as it collaborates well with tools. I would highly recommend Office 365 to everyone. I rate the overall solution a ten out of ten.

Other

I work with Excel, PowerPoint, and Word primarily. My work involves collaboration with multiple people, especially when using these tools.

The most valuable features of Office 365 for me involve collaboration. My work requires collaboration with multiple people on Excel, PowerPoint, and Word. We use real-time collaboration as well as asynchronous work, where I can continue from where someone else left off. Additionally, automation features like formulas and linkages in Excel save me substantial time, at least forty to fifty percent in certain tasks.

One issue I face is that as the file size gets bigger, it takes more time to work through it. Improvement in backend processing to make such files run quicker would be helpful.

I have been working with Office tools for twelve to thirteen years.

I don't have any complaints about the stability of Office 365.

I haven't felt the need to contact Microsoft support, so I haven't interacted with their customer service.

Positive

The setup was straightforward for me because my company has it pre-built.

Overall, I would rate this tool at around 8.5 to nine out of ten. I rate the overall solution a nine.

We use Office 365 for project management. Around 2,500 people at my company use it.

Office 365 helps us work securely with other companies.

OneNote is the feature I use the most. We also frequently use the Power Apps features.

Office 365 could allow for smoother collaboration with other companies, which is the main reason we use it. The B2B connection is something we need, like global adverse lists between two tenants or multiple users. That's what we're missing at the moment.

I have been using Office 365 since I started work at this company in September last year.

Office 365 is highly reliable. The company hasn't had any issues so far.

Microsoft support is great.

The company used Nextcloud and WeTransfer in the past, but we switched because Office 365 is an all-in-one solution. However, I think Nextcloud is more usable than Office 365, but it ultimately came down to security. 

I wasn't involved with implementing Office 365, but it should be complex when you do it right because 365 is constantly evolving. You have to look at your tenant: Are things new? Are they open? Is it a security risk? What has Microsoft opened? Do I want to let all colleagues access the new features?

We have an E3 license, and we pay 15 euros a person. 3,000 euros is a lot per month.

I rate Office 365 eight out of 10.

Hybrid Cloud

I am using Office 365 for emails, presentations, spreadsheets, documents, PDF conversions, creation of PDFs, whiteboarding on the conference calls, OneNote for taking notes, and OneDrive for data storage.

The most valuable feature of Office 365 is that it has many solutions bundled together.

Sometimes the configurations of the error troubleshooting are pretty problematic and there are a lot of issues that happen even if you follow the step-by-step guides. They can work on fixing this issue. If there are a lot of issues in your Windows or your Office or anything, you restart your PC and it works. They need to get rid of this need.

While using Microsoft OneDrive, which is part of Office 365, we use it to store all our data files. At this point in time, OneDrive doesn't support PST files. PST files are for our Outlook data. OneDrive doesn't take backup of the PST files, which is a big setback.

In the future release, there should be better automation. When you're scheduling a meeting, it should be in an automated way, it should prove us with more information about kind room slots. If there is a travel booking that is coming onto your email, it should go ahead and block your calendar as well in accordance with the times. This is an Outlook-related suggestion. 

On PowerPoint, there could be more templates that could be added in, which makes your job slightly easier when you're designing something. 

Excel, I think is a phenomenal solution, the only problem is it becomes very heavy as data increases. If they can work towards compression, that should be helpful.

I have been using Office 365 since they launched the solution.

The stability of Office 365 is fantastic.

Office 365 is scalable.

We have 40,000 people using the solution in my organization.

We use our internal support for Office 365.

Office 365 is very straightforward to implement.

There is a license required to use this solution.

The price of Office 365 is very expensive.

I would recommend this solution to others, it is a very good solution.

I rate Office 365 a nine out of ten because I have faced certain issues, such as the solution crashing. If there are solution issues, it's difficult to resolve and that's the reason why I'm taking that one point away. Office 365t helps me do my job,  I'm very happy with the products.

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