Office 365 Reviews

I like quite a few of the applications included in the solution, including OneDrive as well as Teams. 

The solution offers all of the Office features, that we have access to and can use whenever we need to. 

The solution can be accessed from anywhere. You don't have to be in the office or at your desktop to use it.

The solution is quite intuitive and easy to use.

I'm not sure if there are areas of improvement. For us, it's working quite well.

I've been using the solution since the original launch of the product itself. I'm not sure how long it's been. I believe it's been about ten years or so. It may have been since 2011.

The stability of the solution is great. We don't have any bugs or glitches. We don't have it freezing on us. It's reliable.

The scalability is okay. However, we have such a large organization, and because IT has to enact it, it takes a while to do each one by one. In order to scale, a company simply has to buy more licenses, so, from that perspective, it's easy. 

I never deal with technical support directly. We have an in-house IT department that we go to when we need help or have issues.

For example, iinitially I had some issues with the setup of Office 365 on my mobile. However, it wasn't an Office 365 issue. It was all due to some of the company's internal security policies. Our own IT team procured the licenses, so they dealt with the issue, meaning I never had to actually go back to Microsoft for that or make a call to them.

The initial setup was not complex at all. It was easy for our organization. The implementation is something that is taken care of by the end user's IT team, so I didn't actually handle it myself. Once it's set up, it is easy to use. It's not very difficult; everything is clear. Once you start using it, you'll see it's a very good tool.

We're just a customer. We don't have any business relationship with Microsoft.

We're using the latest version of the solution.

I'd recommend the solution. It's very easy to use and extremely practical. We find it quite useful within our organization.

We don't use any comparable products, so it's hard to rate the solution in comparison to alternative offerings, however, generally, I'd rate the product nine out of ten.

I am a business consultant and have worked in business continuity for about eight years. I work for factories, banks, government, and other organizations. I use different methodologies that depend on the customer's requirements.

I have found that Office 365 is one of the best tools for business continuity, for small companies.

Many of the features in Office 365 are good, but I think Excel is a very good tool. Excel is good at processing data in small volumes. 

Using Visual Basic, I have had a lot of trouble with relative paths when programming for Excel, and sometimes it is very difficult to debug programs. For example, if the user has their focus on a different sheet, one that you do not expect, then the program begins to behave unexpectedly. This means that you cannot use relative paths, and you have to use absolute paths. Microsoft could issue warnings if you are programming in a way that might have side effects.

There is a problem with the Microsoft Office documentation in terms of undocumented features. When you are programming and there is an undocumented and unexpected behavior in the background, it can be very painful to find the bugs.

The stability depends on what you expect from the solution. For example, I have had some bad experiences with macros in the cloud version, and I am in the process of figuring out why. Simple macros seem to work well when it comes to storing data in the cloud.

We use Excel to do business continuity for small companies, with perhaps one hundred employees. There are usually four or five people who need to use the tools.

For larger companies, with use other tools because it is easier to manage.

We have not dealt with technical support because there are no issues that we could not solve using the knowledge base.

The initial setup is simple. Once you enter your license key it is done. An unskilled person with no IT background can install it.

Microsoft Office is a basic tool in consulting. I have implemented macros, specialized Office tools, and applications for it using Visual Basic. I usually need to design tools for our clients, because I want to give them a really good product. It needs to be more than Excel, alone, because it has to be easy to enter data. There are also calculations that happen in the background, and we do not want the client to be harassed by things that they do not need to know.

The mission of the Office is to do small computations. It is a tool for small documents and spreadsheets, and I think it's perfect for what it's meant to be. On the other hand, there is always something that can be improved.

I would rate this solution a four out of ten.

Our primary use case is for creating files, and typing projects and for converting Word documents to PDF format. 

Most of the work that seems not to work offline works perfectly with Microsoft Office 2013, like converting a Word document to a PDF file. 

The ability to convert Word documents to PDF file is one of the features I love most. Pictures can be pasted into the Word environment and can be converted to PDF. 

The feature to convert PDF file to a Word document needs improvement as well as the feature to save the file automatically when typing, without using the save command. 

It is efficient and effective. 

The scalability is really good. 

The technical support are responsive. 

We previously used a different version, Office 2007.

The initial setup was not really complex. 

The installation was done in-house. 

The pricing is not really high, but one can get the software with the license key for free. 

We are using the cloud-based version. We use it in an office environment and also in a school environment. It is performing great.

The product helps us be more efficient. It helps us to have a standardized way of doing things. It is very compatible with other companies that we do business with, because they have about a 90% market share in that space. Therefore, it makes it where we can be compatible with the people that we do business with.

The whole Office suite of Office products: Word, Publisher, Outlook, etc. are fantastic. The whole suite of products is very good. 

• It needs improvements around its compatibility with non-Microsoft products.
• They should do more testing before product releases.

It is very stable.

I have not had any problems with the scalability. It has scaled to everything that we have needed.

The technical support is outstanding.

We switched from the PC-based solution (desktop) to the cloud-based. The cloud-based gave us more opportunities to be more flexible. It is easier to get to when employees are out of the office or at home. They can link in to the product, so it makes it very available.

The initial setup is very straightforward. There are some complexities to it if you use some of the more advanced features, but for the basic install, it is very easy.

The pricing/licensing is easy to manage.

There weren't any vendors on our shortlist. We just decided to go to the cloud version. We were already using it in our desktop environments, so there were no competitors.

It is an excellent, stable solution for doing what we do in our business. The product has my highest recommendation.

Most important criteria when selecting a vendor: reliability of the product.

Exchange Online: It's the cloud version of Exchange Server and is pretty much easy to use.

Skype for Business Online formerly Lync Online: It's a fully fledged chat cum video conferencing tool. With the integration of Skype and Lync, the tool has now become more useful and helpful.

There were functionalities of the Lync 2013 client version that were not helpful, like connecting with people outside the organization and having better conferencing abilities. These have now been improved with the involvement of AT&T collaboration with Microsoft Lync. Moreover, Skype for Business Mobile is a more handy tool now.

The Skype for Business admin centre could be easier to use.

The Microsoft Intune admin portal still needs some compatibility support to run on all browsers. Presently, it requires IE 11.0 and higher version to work properly.

I have been using this product since it's complete launch, which was from March 2013.

The 99.99℅ uptime SLA guarantee provided by Microsoft ensures there are no stability related issues.

The tool is cloud-based and is based on Microsoft Azure (IaaS and PaaS). This ensures high scalability and elasticity. I have never had any situation with scalability until now.

Regular customer support is good enough for all when there is a problem. Apart from that, the community supports are there as well. I would recommend enterprise users to enroll for Microsoft's Premier support.

I have not used other solutions; however, I have assisted other users and administrators to migrate from Google Business Apps to Microsoft's Office 365 Enterprise and Business Premier environment.

The setup is easy and user-friendly. On-screen guided instructions help make the complex process easy to use.

Pricing and licensing are pay-as-you-go, concept-wise. Plans are available per user per month or per user per year. These are available on Microsoft's website. Users or organizations can choose the plans according to their requirements and budget.

Frankly, the features packed by Microsoft and the compatibility with Microsoft operating systems provides you the best options when compared with other options available in market. You may Google or Bing the same for more comparisons.

If you really need to move to cloud, compare all of the options, check your budget and requirements and subscribe to Office 365's trial pack, which is available for 30 days. Feel comfortable with the product.

If you feel that this product serves your requirement for the money you are paying, you may subscribe to Office 365 Enterprise. If in case you feel that this would cost you too much (for small business organizations), you may look for other cloud solutions like Google Business Apps or Google Apps and other cloud-based applications. You may look in Google for other cloud-based solutions.

• Great set of productivity and collaboration tools
• Strong security, if properly configured
• Constantly evolving with new features, which can be challenging for users.

• Great impact on project management and team collaboration. 
• Improved communication and documentation.
• SharePoint's great platform for controlled document storage and management of digital assets. 
• The phone VoIP product provides genuine a unified communication solution.

• SharePoint: search, portal pages, collaboration
• Teams: project management, event management, and section teamworking
• Phone: VoIP unified communication with Skype for Business across mobile, VOIP handsets, and Teams. Good reporting and good value subscriptions for international calls.

Teams still has some shortcomings, however, new features and fixes being rapidly released. Security is still complex, but the admin console improving. 

No more on-prem Exchange Server, all mail in cloud, no maintenance or server management.

• Exchagne Online
• Security and compliance
• Skype for Business
• Office 365 ProPlus
• SharePoint Online
• Yammer

1. There are no more server and hardware operational costs and downtime, updates, etc. for all the workloads available.
2. Newer features and updates are available immediately.
3. Can be managed from a single web interface.
4. Cloud-based, so same experience for all users, regardless of location.
5. Licensing, billing, and accounting are available from the management interface.

We have had some connectivity issues.

No issues with scalability.

Very good.

We previously had an on-prem solution.

Easy.

We did not evaluate other options.

I would rate it a 10 out of 10. I'm very satisfied with the product, with Microsoft, and the support provided by the tech. It's very good.

Our primary use case for Office 365 is productivity, such as email.

The most valuable feature is the integration between net and mobile devices.

Sometimes the synchronization between the desktop and online is a little bit slow.

Office 365 would be improved if the CRM integration were better.

I have been working with Office 365 for the past five years.

We have not experienced any bugs or glitches.

Scalability has not been a problem.

I have not been in contact with technical support.

The initial setup is straightforward.

In summary, this is a good product and one that I recommend.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.