Office 365 Reviews

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.

We use this solution for email exchange.

There are several areas that this service can be improved. The email, there are certain features we would like to see improvements from Microsoft, and also there are applications called BlueJeans, and there are certain things.

There are several additional features we would like to see, such as advanced features of SAN protection in Office 365. The main thing is the SAN protection; we would like to see a lot of advanced features added because we had a lot of spam attacks.

It's very stable.

The scalability is good. More than 700 people are using this solution. Their job titles range from IT manager, network engineer, to corporate team members, there are several staff engineers, everyone.

We have about three people who are directly working with deployment and maintenance.

We were using open source email server entourage exchange, and from there the best option was to migrate to Office 365.

The initial setup was a bit complex because we were migrating to exchange service. 

Deployment took around three weeks to fully migrate everything to Office 365.

We used official applications provided by Microsoft for the migration. There were no other articles used.

Technical support of Office 365 is good.

We are using a particular type of license which allows each item to be priced around 30 dollars per month. There are no costs in addition to the standard licensing fees.

The advice I would give depends mainly on their requirements. If they need to minimize their administration, Office 365 would be an excellent option.

On a scale of one to ten, one being the lowest and ten being the highest, I would rate this product a seven.

We use this solution to detect if a user, physician, manager, or director have sent out their patient data.

The functionality that is most valuable is the solution's ability to detect patient data in email attachments. Whenever a user sends out an email with patient data embedded in an attachment, it triggers an alert. The tool can detect a social security number and various other forms of patient identity. Emails are then automatically generated and sent.

Improvements can be made to the products generic offering. It's not customized for health care. It doesn't understand the meaning of health care related concepts. Providing a greater degree of industry specificity would make the tool much more unique and valuable.

I would like to see a more user-friendly interface in the next release. We worked with a developer to upgrade the settings and optimize the base functionality. If the UI was more intuitive, all the user would need to do is click through.

It's a good solution and it's a stable solution.

We have a team of five engineers and software developers taking care of maintenance issues. 

It's scalable because it's a cloud solution. We haven't had any performance problem with it.

The initial setup was straightforward. We followed the instructions. Since it's a cloud solution we just opened the administration tabs and created the rules as they apply to our operation. We created XML. We did have to build some code within the solution.

Deployment took a few months to fully implement the solution. The strategy we used was to test the solution within a test account first and after that, we deployed the products and we selected a subset of users to deploy it.

The version we are using is very generic. It requires that you perform a lot of customizations.

I rate this product a 7 out of 10. I give it this rating because it works but it's not sophisticated enough and not specialized enough for health care. It requires a lot of time to customize.

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 use it to share work and collaborate. 

The cloud service and Skype are the most valuable features. We also use the MS Word and Excel.

Using Office 365 is not that flexible on some mobile devices, like Android.

They need to improve the security of the product. For example, I don't trust the OneDrive product on my computer.

We have five people in our office.

The technical support is okay. It is Microsoft.

It is very easy to deploy.

We have already seen ROI.

The pricing is good for all the features that we receive, e.g., Skype for Business.

It is a nice service that lets us share information easily.

Look into the security and cost of the solution before purchasing.

It gives a platform to connect with your colleagues. Through Yammer, its cloud connectivity enhances its MS Office experience.

By employing cloud integration, its performance has increased. It has got an upgraded version of MS Word, and a better and upgraded PowerPoint, which are very useful.

Its cloud connectivity and integration of Yammer is best. It's a complete package for any office to use.

• They should reduce the license fees....otherwise its the best office solution till date from the Microsoft.

We use it throughout our business for email and documents. It has allowed us to stop maintaining SharePoint and Exchange installs.

It has allowed us to eliminate a lot of in-house infrastructure and has simplified our software licensing.

Cloud-based management is valuable and software deployment is positive. SharePoint, document sharing, and Skype have been helpful as well.

They should stop releasing new features and focus on making the existing ones work. Their support is so terrible and unusable except during dire emergencies.

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.