What is our primary use case?
I use Windows on my notebook, and I also use Office 365, which includes Word and PowerPoint for documents and presentations.
We store our documents in SharePoint as document storage, but we don't use workflows in SharePoint because we mainly utilize ALM Jira for all our business processes; SharePoint operates mainly as a repository.
It's important to mention that when we are working on big reports, collaboration is key, allowing many people to work on the same document together.
I use both online and offline; some people do heavy editing on the web, but if I am working on big documents, I prefer to do it offline.
When I'm traveling, I definitely download all the documents on my notebook.
What is most valuable?
I should put my feedback mainly in Jira and Confluence, as these days I'm working around the clock.
With Office 365, I have never encountered issues; my experience is entirely positive.
We use Office 365, and colleagues download everything instantly; it's not about days.
What needs improvement?
It's very difficult to say how we can add more to our Microsoft experiences, as they are constantly improving and changing; regarding the stability of Microsoft products, I have no complaints.
With regard to Jira, when they implement new functionalities, quite often they deliver a product that is not stable enough; we can see this clearly, as sometimes something is not working, but this is about Jira, not about Office 365.
We are not using integrated Copilot, but our developers use OpenRoute a lot, which serves as a broker to interact with several AIs like ChatGPT and Google Gemini. I also know that some developers are using grounding.
I never think of integrating these technologies with Office because when it comes to programming questions, the developers are not using Word; they work in development environments like Eclipse or IntelliJ IDEA.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been working with this technology for approximately 10 years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
With Office 365, I have never encountered issues; my experience is entirely positive.
Regarding the stability of Microsoft products, I have no complaints.
How are customer service and support?
I never contact Microsoft for support; Atlassian support contacts me quite often.
I remember other colleagues contacting Microsoft, but that was mainly about licensing questions, not anything technical.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
Sometimes we are not happy with the price of available solutions, but when considering alternatives, such as OpenOffice, there's really nothing to compare. I know the formats of these open applications, but in terms of convenience and functionality, Office 365 is the only option.
In fact, it's not just a leader; Office 365 is the only real option we have now.
What other advice do I have?
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I use Carmonda for business, along with several other tools.
I would rate it a nine out of ten; the only reason it's not a 10 is that the only comment I have is about the price. The functionality is perfect.
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
Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.