We performed a comparison between Office 365 and Workplace by Facebook based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dropbox, Microsoft, Google and others in Content Collaboration Platforms."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 products are quite simple for the end-users to use, the up-time is very good, the product is practically maintenance-free, and the multi-layer security is excellent from the security standpoint."
"The technical support is outstanding."
"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."
"As an email provider, I believe Office 365 is the best email provider."
"My primary use case is for preparing presentations to teach, often on PowerPoint."
"If you have a global solution, you can go from one product to the other very easily. And then you can share data between all the different tools of Office which is good because participation and sharing is very good. That's the most important aspect of Office 365."
"I like that it is cloud-based, wherefrom any computer I can access my documents and continue working."
"Storage is the best thing about the solution."
"The product was easy to use."
"The solution is used as a knowledge platform for sharing knowledge and information that everybody can easily access."
"A full-featured collaboration tool that is as easy to use as Facebook."
"It needs improvements around its compatibility with non-Microsoft products."
"Integration between Outlook calendar and Google Calendar would be a good improvement since many of our team use Android phones and personal Gmail accounts as their main calendar application."
"We have found that, with Teams, if you are including one more person who is not in the company ecosystem, supposedly I'm inviting them as a guest in the chat. However, when I do that, I can't share files."
"Integration with other platforms can be improved."
"Microsoft Word is a little bit left behind regarding the tools it has."
"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."
"Sometimes the synchronization between the desktop and online is a little bit slow."
"I rate the support of Office 365 a four out of five."
"The product should allow users to assign tasks and automate processes."
"There needs to be a restriction on who can download content."
"The implementation could be made easier."
"The conferencing feature does not work well with multiple parties or locations."
Office 365 is ranked 6th in Content Collaboration Platforms with 54 reviews while Workplace by Facebook is ranked 9th in Enterprise Social Software with 4 reviews. Office 365 is rated 8.4, while Workplace by Facebook is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Office 365 writes "Great vulnerability insights, offers very impressive cash savings, and offers great information security tools". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Workplace by Facebook writes "A scalable and easy-to-use solution that can be used for internal communication and storage". Office 365 is most compared with Atlassian Confluence, Amazon WorkDocs, Citrix ShareFile, Box and Dropbox, whereas Workplace by Facebook is most compared with Yammer and SharePoint.
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