Skype for Business Reviews

Name: Skype for Business
Brand: Microsoft
Rating: 4 (59 reviews)

3.9 out of 5

59 reviews
80% willing to recommend

1,664 followers

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Skype for Business offers features including presence, IM, voice and video calls, online meetings, conferencing, and telephony solutions that support enterprise-level collaboration requirements. Skype for Business Record meetings, share your screen, and annotate PowerPoint for real-time collaboration with up to 250 people and use whiteboard, polls, Q&A, and built-in IM during your business meetings to make them more productive. Skype for Business provides new client experience, Skype for Business Server provides several new features to improve manageability of on-premises servers and hybrid solutions. Skype for Business also supports the Lync client experience so that you can choose a phased upgrade approach to the new client experience for users. Skype for Business is also an integral part of Microsoft Office 365, providing PSTN Conferencing, Cloud PBX, PSTN Calling, and Skype Meeting Broadcast capabilities to Office 365 users.

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Skype for Business is the #4 ranked solution in top Virtual Meetings solutions. PeerSpot users give Skype for Business an average rating of 7.8 out of 10. Skype for Business is most commonly compared to TeamViewer: Skype for Business vs TeamViewer. Skype for Business is popular among the midsize enterprise segment, accounting for 89% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a educational organization, accounting for 87% of all views.

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Featured reviews

Chris Biemans

Senior ICT Consultant at CGI Inc

Apr 29, 2022

The solution is primarily used for communication, file transfer, and everything around our work While I used the solution recently, I now have another job. I work for another firm and they use Microsoft Teams. It was handy for when you were working from home. The solution is stable and…

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Magdalena Teodorczuk

Senior at Krajowy Depozyt Papierów Wartosciowych S.A.

Feb 27, 2024

I use the solution at a personal level to communicate with my doctor. I use the solution in my company to be able to communicate at a personal level The most valuable features of the solution stem from the fact that the tool provides simple functionalities in areas like video and voice quality,…

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Shilpa Patki

Account Manager at Peristent Systems

Mar 28, 2023

We are a software company, so we communicate via Skype with our end customers, including product companies Screen share is one of the features of the solution I like the most. The product also offers good connectivity over voice calls. When I compare Skype for business with Microsoft Teams, I…

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Skype for Business market share

As of March 2024, the market share of Skype for Business in the Virtual Meetings category stands at 5.9%, marking a decrease of 39.0% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Last updated Mar 23, 2024

Valuable Features

"The solution’s video quality is fine."
"The product's initial setup phase is very easy."
"Desktop sharing is a valuable feature."

Room for Improvement

"The solution should improve the chat and add more flexibility to make a call."
"The inability to integrate Skype with other products is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The video conferencing quality can be improved."

Pricing

"I use the product's open-source version."
"When it comes to the pricing of the solution, I rate it as a five out of ten. It falls somewhere in the middle between being cheap and expensive."
"The solution is priced fairly."

These insights are based on the in-depth reviews provided by peers to help you make a better buying decision.

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