We performed a comparison between Office 365 and Skype for Business based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Content Collaboration Platforms solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."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."
"There are all sorts of really good tools for use on the information security side that allow us to make sure that our people are doing business and doing business right."
"Adaptable solution with a good interface. It's easy to set up and easy to use."
"The product helps us be more efficient. It helps us to have a standardized way of doing things."
"The most valuable feature of Office 365 is automatic saving. If something happens on the computer your work is saved."
"The technical support is outstanding."
"The cloud service and Skype are the most valuable features."
"I like Office 365's usability."
"You can do meetings of up to two hundred people in a single conversation."
"The most valuable features are the history tracking which allows us to see who participated and who didn't in the meetings as well as the integration with Outlook."
"We like the easy provisioning of Skype for Business Conferencing."
"Video conferencing to hold virtual meetings helps to prevent employee displacement, where everyone can now enjoy the comfort of their own offices."
"The product helps me make international calls."
"Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten...Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The most valuable feature of Skype for Business is overall it is an okay solution."
"The solution’s video quality is fine."
"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."
"The one big problem with the solution is if you are presenting in Teams and someone puts their hand up, you don't get a notification. If you are running a meeting and just presenting you don't know that people have their hands up and want to ask a question."
"Could include integration with other single sign-on solutions."
"We have had some connectivity issues."
"There are some complexities to the initial setup if you use some of the more advanced features."
"Microsoft Defender for Office 365 could use some customization, but this area for improvement is trivial."
"I would like to see the macro functionality in Excel made simpler."
"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."
"Going forward, I would like to see better call quality and reliability."
"We have had trouble with scalability when trying to host large meetings."
"The initial setup could be simplified."
"Whenever someone is using a messaging platform, the messages needs to be stored. In Skype for Business, the message will not be seen later on if you're not online. It isn't useful, in my opinion."
"The inability to integrate Skype with other products is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"The solution lacks to provide reporting functionality, and I would like to see the solution provide that feature."
"Microsoft Teams, as I see it now, is more useful than Skype for Business."
"The cost of Skype for Business has room for improvement."
Office 365 is ranked 8th in Content Collaboration Platforms with 54 reviews while Skype for Business is ranked 4th in Virtual Meetings with 60 reviews. Office 365 is rated 8.4, while Skype for Business is rated 7.8. 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 Skype for Business writes "Reliable, useful for remote work, and great but isn't as robust as Microsoft Teams". Office 365 is most compared with Amazon WorkDocs, Atlassian Confluence, Citrix ShareFile, Box and Dropbox, whereas Skype for Business is most compared with Webex, Zoom, GoToMeeting, TeamViewer and Cisco Meeting Server. See our Office 365 vs. Skype for Business report.
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