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."The most valuable feature of Office 365 is that it has many solutions bundled together."
"The most valuable features of Office 365 are Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Teams. Teams helped us to collaborate more through its call and document sharing features."
"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 way the ERP presents information for the user is very good."
"I like Office 365's usability."
"The most valuable feature is Microsoft Exchange."
"It has more features than somebody would expect, and it is worth taking a deeper look into the features available."
"Many of the features in Office 365 are good, but I think Excel is a very good tool."
"A good option for virtual meetings."
"There are free versions of the solution available."
"We like the easy provisioning of Skype for Business Conferencing."
"The solution is stable and scalable."
"The integration with Microsoft Outlook for creating and scheduling meetings is nice."
"What is most valuable about Skype for Business is that almost everyone knows about it and almost everyone has it. You will be able to reach a large number of people."
"The most valuable feature is stability."
"Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten...Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"Constantly evolving with new features, which can be challenging for users."
"Integration with other platforms can be improved."
"Sometimes the configurations of the error troubleshooting are pretty problematic and there are a lot of issues that happen even if you follow the step-by-step guides. They can work on fixing this issue. If there are a lot of issues in your Windows or your Office or anything, you restart your PC and it works. They need to get rid of this need."
"Normally, they have a way to work with specific developments, and I think they shouldn't allow the partners to make some changes they have made. When I have a client with a lot of changes, we have a problem with that because there aren't rules to develop inside the ERP, so you can do anything."
"It needs improvements around its compatibility with non-Microsoft products."
"It seems like every other week when we log into the administrative portals, it doesn't matter which one, it could be the active directory portal, it could be the exchange admin center or SharePoint admin center, it seems like Microsoft is consistently updating with new versions of the admin centers, which can be frustrating."
"I'm not sure if there are areas of improvement. For us, it's working quite well."
"The integration with mobile services is not so good. It's coming, but they could improve a lot."
"The solution should improve the chat and add more flexibility to make a call."
"We have found that there is a lag because it cannot integrate with the internal landline."
"Skype for Business is not stable."
"There are issues with the bandwidth, particularly for external meetings,"
"The solution requires deployment on a Microsoft server and its performance is heavy because it consumes too many resources from the RAM."
"The video conferencing quality can be improved."
"The inability to integrate Skype with other products is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"We would like to better customize our instructions within the Outlook plugin/invite, but we are unable to do so."
Office 365 is ranked 3rd in Content Collaboration Platforms with 54 reviews while Skype for Business is ranked 4th in Virtual Meetings with 59 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 Atlassian Confluence, Amazon WorkDocs, Citrix ShareFile, Box and Dropbox, whereas Skype for Business is most compared with Webex, Zoom, TeamViewer, GoToMeeting and Cisco Meeting Server. See our Office 365 vs. Skype for Business report.
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