We performed a comparison between Microsoft 365 Business and Skype for Business based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Mobile Device Management (MDM) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The platform is well-integrated with all Microsoft products."
"Microsoft 365 Business is stable."
"It has file storage, file sharing, a provisioning box, and a SharePoint profile for each user."
"The solution is easy to use and flexible."
"Microsoft 365 Business is user-friendly, easy to use, compatible with different devices, such as laptops and phones, and helps me get my job done."
"The adaptability is very easy."
"The solution allows for easy collaboration. You are able to use, for example, Excel and go online to the cloud and save your documents offline rather than on a personal hard drive. In my organization, we promote collaboration when possible and this solution does a good job at providing this functionality. The solution is always updated and we receive the latest features. Additionally, they offer many other services we do not use very much but are available, such as Power BI."
"It is pretty secure. Although it is on the cloud, it has features such as two-factor authentication for making our enterprise data secure. Its availability is very valuable. It is always up, and we've never faced a downtime with it until now."
"Skype for Business is good for meetings and instant messaging."
"The GUI is very user-friendly."
"File sharing and email invitations for a conference. I can have a meeting with people at the opposite end of the Earth, sharing documentation; it is quite easy."
"A good option for virtual meetings."
"The product helps me make international calls."
"The solution is stable and scalable."
"The most valuable features of the solution are that it is quick and easy to use. It is a good tool for group calls."
"The calling features are most valuable, especially now as we are working remotely."
"365 Business' workflow should be better integrated into our current ERP systems. We are running two different ERP systems that are integrated, so it would make sense in the future to have those systems integrated into a content management workflow system."
"The stability needs to be improved."
"There could be more integration with different platforms for the product."
"The solution isn't stable."
"Sometimes, it tries to be a little bit too clever in preempting things that you want to do. The settings can be pretty complicated. It has the desktop version and the cloud version. You can have settings in the cloud version that are impacting your desktop version, but you don't know because you can't see the settings like rules and other things. So, they need to think about the experience. It should be the same if you log in to the cloud or if you log in via desktop."
"I would like to be able to connect Power BI to data sources easily."
"The solution has a lot of areas to be improved. The tool needs to improve its background synchronization of data between the platforms. It can facilitate better decision-making and analysis of data. The tool should also make improvements to responsive mechanisms which can eliminate any bottlenecks."
"The price could always be better. I live in Turkey, our economy is not very good."
"The initial setup could be simplified."
"I would like to see an updated user interface and layout even though no functionality is missing."
"This service could be improved by adding some missing features. It lacks integration with Teams, which is a feature I would like to see in the next release."
"I am not familiar with all of the features or whether they can hold conferences because we use Zoom for that. But, in my opinion, if they can do something similar to what Zoom is doing, it will be a complete solution."
"Skype's overall connectivity functionality or ability is one area with room for improvement."
"Make it user friendly."
"I should be able to make a desktop phone call when I click a member of my Lync directory."
"We are looking for a more collaborative tool, not only in terms of virtual meetings but also for teams to collaborate, share a document, work together, and all those types of things."
Microsoft 365 Business is ranked 2nd in Mobile Device Management (MDM) with 240 reviews while Skype for Business is ranked 4th in Virtual Meetings with 59 reviews. Microsoft 365 Business is rated 8.4, while Skype for Business is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Microsoft 365 Business writes "Improves productivity and allows team collaboration in organizations". 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". Microsoft 365 Business is most compared with Google Workspace, Microsoft Intune, ManageEngine Endpoint Central, Windows Autopilot and Datto Workplace, whereas Skype for Business is most compared with Webex, Zoom, TeamViewer, GoToMeeting and Cisco Meeting Server. See our Microsoft 365 Business vs. Skype for Business report.
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