Compare Office 365 vs. Symphony
Office 365 is ranked 2nd in Enterprise Social Software with 11 reviews while Symphony is ranked 21st in Enterprise Social Software with 1 review. Office 365 is rated 8.0, while Symphony is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Office 365 writes "Multi-user editing and integration with OneDrive brings better focus and efficiency". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symphony writes "A feature-rich, scalable, and stable solution for asset management". Office 365 is most compared with Atlassian Confluence, TeamViewer and HCL Verse, whereas Symphony is most compared with Slack, Office 365 and Microsoft Teams.
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The most valuable feature is the integration with OneDrive, which has allowed us, a small business, easy access to a cloud environment, with no need to back up the data from five different computers. Many of the features in Office 365 are good, but I think Excel is a very good tool. It's very stable. 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. 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 cloud service and Skype are the most valuable features. It is very easy to deploy. Cloud-based management is valuable and software deployment is positive. | The entire product is good. |
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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. 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. There are several additional features we would like to see, such as advanced features of SAN protection in Office 365. The main thing is the SAN protection; we would like to see a lot of advanced features added because we had a lot of spam attacks. Improvements can be made to the products generic offering. It's not customized for health care. It doesn't understand the meaning of health care related concepts. Providing a greater degree of industry specificity would make the tool much more unique and valuable. 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. Using Office 365 is not that flexible on some mobile devices, like Android. Their support is so terrible and unusable except during dire emergencies. There are some complexities to the initial setup if you use some of the more advanced features. | The area that needs to be improved is modular asset management. When we are uploading the assets in bulk, it is not aligned. |
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The pricing is not really high, but one can get the software with the license key for free. The pricing is good for all the features that we receive, e.g., Skype for Business. The pricing/licensing is easy to manage. Good reporting and good value subscriptions for international calls. Licensing, billing, and accounting are available from the management interface. | It's a costly product, but the number of available features justifies it. |
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Views 5,945 Comparisons 4,913 Reviews 11 Average Words per Review 306 Avg. Rating 8.0 | Views 2,312 Comparisons 2,160 Reviews 0 Average Words per Review 0 Avg. Rating N/A |
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Also Known As | |
| Microsoft Office 365, Office 365 Enterprise, Office 365 Enterprise E1, Office 365 Enterprise E3, Office 365 Enterprise E5, Office 365 ProPlus, Office 365 Business, Office 365 Business Essentials, Office 365 Business Premium, Office 365 F1 | |
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Overview | |
Office 365 is more than just Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. It provides powerful services like business-class email, online storage, and teamwork solutions that you can access from anywhere. Bring teams and resources together with solutions like Microsoft Teams and Skype for Business that make working together more productive and enjoyable regardless of where participants are located. Easily implement security and privacy controls to help protect business data and devices against malicious threats and help you meet your compliance obligations. Automatic updates ensure your employees will always have the latest features and security updates. | Symphony’s secure, cloud-based communications service delivers the next wave in organizational productivity where markets and individuals come together to create vibrant communities in which to share content, insights and opinions without compromising on organizational compliance. |
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Top Industries | |
Manufacturing Company21% Software R&D Company21% Financial Services Firm14% Media Company7% Software R&D Company31% Comms Service Provider12% Government8% K 12 Educational Company Or School6% | No Data Available |
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