Skype for Business Scalability

Chris Biemans - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior ICT Consultant at CGI Inc

The scalability is quite good. We are quite happy with its ability to expand.

There are 5,000 or 6,000 users. Everyone uses it. We were all working from home and we had to communicate, and, therefore, we used Skype for Business.

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Magdalena Teodorczuk - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior at Krajowy Depozyt Papierów Wartosciowych S.A.

I have never thought about the scalability aspect of the product, as it works fine for me without any problems. I believe that it is a scalable solution.

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Shilpa Patki - PeerSpot reviewer
Account Manager at Peristent Systems

I rate the solution's scalability an eight on a scale where one is not scalable and ten is very scalable. The scalability of the solution can be improved.

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System Administrator at Finlays

Skype for Business is scalable.

We had a license for every user, but the majorly of the people who do meetings, are not so many. We would have meetings for all the staff, and approximately 80 people would attend. However, on average 20 to 30 people would often use it during meetings.

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Saeid Hajtalebi - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Infrastructure Systems, Services and Virtualization Specialist at IRISA

Around 600 people are working with the solution in my area. I rate the solution's scalability an eight out of ten.

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AC
Director Of Information Technology at Multitech Soporte Profesional IT

I work for a company that has been around for more than seventy years in the market, and we have been operating for five years since we changed our company's name. However, our business now has seven lines of business. I am focused on business development, so I am looking for solutions that help me quickly carry the company to a very good position and achieve good results. Hence, I am looking for new solutions with artificial intelligence. Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.

Apart from me, two more people in my company use Skype for Business. To increase the usage in the future, I am looking into other solutions.

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RJ
Database Manager at Wartsila India Ltd

It is very scalable. We have had no problems.

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FO
IT engineer at JCCM

The solution has high scalability.

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RR
IT architect at a university with 10,001+ employees

Scalability is good enough for my needs. 

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GM
Systems Engineer at Advance business consulting

The tool is highly scalable. We use it on a large scale. We have a couple of hundred users. Almost 50% to 60% of the users’ time is spent using the tool.

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Ato Abonalla - PeerSpot reviewer
Cybersecurity Solution Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

I've never had the chance to really scale it. I can't speak to how well it can expand. 

We have about 1,000 people using the solution right now. 

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Nivedan Kedia - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant (M&A/R) at Deloitte

I think Skype for Business is scalable. However, I believe Microsoft is discontinuing the Skype platform altogether, so I don't think it's super-relevant. 

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WH
Owner at a pharma/biotech company with 10,001+ employees

Our IT team would handle any scaling that needs to be done. It's not something I have direct experience with.

We have about 20,000 users on the product in our organization currently. Everybody uses it, from the accountant to the CEO.

The number of employees has remained fairly stable for a long time. Right now, they're just maintaining it at the same user level. We haven't had any recent growth. I have no idea if we'll increase usage in the future.

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Husam ALBAROUDI - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Engineer at Adesso Turkey

I'm not sure about the scalability. I don't know how easy it is to add users, for example. That's handled more on the company side. 

We have about 350 at the company using the product. 

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Wafaa Salah - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate professor in accounting at The British University in Egypt

I find Skype for Business easy to expand. It's scalable.

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RC
Works at TechnipFMC

My impression is that the scalability is very good.

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TC
Office Ohrid at AGENCY FOR REAL ESTATE CADASTRE

The solution is scalable and is capable of working on every appliance on every operating system.

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VC
Principal Engineer at Dell EMC

Scalability is present in Skype for Business, e.g. you can use it to participate in one-to-one chats, and you can have a call with multiple people on it. If you have an organization with 3,000 people, you can manage it very nicely on Skype for Business. The tool can also scale from 10,000 to 20,000 users. It's a scalable tool.

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Ali Jafari - PeerSpot reviewer
Voip Engineer at APK

This is a scalable product. We have approximately 500 users. We have managers, three administrators, engineers, and developers that use it.

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LC
Procurement Manager at EXCEED IT Services

I would rate the solution's scalability a three out of ten. My company has 200 users for it. 

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MR
CEO at Norahand

For our purposes, the solution works fine and we have no need to scale. 

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Ankita Mandowara - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Software Engineer at Ace Infoway Pvt. Ltd

It is a scalable solution.

Around 400 employees in my company use Skype for Business.

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AM
Manager Global Business Development at Trigent Software Ltd

The solution is scalable in that we can sometimes have up to 30 people participating in a meeting. 

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JO
Principle consultant at Active Data Consulting Services Pty Ltd

We are small scale, with a small number of users. I do not know how it would handle very large numbers of users.

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JP
Production Manager for Nearshore SWaT at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The solution is scalable. We have 800 people in our organization using the solution.

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AB
Manager at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

This solution is scalable. The conference calls can be between many people. 

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SW
Product Line Manager at Edgecore

The scalability of Skype for Business is not very good.

We have approximately 10 to 15 users using this solution in my organization.

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Aliyar Balikci - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Technology Senior Administrator at Genpa

We have 300 users on all levels using this solution.

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VK
AVP - Cyber Secuirty at Cloud4C Services

We have limited employees, so we've never really experimented with scaling the solution. I can't speak to how easy it would be to expand the solution.

We have about 900 users on the solution right now.

We use the solution quite often. It's used on a daily basis.

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RS
Manager, Quality and Process Excellence at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

I would rate scalability average because I have found that there is an upper limit to the number of people that can be added to a conference. I'm not sure whether it is depending on the license that my organization has, but I do find that scalability is an issue in a large conference scenario.

It is used across our organization, with close to 15,000 or 16,000 users.

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Balbino - PeerSpot reviewer
Analyst at Leripe Construtora

It has excellent scalability since it integrates with all sectors of the company. All of our needs are met.

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VK
AVP - Cyber Secuirty at Cloud4C Services

There are 900 users who use it in my company. It's used on a daily basis. 

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SS
Software Engineer at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

The scalability of Skype for Business was good.

My company has many global employees, approximately 6,000 and everyone was using Skype for Business before we switched to Microsoft Teams.

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it_user378093 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Specialist Unified Communications at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

Scalability is good so far. We just added more servers to meet our needs.

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SD
Automation Systems Developer at a tech consulting company with 1-10 employees

The solution is pretty scalable. You can use it across the company, and certainly within IT. Since everybody's working remotely now, with COVID-19, I think it scales quite well.

Even when you add people, it's still easy to manage many multiples people in a single meeting

I don't know how many people in our company are actually on it at this point. I imagine it's quite a few, however, I'm not sure of which departments that are using it, or if it's been deployed across the board.

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FQ
Software architect at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

There is excellent scalability and we have five hundred users currently.

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LK
Senior Channel Sales Executive at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

If I include the clients for the various events, there are a few hundred users.

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F. Can AKTAN - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Systems Administrator at Gama Türkerler Ortaklığı

Skype for Business is a scalable solution.

We have approximately 350 people are using this solution. All departments are using it.

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DJ
Global Service Leader - Unified Communications and Collaboration at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
AS
Regional Sales Director - India & Middle East at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

The product doesn't really scale all that well.

We have about a hundred users on the solution. 

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NE
Sr. IT Project Manager at a university with self employed

The meetings can easily be expanded. Once you have the link you can push it, even in a WhatsApp group, to have all of your invitees become part of the meeting. The typical meeting for me is about 30 people.

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it_user353589 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Strategic Portfolio Management team at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees

No scalability issues.

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March 2024
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