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One of my teachers from the university suggested I do the course to have an official engineer certificate in Office 365. I went to the university, and I did the course, which was a one-month course. Once I learned Office 365, I was able to provide more security and more stability not only, for the company, but as well, when I was going to the interview, I was providing tables and show them that I know and I'm an official engineer for this solution. Through the courses and learning that I received at the university for Office 365 on the technical side, I discovered that there are many things that you can do with the platform. For the first time, I like them. I told myself, "I have to stop using other email platforms and start using Office 365." This is one of the reasons I participated in the movement.
View full review »The company used Nextcloud and WeTransfer in the past, but we switched because Office 365 is an all-in-one solution. However, I think Nextcloud is more usable than Office 365, but it ultimately came down to security.
View full review »We were using the Nextcloud open source tool.
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Nuno França
Executive Director at Onsearch
I worked with SAP for three years. For maybe 15 years, I worked with another Portuguese ERP.
I switched to Microsoft because I started working for a multinational company. The problem is that for software that is made locally in Portugal, if you start a project with a company, you are stuck with that company. You can't change solutions, so you have a big investment in that kind of process.
I think it's better to work with international products, because if you don't like that partner, you can switch to another partner. I think that is the best reason for one company to choose software that is implemented with lots of tech companies, because you can change and use another company.
View full review »We were using IBM Smart Cloud Notes (IBM Verse). Switch because of IBM Email solutions migrated to HCL technologies, the cost of subscriptions are very high with external data centers with disaster recovery. So thought of switch over to Microsoft (Since Microsoft is a reliable player in the globe).
View full review »I'm still using Linux and Linux features. I primarily use Firefox and Thunderbird at home.
View full review »I did not use a different solution previously. It was my first choice, and I went with it.
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Miltiadis Voutiktis
Manager at Self employeed
I was previously using Google Docs. I changed to Office 365 because it's more stable and I'm more familiar with it.
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Giancarlo Proença
Works
We tried Google Docs, but it messed the formatting on our complex - designed - documents. We have also tried Libre Office, but with similar results. Only by using Office 365 were we able to read and create documents without any formatting issues.
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John ONeill
Principle consultant at Active Data Consulting Services Pty Ltd
We were using Office 2007 before the upgrade, with various licensing scattered across the business. Office 365 gave us a consistent platform that could be easily rolled out. Also, the ongoing updates to Office 365 help reduce the workload on keeping apps up-to-date, especially if the IT team is small.
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Moshe Golan
BI/Qlikview Architect at DataForce Ltd.
I don't believe the organization used a different product before this solution was implemented.
View full review »We didn’t really have a previous solution. We used a stand-alone email service and older versions of Office.
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Manas Jain
Director - R&D at Axtria - Ingenious Insights
Prior to using Office 365, we were using the on-premises version.
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reviewer1389846
Cloud Security Lead at a security firm with 1-10 employees
We were using G-Suite before this but G-Suite doesn't have the features that Office 365 offers. We have access to Teams, video conferencing, SharePoint and all the other features which is why we thought it was a better solution for us.
I had used Office Professional Pro without the cloud backbone. So, it doesn’t really seem comparable to this product. I have also used and still use the G Suite which is fine, but frankly it doesn’t seem as robust or exciting as the Office 365. I maintain both because some clients are Google people or otherwise have an aversion to MSFT while there are others who know and seem to love the Office 365 solution.
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Nauta69
Engineer at Sociedad de Acueducto, Alcantarillado y Aseo de Barranquilla S.A. ESP
Our previous solutions had of delay of about three years and had not been updated. In addition, they were only offering us mail, calendar, and a poor communication chat.
The change was necessary, given the peculiarities of the existing work in the company. We needed a platform that would allow a more dynamic and real collaboration.
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reviewer1226838
Head of Solutions Delivery (Systems) at a wellness & fitness company with 51-200 employees
We still use Office, or Outlook, for emails. Previously we used that and then we used Slack for collaboration instead of Teams.
Teams obviously has more integration with other tools. Slack had the chat capability and it allowed us to have meetings, however, it didn't record meetings and it didn't have a meeting history section. You weren't able to see everyone in the meeting. Again, you didn't have the planner boards and all the other widgets that you can integrate with from a Team's point of view. Teams is more usable and has a lot more features. It's just one place where everything's captured. When we'd use Slack and we'd use Trello, they were separate tools, and information was in two different places. Teams basically gives you Slack and Trello together, along with so many other things.
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Michael Ndwiga
IT Officer at a manufacturing company with 201-500 employees
We previously used on-premise Exchange server , the solution was good but administration of the solution was very time consuming , security was a key concern and downtime was very frequent.
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reviewer1389651
Certified Adjunct Faculty, School of Engineering and Computing at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
I didn't use anything that's similar to it. Just a device where all of the software has been individually installed.
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SystemEne149
System Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
We were using open source email server entourage exchange, and from there the best option was to migrate to Office 365.
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OnyaToochukwu
CEO/Programmer at Tech Elight
We previously used a different version, Office 2007.
View full review »We used only Google, but we have Microsoft AD, Exchange, SharePoint, System Center, Lync/Skype for Business, so that Office 365 Enterprise is the most important for us.
View full review »We switched from the PC-based solution (desktop) to the cloud-based. The cloud-based gave us more opportunities to be more flexible. It is easier to get to when employees are out of the office or at home. They can link in to the product, so it makes it very available.
View full review »We previously had an on-prem solution.
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reviewer1342689
Vice President of Sales (Europe) at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
We are a publishing company. We develop our own solution, which I use on a daily basis.
View full review »I have not used other solutions; however, I have assisted other users and administrators to migrate from Google Business Apps to Microsoft's Office 365 Enterprise and Business Premier environment.
View full review »We previously used Google Apps for Business. Solution was incomplete, a headache to manage and extend. Email filtering was essentially useless.
View full review »On-premises: Office 1010/2013/2016, Sharepoint Server, Skype/Lync farm. We switched because of the ease of administration and reduced overhead.
View full review »Exchange server. We changed for service improvement.
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March 2024
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