Office 365 Primary Use Case

Minos Pitsillides - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Director at IT-Flow ltd

Office 365 is used for business. We open accounts for startups and existing businesses, we primarily use Office 365 as an email platform. This is essentially what we're doing with Office 365.

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LB
Vice President IT Services at Allegient Defense Inc

We're using Microsoft Defender for endpoints.

We went that route as we did have an IT service provider, however, they were very expensive. When we did a corporate merge at the beginning of 2019, we decided that we were going to go to Office 365 and do a one-stop-shop. We didn't want to have the on-prem equipment to maintain. 

In our last solution, we were limited as to what we could do for, for example, email addresses for the entire company, which were about 80 people. It was very costly to do that. Therefore, we only had our program managers and our site leads with email addresses.

When we decided to come back over to the corporate side, we wanted to keep the same flexibility and be able to have access to Microsoft for their tech solutions or their tech assistance, depending on what we needed. It gave us that flexibility and we were able to run the company on basically two IT people rather than paying $3,000 to $4,000 a month for IT services from other vendors, such as like Ntiva or something like that.

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Patrick Brem - PeerSpot reviewer
Deputy senior network engineer at a manufacturing company with 201-500 employees

We use Office 365 for project management. Around 2,500 people at my company use it.

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Laurent-PIGNOL - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Information Officer at BeeBryte

We use it to collaborate. We use it for documentation management, to collaborate with Microsoft Teams, web calls, web conference calls, chats, and as a documentation repository mainly. We have an Office pack suite to be able to write documentation, make spreadsheets, and create PowerPoints. 

We are also using Microsoft Bookings to have calendars and automatic booking with people. At the moment, we are also using Microsoft Flow to be able to integrate between our CRM and SharePoint.

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VG
Solution Manager at Softtek

I use Office 365 for a variety of things including sending emails to customers and colleagues, creating PowerPoint presentations, using Excel, and using Access. 

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Yonas Tizazu - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager, Cybersecurity Engineering and Audit at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

We use Office 365 for documents, like Microsoft Word, PowerPoint Excel, and Teams.

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NF
Executive Director at Onsearch

I am using the new version, which they launched at the beginning of this year in Portugal. Business Central is the new version of the ERP for Microsoft.

The solution can be deployed on a public cloud and on-premises.

My company implements the solution, but the clients I do projects for usually have 50-60 users.

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Girish Vijay - PeerSpot reviewer
Deputy Manager IT at Carl Bechem Lubricants India Pvt. Ltd.

Email, Instant Messaging with Teams, Teams Video Conference & Mobile Outlook Application.

Office 365 works very well with Microsoft Windows ECO system without any friction. Microsoft Teams video conference is a very good tool to have instant or scheduled video conferences, the quality of the video and audio is excellent but requires good internet bandwidth. As an email Admin, control aspects are top-notch, it could email quarantine details, block, allow domains, etc. especially Microsoft email filters (Spam, Malware, etc) with a basic standard subscription are on par with leaders in Email filters (Like Symantec, Barracuda, Cisco). These features are really handy for small and medium organizations. Outlook configuration for receiving and sending emails is very simple.

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PM
Associate Vice President - Office of Strategic ManagementVice President - Office of Strategic Management at Sakthi Finance Ltd,

We use this solution alongside Sharepoint and Teams.

It's primarily used for collaborative work. We use Teams, for example, to stay connected. Word we are using as a word processor. Then for exchanging emails we are using Microsoft Outlook. There are also certain basic analytics that we are using this Excel. We're taking advantage of the whole suite of tools.

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Sunil Mehta - PeerSpot reviewer
Director, Customer Success at SAP

I am using Office 365 for emails, presentations, spreadsheets, documents, PDF conversions, creation of PDFs, whiteboarding on the conference calls, OneNote for taking notes, and OneDrive for data storage.

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Christian-Stein - PeerSpot reviewer
Adv. Partner Systems Engineer at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

I mostly use Office 365 for email. I have a license for five desktops, and my family is using all the five, including myself

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DA
Assistant Administrator at PostsTechnohub Limited

We are using Office 365 mainly for emails, document storage, SharePoint, and the Power Apps to build our own in-house applications.

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AT
Senior Software Enginer at University of Southern California

We use this solution to detect if a user, physician, manager, or director have sent out their patient data.

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Stavros Tsakmakas - PeerSpot reviewer
Junior Middle Office Officer at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

In my workplace, we were mostly using Excel and Word to organize files, to be able to do tables, and handle general work. Mostly, these tools are the ones that we're using, however, it has a whole suite.

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MV
Manager at Self employeed

I use it for everything that has to do with data input and of course Excel, Office and the like. It is pretty much the cornerstone software for what I do.

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TP
Crm/Business Intelligence administrator at Kc firiakis LTD

Within this solution, I've been using Excel most of the time, as well as Microsoft Word. Excel is the main reason to use this product, however. 

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GP
Works

Our team is comprised of five people in a small consultant firm. Office 365 allows for all team members to work on the same files at the same time on OneDrive while using the market standards (Excel, Word, PowerPoint) for file editing and creation.

We've experimented with free options, but there is no point of trying to work in a file format that is different from that of our clients. That's the main reason that led us to Office 365.

All of our workstations are Windows 10 and Office runs perfectly. 

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MG
BI/Qlikview Architect at DataForce Ltd.

We primarily use the solution for Excel, for analyzing data, and PowerPoint, for presentations.

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Theodoros Loizou - PeerSpot reviewer
Software engineer at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

I use Office 365 mostly got Excel and Word.

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VJ
Sales Manager at Essar

It gives a platform to connect with your colleagues. Through Yammer, its cloud connectivity enhances its MS Office experience.

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MJ
Director - R&D at Axtria - Ingenious Insights

Our primary use is for document management.

We use Sharepoint for managing documents, Teams for collaboration, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook for email management. We also use the document creator for creating internal surveys.

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NN
CGO | Diretor de Inovação e Crescimento at a computer software company with 1-10 employees

Microsoft Defender for Office 365 is mostly used for AI, SharePoint online, and importing information.

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NS
Cloud Security Lead at a security firm with 1-10 employees

My use case is mainly the email solution of Office 365. I use the exchange online for my emails, corporate emails. I use OneDrive for saving my data on the internet, and the other good features are Excel, Word and PowerPoint online, which allows me to create online documents. I also sometimes use Microsoft Teams within Office 365. We generally use Teams for our video conference meetings and presentation meetings. We also sometimes use SharePoint to share documents with people outside our organization. I am a cloud security lead and we are users of Office 365. 

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ZM
Head of Solutions Delivery (Systems) at a wellness & fitness company with 51-200 employees

We use it primarily for collaboration across teams. We use it to collaborate either via email or we use Teams quite a lot. For all of our meetings, we are now using Teams. Then we use the planner boards and things in Teams as well for keeping track of the work that we need to do.

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MN
IT Officer at a manufacturing company with 201-500 employees

Our primary use for the product is for performing office tasks like word processing for critical business staff. I work with the product mostly from the administrative side but also have experience using the product itself.  

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BL
Certified Adjunct Faculty, School of Engineering and Computing at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees

My primary use case is for preparing presentations to teach, often on PowerPoint.

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CE
Solution Architect at Bilicha Technology

We use it to share work and collaborate. 

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JM
Director of Technology at FAFCO, Inc.

We use it throughout our business for email and documents. It has allowed us to stop maintaining SharePoint and Exchange installs.

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SS
IT Manager at MAGRABI Agriculture

Our primary use is for email.

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OC
System Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We use this solution for email exchange.

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OT
CEO/Programmer at Tech Elight

Our primary use case is for creating files, and typing projects and for converting Word documents to PDF format. 

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VS
Security Specialist at a tech consulting company with 1-10 employees

I am a business consultant and have worked in business continuity for about eight years. I work for factories, banks, government, and other organizations. I use different methodologies that depend on the customer's requirements.

I have found that Office 365 is one of the best tools for business continuity, for small companies.

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LG
TitleGrowth Equity Associate at a venture capital & private equity firm with 51-200 employees

My primary use cases are for Word: 

  • I write memos
  • PowerPoint 
  • Pitch decks
  • Excel
  • Financial models.
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YV
Executive Director - India Region at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

We primarily use the solution for office communication.

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it_user861651 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT and Digital Evangelization with 11-50 employees

We are using the cloud-based version. We use it in an office environment and also in a school environment. It is performing great.

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AS
CMO at Neusol

Our primary use case for Office 365 is productivity, such as email.

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it_user807813 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at a tech services company
  • Great set of productivity and collaboration tools
  • Strong security, if properly configured
  • Constantly evolving with new features, which can be challenging for users.
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