Office 365 Reviews

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

The most valuable feature is the integration between net and mobile devices.

Sometimes the synchronization between the desktop and online is a little bit slow.

Office 365 would be improved if the CRM integration were better.

I have been working with Office 365 for the past five years.

We have not experienced any bugs or glitches.

Scalability has not been a problem.

I have not been in contact with technical support.

The initial setup is straightforward.

In summary, this is a good product and one that I recommend.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

• Great set of productivity and collaboration tools
• Strong security, if properly configured
• Constantly evolving with new features, which can be challenging for users.

• Great impact on project management and team collaboration. 
• Improved communication and documentation.
• SharePoint's great platform for controlled document storage and management of digital assets. 
• The phone VoIP product provides genuine a unified communication solution.

• SharePoint: search, portal pages, collaboration
• Teams: project management, event management, and section teamworking
• Phone: VoIP unified communication with Skype for Business across mobile, VOIP handsets, and Teams. Good reporting and good value subscriptions for international calls.

Teams still has some shortcomings, however, new features and fixes being rapidly released. Security is still complex, but the admin console improving. 

Office 365, Skype for Business Online, SharePoint.

Less overhead, work anywhere/anytime. Tools for teamwork, productivity, and administration.

The ability to work with SharePoint from within the Office applications is limited. (There is still a need for third party tools like Harmon.ie).

Five years.

Negligible.

Negligible.

High level of technical support from Microsoft.

On-premises: Office 1010/2013/2016, Sharepoint Server, Skype/Lync farm. We switched because of the ease of administration and reduced overhead.

With the help of a clear project plan and adoption plan, implementation of Office 365 is mostly straightforward. SharePoint does need more attention. Mostly adoption issues.

Contact Microsoft about any pricing issues.

No.

Adoption is key! Don't push it. Especially for users who are used to working with traditional tools, it will be hard to adopt a new way of work.

People tend to keep their mistakes hidden. With version control, you only have access to what you need. Managing assignments of tasks can make a team effort be more transparent. The solution keeps people honest.

Team members can work together and make them more accountable.

I would like to see improvements in connections to external content types and their connectors.

While consulting at a client’s office, I found it very difficult to connect SharePoint designer external content types to the IBM AS400 iSeries connector. I was also trying to connect to the JDE connector.

We have used this solution for six years.

At first there were some stability issues. However, Microsoft got much better with it over time.

I did not encounter any issues with scalability.

I would rate technical support with an 8/10.

It was easier to set up in the earlier versions. Now it has many more bells to ring.

Cost to value is much better than on premise SharePoint.

We evaluated Amazon Web Services.

Do your homework first, plan governance, and then pull the trigger. Use a migration tool to add metadata to file share documents.

I like that mail and calendar are available anywhere. It is easy to share with colleagues.

I can make changes in seconds. It is easy to share the mailbox and the calendar. It is easy set the 'out of office' status.

Microsoft Excel for Mac (version 15.30) is very slow with a large Excel document. Microsoft Excel for Windows is much faster on the same Mac with Windows (Boot Camp). I’d like to see an improvement in the speed of Excel for Mac in relation to Windows.

We have used this solution for one and a half years.

Microsoft Excel on Mac OS can be very slow.

I did not encounter any issues with scalability.

I would give technical support a rating of 8/10.

In our case, the installation was fairly easily, after good preparation and a plan of action. The migration of all old mailboxes to Microsoft Office 365 takes a long time. We completed this with no problems.

This is not the cheapest option, but the product can scale to the needs of the company.

We evaluated CommuniGate Pro Server and Kerio Connect Mail.

Have a good plan with shared mail and calendars.

• Very fast
• Almost too many features to work with

• Reduces the manageability from physical server to cloud.
• Less chance of issues.

• Performance
• Scalability

One year.

Migration from Exchange.

No.

No.

A nine out of 10.

A 10 out of 10.

Exchange server. We changed for service improvement.

The initial setup was straightforward.

In-house.

Setup is bit difficult. Cost-wise everything is affordable.

No.