Skype for Business Reviews

Name: Skype for Business
Brand: Microsoft
Rating: 4 (60 reviews)

3.9 out of 5

60 reviews
78% willing to recommend

1,665 followers

What is Skype for Business?

Skype for Business offers features including presence, IM, voice and video calls, online meetings, conferencing, and telephony solutions that support enterprise-level collaboration requirements. Skype for Business Record meetings, share your screen, and annotate PowerPoint for real-time collaboration with up to 250 people and use whiteboard, polls, Q&A, and built-in IM during your business meetings to make them more productive. Skype for Business provides new client experience, Skype for Business Server provides several new features to improve manageability of on-premises servers and hybrid solutions. Skype for Business also supports the Lync client experience so that you can choose a phased upgrade approach to the new client experience for users. Skype for Business is also an integral part of Microsoft Office 365, providing PSTN Conferencing, Cloud PBX, PSTN Calling, and Skype Meeting Broadcast capabilities to Office 365 users.

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Skype for Business is the #3 ranked solution in top Virtual Meetings solutions. PeerSpot users give Skype for Business an average rating of 7.8 out of 10. Skype for Business is most commonly compared to TeamViewer: Skype for Business vs TeamViewer. Skype for Business is popular among the midsize enterprise segment, accounting for 92% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a educational organization, accounting for 91% of all views.

Helped 813,418 peers since 2012

Featured reviews

Magdalena Teodorczuk

Senior at Krajowy Depozyt Papierów Wartosciowych S.A.

I use the solution at a personal level to communicate with my doctor. I use the solution in my company to be able to communicate at a personal level The most valuable features of the solution stem from the fact that the tool provides simple functionalities in areas like video and voice quality,…

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RemkeRutgers

IT architect at Rutgers IT

I use Skype for any audio or video meetings. I'm an IT architect and a customer of Microsoft. It's a good and stable product that suits my needs because I've been working from home for the past couple of years. WebEx has a feature that allows you to zoom in when you're giving a presentation.…

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Shilpa Patki

Account Manager at Peristent Systems

We are a software company, so we communicate via Skype with our end customers, including product companies Screen share is one of the features of the solution I like the most. The product also offers good connectivity over voice calls. When I compare Skype for business with Microsoft Teams, I…

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Skype for Business mindshare

As of October 2024, the mindshare of Skype for Business in the Virtual Meetings category stands at 7.9%, down from 8.5% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Key learnings from peers

Valuable Features

"The tool's most valuable features are its audio and chat functions. They help us save time and have good telephone integration."
"The solution’s video quality is fine."
"The product's initial setup phase is very easy."

Room for Improvement

"The solution's functionality needs to be moved to Microsoft Teams. Its technology is outdated."
"The solution should improve the chat and add more flexibility to make a call."
"The inability to integrate Skype with other products is an area of concern where improvements are required."

Pricing

"Skype for Business' pricing is reasonable."
"I use the product's open-source version."
"When it comes to the pricing of the solution, I rate it as a five out of ten. It falls somewhere in the middle between being cheap and expensive."

These insights are based on the in-depth reviews provided by peers to help you make a better buying decision.

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