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Office 365 vs Symphony comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

Office 365
Average Rating
8.4
Number of Reviews
54
Ranking in other categories
Content Collaboration Platforms (9th)
Symphony
Average Rating
7.2
Number of Reviews
5
Ranking in other categories
Enterprise Social Software (9th)
 

Mindshare comparison

While both are Messaging and Collaboration solutions, they serve different purposes. Office 365 is designed for Content Collaboration Platforms and holds a mindshare of 6.0%, down 7.1% compared to last year.
Symphony, on the other hand, focuses on Enterprise Social Software, holds 6.0% mindshare, up 5.4% since last year.
Content Collaboration Platforms
Enterprise Social Software
 

Featured Reviews

Minos Pitsillides - PeerSpot reviewer
Mar 31, 2022
Excellent technical support, easy to install, but the price, while affordable, could be improved
Office 365 is scalable, but it is dependent on the situation. We don't have a problem with it from an organizational standpoint. They started with 100 employees and then added another 500 after six months, for a total of 600 employees. The setup of new users, new emails, and new applications to be assigned to the new users is straightforward. They also provide the PowerShell command, which they provided more, development type, like, for example, you can create users, not manually, but through a script that can create users, for example, 100 users in two, three minutes, and you don't do it manually. They're fantastic. My portfolio contains approximately 50 companies. Office 365 is our primary platform for the 50 companies. I only have one on G Suite, and the majority of them will be migrating from G Suite to 365 in the coming month.
Nenad Pejcic - PeerSpot reviewer
Nov 29, 2023
Makes tasks like network planning and performance monitoring much easier
I have experience with solutions from other vendors like Nokia, Huawei, and Tyson. The main pros of Symphony, in comparison, are the modules that provide a comprehensive overview and the automation features for planning data. These aspects are notably beneficial and stand out. On the downside, the major cons revolve around user customization. Unlike other vendors where you can create your reports and customize navigation, Symphony's user optimization in the SCAP module is limited. This lack of flexibility is a significant drawback, especially when compared to other solutions. Overall, while certain modules like those related to SolarWinds are straightforward and comparable, Symphony falls short in terms of user customization.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The solution is quite intuitive and easy to use."
"Most of the work that seems not to work offline works perfectly with Microsoft Office 2013, like converting a Word document to a PDF file."
"There's a lot there in terms of apps and features."
"It's nice that it's an all-in-one solution and everything is all in one place."
"The technical support is outstanding."
"Cloud-based management is valuable and software deployment is positive."
"If you have a global solution, you can go from one product to the other very easily. And then you can share data between all the different tools of Office which is good because participation and sharing is very good. That's the most important aspect of Office 365."
"The phone VoIP product provides genuine a unified communication solution."
"Symphony and Laravel are the most comfortable frameworks for any developer. It is also lightweight."
"I found the RAM Commander module in Symphony to be the most valuable."
"The entire product is good."
"The overall functions are good."
"The solution is user-friendly, and it is very good security-wise."
 

Cons

"Security is still complex, but the admin console improving."
"Normally, they have a way to work with specific developments, and I think they shouldn't allow the partners to make some changes they have made. When I have a client with a lot of changes, we have a problem with that because there aren't rules to develop inside the ERP, so you can do anything."
"I rate the support of Office 365 a four out of five."
"Could include integration with other single sign-on solutions."
"In terms of improvement, it should have tutorials when you first have the opportunity to use it, to be able to really learn it."
"If two people update the same file, it causes issues."
"There are some complexities to the initial setup if you use some of the more advanced features."
"I would like to see the macro functionality in Excel made simpler."
"The solution is very expensive, and its pricing could be improved."
"Compared to established vendors, it lacks user flexibility and customization, especially in the PM module."
"The area that needs to be improved is modular asset management. When we are uploading the assets in bulk, it is not aligned."
"To improve the situation, enhancing the functionality for integrating with other applications and addressing ticketing issues is crucial."
"The solution needs to improve CI."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Most of the time, we purchase Microsoft Exchange licenses, which are less expensive and provide only an email platform and 50 gigabytes of email storage for free."
"Licensing fees are paid on a monthly basis, or we prepay them."
"The price of Office 365 is very expensive."
"The pricing is good for all the features that we receive, e.g., Skype for Business."
"Licensing, billing, and accounting are available from the management interface."
"For the moment, we are paying on a monthly basis because we are still adapting the support and how we want to proceed. I think we will move to paying for the annual license."
"I would rate the solution 3 out of 5 for the price. I think Microsoft presents a good solution concerning the price."
"I think that we pay $9.99 USD per user, monthly."
"It's a costly product, but the number of available features justifies it."
"It is fairly an expensive product, but works for us."
"Symphony is expensive."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Educational Organization
82%
Computer Software Company
3%
Financial Services Firm
2%
Government
2%
Financial Services Firm
62%
Computer Software Company
8%
Manufacturing Company
4%
Venture Capital & Private Equity Firm
3%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Questions from the Community

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Comparisons

 

Also Known As

Microsoft Office 365, Office 365 Enterprise, Office 365 Enterprise E1, Office 365 Enterprise E3, Office 365 Enterprise E5, Office 365 ProPlus, Office 365 Business, Office 365 Business Essentials, Office 365 Business Premium, Office 365 F1
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