Microsoft 365 Business Reviews

I'm a basic user, using it primarily to send and receive emails. That's the extent of my usage, nothing more in-depth.

I'm satisfied with how they handle data, and the people there are very friendly.   

It could be more reasonably priced. It should be more affordable.

I have been using Microsoft 365 Business for a few years.

It is very stable. 

The initial setup is straightforward. You can use it either on your own or with some assistance. I use it in a very simple manner. It's very straightforward. I can set it up and follow the instructions.

It is not so expensive. 

I would rate it an eight and a half out of ten and would recommend it to others.

We use the product as it was selected by our client for their environment. You can implement organizational compliance policies and make your devices secure. Companies can keep track of devices and users over the internet itself. The product is cloud-based. Therefore, you do not need a dedicated IT system and hardware.

I am impressed with the MDM feature.

The solution has a lot of areas to be improved. The tool needs to improve its background synchronization of data between the platforms. It can facilitate better decision-making and analysis of data. The tool should also make improvements to responsive mechanisms which can eliminate any bottlenecks.

I have been working with the solution for four to five years.

The solution is stable.

If you use the user portal, then you need to have some credits. On the other hand, if you have a license, then support is free. The support responds on time.

Neutral

The solution’s deployment takes two to three months to complete.

We have seen ROI with the tool’s use. The solution removes the burden of decision-making of compliance policy management.

The tool’s licensing and pricing are interconnected. There are different levels of licensing.

I would rate the solution an eight out of ten. The solution does not require any maintenance from our end since it is deployed over the cloud. Before choosing this solution, you need to get the gist of it. If you do so, then it will not take long for you to onboard.

We use a lot of the applications that come with Microsoft 365 Business, such as Sharepoint, Teams, and Outlook.

Microsoft 365 Business is easy to use. Most companies use Microsoft Windows as an operating system making the use of this solution straightforward. There is a small learning curve and it is something everyone can adapt to easily.

I have been using Microsoft 365 Business for approximately six years.

I would recommend this solution to others and we plan to continue using it in the future.

I have found Microsoft 365 Business to be stable.

Microsoft 365 Business is scalable.

We have approximately 6,000 using the solution in my organization.

The technical support is very responsive and they have different levels of support. However, the response time depends on the license that has been purchased.

When I joined this organization they had already installed Microsoft 365 Business, but the project took approximately six months. I have now onboarded the solution across the organization. Microsoft 365 Business is on the cloud making the installation straightforward. The deployment does not take a long time, you have to take time to migrate all of the users which was done in a phased approach. It took about six months to migrate everyone.

We have a team of five administrators that do the maintenance of the solution.

The price of the license for Microsoft 365 Business can be expensive for smaller businesses and should be adjusted. The overall pricing model can be improved upon.

I rate Microsoft 365 Business an eight out of ten.

I primarily use the solution for the Microsoft Office Suite and Outlook.

I used to use 365 when I was at IBM, and, at later stages in my career, at other companies. I used to have my own license at home. Now, I have my own consulting firm. Recently, I got a laptop. I felt that transferring all the information from one laptop to the other was a painful experience. I got 365, as it is in the cloud, and due to that, I can just download my user information and I'm ready to go. 

The solution is stable. 

I like that it is easy to transfer to different devices, such as a different laptop. Everything is cloud-based, which I appreciate.

While I like the fact that Microsoft is constantly updating its services, I also like the fact that Excel is pretty much the same since I started using it on Day One. 

Coming from larger companies, if you had 365 questions for Microsoft, it was hard to get a hold of them. The one way I could get answers was by talking to a friend, or one who has used 365 as well. Microsoft has no time for the little guy. I can Google to look for answers, however, you run the risk of getting answers that are baseless. It would be easier to use if you could get better help if you need it. 

Most Microsoft applications are not the most user-friendly.

I've used the product for a while. I've always used Microsoft for the most part.

The stability has been fine for the most part.

As an individual user, getting a hold of technical support can be difficult. Once, I actually found a number and I waited for an hour and a half. The guy who helped me, I can't thank him enough. He went beyond. I was extremely happy about the assistance. That said, typically, it's hard to get help.

I've used G Suite before as well. However, I'm a Microsoft guy. I'm 65, so I've used Microsoft all my life. G Suite is extremely good, however, as I see it, I'm not comfortable with it. I see the younger people getting faster with it. 

The cost of the solution is approximately $120 a year.

I'm an end-user of the solution. We mostly work with IBM, which is a bigger part of our offering.

While there's a way to use it on an enterprise level, I can only speak to individual usage. I personally like the fact that it's on the cloud and it's easy to access my documents from anywhere. 

I'd rate the solution at a seven out of ten. For the most part, the solution has been great. 

We always use the latest version. 

We use the solution for SharePoint, documents and email.

The OneDrive part could be more user-friendly, because many people want to use it. The sharing of the documents, such as files, should be addressed in respect of using a personal user. 

We have been using Microsoft 365 Business for two years.

The solution is stable.

The solution is easy to expand to accommodate multiple users. 

We have an internal tech support team that helps us with issues that arise. 

Our cloud solution was with Microsoft.

The installation is convenient and they handled it for us from the office. 

The installation and deployment are easy to undertake, as we already have a Microsoft package. This comes with Teams, Outlook, Excel and PowerPoint.

The organization is responsible for the license. 

I believe we have around 10,000 users.

I would definitely recommend the solution to others. 

I rate Microsoft 365 Business as a nine or nine-point-five out of ten.

We are using it for file sharing, office applications, email, and SharePoint.

We use Microsoft solutions for everything that we do. A part of our software development is done in .NET using Visual Studio and development tools. We use Azure Cloud Platform, and we are also providing services to our client's clients. It would be hard to imagine using something else because we are so used to using Microsoft tools. It is something that you count on having.

Everything gets integrated. Different services that they provide are well integrated into the entire system, which is the biggest strength of Microsoft products. Everything works together. If I create a Microsoft Teams theme, I get a SharePoint site and planner. Everything, including permissions, is scoped, which is really nice.

Microsoft Teams, which is a video conferencing, chat, and collaboration tool, has some issues with video codecs. It has really bad performance, especially on the Mac OS, and requires a lot of improvements. I'm using MacBook Pro, and the performance of Microsoft Teams is disastrous. It is really unusable. Given our subscription, we get Microsoft Teams for free, but we are often opting to use Zoom or some other tool because the entire computer becomes almost unusable. New age applications should be written in a way that ensures similar performance across different operating systems. I'm not sure how it works on Windows. I assume it works better, but Microsoft needs to ensure that the performance is really good. It should provide the same kind of user experience across different platforms. They can use more efficient development tools when it comes to applications. They seem to be using a technology that uses a lot of resources on our personal computers. I know that Microsoft is pushing a lot of applications to be built in the Office 365 ecosystem, but Microsoft Teams should be a focus because it is a collaboration tool. Its performance and usability need to be better, especially in the times of COVID-19. As a part of management, I use the collaboration tools and video conferencing tools for approximately five or six hours a day. Such issues have a big business impact because the management makes decisions about the tools that are going to be used within the company.

SharePoint could somehow be improved or changed to match the features of Confluence from Atlassian. There is an opportunity to do some improvements there. 

We have been using this solution for six or seven years.

It is stable if we exclude the issues with Microsoft Teams. I am the technical director of a company that has 130 employees. I don't remember experiencing any kind of issues. There was an outage for a very short period of time about three months ago, but it was nothing bad. Its stability is great.

It is scalable. Everything that we use is based on a cloud source. It is pretty scalable, especially for our needs.

It is used by the entire company. It is an official tool for document management and business apps. We have 130 employees. Its usage will increase. We have the intention to grow as a company, so we will increase its usage accordingly.

We didn't have too much of a need for technical support or any kind of support, but when we needed it, it was okay. I don't remember which support plan we are subscribed to, but it works okay. 

It is pretty much straightforward. It cannot be configured for the first time by someone who is not trained to configure it. You need help from basically your cloud service provider (CSP). Your CSP will provide resources to do the initial configurations. Such tools are not easy to configure for the first time, but everything else is pretty much intuitive. If you have an IT background, it should be intuitive and easy.

Its price is what you would expect today from a software-as-a-service offering. It is somewhere around $10 per user per month.

I would advise making sure that someone experienced with Microsoft Office 365 platform and ecosystem is leading your organization. Otherwise, find a great partner to help you and guide you through the implementation process.

I would rate Microsoft 365 Business a seven out of ten. A couple of things can be better.

I use the solution for various tasks as it is a bundle of products. I use Outlook for messaging, Visio for chart modelling, PowerPoint for presentation, Excel, Word, and OneNote. For me personally, OneNote is mostly helpful application.

When trying to compare other products there are not a lot of product that can even compare with the functionality. There are many products bundled together.

I think every product manager has to use the products by himself because I am a product manager in my company for years, I have seen rudimentary mistakes. For example, in previous versions, there were no problems with simple operations. Currently, I see unstructured development. In previous versions it was always stable, now they focus on un-useful features, instead of useful ones.

Some of the functionality in the solution needs to improve. For example, when receiving a message in Outlook regarding the start of a meeting, it is not easy to connect, pick a microphone, or click the link.

Some of Google services are better than the ones with this solution.

I have been using the solution for a couple of years.

I observe the dynamic of Microsoft products from unstable to more stable. They have improved over the years from critical mistakes. For example, Microsoft Teams, strange product, but now I can say it is a good product with mistakes, often unstable, but I observed the solution getting better over time. They need some more work done on stability.

I have 3,000 employees in my company using the solution.

I have used the solutions technical support in the past and I received an answer but it did not have the solution. It was a standard automated message. They could improve on the agent's knowledge for dealing with issues.

I used Lotus from IBM in the past and it was terrible. I decided to find a new solution without Lotus. It was very hard to work with Lotus and other IBM product. Additionally, I have used Google products too.

I ordered this solution and the supply manager installed it. They had no problem.

We have an IT division in my company that manages all the deployments.

There is a licensing fee that is quite expensive. However, the solution is useful and the price is equal to the value.

Microsoft wonders me, I am quite satisfied with this solution. I would recommend this solution to others.

I rate Microsoft 365 Business a nine out of ten.

The basic solution we mostly need Microsoft 365 Business for, is to use Excel to support the internal sourcing process and retain our core competency.

It gives us all the tools we need to practice business in a single, unified, compatible package.

The most valuable feature in this product is that it allows for fairly high productivity without the requirements for bespoke (i.e., custom made) tools. Microsoft 365 is like a Swiss army knife. You can do pretty much everything you need for a company with it all in one compatible package without deploying multiple solutions.

The parts of the product that can be improved are the Forms and Flow features. They can be more intuitive and productive. 

I think what Microsoft has provided is certainly a stable and mature solution.

This is scalable product both in component deployment and utility for business practices.

I have not personally really had any reason to contact technical support. If I have any issues, I can answer my own questions. I normally use the various forums and internet support communities.

No serious technical issues have ever occurred.

The product was simple to install in my own deployment and begin to use. Our IT department did the deployment for the company, so I can not say how long deployment takes when deploying on a network.

Our internal IT department does deployments and monitoring of applications and services for the company.

My advice to people who are considering the use of this product is that if you are starting from scratch — from absolute zero — take some courses or training in the product to make sure you have some basic understanding of each of the products in the suite. You need to know what they do and have some basic skills or you will spend a lot of time finding out for yourself what is already easy to learn.

On a scale from one to ten, where one is the worst and ten is the best, I would rate this product as an eight.

What it can do in the next release to be closer to a ten is to integrate the components better. I would like to see all of the functionality come together in one workspace. I would prefer not to have the work separately with an Excel spreadsheet and a separate PowerPoint interface for presentation and a Flow interface for workflow. This is a little clumsy. I would prefer further integration of all the products into one single solution so it is not necessary to switch back-and-forth as you work. Or have the option to customize how you integrate according to the way you work.