It is most likely that MS Office 365 and Google Apps will further share the different segments of the market.
Google Apps for Works does not offer big business the same set of functions as MS Office 365 can, while handling most of the small business tasks. However Google cannot handle the collaborative editing of large documents and it forces the users to seek alternative options.
Now most of the users use Google Apps for online editing, publishing and sharing of small documents. Range of prices for the Microsoft services is from $6 to $15 per month for one user. These are for example solutions based on MS SharePoint Online and the full-scaled integration of MS Office 2013/2016 with OneDrive Pro.Īt the same time the cost of subscription to MS Office 365 is higher compared to Google Apps for Works, especially for the entry-level subscription plans. Stack of Microsoft offers some unique solutions. Microsoft has one essential advantage over Google – ample opportunities of the MS Office 365 integration with its other services for work with documents and the document sets management. Its sole and major competitor here is Google Apps. MS Office has virtually no rivals with its volume of functionality and compatibility of the document formatsĪs regards the cloud-based capacities of MS Office 365 it is not alone at the market. Integration of MS Office 365 with SharePoint Online, Exchange Online, Skype, OneDrive, PowerBIand Lync Online allows the full-scaled employment of the MS stack for document management and solution of other company tasks (video conferences, corporate mail, team-work with documents, data monitoring and analyze etc.). Rise of popularity of the off-the-shelf Microsoft solutions in the corporate sector, especially in the midst of the small and mid-sized business, is also expected. However soon, due to the flexible pricing policy of Microsoft, new home users will progressively give their preference to MS Office 365. Therefore the progressive transition of the majority of users to MS Office 365 may be forecasted.Ĭurrently the primary market spreading the MS Office 365 services is the corporate sector.
Review of office 365 for small business Offline#
But if you examine the cross-platform solutions for the offline document editing, MS Office has virtually no rivals with its volume of functionality and compatibility of the document formats.Ĭosts of the full-fledged package MS Office 365 (including its cloud-based capacities) and the offline version of MS Office 2013/2016 for the home users are comparable. LibreOffice, OpenOffice, CorelOffice etc. Offline version of MS Office has actually not many competitors with the comparable functionality. Office 365: what is going on at the market?
Review of office 365 for small business drivers#
For instance in the third quarter of 2015 the cloud-based services Office 365, Azure and Dynamics CRM became the principal drivers of the profit markup of Microsoft. Subsequently, the number of MS Office 365 subscribers is growing by tens percent every year. Microsoft Office 365: what is important for business to know about the “cloud-based” office?Ĭloud-based service Microsoft Office 365 has become more and more popular solution for managing document workflow in companies.
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