Adobe Acrobat vs. Microsoft 365 vs. Microsoft Office 2016 (discontinued)

Adobe Acrobat

Adobe Acrobat

3849 Reviews and Ratings

Microsoft 365

Microsoft 365

8121 Reviews and Ratings

Microsoft Office 2016 (discontinued)

Microsoft Office 2016 (discontinued)

1347 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Adobe Acrobat	Score 8.8 out of 10	N/A	Adobe Acrobat DC is the current version of the well-established document / PDF management solution, part of the Adobe Document Cloud (the other part being Adobe's eSign services based on technology acquired with EchoSign in 2011).	$29.99 per month per seat
Microsoft 365	Score 8.6 out of 10	N/A	Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365) is a Microsoft Cloud subscription service that includes Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, Publisher, and Access). The software can be installed across multiple devices and ensures that users always have the most up-to-date version of the included Office applications.	$5 Per User Per Month
Microsoft Office 2016 (discontinued)	Score 8.5 out of 10	N/A	Microsoft Office 2016 is the familiar suite of Office products including applications such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for use on a single PC or Mac. The 2016 is no longer available for sale from Microsoft, and support is at an end since 2020.	N/A

Pricing

Adobe Acrobat

Microsoft 365

Microsoft Office 2016 (discontinued)

Editions & Modules

Acrobat Pro for Individuals: $19.99
per month
Acrobat Pro for Teams: $23.99
per month per user
Acrobat Studio for Individuals: $24.99
per month

Business Basic: $5.00
Per User Per Month
Individual: $5.84
*Per Month
Business - Apps: $8.25
Per User Per Month
Enterprise - F3: $10.00
Per User Per Month
Business Standard: $12.50
Per User Per Month
Business Premium: $20.00
Per User Per Month
Enterprise - E3: $32.00
Per User Per Month
Enterprise - E5: $57.00
Per User Per Month

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Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Adobe Acrobat	Microsoft 365	Microsoft Office 2016 (discontinued)
Free Trial
Yes	No	No
Free/Freemium Version
No	No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes	No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

Optional

No setup fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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Community Pulse
	Adobe Acrobat	Microsoft 365	Microsoft Office 2016 (discontinued)
Considered Multiple Products	Adobe Acrobat Alan Gilbertson Creative Director Chose Adobe Acrobat In terms of comparisons, the simple fact is that Adobe Acrobat is known and trusted by clients and print providers throughout industry. Third party PDF editors are often more lightweight but also don't have all the features of Adobe Acrobat, so there is the inevitable point … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Director Chose Adobe Acrobat We use them for different things. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Manager Chose Adobe Acrobat haven't used many products similar to Adobe Acrobat Incentivized Helpful? Efrain Rivas Digital Content & Graphic Design Specialist Chose Adobe Acrobat Oh it's night and day, it's also the standard so, it makes it easier when collaborating with anyone else. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Employee Chose Adobe Acrobat Adobe Acrobat is very comparable to Microsoft office. They share the same tools and functions. Incentivized Helpful? JG Jose Gasca Help Desk Coordinator Chose Adobe Acrobat I would say that Adobe Acrobat offers a whole suite of of feature that Niro Pro just doesn't have. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Director Chose Adobe Acrobat I have used PDFEscape previously. It is a great product. A wonderful aspect is that it is free. A person can use this within having to link a form or payment or make a payment. Adobe Acrobat is not free (obviously). More or less, it has all of the features that PDFEscape … Incentivized Helpful? JC Júlio Calheiros Network Specialist Chose Adobe Acrobat It's like buying a luxury car with all the bells and whistles. It's a significant investment, but you have the vehicle always available, with superior performance, maximum safety, a warranty, and the ability to handle any road or condition. É como comprar um carro de luxo com … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Administrative Assistant Chose Adobe Acrobat There really is no product like Adobe Acrobat DC on the market Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Employee Chose Adobe Acrobat Foxit doesn't really have the ecosystem that Adobe Acrobat has, and since we are using multiple Adobe products, they all integrate well with one another. The OCR is also more powerful and accurate. So although Foxit has a lower cost to it and is also more light weight and less … Incentivized Helpful? JR Joe Reddix President and CEO Chose Adobe Acrobat In my opinion, both complement each other. Microsoft clearly has with Copilot the AI Edge. However, the visual dynamics of Adobe Creative are Outstanding and provide a balanced approach to creativity, utilizing both Excellent, user-friendly Tools. Incentivized Helpful? DB Dennis Blocker Office Manager Chose Adobe Acrobat We have not really worked with any other products. " If it ain't broke, don't fix it" is the old saying, and it rings true here. We love Adobe, and it does everything we need. Their engineers are always looking at the workforce to see what improvements can be made and where … Incentivized Helpful? PB Paul Berardis admistrative project manager Chose Adobe Acrobat have not tried any major competitor against Acrobat, but have used Microsoft Word to edit and create documents in PDF file format. does not have all the same options and features as Acrobat. Incentivized Helpful? BZ Bonnie Ziff Executive Administrator Chose Adobe Acrobat I have only really used Acrobat. All the other programs I have used are word processing programs. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Manager Chose Adobe Acrobat Not used any other product Incentivized Helpful? Verified User C-Level Executive Chose Adobe Acrobat We did not compare as we know Adobe is the best there is for what we need Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Analyst Chose Adobe Acrobat Other products like Word and PPT can help me create PDF files; however, I cannot actively edit and work within a .pdf file without Adobe Acrobat (to my knowledge). Adobe Acrobat almost feels like a required product for any organization that wants to work with and actively edit … Incentivized Helpful? Lisa A Lewis Owner Chose Adobe Acrobat Adobe Acrobat is more robust and does much more than Reader. Reader is basic but, I think Adobe Acrobat is a huge step up. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Professional Chose Adobe Acrobat Adobe Acrobat excel at its e-signature capabilities. This beats both Foxit and Power PDF. However, it lacks native integration with accounting-specific tools like TaxFolder. TaxFolder allow one-click from tax software itself to send out signature request. Way more … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Administrator Chose Adobe Acrobat Adobe was far superior to Foxit and was the only software that integrated with our software at the time. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Professional Chose Adobe Acrobat The great thing about Adobe is the functionality it offers users, something that Word through Microsoft apparently does, but the vulnerability of information in Word is something complex that organizations are still improving, and it's something that Adobe has been able to … Incentivized Helpful? AT Andrea Tidwell Legal Assistant Chose Adobe Acrobat This is a feature I personally have had to use a lot as we have to contact inventors for their signatures on a lot of documents. The ability for them to sign digitally is extremely helpful. A manual signature is harder to get and contacting these individuals can be hit or miss … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Administrator Chose Adobe Acrobat Adobe is much more expensive, and does not offer a perpetual license like its competitors. My organization does not find Acrobat to be a good value compared to the competition. Helpful? Jodi Christiansen President Chose Adobe Acrobat Not enough flexibility for editing Incentivized Helpful?	Microsoft 365 GD Gail Dutchess Diretor of Operations Chose Microsoft 365 Adobe Acrobat Reader DC definitely has its place in our business but is not good for productivity, documentation creation, or gathering data and running formulas. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Employee Chose Microsoft 365 Compared to the g-suite Microsoft 365 is so much more universally used. I think it has a way further reach and is easier for everyone to use. It is the basic standard in our business and I’d expect that in most places. I can always transfer my skills and everything is … Incentivized Helpful? KB Kyle Berthiaume Purchasing Manager Chose Microsoft 365 Microsoft 365 is better in the fact that it doesn't try to upsell you daily. Adobe is always trying to get me to go premium. Incentivized Helpful? Phil Blake Director of IT Chose Microsoft 365 Device compatibility and enterprise level voice isn't as readily available with Google Voice. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Program Manager Chose Microsoft 365 Microsoft 365 is in almost all cases the best option for office solutions in a professional environment. If there is a budget for software like this, I would generally recommend Microsoft Office. However, where your requirements for features are basic, you might enjoy free … Incentivized Helpful? Luci Fortune Assistant Public Information Coordinator Chose Microsoft 365 Microsoft has all the tools you need in one place, easily accessible and easy to use. The Teams app is reliable and doesn't glitch or make it hard to hear someone on a meeting like Google Meet does. Zoom has vulnerabilities making it not as reliable or me as comfortable using it. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Professional Chose Microsoft 365 Microsoft has quite a bit more functionality versus Google Sheets. Plus there are times that I want to work locally and not be connected to the cloud. Microsoft 365 allows for that. Incentivized Helpful? Tim McCafferty, MBA, MSL General Manager Chose Microsoft 365 Microsoft 365 is far better than LibreOffice, though we keep Libre for backup. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Professional Chose Microsoft 365 It's all about the network effect. Since everyone else at my school using Microsoft 365, eventually I had to bite the bullet and join the crowd. Using the officially supported file syncing and sharing solution solves a large number of problems right out of the box. Other … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Administrator Chose Microsoft 365 We have tried using an in-house Microsoft Exchange server as well but ultimately moved to using Microsoft 365 because it decentralized our email and gave all the users access to Microsoft Excel and Word programs at the same time. It also gives each user 1 terabyte of cloud … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Contributor Chose Microsoft 365 Google Drive and Google Docs I believe is the biggest competitor to Microsoft 365. However, if you really want to unlock the power and potential in your business you need more horsepower behind you and that is what the MS365 suite of products provides. Google Docs is … Incentivized Helpful? MM Matthew Mazur Attorney Chose Microsoft 365 No comparison, we can do more with Microsoft 365 and we are more efficient. The pricing model is very fair. We don't have to worry about updating the software on each machine, the updates are handled by Microsoft directly and the Microsoft 365 programs seem much more stable and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Supervisor Chose Microsoft 365 We really haven't evaluated other Office-like productivity suites/collaboration tools, since Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365) does everything that our organization needs for the work that users do on a daily basis. This combined with the fact that it is the perfect … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Administrator Chose Microsoft 365 Google Docs, Sheets, Calendar, etc. were not available in the listings, but to me, these would be Microsoft's competition in this space. Google seemed to have basically copied what Microsoft has done with these apps [and] made them web-browser friendly and cloud-based. … Incentivized Helpful? Heather Hicks Instructional Designer & LMS Administrator Chose Microsoft 365 Microsoft 365 is a complete package. If your work is business more than creative than it 100% suits your needs. The pieces it offers, the desk top apps available on demand, and the integrations are far reaching and hard to match with other products. It's clear they've been used … Incentivized Helpful? Kevin Staley MIS Administrator Chose Microsoft 365 Please consider our consideration of alternatives dates back seven years ago, so the alternative offerings today are likely to be rather different. We did consider continuing with Exchange on site, but deemed the increasing cost and complexity to justify adopting [Microsoft 365 … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Employee Chose Microsoft 365 We had been using Microsoft Office for a long time, but moving to Microsoft 365 [(formerly Office 365)] was a game changer because it is a cloud based system. Having the ability to access your email, files, or whatever you need wherever you are from any device is what really … Incentivized Helpful? Joelyn Brickner Content Manager Chose Microsoft 365 InDesign is more powerful than Microsoft Word as a publishing software, but fewer people use it, so I use Microsoft Word more frequently. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Technician Chose Microsoft 365 I have tried open-source alternatives such as OpenOffice but compatibility issues arise sometimes. We selected Microsoft 365 because it is the business gold standard of office productivity suites and nothing else comes close. Incentivized Helpful? IG Indy Gill Accountant Chose Microsoft 365 Skype is a similar communication tool to Microsoft Teams, however Microsoft is more commonly used in our business so it's easier to use a product that communicates and works with the other products you have Incentivized Helpful? MG Mark Goodman CEO Chose Microsoft 365 Thought about using Teams in certain situations, but have been concerned about universal access to content. Often feel that third party applications that are not aligned to a specific format are better. Users are not favored if [there] are Google or Microsoft or Apple people. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Manager Chose Microsoft 365 In our company we have both Office 365 and regular Office 2016. We are transitioning more to 365 for the ease of managing the licensing. We don't have to keep license cards or numbers stored anywhere because 365 uses your microsoft login which you are using anyway. Compared to … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Microsoft 365 We were looking to stay in the Microsoft Office 365 family, so it was either the cloud or a current desktop version. Ultimately the lower startup cost of refreshing all licenses at once, it was decided by the board to go with the new subscription-based Microsoft Office 365. At … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User C-Level Executive Chose Microsoft 365 Using Dynamics as a business application was the best decision I ever made. Between all its functionalities we are able to connect any Office 365 tools into your personalized app and you do not have to leave your page, it’s all right there. Helpful?	Microsoft Office 2016 (discontinued) Andrew Shannon Senior System Administrator Chose Microsoft Office 2016 (discontinued) Office is by far the most compatible of all the options we looked at and it integrates with Exchange email servers really well, so its an easy choice for us. Incentivized Helpful? Michael Kim Contracts Specialist Chose Microsoft Office 2016 (discontinued) We did not evaluate other products. The company already had an enterprise license with Microsoft for the Office Suite, and we were able to get a license and installation of our product by using our company email address. The other option was using free tools, which I know from … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Supervisor Chose Microsoft Office 2016 (discontinued) For certain situations there is a benefit to the "standalone" package of Office 2106, vs. a subscription-based product like Office 365. Especially in the case where there are shared computers, or computers that are used as a kiosk, Microsoft Office 2016 would be one of the few … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Director Chose Microsoft Office 2016 (discontinued) We have not tried to use an alternate. Office is the way to go. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Consultant Chose Microsoft Office 2016 (discontinued) In terms of Layout, functionality, versatility, I believe that Microsoft Office, is in general, the standard to follow. Nonetheless, depending on the requirements, LibreOffice and Google Drive may provide the tools and functionality needed for many users. Furthermore, the … Incentivized Helpful? Lochan Kalicharan Freelance Photographer Chose Microsoft Office 2016 (discontinued) Not as robust and feature filled as office 2016. Also missing a mail client like outlook that can be integrated with exchange. have not used any further applications besides this. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User C-Level Executive Chose Microsoft Office 2016 (discontinued) Microsoft Office provides the complete package. Everyone else is just a piece to the puzzle. Sure Microsoft Office costs more, but they give you all the software you need to have in one package. I don't want or need to find replacements for 5 different purposes. Incentivized Helpful? Wesley Renton Teacher Chose Microsoft Office 2016 (discontinued) The only similar products I have used would be Google Sheets, Google Docs and Google Slides. These are similar, but Microsoft Office products have more functionality. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Employee Chose Microsoft Office 2016 (discontinued) Microsoft Office is the best and has been the best for years. 10 years into the workforce and there are no other comparable programs that stack up. Incentivized Helpful? AR Adriano Rosa Programmer Chose Microsoft Office 2016 (discontinued) Microsoft Office 365 brings the same tools of Office 2016, but renewed. Office 2016 was sold for a one time, up front fee, on the other hand, Microsoft Office 365 is the new way Microsoft wants you to buy Office, you pay a monthly or yearly fee and get access to its latest … Incentivized Helpful? EO Eric Omondi Customer Support Chose Microsoft Office 2016 (discontinued) Yes, it's true that there are a lot of alternatives to Microsoft Office 2016 including: * Google Docs. Helpful? Verified User Administrator Chose Microsoft Office 2016 (discontinued) I have used Google Drive in the past. I found that I get a lot more storage space with Microsoft Office than I do with Google Drive. I also use PowerPoint a lot when doing proposals, and Google Drive contains nothing of the sort. It is a lot easier to use, and I am used to … Incentivized Helpful?

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User Ratings
	Adobe Acrobat	Microsoft 365	Microsoft Office 2016 (discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend	8.8 (811 ratings)	8.1 (242 ratings)	7.4 (64 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.1 (45 ratings)	9.5 (6 ratings)	5.0 (3 ratings)
Usability	9.2 (254 ratings)	7.7 (13 ratings)	7.0 (3 ratings)
Availability	9.1 (3 ratings)	- (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Performance	5.6 (10 ratings)	- (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Support Rating	9.3 (63 ratings)	8.9 (54 ratings)	8.0 (45 ratings)
Online Training	9.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	9.8 (15 ratings)	9.0 (2 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Configurability	7.9 (4 ratings)	- (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model	4.5 (2 ratings)	- (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Ease of integration	8.0 (8 ratings)	- (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Product Scalability	7.0 (4 ratings)	- (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	1.0 (2 ratings)	- (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	1.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Adobe Acrobat	Microsoft 365	Microsoft Office 2016 (discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend	Adobe If your work involves a lot of received PDFs, be it contracts, scanned docs, or multi-part files that need reorganizing before they go anywhere useful, Acrobat fits there well. It's basically what we use it for, and it does that job reliably enough. Where it gets less appropriate is anything collaborative or when you are on a tight budget: paying this much for a tool that slows down on heavy files and doesn't do real-time editing is hard to justify unless you genuinely need the OCR and format editing on the side. For a lighter use case, there are cheaper options that cover most of what people actually need. Incentivized Kaleem Ahmed Senior Software Engineer Read full review	Microsoft Microsoft 365 would be well suited for medium to large enterprises. This is where there are several hundreds or thousands of people. Since most everyone has used one of the applications the learning curve would be reduced. Another reason would be the ability to implement security measures to prevent access to sensitive data. This could justify the cost of an Enterprise license. Incentivized Chad Howell Scrum Master Read full review	Discontinued Products I'd recommend [Microsoft] Office2016 for any business that has more than a couple of users, as the software is very scalable from just a small business to a large enterprise corporation. I don't know of any case where it might not be appropriate, as even home users and students use the software suite as well. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Pros	Adobe ISO standard PDF creation is critical for print production, so that there are no surprises on press. Adobe Acrobat's security features are simple to use, and effective. Most clients have no difficulty with the commenting features in Adobe Acrobat, which makes review quick and simple. Incentivized Alan Gilbertson Creative Director Read full review	Microsoft Chat with teams and the integrations with the other apps, and many more smaller ones, like to-dos, news, and the recent Outlook integration. Easy embedding on SharePoint to broadcast all the content created in the different tools. The office package is still robust with the good things from the past and new additions. Incentivized Giovanni Jurado Business Analyst Team Lead Read full review	Discontinued Products Data manipulation. Excel takes the raw data we receive and allows us to digest it in ways that are useful to our business processes. Communication. Outlook serves as our primary means of communication and setting up appointments. Documentation. Word is the default standard when it comes to using a word processor and we are no different in this regard. Nearly every user has to use the application on a regular basis in order to accomplish their work. Incentivized Scott Herring Database Support Specialist Read full review
Cons	Adobe For as amazing as Adobe Acrobat is, a lot of the time it does feel like one of the more clunky and slow Adobe programs. Ability to edit text! Adobe Acrobat sometimes struggles with fonts and editing the text ends up messing with the text in weird ways. It would be cool to have multiple versions of the same preflight single fixups! I use the same single fixup but need to adjust it for multiple sizes! I'd like to be able to save another version of it with the different sizes. Incentivized PT phillip Tusler Graphic Designer Read full review	Microsoft Forms lack comprehensive features and parameters for detailed questioning for example cannot be directly linked with Power BI Outlook email filters are not handy to use and require more detailing in terms of location past emails Teams requires substantially large amounts of system resources which could be finetuned Incentivized Chinthaka Jayawardane Head/Senior Manager - Global IT Operations Read full review	Discontinued Products Office 2016 professional edition can be priced for a single user license, it would be nice to see a drop in the pricing. Office 2016 home edition is a better price but does not include outlook 2016, so it is not a good fit for the workplace environments. Office 2016 can run slowly on older systems, so you need to make sure you have a machine that is 4 years old or less for it to run smoothly. Incentivized Andrew Shannon Senior System Administrator Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	Adobe Adobe Acrobat works seamlessly with the other Adobe products we use that are industry-standard. We will certainly continue to use Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator, meaning it will always be convenient to work seamlessly with Adobe Acrobat for our organization. We are happy with the performance of Acrobat and it's meets our expectations. Incentivized Avery Chipman Interior Designer Read full review	Microsoft So far the Microsoft 365 platform provides features and tools that can cater to 100% of present organizations needs considering both technical and business necessities, however most features are not been effectively utilised at present. The current featureset is able to cover for most of the future needs of the business and technical functions. Incentivized Chinthaka Jayawardane Head/Senior Manager - Global IT Operations Read full review	Discontinued Products We believe that office 2016 offers the best value when it comes to features included out of the box. The software is used in its entirety by our organization and is easily supported by our staff of IT technicians. Users find this software to be easy to learn and easy to use with minimal learning curve. Incentivized Lochan Kalicharan Freelance Photographer Read full review
Usability	Adobe It’s a very easy app to learn and software is essential. I feel like the app could load a bit faster but overall, is one of my go to apps. Makes reading and editing pdfs easy and I enjoy the usability of the app. It is definitely something I make sure to have downloaded on any computer I’m working from Incentivized HH Heidy Hernandez Graphic Designer Read full review	Microsoft Microsoft 365 is the gold standard for performing project tasks in a professional environment, enabling the quick transfer and exchange of files and ideas for team members who work locally and remotely. Its suite of tools is familiar and has evolved to being cloud based, allowing for files to be updated in real time from near and far. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Discontinued Products It's fairly easy to use, but the automatic formatting or capturing of formatting when pasting is wonky - especially when there are outlines or other bullets/numbered lists. Fixing and sizing up tables can be annoying, and there are sometimes formatting issues that we just absolutely cannot fix for some reason Incentivized Michael Kim Contracts Specialist Read full review
Reliability and Availability	Adobe We have not had availability issues with Adobe Acrobat, or at least none that I am personally aware of. Some may encounter crashes of the software during outages of electricity in their city or neighborhood, which no one can plan for, but with generators in our organization, we have been lucky not to have outages Incentivized Rod Lott Manager of Marketing Strategy Read full review	Microsoft To-date Microsoft 365 platform has offered an amazing uptime and availability percentage per year compared to all other products which provide the stability and overall business resilience of their ecosystem which is a great relief for information technology service entitites which heavy rely on Microsoft offerings as a whole to redeliver their own custom products Incentivized Chinthaka Jayawardane Head/Senior Manager - Global IT Operations Read full review	Discontinued Products No answers on this topic
Performance	Adobe One of the best features of Adobe Acrobat is its speed and stability. When dealing with massive multi-page files, having to reload a crashed program over and over again would slow down progress unnecessarily. And expanding on that, having the table of contents generated allows me to skip to different pages with ease, a necessary feature with exceptionally long files. word searches are even more helpful with text recognition. Incentivized Daniel Epstein Senior Clinical Quality Analyst Read full review	Microsoft The Microsoft 365 tools expects and demands a substantial amount of system resources to operate at optimal level and even more when integrated with other applications which is a downside, however given that external supporting tech factors such as fibre/broadband speed bandwidth, high speed RAM and ample storage resources are allocated the tools work error free providing robust communication Incentivized Chinthaka Jayawardane Head/Senior Manager - Global IT Operations Read full review	Discontinued Products No answers on this topic
Support Rating	Adobe For a while, Acrobat DC crashed pretty frequently. I contacted Adobe Acrobat support about the problem. At first support was unable to provide a solution. After about a month Adobe's software engineers provided a fix. I just wish it had taken less than a month to solve the problem. Incentivized BP Bradley Pearce Managing Member Read full review	Microsoft Over the past 8 years of using Microsoft 365, I have noticed that they change vendors often. This always leads to a poor experience in the beginning, then levels out after some time for the company to get things worked out. As a customer, it is really frustrating because I don't have time when something isn't working to have them "look into my issue" and get back with me. They have even closed a ticket I specifically told them to keep open. Your applications are only as good as the support. Incentivized Sam Livermore, MCP, iTIL Lead Systems Administrator Read full review	Discontinued Products I am an MS feedback hub participant and they certainly don't pay enough attention to several bugs several people raise it in the portal. For the enterprise, it seems to me based on my prior experience that yes, they have a dedicated team to support operations. For mid to small companies or single users, it has been a struggle. So, you are pretty much with MS Blogs and others. Incentivized Ricardo G Lopes English Interpreter & Translator Read full review
In-Person Training	Adobe No answers on this topic	Microsoft The resellers involved with selling Microsoft products are reluctant to provide in person specialist trainings to consumers due to the fact of costs of economies of scale and is not provided free of charge most of the time. In Person trainings needs to be agreed to at the initiation of projects and implementations for better ROI. Incentivized Chinthaka Jayawardane Head/Senior Manager - Global IT Operations Read full review	Discontinued Products No answers on this topic
Online Training	Adobe Answered basic questions. Incentivized Michael Craven President Read full review	Microsoft The standard training offered with 3rd part resellers are fairly standard and covers the basic workability however the trainings needs to be specifically customised according to unique requirements of the organizations. for example an MSP would need to master specific communications verticals within Microsoft 365 whereas and online store using Microsoft 365 would needs to master a different set of tools within the suite to get the best ROI post implementation. Incentivized Chinthaka Jayawardane Head/Senior Manager - Global IT Operations Read full review	Discontinued Products No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating	Adobe I was not involved with the implementation process, so I cannot answer this question. However, when it was installed on my computer system, they did so virtually. I just sat there while they took control of my computer over the network and watch them install it, lickety split Incentivized Rod Lott Manager of Marketing Strategy Read full review	Microsoft The Microsoft support partners are more than capable of handling implementations and dealing with unprecedented errors during the implementations. Not part of the implementation though the setup was done with minimum misconfigurations which is evident with present live setup which works fine without any bugs and gaps at present context. Incentivized Chinthaka Jayawardane Head/Senior Manager - Global IT Operations Read full review	Discontinued Products No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered	Adobe In my opinion, both complement each other. Microsoft clearly has with Copilot the AI Edge. However, the visual dynamics of Adobe Creative are Outstanding and provide a balanced approach to creativity, utilizing both Excellent, user-friendly Tools. Incentivized JR Joe Reddix President and CEO Read full review	Microsoft Typically I prefer working with companies with Microsoft 365 as their main tool because they're usually a fast growing company with a global presence. I like using it for work because it's easy to collaborate, share, review, comment, reply in any of the tools. The mobile app for Outlook and Teams are lifesavers when we're constantly traveling and you can join meetings on the mobile Teams to never miss a beat. Incentivized Sarah Ager Sr. Product Marketing Manager Read full review	Discontinued Products We use Microsoft Office 2016 because at the time it was the best tool for us, but now with full attention to cloud products, we may be thinking of migrating our solution to a cloud service. Incentivized HO Hector Ochoa Network Engineer Read full review
Contract Terms and Pricing Model	Adobe I am not responsible for sales or purchasing Incentivized Sean Moore Marketing Specialist Read full review	Microsoft Microsoft pricing is not very expensive and yet not very cheap as well, and it hovers in between the baseline. The charges are mostly based on the tier level partners who charge based on their individual reputation in the market. Power negotiation will lead to cost effective and attractive pricing Incentivized Chinthaka Jayawardane Head/Senior Manager - Global IT Operations Read full review	Discontinued Products No answers on this topic
Scalability	Adobe I find that many users aren't aware of many features of the software they use, nor may they be comfortable with learning multiple-step processes. For the simplest of PDF purposes (scanning, downloading, exporting), it gets a thumbs-up. For anything involving electronic signatures, meh--causes eyes to glaze over, or forgetting what all is involved. Incentivized Jamie Caroland Independent Consultant Read full review	Microsoft Multiple tools within the same platform have been deployed successfully within different functional technical and non technical teams such as Devops, SOC, NOC, Shared services, Managed services, Global Information technology, Cloud operations, Finance, Administration, human resources and all these teams collaborate while maintaining central uniformity in terms of global standards who are dispersed in different geographical locations with ease Incentivized Chinthaka Jayawardane Head/Senior Manager - Global IT Operations Read full review	Discontinued Products No answers on this topic
Professional Services	Adobe No answers on this topic	Microsoft Have not directly obtained professional services from Microsoft but rather obtained specialized services such as implementations and configurations, setting up and integration support with Microsoft authorized suppliers, 3rd parties, and resellers, which has been a pleasant experience. Again the level of delivery quality on professional services is based on the level of hands on exposure of the 3rd party Incentivized Chinthaka Jayawardane Head/Senior Manager - Global IT Operations Read full review	Discontinued Products No answers on this topic
Return on Investment	Adobe Adobe Acrobat has saved us time in managing documents. In this day, everything is fast, moves fast, and keeping up with that pace demands software that functions at the same level. Adobe Acrobat does that. It has streamlined the steps I need to take to edit and create documents we need to manage our customers. Adobe Acrobat removes the worry and stress associated with managing a large influx of documents. Something as simple as a document featuring an image that was sent to us upside down. Using the old method, I would have to open other software, click 'Edit', find the 'Rotate Image' button, click it a couple of times, save it as a JPEG, then attach it to Word, and finally save it as a PDF. It was a grueling process that consumed a great deal of time. Now, I simply open the image, and Adobe automatically recognizes it is upside down and fixes it for me. I can save and move on; it literally takes me seconds. Amazing. Adobe Acrobat is intuitive and easy to use, and the additional apps are relevant to the needs that come up. If I have an idea, I can go to the available apps and find exactly what I need. Impressive and speaks to the years of experience this company has had to fine-tune its product and make it obvious that it is aggressive in staying on top. Incentivized DB Dennis Blocker Office Manager Read full review	Microsoft We have a lot of nonprofit users, so they have a good ROI. I like the constant updates without having to purchase the software repeatedly. I used to purchase each Office (insert year here) often, so the software was up to date and had the newest options and connectors. I think my return on investment would have been much better if Microsoft had updated those versions to keep them current; after all, we did pay for them. Microsoft 365's offering a monthly fee or a discount for a year helps, and you can look at it as a free backup if you have everything set to back up to One Drive. (Cloud-based document filing you can access anywhere ( with an internet connection)—you Can't beat that!) TN Tracy Novack Administration Read full review	Discontinued Products Microsoft Office 2016 saves me a lot of time daily. I have functions and macros set up that calculate and show me a lot of things just from a couple of my inputs. This would take full days sometimes if not for that. Apart from time, it saves me money, I manage data in Excel, I don't have to buy software specifically for that. Sooner or later my company will have to switch to new edition, which will hurt revenues because of a subscription model. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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