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Cisco Cloud Email Security vs. Microsoft Office 2016 (discontinued)

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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Cisco Cloud Email Security

    Score9 out of 10
    N/ACisco's Cloud Email Security platform is a secure email gateway.N/A

    Microsoft Office 2016 (discontinued)

    Score8.7 out of 10
    N/AMicrosoft 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
    Cisco Cloud Email SecurityMicrosoft Office 2016 (discontinued)
    Editions & Modules
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Cisco Cloud Email SecurityMicrosoft Office 2016 (discontinued)
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Cisco Cloud Email SecurityMicrosoft Office 2016 (discontinued)
    Considered Both Products
    Cisco
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    93%
    Would buy again
    50 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    94%
    Delivers good value for the price
    47 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    96%
    Happy with the feature set
    52 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    98%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    40 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    98%
    Implementation went as expected
    41 Answers
    Features
    Cisco Cloud Email SecurityMicrosoft Office 2016 (discontinued)
    Secure Email Gateway
    Comparison of Secure Email Gateway features of Cisco Cloud Email Security and Microsoft Office 2016 (discontinued)
    Feature
    Cisco Cloud Email Security
    8.6
    3 Ratings
    2% above category average
    Microsoft Office 2016 (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Anti-malware8.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizability10.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Loss Protection8.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Threat Detection9.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Sandboxing8.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    End-to-End Encryption9.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    Management Tools8.03 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Cisco Cloud Email SecurityMicrosoft Office 2016 (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (5 ratings)
    7.5
    (64 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    5.0
    (3 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.0
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.0
    (45 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Cisco Cloud Email SecurityMicrosoft Office 2016 (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Cisco
    It's suitable for content filtering applications using regex, hash, domain, or email... It's particularly perfect for a Cisco infrastructure. It's also perfect for a hybrid environment, such as on-prem/cloud. It's less appropriate for small- to mid-sized infrastructure because it's too complex for basic use. The UI can be improved as well.
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    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
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    Pros
    Cisco
    • Advanced malware protection.
    • Integration with Office365.
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    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
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    Cons
    Cisco
    • On certain client machines, we found that the software prevented the opening of innocuous email attachments flagging them as potentially harmful.
    • Emails with large attachment sizes can sometimes slow down the email loading process.
    Incentivized
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    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
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Cisco
    No answers on this topic
    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
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    Usability
    Cisco
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    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
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    Support Rating
    Cisco
    Cisco TAC support is very good since they have engineers available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Important to mention that you must have the support of the solution enabled to be able to receive a response from TAC and that we can be taken care of. The only drawback may be that they will not be able to see settings of the email provider you use.
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    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
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    Alternatives Considered
    Cisco
    Cisco was at least better than or equal to the others but within our budget. It provided all of the services of anti-spam, content filtering, anti-virus, DLP, encrypted email service, scalability, and more than the others. Cisco name and reputation were also key in our decision.
    Incentivized
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    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
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    Return on Investment
    Cisco
    • Saves us precious resources by blocking unwanted E-mail right at the edge of our network.
    • Users can work more efficient when all spam and malware is stopped before reaching their inboxes.
    • Enables us to protect our outgoing mail with DKIM signing and validate all incoming mail on the most modern securiry standards.
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    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
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