Microsoft 365 Essential For Our Small Business
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use Microsoft 365 as the foundation of our business communication and administration. All members of staff will use Outlook for email, Teams for remote meetings and calls, plus Excel and Word are in use by most people every day. We are then expanding our use to include SharePoint, Power Apps, and Power BI with connections into our main Microsoft 365 systems.
Pros
- Email and calendar planning using Outlook.
- Microsoft Excel for data analytics and basic automation.
- Microsoft Teams for remote calls.
Cons
- Microsoft Teams can sometimes be glitchy and can be frustrating.
- There is a push to move to Outlook (new) which is missing a lot of the functionality that is available in the main version.
- SharePoint has been promoted as the best way to manage files and share data, but it is extremely hard to set up and is very unstable.
Likelihood to Recommend
Microsoft 365 can be recommended for any size of organisation. Having been involved with organisations that use competitor products, the setup process for Microsoft 365 is very simple in comparison. The best scenario is for a small company which requires data security and sharing without needing a complex setup process of expensive overhead.
