Microsoft Office 2016 (discontinued)

• Office 2016 has had a positive ROI for us with our executive team members because they are able to sync their phones with their email and read their emails when away and then are able to come into the office and see their emails in outlook 2016 and all of their remote email statuses has synced back to Outlook, saving them time in not having to reread emails anymore or figure out what email they left off on.
• Office 2016 has had a negative impact on our ROI because of the high price of the software, it is not as good an investment for our lower-level employees who do not use it very often. We have decided to move our lower level users over to a free solution to replace Office 2016 instead.
• Office 2016 has had a positive ROI with our users who receive emailed reports from our clients, and are able to open them right away without any help because of the compatibility of office with so many different file types, we dont have to have the IT help them open files or download new progams, saving our IT's time as well.

Google Cloud Datastore and Apache OpenOffice

BarTender, Adobe Acrobat DC

We use Microsoft Office for writing all official documents (Word), for forecasting (Excel), and for presentations (PowerPoint). MS Office does not require much training. As it is an industry-standard, employees are able to use it without the company spending additional resources on training.

• We use it for presentations.
• We use it for writing Official documents.

• Microsoft Office 2016 is very important for our business as it does not require almost any additional training and is great for business applications.
• Microsoft Office 2016 is very easy to use and there is a good help for advanced features.

Google Drive and Carbonite Backup for Microsoft Office 365

Microsoft Visual Studio Code, IntelliJ IDEA, Notepad++

Microsoft Office 2016 is being used across the whole organization. Within Legal, we use Microsoft Word to draft and negotiate agreements and other legal documents. Microsoft Office addresses many business problems, such as standardization of review internally, ease of transferability, secured tracking of changes, collaboration, presentations, tracking, reporting, etc. Many departments are using Microsoft Excel to track agreements, renewal dates, obligations, etc. Other departments also use Microsoft PowerPoint for internal or external business presentations.

• The ability to redline and comment on contracts and other documents
• Comparing two versions of documents to confirm no extraneous changes were made by the other party

• Microsoft Office 2016 - specifically Microsoft Word - keeps the time required for back-and-forth negotiations low because we do not have to deal with markups within PDFs, and redlining is very easy using Microsoft Word. There isn't a specific numeral impact to report since we've always been using Office here since I joined the team.

Zoom, Adobe Acrobat Reader DC, Slack

• Reliability
• Good performance
• Easy to use

• It has allowed us to carry out our daily work in a reliable way, so I would say that it is an essential part of the company.
• Per user licenses may be a bit expensive

Google Workspace (formerly G Suite)

Google Workspace (formerly G Suite), Microsoft Visio, SecureCRT

• Improved corporate image via visually appealing documentation & industry-standard files to share.
• Improved communication via shared company & team calendars.
• Negative: It has kept us from moving to an online suite more geared towards full collaboration & integrated document management.

LibreOffice and G Suite

LibreOffice, GIMP, Slack