Microsoft Office 2016 (discontinued)

I have been able to produce professional-looking reports to share results with executives.

It has saved time as it is an intuitive program.

Faster writing and editing of proposals and documents.

Clean, attractive presentations for investor pitching.

Email where we do not have to worry about the security.

None - I wasted money for nothing except Windows 10 compatibility.

It integrates well with encryption methods and needs which allows us to more easily secure and transport client data.

The internal integration between applications saves vast amounts of time where similar applications from various companies might take much longer to get to work together.

I honestly couldn't do my job without Microsoft Office, so it's hard to think in terms of ROI. It's such a non-negotiable set of tools for our company that I doubt we've ever done any kind of formal ROI analysis, any more than we've done one on giving people computers!

Microsoft Office improves our ability to work together.

For the user groups that use Office in our organization, they would find it difficult to work without it. Decades of development are hard to just walk away from.

Office products are considered standard. When sharing data, there is almost never a question of "What format would you like that file in"?

For the price of convenience at this time, licensing fees are priced where we don't feel that we are not getting what we paid for.

Positive return on investment due to the easiness of use.

Extremely cost-effective for the services it provides.

Useful for all employees and the myriad of tasks completed by our office.

None

Switching to Office Standard vs Office 365 for Kiosk machines has saved us 22k per year.

Adjusting our 365 licenses to just reflect month to month manpower has allowed us to save an additional 30k per year. Licensing is flexible if necessary.

Using Office allows us to spend less money on training.

Productivity - Microsoft Office 2016 has greatly helped with my productivity. The documents are easily sharable with other users within the company without having to worry about something like Pages from Apple and their files changing the format from one-word processor to the other.

Details - Microsoft Office 2016 has made it so easy to track data and get into the nitty, gritty details of our business.

Consistent look and feel and templates. Even with a badly designed and confusing workbook/document/ presentation, it still a lot more productive when the components are all under the same GUI and under many common functionalities.

Collaboration. Using the Review options that exist in nearly all Office components eliminate the burden of who-has-done-this-darn-thing. However, I believe Microsoft never highlighted this function in an ad. They should do it.

A negative or a possibility for improvement is the mix of simple and complex functions (the default configuration) under the same areas in the ribbon. So, users that are about to use Office for the first time ever, will see a fearsome visual where you don't know where to put your first step. A breakthrough could be achieved if Office 2016 would have a standard ribbon (with basic to intermediate functions) and an advanced ribbon where additional more complexes functions would show up. So, a beginner would prefer the basic to intermediate ribbon, yet "invited" to see the advanced ribbon at his/her convenience.

Lowering labor costs from an administrative perspective.

Timely consolidation of like-files.

Spreadsheet manipulation in our shared files allows multiple departments to access and edit what they need, when they need it.

Great. Value for the money is optimal.

No negative impact

The product is a staple, so it definitely increases employee productivity.

Licensing and cost remain the top issue. We are constantly battling Microsoft to maintain our "Non-Profit" Status.

The cost has made us very strict with deployments. Users that request the software can get an installation and others can use Google Sheets, Docs & Slides.

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.

Impact has been positive due to time saved

Money has been saved due to not needing any other applications

training time has been reduced since most everyone is familiar with the software

It can be used companywide at a lower cost.

Bridges gaps in tech so we don't have to invest in different software.

It doesn't provide all the data analytics tools we need.

Increase in work efficiency due to the common usage of MS Office 2016 products (file compatibility).

Reduced costs due to using MS Office family only (do not need to purchase or use other Office tools).

Robustness due to the proper operation of the software.

Easy workflow.

Bit of a learning curve for basic use.

Cross-platform functionality.

Only positive - Microsoft is the leader, no software can equate or replace their Office suite and we would be dead in the water without it.

Online marketing is the only form of marketing our organization uses. And as a copywriter in my organization, I am responsible for all the blog posts, social media posts, and advertising content that the company publishes. So basically, marketing depends a lot on my write-ups. Word has really helped me with writing well-curated, nicely formatted content for the marketing campaigns. Considering the number of clients my organization has attracted (through online marketing only) over the last few months, I can assume the ROI is pretty good.

Managing various expenses, client information, selling reports, employee accounts etc., would have been a disaster if we didn't have Excel.

The only negative impact has been the pricing. Though we use most of the Office in our organization, there are a lot of technical products such as the Adobe bundle, JetBrains bundle etc., that we must use. Other than Word, none other Office products are actively needed to our main work functions. So being a small business it negatively impacts our budget.

Staff can now create documents that are professional in appearance.

Excel means that the collation of marks and test scores can now be done quickly and easily - saving a lot of time and stress for the teachers.

Pupils are able to use Excel to help them with mathematical concepts (formulas and graph making).

The cost of the software is high but is counterbalanced by being universal, as most employees are familiar with it upon hire.

The ability to have people already familiar with hiring, plus one set of training courses, enables us to focus on our business objectives instead of learning to use tools.

Many skilled people use the tools

The organization has been a huge help with Excel and OneNote