Best desktop application suite for enterprises
May 22, 2018
Best desktop application suite for enterprises
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
Microsoft Office 365 (Cloud)
Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft Office 365
Office 365 is used by most departments in my organization. Outlook is the email client on our PCs. Word is used for most reports or casual text documents. Excel is used for preparing reports. It is also used for analyzing data extracted from various systems for analysis. PowerPoint is used for presentations of providing informal status updates to be shared in an online meeting. Skype for Business is used for IM.
- PowerPoint is a great tool for making presentations. It not only has a wide variety of templates, it also allows you to practice your presentation by measuring the time you spend talking on each slide.
- AutoCorrect works great. A common database of corrections applies the corrections to all Office applications. In addition to correcting spellings, I also use it to store abbreviations I use for common words I frequently use in my communication. AutoCorrect automatically expands the abbreviations to the full words.
- Outlook has emerged as the de facto email client globally. Meeting invites work not only within the organization but also to people in other organizations because Outlook is very commonly used.
- The online versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint are useful for viewing documents shared by others. You do not always have to use the desktop versions to view such documents.
- Sharing documents with Office 365 is excellent. You can share folders and documents within your organiation as well as outside your organization. When you share externally, you can generate a link from Office 365 that you can use in your email to the persons with whom you are sharing. When they access the document, they are prompted to enter a one-time password sent to their email address. This ensures that only the specific individuals you have shared the document with have access. This is one of the best access control features of Office 365.
- In the cloud version of Office 365, the standard database of AutoCorrect works; however, you cannot add your custom entries to it. This drastically reduces its usefulness for routine work.
- I have had trouble a few times signing in with my organization's AD account. An error is returned. This has happened frequently in the past few weeks. I have had to delete a few registry entries, delete temporary files, and on one occasion, reinstall Office to resolve the issue.
- Thanks to Skype for Business, our web conferences are smooth. Quality of voice is supreme. Sharing documents during meetings is very easy. Recording meetings is very easy.
I use Google Drive for personal documents. Google Sheets, which is used for creating spreadsheets, is very primitive and is no competition for Excel. Besides, Google Drive is not exactly suited for enterprises. PowerPoint also is much better than Google Slides.