Microsoft Office 365 - a feature-rich offering for large scale organizations
July 16, 2018
Microsoft Office 365 - a feature-rich offering for large scale organizations
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
Microsoft Office (Installed)
Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft Office 365
Microsoft Office 365 is used by our entire organization, giving a single, standardized format for creating, printing, and sharing documents and information. In our business, we need to create a wide range of documents - from simple data analysis and number crunching to business proposals. These are also sharing both internally across groups, and externally with clients, partners, and other vendors.
- Microsoft Office 365 includes Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, allowing you to create documents in a number of different formats, and even include data from one program in another - such as graphs from Excel in PowerPoint presentations.
- Microsoft Office 365 also makes sharing of documents much easier, with its support for cloud-based sharing of documents. You can upload your document to the cloud, and simply share a link with other users where they can view and edit documents. This is a vast improvement on the old method of having to send actual documents, and manually keep track of changes and versions.
- As well as the sharing features, Microsoft Office 365 includes excellent features for multiple users to collaborate on a single document, such as tracking updates and comments by users and versioning.
- Microsoft Office 365 supports output to PDF as well as printing, allowing digital as well as hard-copies of presentations or handouts to be shared with meeting attendees.
- Although the new "ribbon" user interface does simplify things slightly, Microsoft Office 365 does suffer to a certain degree from being "bloat-ware". The very wide range of features available means that it almost always supports what you need to do, but finding the exact feature for more common, everyday tasks can sometimes be a chore as you have to search through a long list of less commonly used features.
- Startup time for the application can be a bit long, even on high-end computers.
- Allows us to create documents and materials that can be easily shared across the company, and with external parties.
- Reduces overall IT/support costs by having everyone on the same software.
Microsoft Office 365 is a much more mature and feature-rich product than either Apache OpenOffice or Google Drive. For use in a large scale organization, where you need reliability, stability, and a wide enough range of features to support all users' needs, Microsoft Office 365 seems to be the right choice.