Office 365 vs Workplace by Facebook comparison

The compared Microsoft and Meta solutions aren't in the same category. Microsoft is ranked #1 in CCP , with an average rating of 8.6, and holds a 9.9% mindshare in the category. Meta is ranked #7 in ESS , with an average rating of 7.0, and holds a 3.3% mindshare. Additionally, 95% of Microsoft users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Meta users who would recommend it.

Office 365

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95% willing to recommend

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100% willing to recommend

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Categories and Ranking

Office 365

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.2

Number of Reviews

152

Ranking in other categories

Content Collaboration Platforms (1st)

Workplace by Facebook

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

8.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Enterprise Social Software (7th)

Mindshare comparison

While both are Messaging and Collaboration solutions, they serve different purposes. Office 365 is designed for Content Collaboration Platforms and holds a mindshare of 9.9%, up 4.9% compared to last year.
Workplace by Facebook, on the other hand, focuses on Enterprise Social Software, holds 3.3% mindshare, down 3.7% since last year.

Content Collaboration Platforms Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Office 365	9.9%
Google Workspace	8.9%
Dropbox Business - Enterprise	8.4%
Other	72.8%

Content Collaboration Platforms

Enterprise Social Software Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Workplace by Facebook	3.3%
Slack Business - Enterprise	11.2%
Microsoft Teams	8.4%
Other	77.1%

Enterprise Social Software

Featured Reviews

Anubrata Ghosh

Technical Manager at Landmark Group

Teams streamlines collaboration but Outlook experiences occasional slowness on Mac

Teams is a really good collaboration tool. You can work basically at any part of the world and communicate and collaborate with anybody, as long as they are connected to the internet. It helps with remote work, and although I don't work remotely, I have offices in Dubai and different geographical locations. It helps me connect with my colleagues and team who are not in the same geography as I am in Bangalore. Teams can facilitate team meetings, screen sharing, and organizing meetings.Regarding security, we have two-factor authentication governed by organizational policy. When trying to login to Office 365, Teams, or any Office 365 app, we are required to provide a password and use Microsoft Authenticator to sign in using a code. This is how two-factor authentication is implemented in our organization. Office 365 offers a suite of apps including OneNote, though I don't use it very often. In terms of integration with Microsoft ecosystem, it offers everything needed to get work done without any hassle.

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Aryan Singh1

Product Manager at Infozion

Offers good integration features but needs to offer more flexibility in the language option offered

There are a couple of things that can be improved in the tool. When we are talking about communications, the tool has interoperable cataloging. The only thing that needs a certain level of improvement within Meta is the vernacular, which can be dependent, as we cannot choose the process of communication that is happening in it. After I launch a bot, if I move from one country to another, and if the entire communication is happening in German, while I have just moved from France, and I need to buy a particular choice of vehicle, then I would want the entire communication to happen in my language. What Meta does not allow as of now is that if I am reaching out to you in French, then only you can have the conversation in French. You cannot select a language in the middle of a conversation. If I want to have a conversation in French, there is a very limited selection. Until and unless a conversation is triggered from a particular language, we do not have the option to choose another language. The tool gives you flexibility in the language, but that is on the business and not on the customer, which sometimes limits the approachability aspect.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"For me, the most valuable features in Office 365 are the integration between all of the various apps and how you can still communicate even without third-party apps."

"The most valuable features of Office 365 for me include online file sharing and real-time document editing where multiple collaborators can work on the same document and see changes in real-time."

"The features I find most valuable in Office 365 include its user-friendly interface; we use Outlook, Teams, and SharePoint for various tasks, and overall, it is helpful."

"The biggest benefit of Office 365 is having everything in one place with well-integrated tools, leading to time savings as everything is housed in a single environment, facilitating communication, data processing, data input, and data saving."

"We have greater ability to communicate and work on projects much more efficiently."

"The products are quite simple for the end-users to use, the up-time is very good, the product is practically maintenance-free, and the multi-layer security is excellent from the security standpoint."

"Quarantine email alerts to users to allow the email to their inbox (tricky but handy) - tricky if one doesn't have third-party email security, handy if one has got good third party email security)."

"The formulas are great, you can play with Excel and you can put the formulas in and kill some time, and it is very, very useful for the user."

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"The biggest lesson we have learned from working with Workplace is that we should have made the change a lot earlier."

"The solution is used as a knowledge platform for sharing knowledge and information that everybody can easily access."

"A full-featured collaboration tool that is as easy to use as Facebook."

"The product was easy to use."

"The tool's integration feature benefited the workflow...it helped centralize communication."

"Storage is the best thing about the solution."

Cons

"Their support is so terrible and unusable except during dire emergencies."

"We have found that, with Teams, if you are including one more person who is not in the company ecosystem, supposedly I'm inviting them as a guest in the chat. However, when I do that, I can't share files."

"The security should be improved."

"I would like to see the macro functionality in Excel made simpler."

"Pricing is the major concern because certain features are also part of some free suites that people are used to using in their daily life, which drives the demand for Office 365."

"The mobile phone applications are too heavy and should be lighter."

"There was a problem with the owner of a Team; although it was listed as an owner, he couldn't do whatever an owner can do."

"The online applications have limited functionality compared to the local applications."

More Office 365 cons

"What Meta does not allow as of now is that if I am reaching out to you in French, then only you can have the conversation in French. You cannot select a language in the middle of a conversation."

"There needs to be a restriction on who can download content."

"The conferencing feature does not work well with multiple parties or locations."

"The product should allow users to assign tasks and automate processes."

"The implementation could be made easier."

"The conferencing feature does not work well with multiple parties or locations."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I think that we pay $9.99 USD per user, monthly."

"The pricing is not really high, but one can get the software with the license key for free."

"Licensing fees are paid on a monthly basis, or we prepay them."

"Licensing, billing, and accounting are available from the management interface."

"The pricing is high and has actually caused us to limit the number of licenses we purchase due to budgeting."

"The pricing/licensing is easy to manage."

"The pricing is good for all the features that we receive, e.g., Skype for Business."

"Most of the time, we purchase Microsoft Exchange licenses, which are less expensive and provide only an email platform and 50 gigabytes of email storage for free."

More Office 365 pricing and cost advice

"The regular package costs us $4 per user per month."

"The cost has become one-tenth of the cost in comparison to the old techniques. As we were able to qualify and nurture these leads, the overall cost of the entire sales process was reduced."

"The solution seemed expensive to me."

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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Office 365?

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Office 365 is that it is moderate.

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What needs improvement with Office 365?

Office 365 can be improved by increasing support, which currently is not efficient and takes a lot of time to resolve issues. It has been observed that support personnel often lack hands-on experie...

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What is your primary use case for Office 365?

Email and collaboration are the main use cases for Office 365 at Omagi Media Labs. It is used for internal and external communication in daily work. Groups and Teams groups are created and used in ...

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What needs improvement with Workplace by Facebook?

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What is your primary use case for Workplace by Facebook?

I use the solution in my company to create chatbots for our clients, like BMW in India. We have been working on WhatsApp chatbots and Facebook marketing, where we have integrated Adobe Marketo for ...

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What advice do you have for others considering Workplace by Facebook?

In our company, we integrate with Workplace through Facebook's tools that were provided to us, and it is there that we created a middleware system for communication back and forth. Whatever data we...

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Also Known As

Microsoft Office 365, Office 365 Enterprise, Office 365 Enterprise E1, Office 365 Enterprise E3, Office 365 Enterprise E5, Office 365 ProPlus, Office 365 Business, Office 365 Business Essentials, Office 365 Business Premium, Office 365 F1

Facebook Workplace, Facebook at Work

Overview

Office 365 is more than just Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. It provides powerful services like business-class email, online storage, and teamwork solutions that you can access from anywhere. Bring teams and resources together with solutions like Microsoft Teams and Skype for Business that make working together more productive and enjoyable regardless of where participants are located. Easily implement security and privacy controls to help protect business data and devices against malicious threats and help you meet your compliance obligations. Automatic updates ensure your employees will always have the latest features and security updates.

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Facebook Workplace is a dedicated and secure space for companies to connect, communicate and collaborate. Organizations of all sizes can use familiar Facebook features such as News Feed, groups, messages and events to get things done.

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