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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We performed a comparison between Office 365 and Workplace by Facebook based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

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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

BasilJiji

System Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

Collaboration has transformed how our teams work and Copilot now drives faster daily decisions

The interface for the security and compliance center could be simplified. It changes frequently, which can make it somewhat difficult for admins to stay up-to-date on where specific settings are located. The compliance center modification or improvement of Office 365 needs to be introduced. The rest of the features feel acceptable to me. The reason it is not a ten is because of the complexity of managing the vast array of admin settings, which requires a specialized IT team. Even though it meets industry standards for decent security compliance such as SOC and HIPAA, the complexity of managing the admin settings needs to improve.

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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

"Office 365 is popular and easy to use due to its intuitive interface, and the collaboration with OneDrive allows us to access anything, anywhere, in the same format across devices, including mobile phones."

"Office 365 is particularly valuable for collaboration, reporting, and documentation related to compliance."

"I love all of the applications being interlinked. I do not have to separately work on an independent system when it comes to file storage, email, and other tools."

"The most helpful feature I find in Microsoft 365 is the use of AI features, like Copilot, which allows for creating PowerPoint presentations through AI."

"The integration with other applications is pretty good."

"The solution is quite intuitive and easy to use."

"There are all sorts of really good tools for use on the information security side that allow us to make sure that our people are doing business and doing business right."

"The pivot table feature is most valuable because it helps me understand large volumes of data in a very short time."

More Office 365 pros

"The product was easy to use."

"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."

"Storage is the best thing about the solution."

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

Cons

"There are several additional features we would like to see, such as advanced features of SAN protection in Office 365. The main thing is the SAN protection; we would like to see a lot of advanced features added because we had a lot of spam attacks."

"Using Visual Basic, I have had a lot of trouble with relative paths when programming for Excel, and sometimes it is very difficult to debug programs."

"Integration between Outlook calendar and Google Calendar would be a good improvement since many of our team use Android phones and personal Gmail accounts as their main calendar application."

"Improvements can be made to the products generic offering. It's not customized for health care. It doesn't understand the meaning of health care related concepts. Providing a greater degree of industry specificity would make the tool much more unique and valuable."

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

"In terms of improvement, it should have tutorials when you first have the opportunity to use it, to be able to really learn it."

"The feature to convert PDF file to a Word document needs improvement as well as the feature to save the file automatically when typing, without using the save command."

"As a private user, I do not appreciate the cloud features, but I doubt that this is something Microsoft would consider a feature request."

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."

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

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

"The implementation could be made easier."

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

Pricing and Cost Advice

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

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

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

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

"The pricing/licensing is easy to manage."

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

"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."

"Good reporting and good value subscriptions for international calls."

More Office 365 pricing and cost advice

"The solution seemed expensive to me."

"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."

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Computer Software Company

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Small Business	62
Midsize Enterprise	29
Large Enterprise	70

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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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Compared 7% of the time

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Compared 3% of the time

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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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