Hi,
We all know it's really hard to get good pricing and cost information.
Please share what you can so you can help your peers.
Microsoft offers new users one free month of service, so it's easy to try it out if you want to.
I'm not really too sure on the pricing. That is not something that I handle. That is something that our payment team handles.
There are many levels of pricing. If you have clients who do not have a computer and are joining with their phones it's an additional fee of $5.00 per user. Bridging is a cost of $20 or $30.00 dollars, which is part of the subscription.
I don't handle the payments for the service. It's not my department.
If you have content that requires more security and you want to use it in a more secure manner, with more protection, then it will come at a higher cost. You have to set your environment up with additional features, such as multifactor authentication and identity protection, which are not available in the basic plan. Instead, they can be purchased additionally from Microsoft.
From what I know the licensing comes in a bundle. There is an enterprise license that comes with email, Office Suite like Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint and a second possible option without the added features. I believe that the fees are charged based on the number of users.
We use the solution for free since we are an education company. If we need to deploy the solution to our conference rooms we would need to pay, but we don't need to do that right now.
It is the standard license which is part of many Office packets.
We are satisfied with the price of this solution. We have an enterprise agreement.
Which would you choose and why?