G+_Phillip “Phil” Adcock Posted March 24, 2018 Share Posted March 24, 2018 So I'm a small business owner and I currently have wordpress hosting for my website. However I've been reading pros and cons for both services and kinda wanted to know what everyone thought. For a small business (2-5 employees) which service do you think is better. Gsuite or Office 365. Thanks for the input. Also feel free to leave any thoughts in the comments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Travis Hershberger Posted March 24, 2018 Share Posted March 24, 2018 I'm partial to Gsuite, after having to support both of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Philippe (PhilEv90) Posted March 24, 2018 Share Posted March 24, 2018 Very interest in this result. I am too planning to choose one of both. Hope the know how community will have some good advice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Henry Bond Posted March 24, 2018 Share Posted March 24, 2018 I like the Google advanced security. Useful for buisness who wants to keep security. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Phillip “Phil” Adcock Posted March 24, 2018 Author Share Posted March 24, 2018 Travis Hershberger Could you give me the pro's and con's after having been an admin for both. That may end up being the deciding factor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Ben Reese Posted March 24, 2018 Share Posted March 24, 2018 I love Google products. But if I had to choose only one paid product it would have to be Office 365. Maybe it's just my use case, but desktop Excel is still better than most online spreadsheets I've tried. And you can still use most Google products for free. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Ben Reese Posted March 24, 2018 Share Posted March 24, 2018 If you don't need the desktop software, you may look at Zoho. It's free for upto I think 10 users. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Paul Hutchinson Posted March 24, 2018 Share Posted March 24, 2018 If LibreOffice is OK for your desktop/laptops then G suite is a good candidate as Google Docs works well for Open Document Format files. If you need Office for desktop/laptops then Office 365 Business Premium is a bargain since it includes a license to install the Office desktop programs on up to 5 machines per employee, plus 5 tablets and 5 phones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Travis Hershberger Posted March 24, 2018 Share Posted March 24, 2018 Phillip Adcock The biggest thing for me is Gsuite having all the settings in a single admin landing page. You also know exactly what environment everyone is working in because it's always the online one. Office 365 is a little bit of a scattershot way to let users do things at the moment. Some users may be using the installed application, some will be using the online versions, and many won't have a clue which one they're actually using at the time. It can mean a 10-15 minute conversation just to figure out what environment they're in before you can start troubleshooting. Add to it the, often unexplained, outages of Microsoft's online products, and it's really quite a pain in comparison. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Ben Tyger Posted March 25, 2018 Share Posted March 25, 2018 Also it depends on our productivity suite requirements. Office 365 has more advanced features and ensures round trip support from desktop app to web app. GSuite is better for mobile devices. Also if you want more integrated mobile security, you have much more control over Android devices. Also GSuite has better cross platform support on desktop environments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_J Miller Posted March 25, 2018 Share Posted March 25, 2018 I use google docs and Libre Office for all of my business needs. Does everything i want and I use it with shared web docs from my web site. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_James Passmore Posted March 27, 2018 Share Posted March 27, 2018 Either is fine. G suite version control and live document feature kind of tips the scale for me though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Jason Brown Posted March 27, 2018 Share Posted March 27, 2018 I'm usually Mr. Opensource. But save yourself time and hassle. There's going to be much less training involved in using Office 365 as opposed to Google or an OpenOffice option. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_J Miller Posted March 27, 2018 Share Posted March 27, 2018 Well I can't say what is involved in using 365 except for the monthly payments because I have never used it but, I can say that using Google docs and Libre Office is pretty self explanatory if you have used any Office product before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Ben Reese Posted March 27, 2018 Share Posted March 27, 2018 Jason Brown that's kinda where I'm at. There's things I'd like to do in Google Sheets that I know how to do in Excel. But I live in the Microsoft world (SQL Server, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook...) so that's what I'm comfortable with. Open source is fantastic, but for business I think it's worth paying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Paul Hutchinson Posted March 27, 2018 Share Posted March 27, 2018 Ben Reese I've ended up the opposite now that I've been using LibreOffice, and previously OpenOffice, for about 15 years. When I try to use Excel for my engineering job I miss features that aren't in Excel or are just more complicated to use. During a recent attempt to go back when IT gave me a new workstation with Excel 2016 pre-installed, I hit one essential feature that used to work in Excel but now only works in Calc so I couldn't switch back (ability to have two spreadsheets with the same name but in different directories open at the same time). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Ben Reese Posted March 27, 2018 Share Posted March 27, 2018 Paul Hutchinson interesting. I think I've worked around that issue before, but typically don't have to now. My previous job was reporting on data from SQL Server. I've since moved to a DBA position and only use Excel when I need to send data to project managers and developers. I've still got a bunch of macros that I use to query active directory or SQL Server. I'm sure that's possible in LibreOffice too, just not something I'm familiar enough with. For Phil, it may not be a bad idea to try the free solution first and pay as needed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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