Assignment 2: Google Apps for Work Vs. Office 365
Both Office 365 and G Suite allow you to create documents, spreadsheets and presentations and collaborate with team members whilst doing so; they also provide video conferencing functionality and cloud storage.
Price
G Suite:
$5/user/month basic
$10/month business
Office 365:
there’s a lot of flexibility, but on the down side, it’s rather confusing trawling through all the plans to work out which one is best suited to your requirements. All Office 365 plans require an annual commitment. (By contrast, the G Suite plans can be bought on a per-month basis.
Business – $8.25 per user per month
Enterprise E3 – $20 per user per month
there is no saving to be made at the lower end of the pricing bands by plumping for the G Suite ‘Basic’ plan over Microsoft’s ‘‘Business Essentials’ (although you will need to bear in mind that the Microsoft product requires an annual commitment); but at the more ‘enterprise’ level, the Office 365 ‘Enterprise E1’ plan comes in at $10 higher per month than the G Suite ‘Business’ plan (and again, you’ll have to pay upfront for the year for the Microsoft product too).
Storage
G Suite ‘Business’ plan, you’ll find that the Google plans beat all but the most expensive Microsoft plans in the file storage department (so long as you have 5 or more users – more on that in a moment).
With the G Suite Business plan, you get unlimited storage, which is extremely useful to any business that has a need to store large files in the cloud. Although Microsoft Office 365’s 1TB limit (which applies to most of its plans) sounds very generous, you’d be surprised how quickly you can burn through 1TB of storage if working with large image, video or audio files.
if you’re on the $10 G Suite ‘Business’ plan (and have 5+ users in your team) there isn’t a cap on your inbox size; and on paper, this contrasts positively with all the Office 365 plans, because the best you’ll get with Office 365 is a 100GB mailbox on the $20 and $35 Microsoft plans. However, Microsoft’s email storage limits are more generous than the numbers suggest, thanks to a feature called ‘auto-expanding archiving.’ This allows you to archive old emails to an archive which is essentially unlimited in size. It’s slightly more involved than just having an inbox which is unlimited in size, but it does mean that you don’t really have to worry about inbox storage limits on any Microsoft Office 365 plans.
Usability
Ultimately I think both products are fairly straightforward to use – if editing MS Office files is going to be a big part of your job, then Office 365 will feel a lot more familiar and present less of a learning curve; if internal collaboration is more the concern, then G Suite is arguably a slightly better bet. As of now, MS Office is more user friendly offline.
pick Office 365 over G Suite
You can have far more participants on a Skype call than a Hangout – 250 vs 25/50 respectively.
Source:
https://www.stylefactoryproductions.com/blog/office-365-vs-google-apps