Savings can quickly be found in areas such as shared mailboxes (which do not require a license), and converting departed users to inactive mailboxes (which also do not require a license). You can manage costs by being sensible about the number of licenses you purchase. But if your IT strategy is moving more services and productivity tools to the cloud, then the higher tier plans are what you need to be looking at. If your Office 365 project is all about shifting a single service like email to the cloud, and running it as cheaply as possible, then that’s fine – Exchange Online Plan 1 might be all you need. But it only really includes a mailbox, with no Office client software, and no advanced features.
Office 365 plan license#
The basic Exchange Online Plan 1 license is inexpensive. That’s true, cloud services are often cheaper. Often this is based on the assumption that cloud services should be cheaper. Now, some customers will struggle to accept the higher priced plans which might include a bunch of features that they don’t need. That one example serves to highlight the main point here – choose your Office 365 plan based on features. As a simple example, a 30-seat law firm might not consider themselves to be an “enterprise”, but they would benefit from features of the Enterprise E3/E5 plans such as Rights Management, Data Loss Prevention, Litigation Hold, and Advanced Threat Protection. Unfortunately, in doing so they will miss out on features that their business could benefit from. If the customer thinks “we’re not an enterprise”, then they’ll steer towards the Office 365 Business Premium. It’s at this stage that some customers make what I would consider to be the wrong choice. So let’s take it a step further, and say that you also want to include the Office 365 applications (Outlook, Word, Excel, etc) in your subscription. That’s a lot of options for a simple requirement. Let’s assume for now that your business wants at least Exchange Online, so that you can run your email in the cloud, but you’re interested in using additional services in the near future.
Looking at the core Office 365 subscription options, there’s several that businesses can choose from. Although that promise is partially fulfilled by Office 365, it can still be a challenge to work out exactly which of the broad range of Office 365 service offerings you should be subscribing to.
Office 365 plan software#
One of the core promises of cloud services is that they allow a business to simply pay a monthly subscription fee for what they need, rather than make large annual purchases for software licensing.
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