All Microsoft Office 365 Plans: The Comparison In Detail

Here are all the differences between the Office 365 plans and their features and pricing so that you can choose the right plan for you.

Several Office 365 Enterprise plans fit your needs. Each one is aimed at ensuring maximum productivity for your business.

Do you need the full version of Office for PC and mobile devices? Does your business require a lot of storage space, and do you want to simplify file sharing? 

Let’s immediately see the differences between the various Office 365 subscriptions.

 Microsoft 365 Apps For Enterprise

This plan is useful for companies that need to save data securely via the cloud. Suitable if you want to develop your business, thanks to the availability of the Office package for all devices.

At a price of 12.80 Euros per month, it gives access to all Microsoft Office apps such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, One Note, and Access for 5 PCs, five tablets, and 5 Smartphones. Access, however, is only available in a PC version.

Specifically, the subscription includes:

• Email and calendar: Outlook and Office Delve
• Riunioni: Microsoft Whiteboard
• Cloud and content creation: 1 TB of storage on OneDrive; Sway Job Management: Power Virtual Agents, CDS Project Oakdale, and Forms

You can visit the official page containing the Office Enterprise 365 App for Enterprise FAQ to learn more about the subscription.

Office 365 E1

Office 365 E1 costs € 6.70 per month and can only be purchased with an annual subscription. The subscription offers the entire Office package for devices up to a maximum of 10 “, then smartphones and tablets for a maximum of 5 devices.

We recommend this package if you need more productivity. In fact, thanks to cloud services and Teams, you can keep in touch with your company wherever you are.  

Specifically, the subscription includes:

• Mail and calendar: Outlook, Delve, and a 50GB plan for Exchange Online.
• Meetings: Microsoft Teams, Whiteboard, Office 365 Groups, Microsoft Kaizala Pro, and Skype for Business on the web.
• Private social networks: SharePoint Online, Yammer. Cloud and video: 1 TB of storage on OneDrive, Sway, and Microsoft Stream.
• Device and app management: Microsoft Graph API.
• Identity and Access Management: Local Active Directory Synchronization for SSO.

Office 365 E3

This type of subscription, which costs 19.70 euros per month, offers the entire Office 365 E1 package plus some tools to improve the protection of personal data. 

The E3 subscription is suitable for all companies that fully respect employees’ personal data, and that need large quantities of cloud services.

A smart company that offers hybrid business opportunities should keep an eye on this package, as it offers full support to internal workers and collaborators. 

Specifically, the package offers:

• Mail and calendar: Outlook, Delve, and a 100GB plan for Exchange Online.
• Meetings: Microsoft Teams, Whiteboard, Office 365 Groups, Microsoft Kaizala Pro, and Skype for Business on the web.
• Social network privacy: SharePoint Online, Yammer.
• Cloud and video: 1-5 TB of storage on OneDrive, Sway, and Microsoft Stream.
• Device and App Management: Microsoft Graph API, Support for Group Policy, Office Telemetry, Roaming Settings, and Shared Computer Activation.
• Identity and Access Management: Local Active Directory Synchronization for SSO.
• Information Protection: Information Protection with Message Encryption, Rights Management and Data Loss Prevention for Emails and Files; Azure Information Protection.
• Advanced compliance tools: Legal compliance and archiving need for email – Archiving, eDiscovery, mailbox locking.

Office 365 E5

The latest among the Office 365 plans is E5, the complete package that offers all Microsoft services available on the market. The subscription price is € 34.40 per month, payable by annual subscription.

The plan is suitable for all companies that want to ensure the best performance for their employees. Productivity is maximum, thanks to the complete office package and the presence of the most modern and advanced data, security, and voice analysis systems. 

Specifically, the E5 plan includes:

• Mail and calendar: Outlook, Delve, and a 100GB plan for Exchange Online.
• Meetings: Microsoft Teams, Whiteboard, Office 365 Groups, Microsoft Kaizala Pro, Skype for Business on the web, and an audio conferencing phone system.
• Data analytics: Microsoft To-Do and Power BI Pro.
• Device and App Management: Microsoft Graph API, Support for Group Policy, Office Telemetry, Roaming Settings, and Shared Computer Activation.
• Identity and Access Management: Local Active Directory Synchronization for SSO.
• Threat Protection: Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection.
• Information Protection: Information Protection with Message Encryption, Rights Management and Data Loss Prevention for Emails and Files; Azure information Protection and, finally, Office 365 Cloud App Security.
• Advanced compliance tools: Legal compliance and archiving needs for email – Archiving, eDiscovery, mailbox locking, and Office 365 Advanced Compliance.

Office 365 Plans: How We Can Help You

The Redmond company offers plans and rates for every type of company. We then clarified the difference in plans and found out together which services are available. 

We’ve also listed some security services for you, but there are some procedures you can follow even outside of the services offered by the various Office 365 c subscriptions. 

Thanks to our partnerships with companies such as Microsoft and Google, we have great knowledge on the corporate security front. For this reason, we have decided to help you to guarantee corporate IT security in 8 + 1 steps.

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