| This price is bananas. As CTO for an enterprise, I’d shared this to our chief of staff as a possibly interesting lightweight tool to pilot. Then I saw they want a multiple of retail or enterprise cost per user of full Microsoft O365 (Office) which includes One Note, Wiki, To Do, and Planner as well as native mobile apps for these. Also per your last bullet on SOC 2: for us, it’s not just helpful. We require the reports. For anyone thinking of starting a SaaS enterprise productivity tools business, here is the benchmark enterprise sourcing and procurement will compare you to: Office 365 Business Essentials. This comes in at the cost of at $5 per user with an annual commitment or $6 with a monthly commitment. It also comes with access to Microsoft Exchange, OneDrive, SharePoint, Planner, and Hub. This plan only includes access to the web and mobile versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. The second, more expensive, option to getting Teams is with Office 365 Business Premium. This plan comes in at the cost of $12.50 user per month with an annual commitment or $15 per user per month with a monthly commitment. With this plan, you not only get Microsoft Teams, but also SharePoint, OneDrive, Exchange, as well as the option to install Office on all of your PCs, Macs, and phones. For larger organizations with more than 300 employees, Office 365 Enterprise would be the best way to get Microsoft Teams for free and to all employees. It is included with the E1, E3, E5, and F1 plans: - O365 F1: $ 4.00/user/month
- O365 E1: $ 8.00/user/month
- O365 E3: $20.00/user/month
- O365 E5: $35.00/user/month
Look at the enterprise IT management, security, and compliance value they’re offering at each pricing level. Really think about it:Enterprise F1 is the cheapest since it is more about “frontline” workers and access to online services and apps. On the other hand, Office Enterprise E1 is also reasonably affordable, as it includes all the Office 365 collaboration services, as well as additional controls for IT professionals. In the middle is Office 365 Enterprise E3, which includes the full Microsoft Office suite of applications, and access to additional Office 365 collaboration services. Finally, with Office 365 Enterprise E5, you get the best of the best, which is everything included in all the other plans, and additional advanced security and analytics features. — https://www.onmsft.com/news/these-office-365-plans-include-m... The user experience “above the glass” is full featured by the second tier. The higher tiers’ added “enterprise” functionality is below the glass. If the checkboxes in your tiers don’t look more like this, you might find a real challenge scaling into enterprise sales and sourcing. |