Comment on Microsoft pulls MS365 Business Premium from nonprofits

• homesnatch@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  There are absolutely large orgs in the Google and Apple ecosystems. My org, for example, doesn’t use Microsoft except for a smattering of Excel and Word subscriptions to deal with some customer documents that aren’t handled well by Google Docs and Google Sheets.

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  • Cort@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yeah, anyone who uses Excel on a professional level can tell you Google sheets etc are NO substitute for Excel. Just so many things the competitors just can’t do

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    • homesnatch@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      For financials, only the companies still in the dark ages depend on Excel rather than real ERP or accounting software.

      Sheets handles pretty much all typical business needs, but we do run into issues if we’re collaborating with another company that is using macros or something in Excel.

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      • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I work for a company that does 10s of billions in revenue, and the finance departments all use excel as well. Pretty much every giant corporations finance departments use excel.

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      My brother is an accountant and uses sheets for a lot of non-work stuff, and specialized software for most business needs. He also uses Excel, sure, but there are substitutes for Excel in a lot of cases.

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    • pastermil@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      What about libreoffice? What are the things you can only achieve with MS Excel?

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  • Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    How are you handling compliance/legal obligations like DLP policies on your email and cloud storage, legal holds and investigations, data tagging, and retention policies? I’m under the impression that only Microsoft offers those in a single product.

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    • homesnatch@lemm.ee ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Legal Hold is easy in the Google Workspace using Google Vault and DLP is a native feature-set for Enterprise plans. Audit and investigation features are very thorough and we’ve used them extensively.

      We do use an additional third-party endpoint DLP software with TLS inspection as well.

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      • Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Interesting, I didn’t realize that Google Suite enterprise options had become so robust.

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  • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The article clearly states that this non-profit moved from Google to Microsoft after Google started charging lol

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