Top 5 Google Apps vs. Microsoft Office 365 Comparison Guides

by Rob on November 2, 2011

UPDATE: Since we wrote this post, UC Berkeley wrote the most in-depth matrix on Google Apps vs. Office 365 published to date. It is a great place to start if you are evaluating both products.

If it is time to upgrade your Exchange server, you are probably struggling with the same issue as so many other I.T. departments – do you move your email to the cloud? You have heard the arguments that the cloud saves you money, and the counterarguments that it really doesn’t. You have read a thousand different analyses of Google Apps vs. Office 365 vs. an Exchange upgrade. And you still haven’t made a decision. Don’t worry. We are here to help.

The Backupify research team has put together what we consider the five best guides to Google Apps vs. Office 365, so you can make an educated decision about which platform is best for your company, or if you should skip the cloud altogether and stay on-premise.

1. Google Apps vs. Office365: Your Choice from ZDNet. This post by Revevol founder Louis Nages does a great job of digging into the core architectural issues that I.T. departments may be concerned about.

2. This ReadWriteWeb article considers Google Apps vs. Office 365 vs. Zoho, and we chose it because it tries to normalize the three across the standard user dimensions any I.T. department would use to evaluate the platforms.

3. In Google Apps vs. Office 365: It All Depends, an Interop panel analyzes both suites and provides some thoughts.

4. In Which Should You Use, Lifehacker looks at both apps from a user’s point of view.

5. And finally, we save the best for last. In Google Apps vs. Office365: Top 10 Enterprise Concerns, InformationWeek takes a point by point in-depth view of the issues a large enterprise will face when making this decision. This is one of the more detailed investigations of both applications.

Both Google and Microsoft have aggressive roadmaps, and migrating between the two applications is no easy task. So it is important that you make the right decision for your company and stick with it for the next few years. We hope these guides can help.

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  • http://www.hyperoffice.com Jake Sears

    here another useful one - http://www.hyperoffice.com/google-apps-vs-microsoft-bpos/

  • http://www.BoxFreeIT.com.au Sholto Macpherson

    And this one is six! http://www.boxfreeit.com.au/Productivity/google-apps-vs-office-365-buying-advice.html Dealmakers and deal breakers for Google Apps and Office 365, plus in-depth feature comparisons.

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