Compare the Differences Between Office Applications Suites
Description |
Office 365 Cloud SaaS |
Office Volume Open Licensing |
Office 2016 Retail Pack |
Options |
Office 365 BusinessOffice 365 Pro Plus |
Office Standard OLP with and without Software Assurance
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Office 2016 Home/StudentOffice 2016 Home/BusinessOffice 2016 Professional |
Differences | Compare Office 365 Business and Office 365 Pro Plus | Compare Office Standard OLP and Office Professional Pro Plus | Compare Office 2016 Home/Student, Office 2016 Home/Business and Office 2016 Professional |
Payment | Pay as you use – monthly/yearly | One-Time Purchase with optional to buy
Software Assurance every 3 years |
One-Time Purchase |
Type of Licensing | Subscription | Perpetual | Perpetual |
Mode of Activation | Online/Email Registration | Online/Key | Online/Email Registration |
Product Positioning | Best Value | Most Control | Lowest Price |
Ease of Managing Licenses and Ability
to Terminate/Transfer Licenses |
Easiest | Easiest | Fairly Difficult |
Ability to invoke or recover loss licenses
during loss/theft of workstation |
Easiest | Not possible | Fairly Difficult |
Transfer across Same Platform (PC/Mac) | Yes | Yes | No |
Transfer across Different Platform (PC/Mac) | Yes | Yes, if bought with Software Assurance | No |
Can install previous version of Office | No | Yes | No |
Multiple Software Licenses for
User Multiple Devices |
Up to 5 workstation (PC/Mac) Up to 5 mobile devices (Android/IOS) Note : For same user with multiple machines |
1 device only | 1 device only |
Minimum Purchase | 1 | 5 | 1 |
Pricing |
Office 365 Business
Office 365 Pro Plus
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Office Professional OLP with SA (Software Assurance) – $750
Office Professional OLP – $650 |
Office 2016 Home/Student – $200
Office 2016 Home/Business – $300 Office 2016 Professional – $500 |
For bulk purchases, you can enjoy better discount. Please contact our Sales Team.
Compare the Differences Between
Office 365 Business and
Office 365 Pro Plus
(Cloud SaaS)
Office 365 Business
Always have the latest versions of
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Capture your ideas however you work best—using a keyboard, pen, or a touchscreen.
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Easily format information in Excel with tools that recognize your pattern and autocomplete data.
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Easily incorporate content from PDFs to create your own great-looking Word documents.
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Design customized marketing materials that fit your brand and customers.
Office 365 ProPlus
Always have the latest versions of
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Capture your ideas however you work best—using a keyboard, pen, or a touchscreen.
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Open PDFs and edit paragraphs, lists, and tables just as you do in familiar Word documents.
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Keep track of comments in Word documents and mark them as done with the new reply button.
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Convert your data into a chart or table in two steps or less so you can analyze it faster, and then preview it with different formatting.
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Embed Excel spreadsheets, Visio diagrams, photos, and almost any other kind of computer file, in your OneNote notebooks.
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Share your PowerPoint presentation over the web by sending a link to it.
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Design customized marketing materials that fit your brand and customers.
Compare the Differences Between
Office Standard OLP and
Office Pro Plus OLP
(Volume Licensing)
What is Software Assurance?
Software Assurance (SA) benefits help you take full advantage of your investments in IT. A comprehensive program that includes a unique set of technologies, services, and rights to help deploy, manage, and use Microsoft products efficiently, Software Assurance helps keep your business up to date and ready to respond quickly to change and opportunity.
Why we need Software Assurance?
You make significant investments in IT, and Software Assurance from Microsoft helps you take fullest advantage of the value your investments can bring. Save time and money with the right tools, training, and support to help empower your people, optimize your technology, and unlock the full potential of your investments in Microsoft technologies. Software Assurance helps you with the following:
- Reduce software and services costs with rights to new software releases and cost-efficient upgrades.
- Use consulting services to plan new, on-premises and cloud-based deployments.
- Improve operational efficiency through access to unique technologies and licensing rights.
- Increase overall user productivity with instructor-led technical training and online end-user training.
- Maintain an available and responsive IT infrastructure with around-the-clock support.
To learn more about the advantages of Software Assurance, download the Software Assurance at a glance (PDF, 326 KB).
Discover the unique benefits and value that Software Assurance can provide for your business.