Compare the Differences Between Office Applications Suites

Description	Office 365 Cloud SaaS	Office Volume Open Licensing	Office 2016 Retail Pack
Options	Office 365 Business Office 365 Pro Plus	Office Standard OLP with and without Software Assurance Office Professional OLP with and without Software Assurance	Office 2016 Home/Student Office 2016 Home/Business Office 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 Monthly – USD8.25 Yearly – USD10 x 12 Office 365 Pro Plus Yearly – USD12 x 12 = USD144	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.

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Office 365 Business and 

Office 365 Pro Plus

(Cloud SaaS)

Office 365 Business

Always have the latest versions of

• Capture your ideas however you work best—using a keyboard, pen, or a touchscreen.

• Easily format information in Excel with tools that recognize your pattern and autocomplete data.

• Easily incorporate content from PDFs to create your own great-looking Word documents.

• Design customized marketing materials that fit your brand and customers.

Office 365 ProPlus

Always have the latest versions of

• Capture your ideas however you work best—using a keyboard, pen, or a touchscreen.

• Open PDFs and edit paragraphs, lists, and tables just as you do in familiar Word documents.

• Keep track of comments in Word documents and mark them as done with the new reply button.

• 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.

• Embed Excel spreadsheets, Visio diagrams, photos, and almost any other kind of computer file, in your OneNote notebooks.

• Share your PowerPoint presentation over the web by sending a link to it.

• Design customized marketing materials that fit your brand and customers.

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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.

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Office 2016 Home/Student,

Office 2016 Home/Business and

Office 2016 Professional 

(Retail)

Office Home & Student 2016

Word	Excel
PowerPoint	OneNote

Office Home & Business 2016

Word	Excel
PowerPoint	OneNote
Outlook

Office Professional 2016

Word	Excel
PowerPoint	OneNote
Outlook	Publisher
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