Examples showing that savings can be saved by using a paid "Office 365" than free "OpenOffice"

Software that can use almost the same function as Microsoft Office "OpenOffice"It seems to be cheaper than using a paid" Microsoft Office "because it is open to the public, but Pesaro of a city in Italy, which introduced OpenOffice, will conduct a survey jointly with Microsoft However, paying "Office 365"It turned out that the operation cost can be lowered by using the system.

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"Office 365" is Microsoft's service that cooperates with "Office Web Apps" which is the online version of "Microsoft Office" and "SharePoint Online", "Exchange Online" and "Lync Online" that operate in the cloud environment. For local municipalities in Pesaro, Italy, 500 officials used OpenOffice in 2011, but in 2014 they switched to Office 365.


Although switching to a paid Office 365 from free OpenOffice seems to increase operating costs at first glance, when cooperatively investigating the actual operation costs of Pesaro's local government and Microsoft actually used Office 365 It turned out that we could save about 80% more cost than OpenOffice.

Stefano Bruscoli of the Statistics and Information Systems Department of Pesaro Local Government says, "There was a problem with certain features when using OpenOffice, and some of the functions of Microsoft Access and Excel can be used with OpenOffice I could not do it. " Because OpenOffice is not fully compatible with Microsoft Office, there are some problems in day-to-day work and system managers need to resolve the problem by spending an average of 15 minutes each day for 300 staff members each day It is said that.

Working time is wasted by using OpenOffice, and productivity drops sharply. The cost per employee in the four years that used OpenOffice was 530.38 euros (about 72 thousand yen) in one year, 93% of which was the cost of introducing the system. In the survey of local governments and Microsoft, when we changed to Office 365, the cost per employee declined to 197.49 euros (about 27,000 yen) in one year and down to 111.98 euro if using Skype instead of telephone It is said that.

ByZoltán Till

The reason why the operation cost was greatly saved by switching from OpenOffice to Office 365 is that "employees are accustomed to working environment of Microsoft Office", and Microsoft Office has compatibility with many file formats That being one of the reasons for saving cost was one reason. Rather than spending time learning how to operate free software, it is sometimes cheaper to use paid software that you've accustomed to from the beginning as a result.