QuickScan MS Office vs. OpenOffice

Gain a quick overview of feasibility, costs and risks

Licenses are a significant cost factor for companies. This especially applies to licenses for applications that almost everyone in the company uses. As a result, more and more companies are considering using public domain software, especially for Office functions. This requires your IT department to decide whether and to what extent OpenOffice would be a realistic alternative to the established standard product, MS Office.

This is a difficult task for IT managers. It takes time to come up with a well-founded recommendation, and switching prematurely can have sensitive negative consequences for the entire company in the context of a long-term IT strategy.

This is why, in addition to testing the technical feasibility of a switch, the risks in terms of planning reliability and economic efficiency must also be weighed. A well-founded assessment of whether MS Office can be replaced by OpenOffice in your company requires an integrated consulting approach. There are now several products on the market that build on OpenOffice, along with 2-3 updates a year, which makes it harder to keep an overview of the public domain product’s range of services.

COC AG quickly provides a clear overview – with QuickScan OpenOffice vs. Microsoft Office. In a 2-day strategy consultation, we compare the individual solution modules of MS Office and OpenOffice, and analyze your specific needs from the individual Office components. We consider criteria such as compatibility with third-party products, procurement and operating costs, support and maintenance, security aspects, performance, user efficiency, etc. We then provide you with a summary of the analysis in a results presentation.

If necessary, we will develop migration scenarios for switching to OpenOffice, including a detailed time and cost plan.