Google Apps for Education vs. Office 365: What They Won't Tell You In A Sales Presentation

1. Google Apps for Education Suite
v.s.
Microsoft Office 365 for EDU
“What they’ll never tell you in a sales presentation”

2. 2
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Problem solvers that fuel organizations and people!
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Strategy
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Workflo
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Infra &
Cloud

3. 7/22/2015 3
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Technology
Specialists
Over 25 years of experience installing,
administering, and winning with
enterprise networks, websites and
architecture solutions.
Detroit & Grand Rapids Offices
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4. This Session
Both of these cloud based solutions are excellent products,
extraordinary in their ability to deliver value to educational institutions,
or at least that’s what the companies will tell you. What is the real
truth?
This session will strip away all the hype and fluff and provide you with
the unvarnished truth about these two solutions.
Attendees will gain information they will never have obtained from
sitting through either vendor’s presentation.

5. Survey The Audience
1. Already have Google Apps for Education Suite
(GAFEs) and hope to enhance your knowledge
2. Already have Microsoft Office 365 for EDU in place
and want to improve your environment
3. At a decision point whether to go one way or the
other
4. Got lost on the Internet and wandered into this
seminar

7. Google Apps for Education vs. Office 365
Google Microsoft – Free Education (E1)
Docs Word Online
Sheets Excel Online
Slides PowerPoint Online
OneNote Online
Gmail Outlook / Exchange Online
Calendar Outlook / Exchange Online
Drive OneDrive
Sites SharePoint
Google Plus Yammer
Google Classroom Teacher Dashboard
Hangouts Skype for Business / (Lync)

8. E1 – Free for Students, Free for Faculty E3 - $2.50/mth for Students, $4.50/mth for
Faculty
User maximum Unlimited Unlimited
Full Office No Yes, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Publisher,
OneNote, and Access for 5 users
Office on tablets and phones No Yes
Online Version Yes, only way to access Word, Excel, etc Yes
1TB OneDrive Yes Yes
50GB Inbox Yes Yes
Online meetings, video,
conferencing
Yes Yes
School Intranet Yes Yes
School “Facebook” Yes, Yammer Yes, Yammer
Enterprise Management No Yes
eDiscovery No Yes

9. Google Classroom

10. Microsoft Dashboard – Teacher & Student

11. NEW!! MS Student Information System Sync

12. In This Corner!!!
Strengths of GAFES
- Google Classroom
-Breadth of Developers and
educators
-No Charges, always free

13. And in this Corner!
Strengths of Office 365 for EDU
- Office suite, off line, 5 user license (for
pay)
- Better support, partner community,
contacts
- Innovative SIS-sync, and Teacher
Dashboard

14. Questions that Google Would Like to Avoid
• Can you tell me the number of apps that are not available on Chromebooks
or via a Google Classroom such as Design Tools?
• What do I do if I have to run Microsoft Office for by Student Information
System or other administrative function, do you suggest I run both Google
and Microsoft?
• How do teachers share easily with administrators who are only running
Microsoft Office Word, Excel and PowerPoint and not loose fidelity of the
Word, Excel and PowerPoint document?
• How do parents, who run Office apps at work, such as PowerPoint, help
their kids with Google Slides?
• What do you suggest if I don’t have access to the Internet or I want to work
offline?
• How does Google respond to Microsoft products like OneNote?

15. Questions that Google Would Like to Avoid
• How do I handle some of the advanced functions available in Excel
that Sheets won’t do or special transitions I can do in PowerPoint that
Slides won’t do?
• Isn’t Microsoft’s recently released Teacher Dashboard for Office 365
just as functional as Google Classroom?
• While you are scanning my schools email for virus and malware,
aren’t you also collecting information to sell for adverstising?

16. Questions Microsoft Would like to Avoid
• The number of teachers that are developing content for Google is four or
five times the number for Office, true?
• The focus and customization that Google Classroom has as compared to
Microsoft Office 365, addressing teaching methods etc. Do you have
specific training on this like Google does on Classroom?
• Google is free, free, free, can you say the same thing?
• Google Apps Marketplace compared to Office 365 marketplace, doesn’t
Google have many more apps?
• If I don’t have Office Apps installed locally, what do I do if I need to work
offline with my Office 365 web apps?
• Why haven’t schools developed more process and teacher support for
products like OneNote?

17. Questions Microsoft Would like to Avoid
• SharePoint seems like over kill for things that I would use Google Sites for.
It seems much easier to create and share documents for my class in Google
Sites, how do you respond to that?
• Google is innovative and creating new things for education all the time but
Microsoft is usually playing “me too”, true?
• I run Macbooks, iPad’s, Windows PC’s and Android tablets, isn’t a fully
cloud based solution like Google a much easier way to handle all these
devices rather than worrying about locally installed applications requiring
different versions and applications?
• My kids prefer Chrome browser and I run into problems with IE running
Google apps, why is that?
• What if I want to move to very inexpensive Chromebooks in my district, I
can’t run Office 365 very well, right?

18. And the Winner is….!

20. Who Wins?
• You Do…
• Both are great products for different reasons
• Both have advanced the ability of education to deliver on its mission
• Both have disadvantages you need to avoid
• So..
• Do you have all the facts you need to make a decision?
• Do you understand the impact these technologies will make on your
organization
• Would you like some unbiased help to sort fact from fiction?