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Brass Contributor

Jan 29, 2020

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What is the pricing of MS Teams for enterprises?

We all know that Skype for Business is going away soon. Where I work, they've been using Skype for Business for many years. Like most people, they're resistant to change. Some of us have been experim...

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LinusCansby
Jan 30, 2020
Rod Falanga It is hard to do a business case for Teams vs Skype for Business when you don't get the figures from them. Based on that (no facts at all) you can easy say to them that Teams will not be more expensive.

ChrisWebbTech

MVP

Jan 29, 2020

Yeah not sure where the Teams is too expensive is coming from. It's pretty much the same cost. If you are going from an under licensed or a perpetual purchase of skype licenses on prem, then yeah, it will cost most, but looking elsewhere will net the same costs if not more considering all the things you get with a Teams licenses (E3). So you have to take into consideration all the licensing cost etc in that case.

Anyway, if we knew more about your actual deployment, and current license scenario we could probably give better comparisons.

Rod Falanga

Brass Contributor

Jan 29, 2020

I should have mentioned that I work for a large state government agency, so E1, E2, etc. I don't think applies to us. We have roughly 3500 employees.

LinusCansby
MVP
Jan 29, 2020
Do you run Skype for Business server today or Online? What kind of licenses do you have Office 365 or CAL licenses for Exchange, Skype, Sharepoint ets?
- Rod Falanga
  Brass Contributor
  Jan 30, 2020
  LinusCansby I don't know the answers to the questions you asked. Those are things they don't discuss with me. I suspect that it has something to do with SharePoint, but I'm guessing.
  - LinusCansby
    MVP
    Jan 30, 2020
    Rod Falanga It is hard to do a business case for Teams vs Skype for Business when you don't get the figures from them. Based on that (no facts at all) you can easy say to them that Teams will not be more expensive.