Microsoft Office 365 Business Premium vs Microsoft Office 365 E3

Though both plans seem very similar at first glance, when you get down to the nitty-gritty, Office 365 E3 offers users a better service.

For example:

E3 users receive a fuller Office experience, as Office 365 ProPlus helps them meet compliance demands and gives them the reporting functionality to track where they fall short of regulations.
Other applications such as the Office 365 Video Portal are only available in the Enterprise range. Power BI, while standard in E5 plans, can also be added to E3 plans to improve the reporting process for any organization.

While both plans come with Exchange Online, Office 365 E3 is equipped with Exchange plan 2, meaning users benefit from unlimited storage.

You can use Office 365 E3 licenses in a hybrid environment. This gives you access to Exchange and Sharepoint both on-premises and online, unlike Business Premium users.

Office 365 E3 users have access to 24/7 support. By contrast, Business Premium users only receive critical issue support.

While both plans come with Excel, Office 365 E3’s version is better set up for complex data analysis and is a better fit for advanced Excel users.

While Business Premium is a popular and cost-effective option, there are downsides, and it’s worth considering whether these will impact your business.

There is a 300 seat limit on Business Premium, so any organization with more than 300 people will have to consider different options – either a combination of plans for their users, which in our experience is not successful or an upgrade to the Enterprise Office 365 plans.

In addition, Business Premium users will often miss out on the most useful Office 365 features, as these are exclusive to the Enterprise plans. The Azure Rights Management security feature of the Enterprise E3 plan is crucially absent from the Business plans.

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[jessewsmith]

Great video! Just so you know, Access is included with Microsoft 365 Business now.
Another notable difference in my opinion is that group policy settings for Office are only supported with the E3/Plus version.