Office 365 or Google suite for global business? If you moved from one to the other, what were some of the reasons? What worked out well or not so well?

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Office 36580%

Google Business Suite19%

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CTOa year ago

O365 is a good solution but very expensive for organizations with a high number of users

CTO in Banking2 years ago

The integration across the O365 stack and beyond, into Azure and the Power Platform, etc, is more complete and easier for most end-users to consume. 

Vice President, Infrastructure Architect in Finance (non-banking)2 years ago

M365 integrates with your current AD security structure better and offers more granular security controls than Google; important in a very regulated industry.

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Director of IT in Education2 years ago

O365 easy to use an integrate with their productS

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CTO in Software2 years ago

G-Suite is cloud-native and was built with collaboration at its core; there is no software to download on the end-user PC other than Google Chrome. This alone massively simplifies the management of end-user devices and makes BYOD simpler to manage. 
Office 365 has always felt that collaboration was bolted on top of the core model of editing documents on a PC versus directly in the browser. The beauty of G-Suite is that documents stay in the cloud and are never downloaded to devices, making it easy to offboard staff. 
Real-time collaboration on a Google Sheet / Doc over video calls is fantastic; you can also embed Google Sheet elements in Google Slides for real-time updates. 
Connecting Google Sheets to Looker Data Studio for building dashboards is extremely powerful. 

Personally, I would never use Office 365. 

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