Microsoft 365 E5

Description

Best-in-class AI-powered productivity apps with advanced security, compliance, analytics, and AI readiness capabilities. Get unified endpoint, identity, and access management; best-in-class productivity apps, including Microsoft Teams, and Windows for Enterprise; plus advanced security and analytics, cloud storage, and web-connected AI chat.

Plan highlights:

– Supports organizations of any size

– Advanced identity and access management

– Desktop, web, and mobile versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and other apps

– 1 to 5+ TB of cloud storage per user

– Chat, call, meet, and host webinars with Microsoft Teams

– Cloud-based phone system to make calls outside your organization with Microsoft Teams Phone

– Deploy, manage, and update devices and Windows 365 Cloud PCs at scale with Windows Enterprise and Microsoft Intune

– Scalable business analytics with Power BI

– Shadow IT discovery capabilities, antivirus, antimalware, phishing, and ransomware protection

– Manage, monitor, and provide secure access and admin controls for apps and endpoints

– Extended detection and response (XDR) and SIEM capabilities

– Data security and compliance for higher data risk and regulations

– AI chat that provides the latest web information, writing assistance, and data analysis with Copilot Chat

– Anytime phone and web support

Microsoft 365 E5 for organizations with elevated security, compliance or analytics requirements, financial services, healthcare, government, or companies handling sensitive data. Insider Risk Management, Defender for Identity and Power BI Pro are often the deciding factors.

Common Ground

• Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote and Access as desktop apps for PC and Mac

• Office for the web and mobile apps: the same apps in browser/iOS/Android

• Exchange Online Plan 2: 100 GB mailbox, in-place archive, DLP basics

• SharePoint Online Plan 2: unlimited sites, content management

• OneDrive for Business Plan 2: at least 5 TB storage per user

• Microsoft Teams: chat, meetings, collaboration

• Microsoft Loop, Planner, To Do, Forms, Stream, Sway, Clipchamp

• Exchange Online Protection (EOP): baseline anti-spam, anti-malware and anti-phishing for email

What does E5 add over E3?

1. Telephony & meetings

Teams Phone Standard: full cloud PBX (no separate PBX license required). Audio Conferencing: dial-in to Teams meetings via local phone numbers.

2. Analytics

Power BI Pro: publish and share reports with colleagues.

3. Advanced email & collaboration security

Defender for Office 365 Plan 2: Safe Links, Safe Attachments, Threat Explorer, Attack Simulator and Automated Investigation & Response.E3 plans only get the baseline EOP protection;Plan 2 usually requires the purchase of additional components separately

4. Compliance & investigations

Advanced eDiscovery & Audit: for legal hold, audit trails and forensic investigations

In Microsoft 365 E5 you additionally get: Defender for Endpoint Plan 2 (instead of Plan 1), Defender for Identity, Defender for Cloud Apps, Microsoft Entra ID P2, Purview Information Protection P2, Insider Risk Management and Communication Compliance.