Compare Retrospect and Office 365 Backup - Apr 2022

Shlomi LaviShlomi Lavi / Apr 14, 2022

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Bottom Line: Which is Better - Retrospect or Office 365 Backup?

Office 365 Backup is more expensive to implement (TCO) than Retrospect, and Retrospect is rated higher (72/100) than Office 365 Backup (62/100). Retrospect offers users more features (3) than Office 365 Backup (0). There is a clear winner in this case and it is Retrospect!

Looking for the right Business backup solution for your business? Buyers are primarily concerned about the real total cost of implementation (TCO), the full list of features, vendor reliability, user reviews, and the pros and cons. In this article we compare between the two software products:

Roxio Retrospect Vs. CloudAlly

Roxio Retrospect: Founded in 2011 by longtime Retrospect software team members, Retrospect, Inc. is dedicated to providing reliable backup and recovery tools for professionals and small-to-midsize businesses. Our employees average 10 years of experience each in developing, supporting, or marketing Retrospect. Our customers—who can be found in every industry and in m...

CloudAlly: CloudAlly provides online cloud to cloud backup and recovery solutions, which backs up daily changes in your SaaS to unlimited Amazon S3 storage and makes it available for restore or export. We make backup simple and your online data secure.

Who is more expensive? Retrospect or Office 365 Backup?

The real total cost of ownership (TCO) of Business backup software includes the software license, subscription fees, software training, customizations, hardware (if needed), maintenance and support and other related services. When calculating the TCO, it's important to add all of these ”hidden costs” as well. We prepared a TCO (Total Cost) calculator for Retrospect and Office 365 Backup.

Retrospect price starts at $2,999 per year , On a scale between 1 to 10 Retrospect is rated 2, which is much lower than the average cost of Business backup software. Office 365 Backup price starts at $3 per user/month , When comparing Office 365 Backup to its competitors, the software is rated 4 - lower than the average Business backup software cost.

Bottom line: Office 365 Backup is more expensive than Retrospect.

Which software includes more/better features?

We've compared Retrospect Vs. Office 365 Backup based on some of the most important and required Business backup features.

Retrospect: Data Import/Export, Basic Reports, Online Customer Support.

Office 365 Backup: We are still working to collect the list of features for Office 365 Backup.

Target customer size

Retrospect's typical customers include: Small, medium and large size businesses, and Office 365 Backup's target customer size include: Start up.



Retrospect

ITQlick rating
(3.7/5)

starts at $2,999 per year

Retrospect is a cloud-based backup solution designed for small businesses. It offers both personal and business solutions. The new versions include Retrospect Backup 16, Retrospect Management Console, and Retr...

Categories: Backup, Business backup.

Office 365 Backup

ITQlick rating
(4.1/5)

starts at $3 per user/month

Office 365 Backup is a trending cloud-based Project Collaboration software, it is designed to support small size business. Office 365 Backup received a rating of 4.1 from ITQlick team. The software cost is cons...

Categories: Team Collaboration, Project Collaboration, Development project, Project Planning, Project Resource Management.

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Retrospect: 3 Features

Data Import/Export
Basic Reports
Online Customer Support

Office 365 Backup: 0 Features

We are working to collect the information
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ITQlick score ITQlick Score is a 1 to 100, the calculation is based on pricing, and functionality Vs. alternative solutions
Pricing score pricing Score is a 1 to 10 (10 is high cost), based on the TCO (cost of licences, customizations, training, hardware when relevant) Vs. alternative solutions
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Score
72/100
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3/10
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Shlomi Lavi is an entrepreneur and founder of ITQlick.com. He holds a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Information Systems Engineering from Ben Gurion University in Israel. Shlomi brings 17 years of global IT and IS management experience as a consultant and implementation expert for small, medium and large-sized (global) companies. Shlomi’s goal is to share the best knowledge and news about information systems so you can make smarter buying decisions for your business.