Microsoft Excel, Project Management, SharePoint, Microsoft Office 365 – Are these too many tools for one single job?

I am reading this very interesting article on “Leveraging Office 365 for Project Collaboration” from Microsoft Office 365 community. Realizing Microsoft offers way too many tools to do one job – online collaboration.

While Google Docs also offer online collaboration to all its Gmail users for free, Microsoft charges $6 for Office 365. Any idea why? Sandwiched between these providers, customers are still looking for a single solution for online data collaboration. By that I am referring to a tool that lets me get going with online project management, inventory, customer and employee data management, or just a movie database to manage. I am assuming learning so many different tools requires a whole lot of efforts and managing data become a lot more complex for light business users.

 

Too many tools for one single job

What do you think? Can a single tool solve the issues of data collection, sharing and online collaboration in one or two simple clicks? Eager to get some perspectives here…

 

- Santa