Greetings all! I've been chatting with a person who works at a company with approx 40 users. At first they purchased M365 Business Standard licenses - then they switched all the users to Office 365 E3 as they thought it was required for an Accounting application - it wasn't.

So I feel that they will do better with M365 Business Premium as a good fit with SMB's - yes that will reduce that mailbox size from 100GB to 50GB but they're all well below 50GB and have archiving turned on.

Did a lot of research...comparing the features...also had a look here - mind you dated July 2023: https://m365maps.com/matrix.htm#010001000000000000000

Now the costs are comparable....as purchased those O365 E3 licenses before those recent license changes.

So I'm trying to point out the advantages of switching to M365 Business Premium.

My understanding is that M365 BP provides advanced security features and better device/app management and provides for a less complex environment to support. Thinking of their needs also on that side as their current IT folks are new to M365 (no comment!) ;-) ....so I am not always available to assist.

M365 Business Premium will also provide their Compliance and Governance needs when they're ready to go there.

Am I missing something here? Any there any other pro's associated with that M365 Business Premium subscription vs O365 E3?

Many thanks in advance!

Cheers!