If you’re researching Office 365 for your organization, you may have heard that there’s a lot of complexity to the plans. That may not be an indication of the actual Office 365 system, however, as much as of all the in-and-outs of the plans themselves. A quick look at the plans is enough to make most businesses want to give up. There are categories. There are plans. There are levels. There are tiers. There may even be tears, as the hapless consumer tries to navigate between all the offerings.

Trying to make sense of it all can be very daunting. One thing that might help is paring down the offerings into what a SOHO business would be looking for, and filtering away the rest. There are two basic categories that SOHOs can limit their scope to: Business and Enterprise.