Latest Report Provides Enterprises with Guidance on the Best Backup Solutions for them to Choose from Today to Protect Data Stored in Microsoft 365.
OMAHA, Neb., (Aug. 18th, 2025) – DCIG is pleased to announce the immediate availability of its 58th TOP 5 report, the 2025-26 DCIG TOP 5 Microsoft 365 SaaS Backup Solutions Enterprise Edition Report. This DCIG TOP 5 report provides enterprises with guidance on the best backup solutions for them to choose from today to protect data stored in Microsoft 365. This report is available for purchase for $495 by emailing DCIG or reaching DCIG on its website contact form. DCIG will respond and provide instructions on how to purchase the report.
2025 officially represents the twelfth year in which organizations have had access to Microsoft 365 (formerly known as Office 365). From its humble beginnings in 2013, its accelerated adoption and growth began in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Yet as more enterprises embrace Microsoft 365, they must account for how they will protect data stored in it. This task becomes ever more complex as enterprises utilize Microsoft 365’s existing and new features.
DCIG evaluated approximately 30 different third-party Microsoft 365 SaaS backup solutions, of which 21 met DCIG’s criteria for an enterprise Microsoft 365 SaaS backup solution. Across these 21 solutions, DCIG evaluated hundreds of features on each one that DCIG grouped into the following five general categories. These include:
- Anti-ransomware/cyber resilience
- Backup
- Billing, configuration, and licensing
- Recovery and restore
- Support
Beginning with this TOP 5 report and all future TOP 5 reports, full copies of the report, or Solution Profiles created from it, will only be available from two sources:
- Providers who license the full report
- By purchasing the report from DCIG
Currently the full report is only available for purchase for $495 by contacting DCIG by email or through this DCIG contact form. Once one requests the report, DCIG will then send you an invoice for $495 that can be paid by credit card. DCIG will then email you the report shortly after payment is made.
This fee also includes a 1-year subscription to DCIG’s forthcoming subscription site. DCIG expects this subscription site to be available in September 2025 where subscribers may access this and all future TOP 5 reports.
The full 2025-26 DCIG TOP 5 Microsoft 365 SaaS Backup Solutions – Enterprise Edition contains additional details such as:
- The TOP 5 Enterprise Microsoft 365 SaaS Backup Solutions
- A list of the 21 Microsoft 365 SaaS backup solutions evaluated.
- The state of Microsoft 365 SaaS backup solutions.
- Three best practices for optimizing Microsoft 365 recoveries.
- Features common across all evaluated Microsoft 365 SaaS backup solutions.
- Distinguishing features of the DCIG TOP 5 enterprise Microsoft 365 SaaS backup solutions.
- Differences between the DCIG TOP 5 enterprise Microsoft 365 SaaS backup solutions.
- Microsoft 365 Enterprise SaaS Backup Solutions Inclusion Criteria
- A profile of each DCIG TOP 5 enterprise Microsoft 365 SaaS backup solution that lists at least three (3) ways each one distinguishes itself from the other solutions.
Other than excerpts published in this press release and the DCIG article announcing the reports availability, found here, the contents of the 2025-26 DCIG TOP 5 Microsoft 365 SaaS Backup Solutions – Enterprise Edition Report are copyrighted and may not be republished without permission.
About DCIG: The Data Center Intelligence Group (DCIG) empowers the IT industry with actionable analysis. DCIG analysts provide informed third-party analysis of various cloud, data protection, and data storage technologies. DCIG’s audiences include C-level executives, IT managers, IT professionals, magazine editors, bloggers, analysts, and providers within the IT and cloud service industry.
If you would like more information about this topic, please contact Todd Dorsey at 844.324.4552 x 904 or email todd.dorsey@dcig.com.