DCIG is pleased to announce the immediate availability of the 2025-26 DCIG TOP 5 Microsoft 365 SaaS Backup Solutions – MSP Edition Report. This DCIG TOP 5 report provides managed service providers (MSPs) 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.
Organizations Deepen and Expand Their Use of Microsoft 365
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.
From about 20 million users in 2020, Microsoft 365 has since grown to over 430 million paid commercial users worldwide. Further, the estimated number of active monthly Microsoft Teams users exceeds 300 million. Microsoft Teams has especially had success in large organizations, where 93% of Fortune 100 companies utilize it for communications.
Having an established foothold in enterprises, Microsoft has already taken steps to strengthen its presence in them. Two specific Microsoft 365 features that more organizations utilize include:
Microsoft Entra
Formerly known as Azure Active Directory, Microsoft Entra serves as the foundational identity management platform within Microsoft 365. It provides baseline security services such as single sign-on (SSO), multi-factor authentication (MFA), and user governance. It also provides more advanced services such as managing and securing AI agents that access organizational resources.
Microsoft Power Platform
Organizations centralizing and consolidating applications and data in Microsoft 365 create opportunities for them to improve internal work processes. Microsoft Power Platform tools, such as Power Automate and Power BI, equip them to automate workflows and visualize their data.
Microsoft Copilot, Microsoft 365’s built-in artificial intelligence (AI) tool, serves as the backbone for the Microsoft Power Platform. Copilot performs tasks ranging from writing emails to summarizing reports to providing deeper insights into existing data.
Since Copilot also accesses information within an organization’s Microsoft 365 data repository, it provides specific insights germane to that organization. These capabilities have already prompted some organizations to deploy Copilot company-wide.
Must Protect Microsoft 365 Data
Yet as more organizations embrace Microsoft 365,it provides an opportunity for MSPs to protect this data. This task becomes ever more complex as organizations utilize Microsoft 365’s existing and new features.
In selecting a backup solution, MSPs must minimally establish how third-party Microsoft 365 software-as-a-service (SaaS) backup solutions protect Exchange, OneDrive, SharePoint, and Teams. MSPs that have customers adopting Entra and Power Platform should also consider how they will protect their customers’ data hosted in these offerings as well.
Support for backing up data in these new Microsoft 365 options remains nascent. MSPs should therefore consider the roadmap a provider has for protecting data in any new Microsoft 365 features that their customers may use.
DCIG TOP 5 Microsoft 365 SaaS Backup Solutions – MSP Edition Report
DCIG evaluated approximately 30 different third-party Microsoft 365 SaaS backup solutions, of which over 20 met DCIG’s criteria for an MSP Microsoft 365 SaaS backup solution. Across these 20+ 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.
REPORT AVAILABILITY AND ACCESS
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 – MSP Edition Report contains additional details such as:
- The TOP 5 Microsoft 365 SaaS Backup Solutions for MSPs
- A list of the 20+ 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 Microsoft 365 SaaS backup solutions for MSPs.
- Differences between the DCIG TOP 5 Microsoft 365 SaaS backup solutions for MSPs.
- Microsoft 365 SaaS Backup Solutions for MSPs Inclusion Criteria
- A profile of each DCIG TOP 5 Microsoft 365 SaaS backup solution for MSPs that lists at least three (3) ways each one distinguishes itself from the other solutions.
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Other than excerpts from this report published in this announcement, the contents of the 2025-26 DCIG TOP 5 Microsoft 365 SaaS Backup Solutions – MSP Edition Report are copyrighted and may not be republished without the express written permission of DCIG.
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