SharePoint 2010 Standard VS Enterprise

Question

Hi,

We have a SharePoint 2010 web application that depends on SharePoint Search features below:

1.        Custom Managed/crawled Properties that is:
   • Enabled For Scoping 
   • Enabled For Sorting
2.        Custom Scopes
3.        Keyword Query Language (KQL)

And also we preview office documents using below service applications: 

1.        Excel Service Application
2.        PowerPoint Service Application
3.        Word Viewing Service

Now we need to determine the type of license we need for this application is it Standard or Enterprise but we can't find any detailed information about which features are supported in which SharePoint Edition, please help.

Thanks,

Answer 1

Please refer to below earlier threads might helps you to get in detailed and lets you to get this job done:

what are the difference between Enterprise search VS Standard Search in Sharepoint 2010:
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/3ef78183-66d0-4079-bf89-6920b0fc5ba9/what-are-the-difference-between-enterprise-search-vs-standard-search-in-sharepoint-2010?forum=sharepointgeneralprevious


SharePoint 2010 Standard vs Enterprise (Search)

SharePoint 2010 Standard vs Enterprise Search

Hope this helps!

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Answer 2

Thanks a lot David for your reply,

Now what about the Excel, Word & PowerPoint services, do they require Enterprise or Standard licenses?

Answer 3

Excel services is only Enterprise. Performance Point is also enterprise but OWA (word, PPT and Excel in the browser) is a separate topic/license.

http://blog.fpweb.net/sharepoint-2010-standard-vs-sharepoint-2010-enterprise/#.V0b75E3ci70

Answer 4

Thank you Alex,

One last question, if we plan to use Office Web Apps, do we need Enterprise or Standard license or it doesn't matter?

Answer 5

You can use OWA with Foundation, so no it doesn't require a Standard or Enterprise license.

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Trevor Seward

This post is my own opinion and does not necessarily reflect the opinion or view of Microsoft, its employees, or other MVPs.

Answer 6

It doesn't matter, OWA is licensed under the office suite rather than SharePoint.

One minor point: 2010 is quite dated now, have you considered jumping forward to a current generation edition like 2016 or 2013?

Answer 7

"quite dated" :)

SharePoint 2010 is no longer in mainstream support.