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"It is a stable solution, and I have never faced any issues with the product...It is a scalable solution since one can get as much as one needs from the product.""I like that it's easy to use. I'm satisfied with the speed, stability, and availability.""When we collaborate on a team project, everyone has the opportunity to contribute to the project.""Record your meeting and simply share with anyone without thinking where to store the file.""For me, the most important feature is the option to save the documents and then access it from anywhere from a mobile or a desktop, or any other device.""The initial setup is easy.""Offers good storage.""It's a stable product."

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"The most valuable feature of this solution is the Communication Site.""The solution is pretty easy to use for the most part.""The level of stability is good.""The forms aspect of the solution, for example, the creation of surveys, is its most valuable aspect.""Document management and records management features are the most valuable.""The support from Microsoft is very quick and they are very proactive.""The software is friendly to use for mixing data and analyzing it.""The solution is scalable. You can do both horizontal and vertical scaling."

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"I would like to see better integration with Google Docs, the Google landscape in general, and other environments.""It's a cloud-based product that is stable and secure, but I would like to see more security features added.""The ability to share documents with outside clients can be improved. It is difficult to share documents with outside clients, and that's why I am looking at some other solution. If you use Google Drive, they want you to use all of their Google Suite, but not everybody uses Google Suite for document creation. It is not a great solution if you are working with a company that doesn't use Google Suite.""You cannot upload multiple files with the same name to Google Drive. I'm not sure how relevant it is for other users, but I have multiple files with the same name that I'm unable to upload to a single folder.""Some features like transpose are still lacking in the solution for power users.""The price of additional storage could be reduced. I have an annual subscription and I'm only using 150GB because of the price.""I had some issues with permissions at first. I have to ask for Drive permissions because I'm a new doctoral student. Sometimes I have to ask for permission because I can't access this kind of document, but recently they fixed that by adding me to their team. Now I can access any document that my department supervisors and staff share on Drive.""I am not sure what will happen if you forget to renew your license."

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"The solution needs to be more collaborative. I believe they are just coming up with the themes for this right now.""The permission management features need improvement.""This solution is not very stable. It is useful to arrange data but it's not the best for big data. Sometimes we have issues with our reports as a result.""I think these tools do a pretty good job. There is only one area of improvement. Maybe Microsoft can invest a little bit more into the ease at which integration can be done with other third party applications.""The solution needs to enable better sharing capabilities between users and external users. Several users also have problems with linking their emails to their Microsoft account.""The product could be improved by accommodating different technologies, particularly integration.""Sharepoint doesn't integrate well with Oracle, and we use a lot of Oracle products at our company. Therefore, it makes more sense for us to go to Oracle instead of continuing to use Sharepoint.""The solution needs to have more flexibility. The classic version had more flexibility, however, the modern version has many more limitations."

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  • "The program is very affordable."
  • "It is inexpensive and the cost is per user per month."
  • "There is a monthly fee that we pay for the use of this solution and the price is fair."
  • "It has a yearly license."
  • "I have evaluated Amazon AWS and IBM solutions. Amazon AWS has competitive prices for cloud storage and backups."
  • "The costs could be lower, but they are reasonable for the value they provide."
  • "Google is much cheaper than Microsoft."
  • "The price could be better."
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  • "One of the reasons why we don't recommend the cloud version of SharePoint is the cost. With the on premise version, you pay for the license once. For the cloud version, there is a recurring fee. It is very expensive. They expect everyone to pay $20 or $30 per user per month."
  • "There are some aggressive discounts offered by Microsoft for organizations that are not for profit, which we are, and it makes it quite attractive to consider."
  • "Pricing plans may be flexible depending on volume usage and your corporate relationship with Microsoft."
  • "It can be expensive for on-premises deployments, especially when you have to support SQL Server as your backend database. That's where the cost comes into play. SQL Server has its own licensing, which Microsoft keeps on changing. Therefore, it can become costly. In the earlier versions of SharePoint, version 2007 or 2010, they had an express version where the SQL Server licensing was free. It wasn't like a full-blown SharePoint. It was only a slimmed-down version. It used to be whatever your hardware costs. You would install the free software and work with it, but you were very limited in what you could do in SharePoint. If you wanted the SharePoint Enterprise Server with all the bells and whistles, then you had to pay more to get the SQL Server license based on the number of users or servers. The subscription model is different for cloud deployments. Licensing is per user and per month. The cost also depends on the storage required. If you have a lot of sites or documents, then you need to expand it based on your needs."
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    Overview

    Drive Enterprise enables you to transform how your business stores, accesses, and secures files, all without extensive change management. Drive Enterprise is a standalone offering with usage-based pricing that includes all the features of Drive.

    Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) is a Microsoft software portal based on the ASP.NET framework. MOSS facilitates file sharing and collaboration, social networking, Web databases and Web publishing. It is hosted by Microsoft Windows Server and is accessible through Microsoft Office or the Web.

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    Transportation Company11%
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    Google Drive Enterprise is ranked 7th in Content Collaboration Platforms with 53 reviews while Microsoft Office SharePoint Server is ranked 11th in Content Collaboration Platforms. Google Drive Enterprise is rated 8.4, while Microsoft Office SharePoint Server is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Google Drive Enterprise writes "Easy to set up with simple file access and very reliable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server writes "Stable, integrates well with Teams, and has flexible and helpful support". Google Drive Enterprise is most compared with Google Workspace, Citrix ShareFile, Google Cloud Storage, Dropbox and LucidLink, whereas Microsoft Office SharePoint Server is most compared with Amazon WorkDocs, Datto Workplace, FileCloud, Kiteworks and HighQ.

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