We performed a comparison between HCL Connections and Office 365 based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Atlassian, Liferay and others in Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals)."The most valuable feature is the Activity flow that is used to catch new activities."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten...Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten."
"Reliable without any glitches."
"The solution is quite intuitive and easy to use."
"There's a lot there in terms of apps and features."
"It has more features than somebody would expect, and it is worth taking a deeper look into the features available."
"Great impact on project management and team collaboration."
"The most valuable feature is Microsoft Exchange."
"It is stable."
"Using Office 365 has allowed us to go digital and onboard people seamlessly for working at home during the COVID pandemic."
"The support is an area where the product can improve...If you are having an issue on a Monday, the support personnel will contact you next Monday."
"The inclusion of a file plugin for Windows Explorer would make it easier to use."
"I started working a lot on Microsoft Teams and I find it a bit vast. It should be divided out a bit so that someone can use it for basic functionality, like audio, video, and calls. Then, if someone wants more advanced functionality for file sharing and team creation, and so on, they could use a separate app."
"Security is still complex, but the admin console improving."
"If two people update the same file, it causes issues."
"As a private user, I do not appreciate the cloud features, but I doubt that this is something Microsoft would consider a feature request."
"Improvements can be made to the products generic offering. It's not customized for health care. It doesn't understand the meaning of health care related concepts. Providing a greater degree of industry specificity would make the tool much more unique and valuable."
"We have found that, with Teams, if you are including one more person who is not in the company ecosystem, supposedly I'm inviting them as a guest in the chat. However, when I do that, I can't share files."
"There are some complexities to the initial setup if you use some of the more advanced features."
"Microsoft Defender for Office 365 could use some customization, but this area for improvement is trivial."
HCL Connections is ranked 6th in Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) with 55 reviews while Office 365 is ranked 6th in Content Collaboration Platforms with 54 reviews. HCL Connections is rated 8.2, while Office 365 is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of HCL Connections writes "Provides potent document sharing with good integration with the Microsoft desktop and smartphones". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Office 365 writes "Great vulnerability insights, offers very impressive cash savings, and offers great information security tools". HCL Connections is most compared with SharePoint, Skype for Business, Microsoft Teams, Atlassian Confluence and Microsoft 365 Business, whereas Office 365 is most compared with Atlassian Confluence, Amazon WorkDocs, Citrix ShareFile, Box and Dropbox.
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