We performed a comparison between HCL Sametime and Office 365 based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Zoom Video Communications, Cisco, TeamViewer and others in Virtual Meetings."I can view the status and availability of colleagues or team members, which makes it easy to approach them when they are available."
"It has more features than somebody would expect, and it is worth taking a deeper look into the features available."
"Reliable without any glitches."
"There are no more server and hardware operational costs and downtime, updates, etc. for all the workloads available. Newer features and updates are available immediately. Can be managed from a single web interface. Cloud-based, so same experience for all users, regardless of location."
"The most valuable feature is Microsoft Exchange."
"Most of the work that seems not to work offline works perfectly with Microsoft Office 2013, like converting a Word document to a PDF file."
"Adaptable solution with a good interface. It's easy to set up and easy to use."
"The most valuable feature of Office 365 is automatic saving. If something happens on the computer your work is saved."
"I like Office 365's usability."
"The webinar should be integrated into Sametime for a larger number of participants."
"The security should be improved."
"The online applications have limited functionality compared to the local applications."
"Using Visual Basic, I have had a lot of trouble with relative paths when programming for Excel, and sometimes it is very difficult to debug programs."
"I rate the support of Office 365 a four out of five."
"The one big problem with the solution is if you are presenting in Teams and someone puts their hand up, you don't get a notification. If you are running a meeting and just presenting you don't know that people have their hands up and want to ask a question."
"Data protection and email security are almost the same for all the organizations, irrespective of their segment (SMB or enterprises), with standard subscription at least basic Data loss prevention and Advance threat protection can be enabled for SMB segments, it is available in enterprise version / Premium versions."
"Office 365 could be easier to use at first. Tutorials are needed to know how to use the solution."
"I'm not sure if there are areas of improvement. For us, it's working quite well."
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HCL Sametime is ranked 26th in Virtual Meetings while Office 365 is ranked 6th in Content Collaboration Platforms with 54 reviews. HCL Sametime is rated 8.0, while Office 365 is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of HCL Sametime writes "Easily communicate and share files with colleagues". 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 Sametime is most compared with , whereas Office 365 is most compared with Atlassian Confluence, Amazon WorkDocs, Citrix ShareFile, Box and Dropbox.
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