We performed a comparison between Joomla and SharePoint based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, Wordpress, Adobe and others in Web Content Management."The speed in which you can take a CMS and make it a full-blown shopping cart with analytics tracking, SEO, user accounts, security, and ease of use through a robust framework of modules and plugins to enhance and promote-related content is about as turnkey as it gets with Joomla."
"One of the most robust, stable, secure, feature-rich CMSs on the market."
"Its most valuable feature is the document library."
"The workflow feature is valuable because it enables us to cascade responsibilities."
"Our staff found it simpler, as they did not have to work within a classification system."
"SharePoint has an option where you can open files on the browser, whereby more than five people can make amendments to one Excel online file."
"The most valuable features of SharePoint Online are content management, document management, and approval processes. Additionally, there are a number of features that provide integration with multiple Office services and external services."
"The most valuable features are the collaboration and sharing."
"The access control is definitely a good feature. We also appreciate the improvements they've made to the online applications, where multiple users can work on the same documents simultaneously. Everything syncs automatically."
"The product provides flexibility in collaboration."
"I would like to see more back-end admin power pulled into the front-end, therefore the admins will not have to use the back-end as much, especially for the menu manager, user manager, etc. versus using third-party extensions to achieve this."
"I would like to see the same sorting and attributes available through the web browser on the JED (sorting by free or commercial license, sort by rating, popularity, etc.) within the back-end Joomla Web Installer when browsing extensions."
"This solution would benefit from the implementation of enhanced online forms and template development capabilities."
"The limitations and boundaries must be extended."
"Workflow is something that can become more intelligent."
"The areas of this solution that need improvement are the relationships between lists, cross-site web parts, and page-building tools."
"SharePoint’s scalability could be improved."
"Replication needs improvement."
"It should have a Google-caliber search ability and a model-based GUI."
"SharePoint Online could improve the user interface and when modifying any of the user interfaces can be challenging. Additionally, there are challenges with the detail in the analytics user interface and the overall customization could improve."
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Joomla is ranked 14th in Web Content Management while SharePoint is ranked 1st in Web Content Management with 146 reviews. Joomla is rated 8.6, while SharePoint is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Joomla writes "One of the most robust, stable, secure, feature-rich CMSs on the market". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SharePoint writes "Good integrations, helps with collaboration, and increases visibility". Joomla is most compared with , whereas SharePoint is most compared with Citrix ShareFile, Microsoft OneDrive, Dropbox, Box and WordPress.
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