We performed a comparison between M-Files and SharePoint based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Box, DocuWare, Hyland and others in Document Management Software."Using M-Files means anybody on the executive team to go in and immediately look at a dashboard and know the status of a contract."
"Its functionality is enormous."
"It keeps our company organized and everything is in one place."
"The ability to have version control and co-editing is vital to our workflows."
"SharePoint enabled the staff to share documents and work on a document simultaneously."
"The workflow feature is valuable because it enables us to cascade responsibilities."
"Information is now available instantly to managers on all devices."
"It has helped us with storing all the documents, which means that people are not going to intervene. There is a way of extracting knowledge within documentation and tracking it. There are knowledge assets for where documentation is stored, indexed and searchable through SharePoint."
"Document flows, storage, and numbering take off the actions for checking and assigning the numbering and running around with approvals and pre-approvals."
"The integration with other products needs to be improved."
"Emails stored now do not display metadata in native format."
"There are some limitations on storage."
"No good process to import emails from several users into a single comprehensive SP repository."
"Processing data from multiple site collections is not easy as they reside in different databases."
"There's a challenge with desktop applications synchronizing with online documents in real-time. If someone is working on a document in the desktop version of Excel, for example, and someone else is editing the same document online, the changes won't sync immediately. That's the only real challenge we've encountered."
"The integration with Outlook could be improved."
"Document management and the ability to easily integrate single sign-on (SSO) are areas for improvement in SharePoint."
"The initial setup is complex and has room for improvement."
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M-Files is ranked 8th in Document Management Software while SharePoint is ranked 1st in Enterprise Content Management with 146 reviews. M-Files is rated 9.0, while SharePoint is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of M-Files writes "Good workflows, and it is easy to use with a dashboard that improves contract visibility". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SharePoint writes "Good integrations, helps with collaboration, and increases visibility". M-Files is most compared with OpenText Extended ECM, IBM FileNet, OpenText Documentum, Microsoft Purview Records Management and Alfresco, whereas SharePoint is most compared with Citrix ShareFile, Microsoft OneDrive, Dropbox, Box and WordPress.
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