We performed a comparison between Office 365 and SharePoint based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Content Collaboration Platforms solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."I like all of the features."
"The most innovative feature of Office 365 is the Power Apps, which allows us to automate literally everything that we want automated. For example, sending attachments to specific folders on SharePoint, adding people's SharePoint when certain apps are performed, or emailing certain people at certain instances, such as when you've done a follow-up with the CRM and you need a marketing email to be sent out at a particular point."
"It is stable."
"It has more features than somebody would expect, and it is worth taking a deeper look into the features available."
"I like Office 365's usability."
"It's inexpensive to license."
"The most valuable feature is Microsoft Exchange."
"I like that it is cloud-based, wherefrom any computer I can access my documents and continue working."
"The metadata services, the WCF service integration and the Voxel feature are three most valuable elements of this solution."
"The product provides flexibility in collaboration."
"Its configuration management ability is critical for document-based systems."
"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."
"It offers an easy way to store unstructured content (.pdf, .doc, .xls, images) and to tag them with metadata."
"Tech support tops off as excellent."
"Combined reports and data with timeline tracking."
"Ability to store files of any type."
"There are some complexities to the initial setup if you use some of the more advanced features."
"Office 365 could be easier to use at first. Tutorials are needed to know how to use the solution."
"It seems like every other week when we log into the administrative portals, it doesn't matter which one, it could be the active directory portal, it could be the exchange admin center or SharePoint admin center, it seems like Microsoft is consistently updating with new versions of the admin centers, which can be frustrating."
"Sometimes the synchronization between the desktop and online is a little bit slow."
"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."
"Constantly evolving with new features, which can be challenging for users."
"It could be more user-friendly for inexperienced people."
"I would like to see the macro functionality in Excel made simpler."
"Search can be improved a lot because we are always trying to compare it with Google Search. Beyond that, it would be helpful to tag the documents."
"The product does not perform 100% when used outside of a Microsoft based browser, Chrome, Firefox, etc."
"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."
"Flexibility and extensibility, above everything, could be improved."
"Using SharePoint is difficult."
"One issue is that when users mistakenly hide files or set permissions incorrectly, it can lead to files becoming inaccessible, requiring intervention from Microsoft support to resolve."
"The support is the worst. It is bad when Microsoft support does not even know what to do and you have to tell them. Also, they take too long to solve a problem."
Office 365 is ranked 3rd in Content Collaboration Platforms with 54 reviews while SharePoint is ranked 1st in Enterprise Content Management with 146 reviews. Office 365 is rated 8.4, while SharePoint is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Office 365 writes "Great vulnerability insights, offers very impressive cash savings, and offers great information security tools". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SharePoint writes "Good integrations, helps with collaboration, and increases visibility". Office 365 is most compared with Amazon WorkDocs, Atlassian Confluence, Citrix ShareFile, Box and Slack, whereas SharePoint is most compared with Citrix ShareFile, Microsoft OneDrive, Dropbox, Box and WordPress. See our Office 365 vs. SharePoint report.
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