We performed a comparison between SharePoint and Symphony based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, OpenText, Box and others in Enterprise Content Management."The metadata services, the WCF service integration and the Voxel feature are three most valuable elements of this solution."
"Its functionality is enormous."
"The workflow feature is valuable because it enables us to cascade responsibilities."
"The ability to have version control and co-editing is vital to our workflows."
"It allows for simultaneous users to be on it."
"Its most valuable feature is the document library."
"It is very stable."
"The ability to quickly and easily create team sites has been great."
"The solution is user-friendly, and it is very good security-wise."
"Symphony and Laravel are the most comfortable frameworks for any developer. It is also lightweight."
"The overall functions are good."
"The entire product is good."
"I found the RAM Commander module in Symphony to be the most valuable."
"The integration with Outlook could be improved."
"The company also needs to make sure that their policies are dictating how information is stored and used, instead of letting SharePoint take control."
"We would like more security features, like automating."
"It should have a Google-caliber search ability and a model-based GUI."
"It should have more user-friendly customization, as it still requires developers to get engaged and build sites."
"During uptime under our network, it is hard to find info when content is hefty."
"The product does not perform 100% when used outside of a Microsoft based browser, Chrome, Firefox, etc."
"This solution would benefit from the implementation of enhanced online forms and template development capabilities."
"The solution is very expensive, and its pricing could be improved."
"The solution needs to improve CI."
"To improve the situation, enhancing the functionality for integrating with other applications and addressing ticketing issues is crucial."
"The area that needs to be improved is modular asset management. When we are uploading the assets in bulk, it is not aligned."
"Compared to established vendors, it lacks user flexibility and customization, especially in the PM module."
SharePoint is ranked 1st in Enterprise Content Management with 146 reviews while Symphony is ranked 8th in Enterprise Social Software with 5 reviews. SharePoint is rated 7.8, while Symphony is rated 7.2. The top reviewer of SharePoint writes "Good integrations, helps with collaboration, and increases visibility". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symphony writes "Makes tasks like network planning and performance monitoring much easier". SharePoint is most compared with Citrix ShareFile, Microsoft OneDrive, Dropbox, WordPress and Box, whereas Symphony is most compared with Microsoft Teams, Slack and Drupal.
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