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."
"Many of the features in Office 365 are good, but I think Excel is a very good tool."
"I like all of the features."
"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."
"Cloud-based management is valuable and software deployment is positive."
"The product helps us be more efficient. It helps us to have a standardized way of doing things."
"OneNote is the feature I use the most. We also frequently use the Power Apps features."
"The most valuable feature of Office 365 is automatic saving. If something happens on the computer your work is saved."
"It's inexpensive to license."
"The webinar should be integrated into Sametime for a larger number of participants."
"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."
"There are some complexities to the initial setup if you use some of the more advanced features."
"The integration with mobile services is not so good. It's coming, but they could improve a lot."
"The online applications have limited functionality compared to the local applications."
"Sometimes the synchronization between the desktop and online is a little bit slow."
"The feature to convert PDF file to a Word document needs improvement as well as the feature to save the file automatically when typing, without using the save command."
"Office 365 could be easier to use at first. Tutorials are needed to know how to use the solution."
"Constantly evolving with new features, which can be challenging for users."
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HCL Sametime is ranked 26th in Virtual Meetings while Office 365 is ranked 8th 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 Amazon WorkDocs, Atlassian Confluence, Citrix ShareFile, Box and Dropbox.
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