We performed a comparison between Microsoft Office SharePoint Server and Office 365 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."The solution's most valuable features is its document management. It allows sharing with external users and integrates well with Office apps and Microsoft Flow."
"The support from Microsoft is very quick and they are very proactive."
"The level of stability is good."
"The most valuable feature is the "Alert Me", which provides the ability to set an alert when content is either added or changed and that the alerts can be either real-time or aggregated for the day or the week."
"Ability to collaborate with others in one location."
"The collaboration, the ability for multiple users to work on a single document."
"The solution is scalable. You can do both horizontal and vertical scaling."
"The software is friendly to use for mixing data and analyzing it."
"I love all of the applications being interlinked. I do not have to separately work on an independent system when it comes to file storage, email, and other tools."
"There are all sorts of really good tools for use on the information security side that allow us to make sure that our people are doing business and doing business right."
"I like all of the features."
"Great impact on project management and team collaboration."
"The technical support is outstanding."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the integration."
"The most valuable features of Office 365 are Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Teams. Teams helped us to collaborate more through its call and document sharing features."
"Using Office 365 has allowed us to go digital and onboard people seamlessly for working at home during the COVID pandemic."
"Many of our customers would like to see an OCR feature, so it would be very good to have this in a future release."
"I would like to see more Agile techniques and seamless integration with other applications."
"The solution is like a CRM, so the initial setup is complex. It takes a few days to deploy the solution and the length of time depends on how large the company's topology is and what the client's demands are."
"It is a bit restrictive to develop in the cloud version. A lot of features are in the cloud now, and you have to develop on the outside. As far as the platform and the programming side of things are concerned, it is moving more towards configuration management rather than programming. When we are doing solutions, we are basically just configuring it to make solutions happen rather than actually using the Visual Studio code and developing from scratch in the cloud. It is almost like creating an app. You have created an app for your phone, but the app doesn't really sit on your phone. It sits somewhere on a server, and the database sits on another server. The app is just pulling and pushing information. The whole development has changed. We used to install things directly on the server and then run the application from the server. Now, it is more of a modular architecture."
"The ability to preview files in different formats should be expanded to include formats such as embedded postscript (EPS), AutoCAD, and Adobe Acrobat PDF."
"I would like to see the integration with Teams reinforced."
"The user interface needs improvement because there is a lot of stuff in there. I use five to eight navigation buttons. It should be more user-friendly. Frequently used menu items should be arranged in a proper way. That would be helpful."
"The product is behind in development and lacks some features."
"Constantly evolving with new features, which can be challenging for users."
"I started working a lot on Microsoft Teams and I find it a bit vast. It should be divided out a bit so that someone can use it for basic functionality, like audio, video, and calls. Then, if someone wants more advanced functionality for file sharing and team creation, and so on, they could use a separate app."
"In the next release, I would like to have a more intuitive tutorial."
"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."
"Integration between Outlook calendar and Google Calendar would be a good improvement since many of our team use Android phones and personal Gmail accounts as their main calendar application."
"The integration with mobile services is not so good. It's coming, but they could improve a lot."
"In terms of improvement, it should have tutorials when you first have the opportunity to use it, to be able to really learn it."
"I'm not sure if there are areas of improvement. For us, it's working quite well."
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Microsoft Office SharePoint Server is ranked 11th in Content Collaboration Platforms while Office 365 is ranked 8th in Content Collaboration Platforms with 54 reviews. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server is rated 7.6, while Office 365 is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server writes "Stable, integrates well with Teams, and has flexible and helpful support". 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". Microsoft Office SharePoint Server is most compared with Amazon WorkDocs, Datto Workplace and FileCloud, whereas Office 365 is most compared with Amazon WorkDocs, Atlassian Confluence, Citrix ShareFile, Box and Dropbox. See our Microsoft Office SharePoint Server vs. Office 365 report.
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