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 most valuable feature of SharePoint is its ease of use."
"It facilitates collaboration and the ability to create custom workflows."
"OneDrive and SharePoint provide a secure, fully auditable way of storing information."
"The workflow feature is valuable because it enables us to cascade responsibilities."
"SharePoint has made things easier with the increased functionality for building the portals, microsites, and total integration with Microsoft categories."
"Our staff found it simpler, as they did not have to work within a classification system."
"The ability to have version control and co-editing is vital to our workflows."
"Staff training is reduced because learning basic SharePoint is not as complicated as an EDRMS."
"The overall functions are good."
"The entire product is good."
"I found the RAM Commander module in Symphony to be the most valuable."
"Symphony and Laravel are the most comfortable frameworks for any developer. It is also lightweight."
"The solution is user-friendly, and it is very good security-wise."
"The areas of this solution that need improvement are the relationships between lists, cross-site web parts, and page-building tools."
"The limitations and boundaries must be extended."
"It is too heavy. MS should not have paid foreign coders dollars per each row of code. They wasted the stability and reliability in the end."
"The way to change the version of the files in SharePoint should be improved. The method of synchronizing files from local to the cloud can also use improvement."
"SharePoint’s scalability could be improved."
"Document management and the ability to easily integrate single sign-on (SSO) are areas for improvement in SharePoint."
"Annoyingly, many new Office 365 apps always end up being only US locale for the first year of their life. Microsoft needs to realise that most of their customers are not in the USA."
"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 solution is very expensive, and its pricing could be improved."
"To improve the situation, enhancing the functionality for integrating with other applications and addressing ticketing issues is crucial."
"Compared to established vendors, it lacks user flexibility and customization, especially in the PM module."
"The area that needs to be improved is modular asset management. When we are uploading the assets in bulk, it is not aligned."
"The solution needs to improve CI."
SharePoint is ranked 1st in Enterprise Content Management with 150 reviews while Symphony is ranked 9th 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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