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Question: Does Amazon WorkDocs offer any unique advantages over SharePoint?
Answer: Amazon WorkDocs offers the following advantages over SharePoint: It is a fully managed service, meaning that Amazon takes care of the underlying infrastructure and maintenance. It is more scalable so organizations of all sizes can use it. It is more secure, as it is hosted on Amazon's secure cloud infrastructure. SharePoint, on the other hand, offers the following advantages over Amazon WorkDocs: It has a wider range of features, such as workflow automation and business intelligence. It is more integrated with other Microsoft products like Office 365. It is more widely used, so more documentation and support are available. If you are looking for a simple and secure solution that is easy to use, Amazon WorkDocs could be the solution for you. Still, if you need a more powerful and feature-rich solution, SharePoint may be a better option.
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Pros
"This solution is great for inviting and sharing documents with other users."

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"No code and low code, scalable, and stable collaboration platform. Straightforward to set up. Its support system is good and offers fast issue resolution.""It's stable. It's very widely used by companies. Also, the knowledge of the product has improved over the years, and by other companies that support it or are Microsoft SharePoint partners. So if there are problems, there's always a user or company that knows the information or can help you; even with very uncommon problems.""The metadata services, the WCF service integration and the Voxel feature are three most valuable elements of this solution.""Helps with document collaboration and workflow.""It keeps our company organized and everything is in one place.""It allows for simultaneous users to be on it.""Tech support tops off as excellent.""SharePoint has an option where you can open files on the browser, whereby more than five people can make amendments to one Excel online file."

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Cons
"I had a very bitter experience with their mobile app."

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"I understand that some functions are lost when you store the information in a file system, so maybe that's a way SharePoint can improve.""Allow more functionalities for the on-premise version. Do not force the move of content to a non-private cloud.""I would like a simpler, more cost-effective solution for connecting data sources with workflows and BI tools, or data mining tools.""SharePoint sometimes cannot handle the amount of co-editing that we do.""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.""It should have a Google-caliber search ability and a model-based GUI.""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 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.​"

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  • "It's cheaper compared to similar products available"
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  • "As usual, Microsoft’s licensing structures don’t really seem to fit the needs of their products. This leads to always paying for a project you will never use fully or always be adding to."
  • "Licensing can be by server or by seat."
  • "It is very expensive.​"
  • "The data classification and search elements are cheap."
  • "The replacement costs for it are cheaper if you use only SharePoint."
  • "We have purchased add-ons to handle multiple site collections, form creation, and design."
  • "The cost is expensive, but worthwhile."
  • "The pricing works for us."
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    Overview

    Amazon WorkDocs is a fully managed, secure content creation, storage, and collaboration service. With Amazon WorkDocs, you can easily create, edit, and share content, and because it’s stored centrally on AWS, access it from anywhere on any device. Amazon WorkDocs makes it easy to collaborate with others, and lets you easily share content, provide rich feedback, and collaboratively edit documents. You can use Amazon WorkDocs to retire legacy file share infrastructure by moving file shares to the cloud. Amazon WorkDocs lets you integrate with your existing systems, and offers a rich API so that you can develop your own content-rich applications. Amazon WorkDocs is built on AWS, where your content is secured on the world's largest cloud infrastructure.

    With Amazon WorkDocs, there are no upfront fees or commitments. You pay only for active user accounts, and the storage you use. Amazon WorkDocs provides a 30-day free trial with 1 TB of storage per user for up to 50 users.

    SharePoint is a Microsoft-based platform for building web applications. It covers a widerange of capabilities and while it is appropriate for experienced webdevelopers, even non-technical minded users can easily navigate through thesystem and execute functions such as collaborating data, managing documents andfiles, creating websites, managing social networking solutions, and automatingworkflow.

    Major areas that SharePoint deals with are websites,communities, content, search, insights, and composites. The purpose is to give usersthe ability to create or develop these key business components on their owneven without technical knowledge of, for example, how to build a website or howto integrate coding. Configuring SharePoint into a business's system is meantto cut out all of the complicated steps, and pave the way for easierimplementation all around.

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    Computer Software Company11%
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    Small Business25%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise61%
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    Small Business41%
    Midsize Enterprise20%
    Large Enterprise39%
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    Amazon WorkDocs is ranked 6th in Content Collaboration Platforms while SharePoint is ranked 1st in Enterprise Content Management with 146 reviews. Amazon WorkDocs is rated 8.0, while SharePoint is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Amazon WorkDocs writes "A great collaboration service for small organizations". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SharePoint writes "Good integrations, helps with collaboration, and increases visibility". Amazon WorkDocs is most compared with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, Office 365, Google Workspace, Quip and Microsoft OneDrive, whereas SharePoint is most compared with Citrix ShareFile, Microsoft OneDrive, Dropbox and Box.

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