We performed a comparison between Citrix ShareFile and SharePoint based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dropbox, Box, Microsoft and others in Content Collaboration Platforms."The solution would query the Active Directory, and if new accounts were identified, Citrix ShareFile would add them automatically."
"This provides us with a secure way of sending tax returns without having to use passwords."
"The Enterprise Dropbox solution is highly integrated with Microsoft's Office 365 and Azure products."
"Easy to manage and fully secure."
"It's user-friendly for end users."
"The solution is scalable."
"Citrix has a very good file auditing features and security features."
"ShareFile gives you all of the features of cloud providers, but in an on-premises solution."
"There is not just one valuable feature; it is all of them working together."
"Quantity and variety of partners with solution development ability on the platform."
"It has an easy to distribute administration capability, and can also scale to meet a large number of future needs."
"It has helped us with storing all the documents, which means that people are not going to intervene. There is a way of extracting knowledge within documentation and tracking it. There are knowledge assets for where documentation is stored, indexed and searchable through SharePoint."
"It allows for simultaneous users to be on it."
"The ability to quickly and easily create team sites has been great."
"The ability to have version control and co-editing is vital to our workflows."
"The initial setup is easy."
"The user interface is not very intuitive."
"They should integrate the solution with more email services."
"There are sometimes scalability issues after updates."
"The configuration on the mobile devices is a little clunky, in terms of setting up the application."
"Some of our customers are facing issues if they've deployed in hybrid mode."
"DLP features are lacking and required because, especially with everyone working from home, security is now paramount when the data is on BYOD devices."
"My only issue with this solution is the cost, which should be improved."
"Everything they have should be integrated into one item."
"It should have more user-friendly customization, as it still requires developers to get engaged and build sites."
"This solution would benefit from the implementation of enhanced online forms and template development capabilities."
"The company also needs to make sure that their policies are dictating how information is stored and used, instead of letting SharePoint take control."
"The initial setup is complex and has room for improvement."
"The initial setup was very complex."
"We'd like to be able to upload from MS Excel to deploy tasks and use drop-down lists to collect further information."
"We do sell Hyland OnBase, which is probably a competitor to SharePoint and does a lot more. In our own organization, we haven't had a need for it, but certainly, for our customers, we are finding that to be a better fit. In terms of the technical reasons for that, I'm not involved much on that side, so I can't give specifics, but there is certainly room for them to improve or add on certain features that clearly are not available in SharePoint, but they are available in Hyland OnBase."
"Workflow is something that can become more intelligent."
Citrix ShareFile is ranked 9th in Content Collaboration Platforms with 11 reviews while SharePoint is ranked 1st in Enterprise Content Management with 146 reviews. Citrix ShareFile is rated 8.4, while SharePoint is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Citrix ShareFile writes "Flexible plans, stable, and scalable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SharePoint writes "Good integrations, helps with collaboration, and increases visibility". Citrix ShareFile is most compared with Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive, Box, Office 365 and Egnyte, whereas SharePoint is most compared with Microsoft OneDrive, Dropbox, Box, WordPress and OpenText Documentum.
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