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"The most valuable feature is the Activity flow that is used to catch new activities."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten...Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten."
"Document management and records management features are the most valuable."
"The solution is scalable. You can do both horizontal and vertical scaling."
"The most valuable feature is that it is very usable. I can navigate it, I can have a media call, I can have a call with my project team, so we can chat with every team kind of like WhatsApp. Any time there are projects or other things, we can chat in a secure way. It's automation-specific secure."
"The software is friendly to use for mixing data and analyzing it."
"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."
"It's a very robust product."
"The most valuable features for us are their document management list and hybrid forms. and We also use third party ad-dons to achieve workflows and other recent apps."
"The implementation and configuring of the resolution are very easy in the online version."
"The support is an area where the product can improve...If you are having an issue on a Monday, the support personnel will contact you next Monday."
"The inclusion of a file plugin for Windows Explorer would make it easier to use."
"Sharepoint doesn't integrate well with Oracle, and we use a lot of Oracle products at our company. Therefore, it makes more sense for us to go to Oracle instead of continuing to use Sharepoint."
"The product is behind in development and lacks some features."
"I would like to see the integration with Teams reinforced."
"I think these tools do a pretty good job. There is only one area of improvement. Maybe Microsoft can invest a little bit more into the ease at which integration can be done with other third party applications."
"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 solution needs to be more collaborative. I believe they are just coming up with the themes for this right now."
"The GUI is outdated."
"Technical support could be improved. They are not fast enough, especially when we'll go deeper in the product itself. More complex issues make it very tough to find someone that can help you."
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HCL Connections is ranked 6th in Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) with 55 reviews while Microsoft Office SharePoint Server is ranked 11th in Content Collaboration Platforms. HCL Connections is rated 8.2, while Microsoft Office SharePoint Server is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of HCL Connections writes "Provides potent document sharing with good integration with the Microsoft desktop and smartphones". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server writes "Stable, integrates well with Teams, and has flexible and helpful support". HCL Connections is most compared with Skype for Business, SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, Yammer and Atlassian Confluence, whereas Microsoft Office SharePoint Server is most compared with Amazon WorkDocs, Datto Workplace, FileCloud, Kiteworks and CTERA Drive.
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