We performed a comparison between HCL Sametime and Office 365 based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Zoom Video Communications, Cisco, TeamViewer and others in Virtual Meetings."I can view the status and availability of colleagues or team members, which makes it easy to approach them when they are available."
"Quarantine email alerts to users to allow the email to their inbox (tricky but handy) - tricky if one doesn't have third-party email security, handy if one has got good third party email security)."
"The way the ERP presents information for the user is very good."
"The most valuable feature is Microsoft Exchange."
"The solution is quite intuitive and easy to use."
"It's inexpensive to license."
"OneNote is the feature I use the most. We also frequently use the Power Apps features."
"The most valuable feature is the integration between net and mobile devices."
"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."
"The webinar should be integrated into Sametime for a larger number of participants."
"Using Office 365 is not that flexible on some mobile devices, like Android."
"There are some complexities to the initial setup if you use some of the more advanced features."
"If two people update the same file, it causes issues."
"There are several additional features we would like to see, such as advanced features of SAN protection in Office 365. The main thing is the SAN protection; we would like to see a lot of advanced features added because we had a lot of spam attacks."
"It needs improvements around its compatibility with non-Microsoft products."
"Data protection and email security are almost the same for all the organizations, irrespective of their segment (SMB or enterprises), with standard subscription at least basic Data loss prevention and Advance threat protection can be enabled for SMB segments, it is available in enterprise version / Premium versions."
"Constantly evolving with new features, which can be challenging for users."
"Sometimes the configurations of the error troubleshooting are pretty problematic and there are a lot of issues that happen even if you follow the step-by-step guides. They can work on fixing this issue. If there are a lot of issues in your Windows or your Office or anything, you restart your PC and it works. They need to get rid of this need."
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HCL Sametime is ranked 26th in Virtual Meetings while Office 365 is ranked 3rd in Content Collaboration Platforms with 54 reviews. HCL Sametime is rated 8.0, while Office 365 is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of HCL Sametime writes "Easily communicate and share files with colleagues". 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". HCL Sametime is most compared with Zoom, whereas Office 365 is most compared with Amazon WorkDocs, Atlassian Confluence, Citrix ShareFile, Box and Dropbox.
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