Compare HCL Sametime vs. Office 365
Quotes From Members
We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
Pros | |
"I can view the status and availability of colleagues or team members, which makes it easy to approach them when they are available." | "The cloud service and Skype are the most valuable features." "It is very easy to deploy." "Most of the work that seems not to work offline works perfectly with Microsoft Office 2013, like converting a Word document to a PDF file." "The functionality that is most valuable is the solution's ability to detect patient data in email attachments. Whenever a user sends out an email with patient data embedded in an attachment, it triggers an alert. The tool can detect a social security number and various other forms of patient identity. Emails are then automatically generated and sent." "It's very stable." "Many of the features in Office 365 are good, but I think Excel is a very good tool." "The most valuable feature is the integration with OneDrive, which has allowed us, a small business, easy access to a cloud environment, with no need to back up the data from five different computers." "The integration with other applications is pretty good." |
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"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." "The feature to convert PDF file to a Word document needs improvement as well as the feature to save the file automatically when typing, without using the save command." "Improvements can be made to the products generic offering. It's not customized for health care. It doesn't understand the meaning of health care related concepts. Providing a greater degree of industry specificity would make the tool much more unique and valuable." "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." "Using Visual Basic, I have had a lot of trouble with relative paths when programming for Excel, and sometimes it is very difficult to debug programs." "Integration between Outlook calendar and Google Calendar would be a good improvement since many of our team use Android phones and personal Gmail accounts as their main calendar application." "If two people update the same file, it causes issues." "I'm not sure if there are areas of improvement. For us, it's working quite well." |
Pricing and Cost Advice | |
Information Not Available | "The pricing is good for all the features that we receive, e.g., Skype for Business." "The pricing is not really high, but one can get the software with the license key for free." "The pricing is high and has actually caused us to limit the number of licenses we purchase due to budgeting." "I think that we pay $9.99 USD per user, monthly." |
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Questions from the Community | |
Ask a question Earn 20 points | Top Answer: Office 365 has got variety of subscriptions. Very good option for small and medium business. Office 365 email solution is excellent, very good admin control console to enable security features to… more » |
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Views 743 Comparisons 491 Reviews 1 Average Words per Review 345 Rating 9.0 | Views 6,549 Comparisons 5,466 Reviews 21 Average Words per Review 443 Rating 8.4 |
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Also Known As | |
| Lotus Sametime, IBM Lotus Sametime | Microsoft Office 365, Office 365 Enterprise, Office 365 Enterprise E1, Office 365 Enterprise E3, Office 365 Enterprise E5, Office 365 ProPlus, Office 365 Business, Office 365 Business Essentials, Office 365 Business Premium, Office 365 F1 |
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| HCL | Microsoft |
Overview | |
HCL Sametime. Secure Conversations Across Any Device Your company can’t afford to take any data risks, but your teams still need to be able to interact and react quickly, wherever they are working. Sametime offers modern instant messaging, file-sharing, and online meetings with the proven security your business can trust. | Office 365 is more than just Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. It provides powerful services like business-class email, online storage, and teamwork solutions that you can access from anywhere. Bring teams and resources together with solutions like Microsoft Teams and Skype for Business that make working together more productive and enjoyable regardless of where participants are located. Easily implement security and privacy controls to help protect business data and devices against malicious threats and help you meet your compliance obligations. Automatic updates ensure your employees will always have the latest features and security updates. |
Offer | |
Learn more about HCL Sametime | Learn more about Office 365 |
Sample Customers | |
| Connect2Cloud, Superior Group, Daifuku Co. Ltd., Seaward, The City of Fort Worth, Christian Brothers Services, Berlitz, Deutsche Notes User Group, Danske Fysioterapeuter, Slumberland, La Vacanza, Rheinmetall AG | Me & the Bees Lemonade |
Top Industries | |
No Data Available | Manufacturing Company26% Computer Software Company17% Financial Services Firm9% Energy/Utilities Company4% Computer Software Company31% Comms Service Provider17% Government6% Media Company5% |
Company Size | |
No Data Available | Small Business50% Midsize Enterprise20% Large Enterprise30% |
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456,495 professionals have used our research since 2012.
HCL Sametime is ranked 11th in Virtual Meetings with 1 review while Office 365 is ranked 1st in Content Collaboration Platforms with 22 reviews. HCL Sametime is rated 9.0, 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 "The control aspects are top-notch, it could email quarantine details, block, and allow domains". HCL Sametime is most compared with Skype for Business, Webex, Cisco Jabber, HCL Connections and TeamViewer, whereas Office 365 is most compared with Atlassian Confluence, TeamViewer, Workplace by Facebook, Zoom and Amazon WorkDocs.
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