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."
"I like that it is cloud-based, wherefrom any computer I can access my documents and continue working."
"The phone VoIP product provides genuine a unified communication solution."
"The most valuable feature is Microsoft Exchange."
"The integration with other applications is pretty good."
"The products are quite simple for the end-users to use, the up-time is very good, the product is practically maintenance-free, and the multi-layer security is excellent from the security standpoint."
"There are no more server and hardware operational costs and downtime, updates, etc. for all the workloads available. Newer features and updates are available immediately. Can be managed from a single web interface. Cloud-based, so same experience for all users, regardless of location."
"It is very easy to deploy."
"I like Office 365's usability."
"The webinar should be integrated into Sametime for a larger number of participants."
"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."
"Their support is so terrible and unusable except during dire emergencies."
"I'm not sure if there are areas of improvement. For us, it's working quite well."
"If two people update the same file, it causes issues."
"Microsoft Word is a little bit left behind regarding the tools it has."
"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."
"Integration with other platforms can be improved."
"I rate the support of Office 365 a four out of five."
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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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