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."
"It's inexpensive to license."
"It's very stable."
"Adaptable solution with a good interface. It's easy to set up and easy to use."
"It has more features than somebody would expect, and it is worth taking a deeper look into the features available."
"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."
"OneNote is the feature I use the most. We also frequently use the Power Apps features."
"The cloud service and Skype are the most valuable features."
"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 webinar should be integrated into Sametime for a larger number of participants."
"In terms of improvement, it should have tutorials when you first have the opportunity to use it, to be able to really learn it."
"I'd like to see them add more features in the future in order to continue to advance the product."
"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."
"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."
"A need that a company like ours has is that we want to be able to have data flow into one tool, for example, for all the management of tasks through the company and workflow of who is doing what and so on. There are no real solutions for this at the moment in Office 365. It would be nice if they could implement this in the next release, so we can have one solution from one company giving us the whole data and flow of data into the company."
"Office 365 could be easier to use at first. Tutorials are needed to know how to use the solution."
"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."
"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."
Earn 20 points
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 Atlassian Confluence, Amazon WorkDocs, Citrix ShareFile, Box and Dropbox.
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