We performed a comparison between M-Files and SharePoint based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Box, DocuWare, Hyland and others in Document Management Software."Using M-Files means anybody on the executive team to go in and immediately look at a dashboard and know the status of a contract."
"This solution has helped us with the categorization, organization, management, discovery, and delivery of program and project related information."
"Its most valuable feature is the document library."
"SharePoint has an option where you can open files on the browser, whereby more than five people can make amendments to one Excel online file."
"The product makes it easy to manage lists, forms, searching, and security. One of the most valuable features is its integration with Active Directory."
"The most valuable features are the collaboration and sharing."
"It keeps our company organized and everything is in one place."
"Information is much more readily available."
"Removed the need of paper storage and people flow into the office."
"The integration with other products needs to be improved."
"Workflow is something that can become more intelligent."
"There's a challenge with desktop applications synchronizing with online documents in real-time. If someone is working on a document in the desktop version of Excel, for example, and someone else is editing the same document online, the changes won't sync immediately. That's the only real challenge we've encountered."
"We'd like to be able to upload from MS Excel to deploy tasks and use drop-down lists to collect further information."
"Too many versions being released in a short time period. Too much time being devoted to migration planning."
"SharePoint sometimes cannot handle the amount of co-editing that we do."
"The way to change the version of the files in SharePoint should be improved. The method of synchronizing files from local to the cloud can also use improvement."
"The initial setup is complex and has room for improvement."
"SharePoint designer workflows can be buggy sometimes without any apparent reason."
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M-Files is ranked 8th in Document Management Software while SharePoint is ranked 1st in Enterprise Content Management with 146 reviews. M-Files is rated 9.0, while SharePoint is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of M-Files writes "Good workflows, and it is easy to use with a dashboard that improves contract visibility". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SharePoint writes "Good integrations, helps with collaboration, and increases visibility". M-Files is most compared with OpenText Extended ECM, IBM FileNet, OpenText Documentum, Microsoft Purview Records Management and Alfresco, whereas SharePoint is most compared with Citrix ShareFile, Microsoft OneDrive, Dropbox and Box.
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