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We performed a comparison between Microsoft Office SharePoint Server and Microsoft Teams based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Content Collaboration Platforms solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
To learn more, read our detailed Microsoft Office SharePoint Server vs. Microsoft Teams Report (Updated: March 2020).
768,740 professionals have used our research since 2012.
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"The most valuable feature of this solution is the Communication Site.""Ability to collaborate with others in one location.""The implementation and configuring of the resolution are very easy in the online version.""The solution is pretty easy to use for the most part.""The solution is scalable. You can do both horizontal and vertical scaling.""The solution's most valuable aspects are its collaboration capabilities, its communications site and the innovation within the product itself.""The software is friendly to use for mixing data and analyzing it.""This solution has provided us with a collaborative workspace to allow everyone to work together and be on the same page."

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"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Teams is its UI...It is a stable solution.""The solution's stability is quite good, and it doesn't crash and freeze up when you have a large number of users.""The group chat is very good.""It is easy to coordinate with the technical support team in case of queries.""The initial setup was really straightforward and easy.""The tool is very useful since it helps us to share documents and make calls.""The mobile app really enabled us to connect meetings on the go from anywhere.""I like the tool's screen share feature."

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"The user interface needs improvement because there is a lot of stuff in there. I use five to eight navigation buttons. It should be more user-friendly. Frequently used menu items should be arranged in a proper way. That would be helpful.""The areas around security, such as protection, need to be included.""The product could be improved by accommodating different technologies, particularly integration.""Sharepoint doesn't integrate well with Oracle, and we use a lot of Oracle products at our company. Therefore, it makes more sense for us to go to Oracle instead of continuing to use Sharepoint.""The product is behind in development and lacks some features.""I think these tools do a pretty good job. There is only one area of improvement. Maybe Microsoft can invest a little bit more into the ease at which integration can be done with other third party applications.""The search feature needs improvement. I can never find the information I need when I use it.""This solution is not very stable. It is useful to arrange data but it's not the best for big data. Sometimes we have issues with our reports as a result."

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"There could be performance spikes and better reliability. We saw a lot of stability issues.""The integration with SharePoint can be cumbersome at times.""I didn't know that Teams is part of Office 365, so I think that it should be better advertised with its features and capabilities.""If I could completely eliminate Outlook and only use Teams, that would help me immensely. Productivity would increase drastically and many of our team members would be more efficient in our day-to-day, as we would be living primarily in a single tool.""Inability to see large numbers of participants.""Microsoft Teams has a limitation on the number of people, which could be increased.""The solution needs to integrate ChatGPT so that the solution can summarize the meetings. The solution needs integration with AI. Copilot is already in the pipeline.""They should include AI features in the solution."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "One of the reasons why we don't recommend the cloud version of SharePoint is the cost. With the on premise version, you pay for the license once. For the cloud version, there is a recurring fee. It is very expensive. They expect everyone to pay $20 or $30 per user per month."
  • "There are some aggressive discounts offered by Microsoft for organizations that are not for profit, which we are, and it makes it quite attractive to consider."
  • "Pricing plans may be flexible depending on volume usage and your corporate relationship with Microsoft."
  • "It can be expensive for on-premises deployments, especially when you have to support SQL Server as your backend database. That's where the cost comes into play. SQL Server has its own licensing, which Microsoft keeps on changing. Therefore, it can become costly. In the earlier versions of SharePoint, version 2007 or 2010, they had an express version where the SQL Server licensing was free. It wasn't like a full-blown SharePoint. It was only a slimmed-down version. It used to be whatever your hardware costs. You would install the free software and work with it, but you were very limited in what you could do in SharePoint. If you wanted the SharePoint Enterprise Server with all the bells and whistles, then you had to pay more to get the SQL Server license based on the number of users or servers. The subscription model is different for cloud deployments. Licensing is per user and per month. The cost also depends on the storage required. If you have a lot of sites or documents, then you need to expand it based on your needs."
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  • "Pricing is free to a threshold and then after that you have to license per user."
  • "It is the standard license which is part of many Office packets."
  • "We are satisfied with the price of this solution."
  • "If you have content that requires more security and you want to use it in a more secure manner, with more protection, then it will come at a higher cost."
  • "If you have clients who do not have a computer and are joining with their phones it's an additional fee of $5.00 per user."
  • "The pricing for Teams is very competitive."
  • "My understanding is that there are licensing fees, but I'm not sure how much they might be."
  • "It is affordable because it also includes the licenses on Microsoft Word, Microsoft Office and SharePoint."
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    Overview

    Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) is a Microsoft software portal based on the ASP.NET framework. MOSS facilitates file sharing and collaboration, social networking, Web databases and Web publishing. It is hosted by Microsoft Windows Server and is accessible through Microsoft Office or the Web.

    At Microsoft, our mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Our mission is grounded in both the world in which we live and the future we strive to create. Today, we live in a mobile-first, cloud-first world, and the transformation we are driving across our businesses is designed to enable Microsoft and our customers to thrive in this world.

    We do business in 170 countries and are made up of 114,000 passionate employees dedicated to fulfilling our mission of helping you and your organization achieve more.

    Sample Customers
    Del Monte Foods, Unicredit Leasing, Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council, Nokia Czech Republic, Perkins Eastman, JLL, ICA, óxito Software, Dorset Software, PKP Cargo, Arcapita Bank B.S.C., AVE CZ, Chesapeake Energy
    Honeywll, AIRFRANCE, AccuWeather, Lilly
    Top Industries
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    Computer Software Company21%
    Retailer14%
    Manufacturing Company14%
    Government7%
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    Computer Software Company12%
    Financial Services Firm9%
    Government9%
    Comms Service Provider7%
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    Financial Services Firm16%
    Computer Software Company16%
    Manufacturing Company14%
    Comms Service Provider9%
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    Educational Organization61%
    Financial Services Firm8%
    Government4%
    Computer Software Company4%
    Company Size
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    Small Business28%
    Midsize Enterprise36%
    Large Enterprise36%
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    Small Business25%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise61%
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    Small Business34%
    Midsize Enterprise27%
    Large Enterprise39%
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    Small Business7%
    Midsize Enterprise63%
    Large Enterprise30%
    Buyer's Guide
    Microsoft Office SharePoint Server vs. Microsoft Teams
    March 2020
    Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft Office SharePoint Server vs. Microsoft Teams and other solutions. Updated: March 2020.
    768,740 professionals have used our research since 2012.

    Microsoft Office SharePoint Server is ranked 11th in Content Collaboration Platforms while Microsoft Teams is ranked 5th in Virtual Meetings with 145 reviews. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server is rated 7.6, while Microsoft Teams is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server writes "Stable, integrates well with Teams, and has flexible and helpful support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Teams writes "Great for project planning and monitoring with easy communication capabilities". Microsoft Office SharePoint Server is most compared with Amazon WorkDocs, Datto Workplace, FileCloud, Kiteworks and HCL Connections, whereas Microsoft Teams is most compared with Atlassian Confluence, SharePoint, Symphony, Loom and Chatter. See our Microsoft Office SharePoint Server vs. Microsoft Teams report.

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