We performed a comparison between Microsoft Office SharePoint Server and Office 365 based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dropbox, Microsoft, Google and others in Content Collaboration Platforms."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."
"This solution has provided us with a collaborative workspace to allow everyone to work together and be on the same page."
"The forms aspect of the solution, for example, the creation of surveys, is its most valuable aspect."
"The most valuable features for us are their document management list and hybrid forms. and We also use third party ad-dons to achieve workflows and other recent apps."
"Ability to collaborate with others in one location."
"Document management and records management features are the most valuable."
"The most valuable feature is the "Alert Me", which provides the ability to set an alert when content is either added or changed and that the alerts can be either real-time or aggregated for the day or the week."
"The way the ERP presents information for the user is very good."
"Great impact on project management and team collaboration."
"Using Office 365 has allowed us to go digital and onboard people seamlessly for working at home during the COVID pandemic."
"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."
"The most valuable features of Office 365 are Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Teams. Teams helped us to collaborate more through its call and document sharing features."
"It is very easy to deploy."
"The technical support is outstanding."
"The most valuable feature is the integration between net and mobile devices."
"The product could be improved by accommodating different technologies, particularly integration."
"The ability to preview files in different formats should be expanded to include formats such as embedded postscript (EPS), AutoCAD, and Adobe Acrobat PDF."
"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."
"The search feature needs improvement. I can never find the information I need when I use it."
"The solution needs to enable better sharing capabilities between users and external users. Several users also have problems with linking their emails to their Microsoft account."
"Many of our customers would like to see an OCR feature, so it would be very good to have this in a future release."
"The solution is like a CRM, so the initial setup is complex. It takes a few days to deploy the solution and the length of time depends on how large the company's topology is and what the client's demands are."
"Workflows could be simplified."
"I'd like to see them add more features in the future in order to continue to advance the product."
"In the next release, I would like to have a more intuitive tutorial."
"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."
"It needs improvements around its compatibility with non-Microsoft products."
"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."
"Integration with other platforms can be improved."
"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."
"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."
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Microsoft Office SharePoint Server is ranked 11th in Content Collaboration Platforms while Office 365 is ranked 6th in Content Collaboration Platforms with 54 reviews. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server is rated 7.6, while Office 365 is rated 8.4. 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 Office 365 writes "Great vulnerability insights, offers very impressive cash savings, and offers great information security tools". Microsoft Office SharePoint Server is most compared with Amazon WorkDocs, Datto Workplace, FileCloud, Kiteworks and HighQ, whereas Office 365 is most compared with Atlassian Confluence, Amazon WorkDocs, Citrix ShareFile, Box and Dropbox.
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