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 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."
"Ability to collaborate with others in one location."
"The solution's most valuable aspects are its collaboration capabilities, its communications site and the innovation within the product itself."
"It's a very robust product."
"The solution's most valuable features is its document management. It allows sharing with external users and integrates well with Office apps and Microsoft Flow."
"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."
"The level of stability is good."
"The forms aspect of the solution, for example, the creation of surveys, is its most valuable aspect."
"It's nice that it's an all-in-one solution and everything is all in one place."
"As an email provider, I believe Office 365 is the best email provider."
"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 feature of this solution is the integration."
"The most innovative feature of Office 365 is the Power Apps, which allows us to automate literally everything that we want automated. For example, sending attachments to specific folders on SharePoint, adding people's SharePoint when certain apps are performed, or emailing certain people at certain instances, such as when you've done a follow-up with the CRM and you need a marketing email to be sent out at a particular point."
"Reliable without any glitches."
"I love all of the applications being interlinked. I do not have to separately work on an independent system when it comes to file storage, email, and other tools."
"I like that it is cloud-based, wherefrom any computer I can access my documents and continue working."
"The GUI is outdated."
"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."
"The product could be improved by accommodating different technologies, particularly integration."
"The permission management features need improvement."
"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 areas around security, such as protection, need to be included."
"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."
"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."
"Microsoft Defender for Office 365 could use some customization, but this area for improvement is trivial."
"We have had some connectivity issues."
"If two people update the same file, it causes issues."
"Integration with other platforms can be improved."
"I would like to see better integration with Teams, and better usability with SharePoint."
"As a private user, I do not appreciate the cloud features, but I doubt that this is something Microsoft would consider a feature request."
"Microsoft Word is a little bit left behind regarding the tools it has."
"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."
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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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