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"The support from Microsoft is very quick and they are very proactive.""The solution is scalable. You can do both horizontal and vertical scaling.""Ability to collaborate with others in one location.""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 most valuable feature is that it is very usable. I can navigate it, I can have a media call, I can have a call with my project team, so we can chat with every team kind of like WhatsApp. Any time there are projects or other things, we can chat in a secure way. It's automation-specific secure.""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 collaboration, the ability for multiple users to work on a single document.""It's a very robust product."

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"I found the RAM Commander module in Symphony to be the most valuable.""The solution is user-friendly, and it is very good security-wise.""The entire product is good.""Symphony and Laravel are the most comfortable frameworks for any developer. It is also lightweight.""The overall functions are good."

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"The product is behind in development and lacks some features.""The areas around security, such as protection, need to be included.""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.""Technical support could be improved. They are not fast enough, especially when we'll go deeper in the product itself. More complex issues make it very tough to find someone that can help you.""Many of our customers would like to see an OCR feature, so it would be very good to have this in a future release.""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applications.""I would like to see more Agile techniques and seamless integration with other applications.""The GUI is outdated."

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"Compared to established vendors, it lacks user flexibility and customization, especially in the PM module.""To improve the situation, enhancing the functionality for integrating with other applications and addressing ticketing issues is crucial.""The area that needs to be improved is modular asset management. When we are uploading the assets in bulk, it is not aligned.""The solution is very expensive, and its pricing could be improved.""The solution needs to improve CI."

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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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  • "It's a costly product, but the number of available features justifies it."
  • "It is fairly an expensive product, but works for us."
  • "Symphony is expensive."
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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.

    Symphony’s secure, cloud-based communications service delivers the next wave in organizational productivity where markets and individuals come together to create vibrant communities in which to share content, insights and opinions without compromising on organizational compliance.

    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
    BNP Paribas, HSBC, Deutsche Bank, Citi, Credit Suisse, JP Morgan Chase
    Top Industries
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    Computer Software Company21%
    Retailer14%
    Manufacturing Company14%
    Government7%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Computer Software Company12%
    Financial Services Firm9%
    Government9%
    Comms Service Provider7%
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    Financial Services Firm64%
    Computer Software Company7%
    Manufacturing Company4%
    Insurance Company3%
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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 Business10%
    Midsize Enterprise9%
    Large Enterprise82%
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    Microsoft Office SharePoint Server is ranked 11th in Content Collaboration Platforms while Symphony is ranked 8th in Enterprise Social Software with 5 reviews. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server is rated 7.6, while Symphony is rated 7.2. 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 Symphony writes "Makes tasks like network planning and performance monitoring much easier". Microsoft Office SharePoint Server is most compared with Amazon WorkDocs, Datto Workplace, FileCloud, Kiteworks and HCL Connections, whereas Symphony is most compared with Microsoft Teams, Slack, Drupal and SharePoint.

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