We performed a comparison between Microsoft OneDrive and SharePoint based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dropbox, Box, Microsoft and others in Content Collaboration Platforms."Being able to use OneDrive as a mapped drive in Windows Explorer is the most valuable feature. Rather than using OneDrive on a browser, you can also open up the Windows Explorer and I can see the file structure in the normal format."
"Image management is great since the search is simple, and accessing images with labels is easy."
"Scalability is good just because it is a cloud-based product."
"With this solution, the sharing of documents if very easy to do. There's a lot of collaboration you can do with your colleagues."
"It's quite easy to use and then of course it is quite well integrated to the rest of Office 365."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is the amount of space allotted to each user that is issued a subscription."
"Ability to share documents."
"It is simple to use and it allows me to give me the opportunity to access anything I want from any device."
"The online editing capabilities, file sharing, auditing, information security, ease of solution management, and the easy user adaptation to the platform are the most valuable features."
"Quantity and variety of partners with solution development ability on the platform."
"It facilitates collaboration and the ability to create custom workflows."
"The access control is definitely a good feature. We also appreciate the improvements they've made to the online applications, where multiple users can work on the same documents simultaneously. Everything syncs automatically."
"What I like about SharePoint is that they keep up with a lot of updates, and they bring out new features. I also like that the system is integrated with the Microsoft 365 suite of apps."
"Its functionality is enormous."
"SharePoint is already moving to cloud, if you are using SharePoint online, which is cloud-based technology, it is more accessible."
"No code and low code, scalable, and stable collaboration platform. Straightforward to set up. Its support system is good and offers fast issue resolution."
"The scalability has room for improvement."
"If I want to pick out certain criteria of pictures, Google enables me to do that whereas OneDrive is a bit sort of flaky."
"I would advice not storage sensitive information since it could be prone to hacking."
"The file structure insight could be made more flexible like for creating more flexible folders."
"The solution has sub-folders, which are visible to various team members. If you want to ensure the information is private, you would need to have a certain level of seniority in the office."
"The security is not as flexible as it is with Dropbox, which means that we can't share our OneDrive files."
"There are not enough ways to assign permissions to shared folders and files."
"An online video player would be great, since sometimes you have to download the video to play it."
"The company also needs to make sure that their policies are dictating how information is stored and used, instead of letting SharePoint take control."
"There are some limitations on storage."
"Too many versions being released in a short time period. Too much time being devoted to migration planning."
"The initial setup is complex and has room for improvement."
"Search can be improved a lot because we are always trying to compare it with Google Search. Beyond that, it would be helpful to tag the documents."
"Emails stored now do not display metadata in native format."
"Document management and the ability to easily integrate single sign-on (SSO) are areas for improvement in SharePoint."
"SharePoint designer workflows can be buggy sometimes without any apparent reason."
Microsoft OneDrive is ranked 4th in Content Collaboration Platforms with 19 reviews while SharePoint is ranked 1st in Enterprise Content Management with 146 reviews. Microsoft OneDrive is rated 8.2, while SharePoint is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Microsoft OneDrive writes "A transparent and self-explanatory storage system for data and files". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SharePoint writes "Good integrations, helps with collaboration, and increases visibility". Microsoft OneDrive is most compared with Dropbox, Box, Atlassian Confluence, Citrix ShareFile and Amazon WorkDocs, whereas SharePoint is most compared with Citrix ShareFile, Dropbox, Box, WordPress and OpenText Documentum.
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