We performed a comparison between Office 365 and Symphony based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Dropbox, Box, Microsoft and others in Content Collaboration Platforms."My primary use case is for preparing presentations to teach, often on PowerPoint."
"OneNote is the feature I use the most. We also frequently use the Power Apps features."
"It's very stable."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the integration."
"I like all of the features."
"It's inexpensive to license."
"The cloud service and Skype are the most valuable features."
"The product helps us be more efficient. It helps us to have a standardized way of doing things."
"Symphony and Laravel are the most comfortable frameworks for any developer. It is also lightweight."
"The overall functions are good."
"I found the RAM Commander module in Symphony to be the most valuable."
"The entire product is good."
"The solution is user-friendly, and it is very good security-wise."
"There are several additional features we would like to see, such as advanced features of SAN protection in Office 365. The main thing is the SAN protection; we would like to see a lot of advanced features added because we had a lot of spam attacks."
"Microsoft Defender for Office 365 could use some customization, but this area for improvement is trivial."
"A need that a company like ours has is that we want to be able to have data flow into one tool, for example, for all the management of tasks through the company and workflow of who is doing what and so on. There are no real solutions for this at the moment in Office 365. It would be nice if they could implement this in the next release, so we can have one solution from one company giving us the whole data and flow of data into the company."
"Office 365 could be easier to use at first. Tutorials are needed to know how to use the solution."
"Normally, they have a way to work with specific developments, and I think they shouldn't allow the partners to make some changes they have made. When I have a client with a lot of changes, we have a problem with that because there aren't rules to develop inside the ERP, so you can do anything."
"The one big problem with the solution is if you are presenting in Teams and someone puts their hand up, you don't get a notification. If you are running a meeting and just presenting you don't know that people have their hands up and want to ask a question."
"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."
"If two people update the same file, it causes issues."
"The solution needs to improve CI."
"The area that needs to be improved is modular asset management. When we are uploading the assets in bulk, it is not aligned."
"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 solution is very expensive, and its pricing could be improved."
Office 365 is ranked 3rd in Content Collaboration Platforms with 54 reviews while Symphony is ranked 8th in Enterprise Social Software with 5 reviews. Office 365 is rated 8.4, while Symphony is rated 7.2. The top reviewer of Office 365 writes "Great vulnerability insights, offers very impressive cash savings, and offers great information security tools". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Symphony writes "Makes tasks like network planning and performance monitoring much easier". Office 365 is most compared with Amazon WorkDocs, Atlassian Confluence, Citrix ShareFile, Box and Dropbox, whereas Symphony is most compared with Microsoft Teams, Slack, Drupal and SharePoint.
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