Compare Office 365 vs. SharePoint
Office 365 is ranked 2nd in Enterprise Social Software with 11 reviews while SharePoint is ranked 1st in Enterprise Social Software with 36 reviews. Office 365 is rated 8.0, while SharePoint is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Office 365 writes "Multi-user editing and integration with OneDrive brings better focus and efficiency". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SharePoint writes "The metadata services, the WCF service integration and the Voxel feature are three most valuable elements of this solution". Office 365 is most compared with Atlassian Confluence, TeamViewer and HCL Verse, whereas SharePoint is most compared with OpenText ECM, Box and Documentum. See our Office 365 vs. SharePoint report.
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The most valuable feature is the integration with OneDrive, which has allowed us, a small business, easy access to a cloud environment, with no need to back up the data from five different computers. Many of the features in Office 365 are good, but I think Excel is a very good tool. It's very stable. The functionality that is most valuable is the solution's ability to detect patient data in email attachments. Whenever a user sends out an email with patient data embedded in an attachment, it triggers an alert. The tool can detect a social security number and various other forms of patient identity. Emails are then automatically generated and sent. Most of the work that seems not to work offline works perfectly with Microsoft Office 2013, like converting a Word document to a PDF file. The cloud service and Skype are the most valuable features. It is very easy to deploy. Cloud-based management is valuable and software deployment is positive. | 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. The most valuable features are the Integrations, web site, and search. This solution has helped us with the categorization, organization, management, discovery, and delivery of program and project related information. For any organization with more than one person in it, if they are trying to organize things to let people in the company know what others are doing, then this solution is good for them. The workflow feature is valuable because it enables us to cascade responsibilities. It has helped us with storing all the documents, which means that people are not going to intervene. There is a way of extracting knowledge within documentation and tracking it. There are knowledge assets for where documentation is stored, indexed and searchable through SharePoint. The metadata services, the WCF service integration and the Voxel feature are three most valuable elements of this solution. Tech support tops off as excellent. |
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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. Using Visual Basic, I have had a lot of trouble with relative paths when programming for Excel, and sometimes it is very difficult to debug programs. 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. 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. 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. Using Office 365 is not that flexible on some mobile devices, like Android. Their support is so terrible and unusable except during dire emergencies. There are some complexities to the initial setup if you use some of the more advanced features. | The way to change the version of the files in SharePoint should be improved. The method of synchronizing files from local to cloud can also use improvement. The areas of this solution that need improvement are the relationships between lists, cross-site web parts, and page-building tools. This solution would benefit from the implementation of enhanced online forms and template development capabilities. I would like a simpler, more cost-effective solution for connecting data sources with workflows and BI tools, or data mining tools. Workflow is something that can become more intelligent. 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. The initial setup was very complex. I understand that some functions are lost when you store the information in a file system, so maybe that's a way SharePoint can improve. |
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The pricing is not really high, but one can get the software with the license key for free. The pricing is good for all the features that we receive, e.g., Skype for Business. The pricing/licensing is easy to manage. Good reporting and good value subscriptions for international calls. Licensing, billing, and accounting are available from the management interface. | For this type of solution, it is not wise to buy it without Software Assurance. The pricing works for us. The cost is expensive, but worthwhile. We have purchased add-ons to handle multiple site collections, form creation, and design. The data classification and search elements are cheap. The replacement costs for it are cheaper if you use only SharePoint. It is very expensive. |
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Views 5,945 Comparisons 4,913 Reviews 11 Average Words per Review 306 Avg. Rating 8.0 | Views 38,114 Comparisons 31,748 Reviews 36 Average Words per Review 297 Avg. Rating 7.7 |
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Also Known As | |
| Microsoft Office 365, Office 365 Enterprise, Office 365 Enterprise E1, Office 365 Enterprise E3, Office 365 Enterprise E5, Office 365 ProPlus, Office 365 Business, Office 365 Business Essentials, Office 365 Business Premium, Office 365 F1 | SharePoint 2007, SharePoint 2010 |
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| Microsoft | Microsoft |
Overview | |
Office 365 is more than just Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. It provides powerful services like business-class email, online storage, and teamwork solutions that you can access from anywhere. Bring teams and resources together with solutions like Microsoft Teams and Skype for Business that make working together more productive and enjoyable regardless of where participants are located. Easily implement security and privacy controls to help protect business data and devices against malicious threats and help you meet your compliance obligations. Automatic updates ensure your employees will always have the latest features and security updates. | SharePoint is a Microsoft-based platform for building web applications. It covers a widerange of capabilities and while it is appropriate for experienced webdevelopers, even non-technical minded users can easily navigate through thesystem and execute functions such as collaborating data, managing documents andfiles, creating websites, managing social networking solutions, and automatingworkflow. Major areas that SharePoint deals with are websites,communities, content, search, insights, and composites. The purpose is to give usersthe ability to create or develop these key business components on their owneven without technical knowledge of, for example, how to build a website or howto integrate coding. Configuring SharePoint into a business's system is meantto cut out all of the complicated steps, and pave the way for easierimplementation all around. |
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Sample Customers | |
Information Not Available | Toyota, Aeroports de Paris, ASBBank Ltd., Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals, CambridgeshireConstabulary, D&M Group, NPL Construction Company, and The Regional Municipality of Niagara. |
Top Industries | |
Software R&D Company21% Manufacturing Company21% Financial Services Firm14% Insurance Company7% Software R&D Company31% Comms Service Provider11% Government8% K 12 Educational Company Or School7% | Financial Services Firm14% University10% Comms Service Provider8% Energy/Utilities Company8% Software R&D Company26% Financial Services Firm11% Government8% Comms Service Provider7% |
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Small Business48% Midsize Enterprise19% Large Enterprise32% | Small Business36% Midsize Enterprise22% Large Enterprise42% Small Business25% Midsize Enterprise8% Large Enterprise67% |
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