We performed a comparison between Office 365 and SharePoint based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Content Collaboration Platforms solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The products are quite simple for the end-users to use, the up-time is very good, the product is practically maintenance-free, and the multi-layer security is excellent from the security standpoint."
"The most valuable feature is Microsoft Exchange."
"Quarantine email alerts to users to allow the email to their inbox (tricky but handy) - tricky if one doesn't have third-party email security, handy if one has got good third party email security)."
"It is stable."
"There are all sorts of really good tools for use on the information security side that allow us to make sure that our people are doing business and doing business right."
"OneNote is the feature I use the most. We also frequently use the Power Apps features."
"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."
"Reliable without any glitches."
"SharePoint has made things easier with the increased functionality for building the portals, microsites, and total integration with Microsoft categories."
"The most valuable features of SharePoint Online are content management, document management, and approval processes. Additionally, there are a number of features that provide integration with multiple Office services and external services."
"I do like the collaboration around documents. The versioning history has proven useful in some instances as well."
"It is well supported by Microsoft."
"The metadata services, the WCF service integration and the Voxel feature are three most valuable elements of this solution."
"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."
"Document flows, storage, and numbering take off the actions for checking and assigning the numbering and running around with approvals and pre-approvals."
"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."
"I'm not sure if there are areas of improvement. For us, it's working quite well."
"We have had some connectivity issues."
"Using Office 365 is not that flexible on some mobile devices, like Android."
"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."
"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."
"There are some complexities to the initial setup if you use some of the more advanced features."
"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."
"They should do more testing before product releases."
"You still need a bit of expertise to add branding."
"This solution would benefit from the implementation of enhanced online forms and template development capabilities."
"Processing data from multiple site collections is not easy as they reside in different databases."
"The initial setup was very complex."
"The initial setup process is not intuitive."
"It is too heavy. MS should not have paid foreign coders dollars per each row of code. They wasted the stability and reliability in the end."
"The product could be improved in a lot of way. It is so frustrating to get things to work as advertised."
"Make it more intuitive."
Office 365 is ranked 3rd in Content Collaboration Platforms with 54 reviews while SharePoint is ranked 1st in Enterprise Content Management with 146 reviews. Office 365 is rated 8.4, while SharePoint is rated 7.8. 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 SharePoint writes "Good integrations, helps with collaboration, and increases visibility". Office 365 is most compared with Amazon WorkDocs, Atlassian Confluence, Citrix ShareFile, Box and Slack, whereas SharePoint is most compared with Citrix ShareFile, Microsoft OneDrive, Dropbox, Box and WordPress. See our Office 365 vs. SharePoint report.
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