We performed a comparison between SharePoint and Workplace by Facebook based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, OpenText, Box and others in Enterprise Content Management."It has an easy to distribute administration capability, and can also scale to meet a large number of future needs."
"It facilitates collaboration and the ability to create custom workflows."
"The ability to have version control and co-editing is vital to our workflows."
"Information is much more readily available."
"The ability to quickly and easily create team sites has been great."
"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 workflow feature is valuable because it enables us to cascade responsibilities."
"For SharePoint, I believe the most valuable feature is the customization and allowing you to share and edit files and documents. Being able to share externally and the precise administration of the files in terms of giving permissions and controlling who has access to what is a very good feature."
"The product was easy to use."
"A full-featured collaboration tool that is as easy to use as Facebook."
"Storage is the best thing about the solution."
"The solution is used as a knowledge platform for sharing knowledge and information that everybody can easily access."
"The integration with Outlook could be improved."
"Too many versions being released in a short time period. Too much time being devoted to migration planning."
"There's a challenge with desktop applications synchronizing with online documents in real-time. If someone is working on a document in the desktop version of Excel, for example, and someone else is editing the same document online, the changes won't sync immediately. That's the only real challenge we've encountered."
"Workflow is something that can become more intelligent."
"Replication needs improvement."
"The initial setup process is not intuitive."
"The limitations and boundaries must be extended."
"Using SharePoint is difficult."
"The conferencing feature does not work well with multiple parties or locations."
"There needs to be a restriction on who can download content."
"The implementation could be made easier."
"The product should allow users to assign tasks and automate processes."
SharePoint is ranked 1st in Enterprise Content Management with 146 reviews while Workplace by Facebook is ranked 9th in Enterprise Social Software with 4 reviews. SharePoint is rated 7.8, while Workplace by Facebook is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of SharePoint writes "Good integrations, helps with collaboration, and increases visibility". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Workplace by Facebook writes "A scalable and easy-to-use solution that can be used for internal communication and storage". SharePoint is most compared with Citrix ShareFile, Microsoft OneDrive, Dropbox, Box and WordPress, whereas Workplace by Facebook is most compared with Yammer.
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