Microsoft 365 Business vs Microsoft Office SharePoint Server comparison

"Most people are very used to working with Microsoft Office, and we can work offline as well."

"I like everything. For me, this is a perfect product. It is rich in terms of features, and new functionalities are available very often. It is super straightforward to install, and their technical support is the best that I've ever seen."

"Everything that you need is included inside."

"All the development that they've done in Teams recently has been great."

"Microsoft 365 Business is available as a SaaS product."

"The product is very fast and convenient to use."

"The initial setup process is easy and fully web-based."

"I'm satisfied with how they handle data, and the people there are very friendly."

"The support from Microsoft is very quick and they are very proactive."

"The solution is pretty easy to use for the most part."

"The solution's most valuable features is its document management. It allows sharing with external users and integrates well with Office apps and Microsoft Flow."

"The most valuable aspect of the solution is the fact that it doesn't require coding. You just need to configure it. You don't need to code before getting something running. It makes it very fast."

"The level of stability is good."

"It's a very robust product."

"Document management and records management features are the most valuable."

"The forms aspect of the solution, for example, the creation of surveys, is its most valuable aspect."

"It could be more secure, but we have not really had issues with it in terms of its security."

"The Teams feature doesn't allow for sharing location which Office 365 had."

"The solution's ability to scale could be improved."

"The solution could improve by allowing more integration."

"Microsoft Teams for Mac isn't good enough just yet. It's an aspect of the solution they can still work on."

"Sometimes it is quite hard to get a grasp on what features are going to be available at what time. For instance, we had to wait for a very long time on the breakout rules in Teams. There is a roadmap and there are also some blog posts, but you never know when you're going to get it. So it would be preferable to get it more in advance."

"Integration between Excel and the SQL Server could work more efficiently."

"Teams is, in some respects, lagging behind Skype for Business in some telephone-related features"

"The user interface needs improvement because there is a lot of stuff in there. I use five to eight navigation buttons. It should be more user-friendly. Frequently used menu items should be arranged in a proper way. That would be helpful."

"Technical support could be improved. They are not fast enough, especially when we'll go deeper in the product itself. More complex issues make it very tough to find someone that can help you."

"Many of our customers would like to see an OCR feature, so it would be very good to have this in a future release."

"It is a bit restrictive to develop in the cloud version. A lot of features are in the cloud now, and you have to develop on the outside. As far as the platform and the programming side of things are concerned, it is moving more towards configuration management rather than programming. When we are doing solutions, we are basically just configuring it to make solutions happen rather than actually using the Visual Studio code and developing from scratch in the cloud. It is almost like creating an app. You have created an app for your phone, but the app doesn't really sit on your phone. It sits somewhere on a server, and the database sits on another server. The app is just pulling and pushing information. The whole development has changed. We used to install things directly on the server and then run the application from the server. Now, it is more of a modular architecture."

"Workflows could be simplified."

"Sharepoint doesn't integrate well with Oracle, and we use a lot of Oracle products at our company. Therefore, it makes more sense for us to go to Oracle instead of continuing to use Sharepoint."

"The GUI is outdated."

"I would like to see the integration with Teams reinforced."

"The price is fine."

"They offer corporate subscriptions for the platform. We have to renew it yearly."

"It is slightly expensive, but it doesn't have any hidden costs. You know what you're going to spend, and you get a decent ROI on it. It has subscription-based licensing. It helps you to figure out the amount of money that you would spend based on how many mailboxes you would require in a year, which makes it better as compared to a mail server for which you need to consider the licensing cost and the maintenance cost."

"The solution is expensive. Basic support comes free with the regular subscription but the premier support cost extra."

"It could be cheaper. It's cloud-based, and we pay a yearly subscription."

"We pay a monthly licensing fee for Microsoft 365 Business."

"There is an annual license required for this solution. For a smaller organization, it could be expensive."

"Microsoft 365 Business is an expensive solution."

"One of the reasons why we don't recommend the cloud version of SharePoint is the cost. With the on premise version, you pay for the license once. For the cloud version, there is a recurring fee. It is very expensive. They expect everyone to pay $20 or $30 per user per month."

"Pricing plans may be flexible depending on volume usage and your corporate relationship with Microsoft."

"There are some aggressive discounts offered by Microsoft for organizations that are not for profit, which we are, and it makes it quite attractive to consider."

"It can be expensive for on-premises deployments, especially when you have to support SQL Server as your backend database. That's where the cost comes into play. SQL Server has its own licensing, which Microsoft keeps on changing. Therefore, it can become costly. In the earlier versions of SharePoint, version 2007 or 2010, they had an express version where the SQL Server licensing was free. It wasn't like a full-blown SharePoint. It was only a slimmed-down version. It used to be whatever your hardware costs. You would install the free software and work with it, but you were very limited in what you could do in SharePoint. If you wanted the SharePoint Enterprise Server with all the bells and whistles, then you had to pay more to get the SQL Server license based on the number of users or servers. The subscription model is different for cloud deployments. Licensing is per user and per month. The cost also depends on the storage required. If you have a lot of sites or documents, then you need to expand it based on your needs."