Microsoft OneDrive vs SharePoint comparison

The compared Microsoft OneDrive and SharePoint solutions aren't in the same category. Microsoft OneDrive is ranked #11 in CCP , and holds a 9.6% mindshare in the category. SharePoint is ranked #1 in ECM , with an average rating of 8.0, and holds a 16.4% mindshare. Additionally, 90% of Microsoft OneDrive users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 79% of SharePoint users who would recommend it.

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90% willing to recommend

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79% willing to recommend

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Categories and Ranking

Microsoft OneDrive

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

5.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Content Collaboration Platforms (11th)

SharePoint

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

160

Ranking in other categories

Enterprise Content Management (1st), Web Content Management (1st), Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) (1st), Enterprise Intranet (1st)

Mindshare comparison

While both are Messaging and Collaboration solutions, they serve different purposes. Microsoft OneDrive is designed for Content Collaboration Platforms and holds a mindshare of 9.6%, down 12.9% compared to last year.
SharePoint, on the other hand, focuses on Enterprise Content Management, holds 16.4% mindshare, down 20.2% since last year.

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Victor Bayouwa

Owner at VBTECH-IT

I love the backup capabilities and the offline sync

We use OneDrive to share documents throughout the organization and collaborate. It is also used for backups. The backup capability is one feature I love about OneDrive. I also like how it syncs when you're working offline. Everything is updated once you connect again. It takes too long for…

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Madhur D'silva

Lead Consultant at Eviden

Collaborative work benefits while user-friendliness challenges persist

The most valuable feature of SharePoint ( /products/sharepoint-reviews ) is its user interface, which is very easy to use. I do not have to be very technical to use it. Its rights management capabilities and ability to restrict access to certain people are also very useful. Furthermore, I can access SharePoint from any device, whether it is a phone or laptop, which is very convenient.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"One of the good features is that the users are not even aware that they're using it."

"It's quite easy to use and then of course it is quite well integrated to the rest of Office 365."

"Scalability is good just because it is a cloud-based product."

"It is good as a central hub for the storage of documents and sharing among team members."

"They have support for integration with a lot of tools."

"With this solution, the sharing of documents if very easy to do. There's a lot of collaboration you can do with your colleagues."

"The feature that I have found the most valuable is that Microsoft OneDrive works with any Enterprise Cloud Solutions Office app. You can edit a document on the cloud, share documents with your colleagues, and monitor changes. You can access your work almost anywhere. You can also sync Microsoft OneDrive with your workstation so that whatever you are working on gets automatically backed up to the cloud at regular intervals. So even if your system crashes, you still have a copy of your documents in the cloud, which I found very useful."

"Being able to use OneDrive as a mapped drive in Windows Explorer is the most valuable feature. Rather than using OneDrive on a browser, you can also open up the Windows Explorer and I can see the file structure in the normal format."

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"It is very stable."

"Its most valuable feature is the document library."

"SharePoint enabled the staff to share documents and work on a document simultaneously."

"The solution is easy to use."

"OneDrive and SharePoint provide a secure, fully auditable way of storing information."

"The most valuable features are the collaboration and sharing."

"The security feature is valuable."

"SharePoint is already moving to cloud, if you are using SharePoint online, which is cloud-based technology, it is more accessible."

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Cons

"No one gets an alert when files are deleted."

"The user interface sometimes fails and when it cannot connect, it does not give the reason why."

"The initial setup is a bit clunky."

"It is not very stable because there are a lot of bugs."

"The online application is quite limited, for this and other Office offerings."

"Technical support is not very impressive and is typical of large company software support."

"The solution has sub-folders, which are visible to various team members. If you want to ensure the information is private, you would need to have a certain level of seniority in the office."

"The area that can be improved is to be able to share easily with folks outside the organization and with folks who don't have an office account. Sometimes, when you send a link, you might have some form of repetition. If you don't know how to share it properly, whoever you are sharing it with will have issues using it. Also, the link that you use to share a document can be made a bit shorter. It doesn't have to be long. Typically, when you want to share a document, it has everything, such as the name of the organization, SharePoint, etc. A short URL will be easier to use, and it will just make life easier, especially because a lot of people are now going mobile. I'm not sure if there's a mobile version of Microsoft OneDrive, similar to Google Drive. If they don't have a mobile app, it would also be nice to have a mobile app because that would help in checking out your documents. It would be easy to check your documents on the go on your phone."

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"Improve the user-friendliness."

"The integration with Outlook could be improved."

"We do sell Hyland OnBase, which is probably a competitor to SharePoint and does a lot more. In our own organization, we haven't had a need for it, but certainly, for our customers, we are finding that to be a better fit. In terms of the technical reasons for that, I'm not involved much on that side, so I can't give specifics, but there is certainly room for them to improve or add on certain features that clearly are not available in SharePoint, but they are available in Hyland OnBase."

"It should have more user-friendly customization, as it still requires developers to get engaged and build sites."

"Document management and the ability to easily integrate single sign-on (SSO) are areas for improvement in SharePoint."

"Annoyingly, many new Office 365 apps always end up being only US locale for the first year of their life. Microsoft needs to realise that most of their customers are not in the USA."

"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."

"Flexibility and extensibility, above everything, could be improved."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"It is free if you are using Office 365, and you get a terabyte of storage with your account."

"Using this software, it has had an amazing impact moneywise on our business. It allows us to share documents without the need of extra hardware."

"We pay a lot for the Enterprise version, but it is a premium service."

"This is a pricy solution, given that we are only using it at 50% capacity."

"The licensing is expensive and on a yearly basis."

"OneDrive comes with Microsoft 365 so it is just an added part of that package."

"Costwise, it is a great option. In most cases, it is a free space, which will be more than enough for most customers."

"The price of Microsoft OneDrive is reasonable and compatible with competitors."

"As usual, Microsoft’s licensing structures don’t really seem to fit the needs of their products. This leads to always paying for a project you will never use fully or always be adding to."

"It is very expensive."

"We have purchased add-ons to handle multiple site collections, form creation, and design."

"It comes bundled with the Microsoft 365 pricing plans."

"The data classification and search elements are cheap."

"They are about an eight in comparison to other similar products."

"The licensing model for SharePoint Online is based on per user, and it is monthly. The price of the solution overall is good."

"The pricing works for us."

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Educational Organization

17%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Computer Software Company

10%

Government

13%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Computer Software Company

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Overview

Microsoft OneDrive for Business gives you online storage that works seamlessly with the tools you use every day to create, communicate, and collaborate from your PC/Mac or your iOS, Android, or Windows device.

Microsoft

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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