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Chatter vs SharePoint comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Chatter
Average Rating
7.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.9
Number of Reviews
12
Ranking in other categories
Enterprise Social Software (15th)
SharePoint
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
166
Ranking in other categories
Enterprise Content Management (1st), Web Content Management (2nd), Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) (1st), Enterprise Intranet (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

While both are Messaging and Collaboration solutions, they serve different purposes. Chatter is designed for Enterprise Social Software and holds a mindshare of 2.5%, down 4.0% compared to last year.
SharePoint, on the other hand, focuses on Enterprise Content Management, holds 11.8% mindshare, down 14.7% since last year.
Enterprise Social Software Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Chatter2.5%
Slack Business - Enterprise10.5%
Microsoft Teams7.2%
Other79.8%
Enterprise Social Software
Enterprise Content Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
SharePoint11.8%
OpenText Documentum Content Management6.7%
Alfresco5.9%
Other75.6%
Enterprise Content Management
 

Featured Reviews

it_user669357 - PeerSpot reviewer
Salesforce Senior Cloud Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Contextualized collaboration on records allows you to have historical conversations that are accessible by other users.
Chatter is a great way to connect your users, especially if your team is working in multiple time zones or locations. If you're struggling with why to use collaboration tools at all, I'd suggest you watch this video. One the best examples that I've seen is a property team who were managing the entire process from leasing properties with branding to shop merges via Salesforce. All of their notifications were email-based and they were getting 100s per day. By moving these alerts to automated posts into particular groups, the users could not only access multiple updates by using digests instead of per alert, but also choose to control who (group members) and how often they get those alerts.
AnjneyBhardwaj - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Market Research Analyst at IDC Corporate
Collaboration has improved through simplified document access and controlled sharing
SharePoint is definitely used to keep a record of our files and data. The capability is quite good because it is time-saving. I have used it only four or five times, but it has been very helpful to keep all my information in a consolidated manner. The search feature is one of the most beneficial factors that we use to filter out the latest data or the latest file as per our convenience and use case. When you have a large repository, this feature is particularly valuable. Role-based access control has been helpful while developing the knowledge platform. The roles were defined clearly, which made it easy for the four or five of us to work simultaneously and collaborate on our project in a similar manner.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Salesforce being the number one cloud-based CRM product, I think one can recommend it in the first go."
"The conversation function to engage different groups is the most valuable feature."
"It offers more than what you are looking for, for example, file sharing and "mentions"."
"It helped us to strengthen our digital community all over the world with a dedicated group to share project information and best practices."
"Salesforce Chatter allows for contextualized collaboration on records that allows you to have historical conversations, which are easily accessible by other users."
"I love the streaming feed of information from the people that I'm following that encourages collaboration at a business level."
"It is now possible to share information instantly with all the company without sending emails, but also looking for a topic using the search function."
"Its configuration management ability is critical for document-based systems."
"SharePoint provides out-of-the-box data indexing and caching."
"As a portal, EDM platform for organizations, I think it is an excellent product."
"For a medium to large scale business, it is excellent."
"The best feature that I found for SharePoint was having a main point of contact for everyone involved."
"It has improved our productivity to a great extent with its great collaboration features."
"It is a good solution for the enterprise level."
"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."
 

Cons

"Live consumption of the communication needs to be improved so that it can offer more features similar to Twitter/Slack, such as a live rolling news feed, notification bells (to avoid email alerts), ability to share multiple files or actions in one post, etc."
"I would rate the technical support a 7/10 because Salesforce has its own way of looking at technical issues and sometimes takes its own time to implement or release changes as per their convenience."
"Chatter invites should be possible from the UI on opportunity records."
"We would not select them again."
"I wish an organization could create a company-wide Chatter that automatically follows everyone else in the company so that widespread access was guaranteed."
"The storage of documents was quite limited when we used the tool."
"SharePoint Designer enables creating workflows easily. However, they produce errors at times."
"You still need a bit of expertise to add branding."
"Due to the flexibility and power of the product, out of the box it can be daunting to use."
"Office 365 SharePoint is a powerful and great tool, as long as your libraries’ content is limited in terms of the number of files. For huge data uploads, limitation problems will start popping up."
"SharePoint sometimes cannot handle the amount of co-editing that we do."
"It would be nice if the editing and setting up of SharePoint were more user-friendly, so I do not have to have an expert to deal with it."
"The technical support level is practically nil."
"It is not really better; we use the same solution as before with Google Drive and the Google App solution."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"They are about an eight in comparison to other similar products."
"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."
"SharePoint is included with our Microsoft license."
"The data classification and search elements are cheap."
"It is very expensive.​"
"The pricing is competitive."
"Any extended support from Microsoft is expensive."
"The cost is expensive, but worthwhile."
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Comparison Review

it_user8925 - PeerSpot reviewer
Developer with 51-200 employees
Aug 23, 2013
Jive vs Sharepoint vs Drupal Commons
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
18%
Financial Services Firm
15%
Manufacturing Company
13%
Comms Service Provider
12%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Government
9%
Construction Company
8%
Manufacturing Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business9
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise1
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business81
Midsize Enterprise40
Large Enterprise84
 

Questions from the Community

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for SharePoint?
I do not know the difference between the prices of the two solutions; I did not work on this project.
What needs improvement with SharePoint?
I don't know how SharePoint can be improved because it works effectively, so I can't think of any improvement. It exists in the background, similar to Windows, where you don't think about it, but i...
What is your primary use case for SharePoint?
I have been using SharePoint for three years since I began employment at Wartsila. My main use case for SharePoint is storing documents, meeting recordings, and visiting websites created by my coll...
 

Also Known As

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SharePoint 2007, SharePoint 2010
 

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Sample Customers

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