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Egnyte vs SharePoint comparison

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

Categories and Ranking

Egnyte
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.7
Number of Reviews
6
Ranking in other categories
Content Collaboration Platforms (15th), AI Data Analysis (116th)
SharePoint
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
166
Ranking in other categories
Enterprise Content Management (1st), Web Content Management (3rd), Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) (1st), Enterprise Intranet (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

While both are Messaging and Collaboration solutions, they serve different purposes. Egnyte is designed for Content Collaboration Platforms and holds a mindshare of 4.8%, down 5.0% compared to last year.
SharePoint, on the other hand, focuses on Enterprise Content Management, holds 12.1% mindshare, down 13.9% since last year.
Content Collaboration Platforms Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Egnyte4.8%
Box - Intelligent Content Management8.1%
Dropbox Business - Enterprise7.0%
Other80.1%
Content Collaboration Platforms
Enterprise Content Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
SharePoint12.1%
OpenText Documentum Content Management7.1%
Alfresco5.7%
Other75.1%
Enterprise Content Management
 

Featured Reviews

GG
Chief Operating Officer at Quarem
Fantastic for small businesses; the customer feedback has been great
From a small firm perspective, Egnyte Connect is simple, it is easy to get users up and running the same day, and I have nothing negative to say about the software. I can't speak to how Egnyte Connect would operate in a midsize company or even a large Fortune 500 company, but, from our perspective as a small business, it is fantastic. For us, security was front and center. Usability was also important and took second place. Next, we asked "Is it simple and easy for anyone to quickly learn how to use it?" Egnyte Connect checked that box. Third place for us was price. We liked the fact that they charge on a monthly basis so there is not an annualized upfront fee that we pay.
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

"It centralizes the documentation in one area."
"It provides a way to granularly choose which folders from the internet you want to sync to your computer. It is really useful for people who are working on teams that are working with files that are frequently changing. You can go in and pretty clearly see what changes have been made. It gives you a constant feed."
"Egnyte Connect is a great application to save files."
"Now that the Egnyte vendor upgraded the version and they introduced the Egnyte Connect, there are a lot of features that they added, including co-authoring."
"You can really do a lot of cool things with it in terms of being able to co-author and share documents with users that are not in your organization."
"It's easy to move files around, even to, for example, SharePoint."
"From a small firm perspective, Egnyte Connect is simple, it is easy to get users up and running the same day, and I have nothing negative to say about the software. I can't speak to how Egnyte Connect would operate in a midsize company or even a large Fortune 500 company, but, from our perspective as a small business, it is fantastic."
"It is scalable and stable."
"Microsoft Office 365 has provided us many ways to share documents across a diversity of platforms with a diversity of people (both inside and outside our company)."
"SharePoint 2013 had a better and cleaner user interface that has appealed to more users."
"When properly implemented and users are adequately trained, SharePoint can take the place of network file shares for most types of use cases."
"There are a lot of valuable features (e.g., ease of use, collaboration, integration with LDAP, security, accessibility, stability, etc.)."
"Its functionality is enormous."
"The most valuable features are the Integrations, web site, and search."
"Document flows, storage, and numbering take off the actions for checking and assigning the numbering and running around with approvals and pre-approvals."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is file sharing or information sharing."
 

Cons

"If this solution had a better ability to search, that would be helpful. In addition, if there was an ability to collaborate, that would also be a benefit. At present, the vision control is had because if someone gets out of it, it locks. And, whoever saves last overrides everyone's work."
"The issue of my authorization token expiring pretty quickly was pretty annoying. On pretty much every update, it would expire on every computer. On every computer update, at the first opportunity, it would expire. When my computer got updated or the authorization got cut, my saved drives would get messed up. So, I had to reconnect them all. I was never able to set up a useful drive system with my local computer with Egnyte Connect. It would be a big improvement if there was a cached system so that when it loses connection, it can still save what kind of connections were set up, and when it reconnects, it repopulates all those. I don't know if that's even possible, but that's the feature I'd want."
"It would be nice to see an integration of using an active directory to validate and authenticate users on our end as well as on the client user's end."
"With Egnyte Connect, you cannot delete a file when you have uploaded it in error, which needs improvement."
"Before, when we were starting to use Egnyte, we were struggling with a lot of bugs with Egnyte desktop sync."
"As of right now, I have everything that I and my team need."
"I was never able to set up a useful drive system with my local computer with Egnyte Connect."
"UX performance, especially in Office 365, is an issue when the sites are accessed from Asia and Australia, which is bad compared to accessing them from the USA."
"When used with large data, SharePoint may produce performance degradation; that requires some optimization and tweaks."
"As this is a Microsoft product, it can be difficult to obtain direct support."
"It should have more user-friendly customization, as it still requires developers to get engaged and build sites."
"More hints and make it more user-customizable."
"The workflow engine, MS Workflow Manager, is still in Version 1.0 and the future Microsoft strategy for this product is unclear."
"It tends to be unstable and slow when accessing different features."
"Needs improvement on the user interface."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I do not have experience with the pricing of this solution."
"As far as I understand, licenses are associated with the Egnyte platform. There aren't any licenses associated with Egnyte Connect."
"SharePoint is included with our Microsoft license."
"They are about an eight in comparison to other similar products."
"For this type of solution, it is not wise to buy it without Software Assurance."
"It is pretty reasonable. It is $5 per month per user. We have 12 users now, so it is about $60 per month."
"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 is competitive."
"We have purchased add-ons to handle multiple site collections, form creation, and design."
"Licensing can be by server or by seat."
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Comparison Review

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Developer with 51-200 employees
Aug 23, 2013
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Manufacturing Company
11%
Construction Company
11%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Construction Company
8%
Government
8%
Manufacturing Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business4
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise2
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business81
Midsize Enterprise40
Large Enterprise84
 

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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...
 

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SharePoint 2007, SharePoint 2010
 

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Sample Customers

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