"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten...Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten."
"The most valuable feature is the Activity flow that is used to catch new activities."
"The solution's most valuable aspects are its collaboration capabilities, its communications site and the innovation within the product itself."
"The implementation and configuring of the resolution are very easy in the online version."
"The support from Microsoft is very quick and they are very proactive."
"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 feature of this solution is the Communication Site."
"The solution is scalable. You can do both horizontal and vertical scaling."
"The solution is pretty easy to use for the most part."
"The forms aspect of the solution, for example, the creation of surveys, is its most valuable aspect."
"The support is an area where the product can improve...If you are having an issue on a Monday, the support personnel will contact you next Monday."
"The inclusion of a file plugin for Windows Explorer would make it easier to use."
"The ability to preview files in different formats should be expanded to include formats such as embedded postscript (EPS), AutoCAD, and Adobe Acrobat PDF."
"The search feature needs improvement. I can never find the information I need when I use it."
"The permission management features need improvement."
"This solution is not very stable. It is useful to arrange data but it's not the best for big data. Sometimes we have issues with our reports as a result."
"The solution needs to be more collaborative. I believe they are just coming up with the themes for this right now."
"I think these tools do a pretty good job. There is only one area of improvement. Maybe Microsoft can invest a little bit more into the ease at which integration can be done with other third party applications."
"The areas around security, such as protection, need to be included."
"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."
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HCL Connections is ranked 6th in Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) with 55 reviews while Microsoft Office SharePoint Server is ranked 11th in Content Collaboration Platforms. HCL Connections is rated 8.2, while Microsoft Office SharePoint Server is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of HCL Connections writes "Provides potent document sharing with good integration with the Microsoft desktop and smartphones". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server writes "Stable, integrates well with Teams, and has flexible and helpful support". HCL Connections is most compared with Skype for Business, SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, Yammer and Atlassian Confluence, whereas Microsoft Office SharePoint Server is most compared with Amazon WorkDocs, Datto Workplace, FileCloud, Kiteworks and CTERA Drive.
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