"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."
"Cloud-based management is valuable and software deployment is positive."
"The product helps us be more efficient. It helps us to have a standardized way of doing things."
"As an email provider, I believe Office 365 is the best email provider."
"We use it for documentation management, to collaborate with Microsoft Teams, web calls, web conference calls, chats, and as a documentation repository mainly. We have an Office pack suite to be able to write documentation, make spreadsheets, and create PowerPoints."
"It is very easy to deploy."
"I like that it is cloud-based, wherefrom any computer I can access my documents and continue working."
"The most valuable feature is Microsoft Exchange."
"If you have a global solution, you can go from one product to the other very easily. And then you can share data between all the different tools of Office which is good because participation and sharing is very good. That's the most important aspect of Office 365."
"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 one big problem with the solution is if you are presenting in Teams and someone puts their hand up, you don't get a notification. If you are running a meeting and just presenting you don't know that people have their hands up and want to ask a question."
"Data protection and email security are almost the same for all the organizations, irrespective of their segment (SMB or enterprises), with standard subscription at least basic Data loss prevention and Advance threat protection can be enabled for SMB segments, it is available in enterprise version / Premium versions."
"There are some complexities to the initial setup if you use some of the more advanced features."
"It could be more user-friendly for inexperienced people."
"In the next release, I would like to have a more intuitive tutorial."
"It needs improvements around its compatibility with non-Microsoft products."
"As a private user, I do not appreciate the cloud features, but I doubt that this is something Microsoft would consider a feature request."
"Microsoft Defender for Office 365 could use some customization, but this area for improvement is trivial."
HCL Connections is ranked 6th in Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) with 55 reviews while Office 365 is ranked 3rd in Content Collaboration Platforms with 54 reviews. HCL Connections is rated 8.2, while Office 365 is rated 8.4. 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 Office 365 writes "Excellent technical support, easy to install, but the price, while affordable, could be improved". HCL Connections is most compared with Skype for Business, SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server and Yammer, whereas Office 365 is most compared with Atlassian Confluence, Amazon WorkDocs, Citrix ShareFile, Box and Dropbox.
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