We performed a comparison between HCL Sametime and Office 365 based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Zoom Video Communications, Cisco, TeamViewer and others in Virtual Meetings."I can view the status and availability of colleagues or team members, which makes it easy to approach them when they are available."
"The most valuable feature is the integration with OneDrive, which has allowed us, a small business, easy access to a cloud environment, with no need to back up the data from five different computers."
"The most valuable feature of Office 365 is that it has many solutions bundled together."
"There's a lot there in terms of apps and features."
"The products are quite simple for the end-users to use, the up-time is very good, the product is practically maintenance-free, and the multi-layer security is excellent from the security standpoint."
"The most valuable feature is Microsoft Exchange."
"Most of the work that seems not to work offline works perfectly with Microsoft Office 2013, like converting a Word document to a PDF file."
"I love all of the applications being interlinked. I do not have to separately work on an independent system when it comes to file storage, email, and other tools."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the integration."
"The webinar should be integrated into Sametime for a larger number of participants."
"Security is still complex, but the admin console improving."
"Constantly evolving with new features, which can be challenging for users."
"Could include integration with other single sign-on solutions."
"I would like to see the macro functionality in Excel made simpler."
"Normally, they have a way to work with specific developments, and I think they shouldn't allow the partners to make some changes they have made. When I have a client with a lot of changes, we have a problem with that because there aren't rules to develop inside the ERP, so you can do anything."
"I'd like to see them add more features in the future in order to continue to advance the product."
"Office 365 could allow for smoother collaboration with other companies, which is the main reason we use it. The B2B connection is something we need, like global adverse lists between two tenants or multiple users. That's what we're missing at the moment."
"Integration between Outlook calendar and Google Calendar would be a good improvement since many of our team use Android phones and personal Gmail accounts as their main calendar application."
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HCL Sametime is ranked 26th in Virtual Meetings while Office 365 is ranked 3rd in Content Collaboration Platforms with 54 reviews. HCL Sametime is rated 8.0, while Office 365 is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of HCL Sametime writes "Easily communicate and share files with colleagues". 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 Sametime is most compared with Zoom, whereas Office 365 is most compared with Atlassian Confluence, Amazon WorkDocs, Citrix ShareFile, Box and Dropbox.
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