HCL Verse vs Microsoft Office SharePoint Server comparison

"HCL Verse has a nice interface and it is a practical email solution."

"HCL Verse has a nice interface and it is a practical email solution. There are a diverse set of features, such as the search bar on top of the screens."

"The most valuable feature is the mail server."

"This solution is the best one."

"We switched to Verse because of enhanced features, better design, and higher security."

"This product has improved the way our organization functions in the following manner: We are provided with policies and procedures for administration, we can store all the documentation related to all IT projects, and we have developed some workflows for automating licensing requests and other types of requests."

"I believe the control and the restrictions, accesses that we can have once we decide to share any document through Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, are the most beneficial aspects for me."

"Because of the integration of documents stored in SharePoint to be edited by any of the Office Suite products, that overpowers and is a greater good than what DocuShare brought to the company."

"The support from Microsoft is very quick and they are very proactive."

"The forms aspect of the solution, for example, the creation of surveys, is its most valuable aspect."

"The solution is scalable. You can do both horizontal and vertical scaling."

"Using these features together, we converted our paper work to electronic digital data."

"The ability to create simple web pages with diagrams and links is valuable, particularly for intranet work and creating wiki pages for a team to show how we do certain things."

"The solution could improve by allowing us to use a color that we want in the editing boxes."

"Security is very important to us, so improvements to this functionality are welcome."

"The solution could improve by allowing us to use a color that we want in the editing boxes."

"The setup was not very easy due to higher security standards."

"Security is very important to us, so improvements to this functionality are welcome."

"Sharepoint doesn't integrate well with Oracle, and we use a lot of Oracle products at our company."

"The search feature needs improvement. I can never find the information I need when I use it."

"It is a bit restrictive to develop in the cloud version."

"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."

"I would like to see more Agile techniques and seamless integration with other applications."

"The solution needs to have more flexibility. The classic version had more flexibility, however, the modern version has many more limitations."

"One of the reasons why we don't recommend the cloud version of SharePoint is the cost."

"Technical support could be improved. They are not fast enough, especially when we'll go deeper in the product itself. More complex issues make it very tough to find someone that can help you."

"The price of the solution is reasonable."

"This is an affordable solution but the price could be improved."

"It can be expensive for on-premises deployments, especially when you have to support SQL Server as your backend database. That's where the cost comes into play. SQL Server has its own licensing, which Microsoft keeps on changing. Therefore, it can become costly. In the earlier versions of SharePoint, version 2007 or 2010, they had an express version where the SQL Server licensing was free. It wasn't like a full-blown SharePoint. It was only a slimmed-down version. It used to be whatever your hardware costs. You would install the free software and work with it, but you were very limited in what you could do in SharePoint. If you wanted the SharePoint Enterprise Server with all the bells and whistles, then you had to pay more to get the SQL Server license based on the number of users or servers. The subscription model is different for cloud deployments. Licensing is per user and per month. The cost also depends on the storage required. If you have a lot of sites or documents, then you need to expand it based on your needs."

"Pricing plans may be flexible depending on volume usage and your corporate relationship with Microsoft."

"There are some aggressive discounts offered by Microsoft for organizations that are not for profit, which we are, and it makes it quite attractive to consider."

"One of the reasons why we don't recommend the cloud version of SharePoint is the cost. With the on premise version, you pay for the license once. For the cloud version, there is a recurring fee. It is very expensive. They expect everyone to pay $20 or $30 per user per month."