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HCL Verse vs Microsoft Office SharePoint Server comparison

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Categories and Ranking

HCL Verse
Average Rating
9.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.6
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
Email Applications (13th)
Microsoft Office SharePoint...
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
4.3
Number of Reviews
40
Ranking in other categories
Content Collaboration Platforms (5th)
 

Mindshare comparison

While both are Messaging and Collaboration solutions, they serve different purposes. HCL Verse is designed for Email Applications and holds a mindshare of 2.4%, up 1.6% compared to last year.
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, on the other hand, focuses on Content Collaboration Platforms, holds 3.5% mindshare, down 5.2% since last year.
Email Applications Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
HCL Verse2.4%
Google Workspace16.6%
Amazon WorkMail10.4%
Other70.6%
Email Applications
Content Collaboration Platforms Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server3.5%
Office 3657.7%
Box - Intelligent Content Management7.7%
Other81.1%
Content Collaboration Platforms
 

Featured Reviews

MR
Diretor at MASTERDOM
Stable, scalable, and good interface
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 usability from the old applications to the new version has been very good. It was great that we were able to migrate applications from the older version to the new one.
Ivan Angelov - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Executive at synergyc
Has supported team collaboration needs while remaining manageable in complexity
It is very hard for me to tell you what can be better in this solution. I could ask the technical staff who can actually give better information than me because I'm not entirely sure what their struggle was technically. I know in the end it worked. It wasn't a high price and high maintenance for us. Maybe the issue was more on our side technically to develop. I'm not sure what exactly the challenge was, so I don't want to provide misleading information. From a design standpoint, I think it is sometimes hard to represent when there's a huge volume of data and specific requirements that are outside of the solution itself. It's hard to replicate and takes a lot of time. From team to team and from application to application, the requirements were varying. So maybe it's not out-of-box suitable for all of our needs. The business is specific; you can't put everything in one bucket. When it comes to training the people working with it and onboarding new people to work with it, it's easy and the learning path is easy, which is good. You can quickly get people up to speed with it. This is the plus.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"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."
"We switched to Verse because of enhanced features, better design, and higher security."
"This solution is the best one."
"What I appreciate most about Microsoft Office SharePoint Server is how it centralizes information and collaboration in one place."
"The solution is a Microsoft product, so they are constantly improving the solution."
"Sharing information is the best feature or advantage of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server based on my experience."
"It is a decent tool for collaboration, especially if you are already using other Office products."
"Enhanced user access management features fully integrated with Active Directory allowed us to gain the trust of the users and they use SharePoint to store and share all company digital content created by them."
"Document management and records management features are the most valuable."
"Using these features together, we converted our paper work to electronic digital data."
"The feature that I value the most about Microsoft Office SharePoint Server is the ability to have multiple persons in a file at the same time, which was not possible when we started using computers."
 

Cons

"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."
"The search functionality on the on-premises version is not very good."
"From Microsoft, the support normally takes longer than we need and it's not a route we appreciate."
"Microsoft's technical support could potentially improve as they are not easily accessible."
"The UIs are really clunky and Microsoft needs to fix that."
"The solution requires a lot of hardware capacity for high availability and performance."
"Microsoft Office SharePoint Server is more accessible for the average user, but it lacks certain features that more advanced users would look for, making it seem unnecessarily complicated to do simple things or things one expects to be simple."
"Regarding the setup for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, I have to rate it lower, maybe a seven out of 10, as it is a little bit more complex and not so easy to use in some use cases."
"The solution needs to have more flexibility. The classic version had more flexibility, however, the modern version has many more limitations."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price of the solution is reasonable."
"This is an affordable solution but the price could be improved."
"Pricing plans may be flexible depending on volume usage and your corporate relationship with Microsoft."
"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."
"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."
"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."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Government
17%
Comms Service Provider
8%
University
8%
Construction Company
8%
Construction Company
12%
Outsourcing Company
11%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Financial Services Firm
7%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business13
Midsize Enterprise13
Large Enterprise17
 

Questions from the Community

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server?
I am not aware of the pricing, so I cannot say if the solution is expensive or quite affordable.
What needs improvement with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server?
My expectation when I start using a Microsoft product is that it would be easy to incorporate diagrams and such from other Microsoft Office products. Incorporating a diagram I've embedded in a slid...
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I produce content about the work I'm doing inside the company, making information about IT architecture, work processes within IT architecture, and security reviews of applications or infrastructur...
 

Also Known As

Verse, IBM Verse
Office SharePoint Server, MS Office SharePoint Server
 

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Sample Customers

Canon Marketing Japan Inc., Australian Trade Commission, BTC, Havas, Canal Barge Co.Inc., RAVInvest, Elemental Path, WDR mediagroup
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