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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 (6th)
 

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 2.3%, up 1.7% compared to last year.
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, on the other hand, focuses on Content Collaboration Platforms, holds 3.6% mindshare, down 4.2% since last year.
Email Applications Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
HCL Verse2.3%
Google Workspace17.7%
Amazon WorkMail11.1%
Other68.9%
Email Applications
Content Collaboration Platforms Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server3.6%
Box - Intelligent Content Management8.1%
Dropbox Business - Enterprise7.0%
Other81.3%
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.
TL
Enterprise Architect at Veidekke
Creating internal architecture content has become smoother but embedding linked diagrams still needs work
I'm not currently working with IBM, IBM Controller, or other IBM tools. I still do a little bit of work with my previous company, but it's very minor. I don't work with any software or solutions outside of personal productivity suites such as Microsoft Office and things of that nature. I use Microsoft suite, Exchange, Teams, and so on. 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. I'm not directly involved in pricing and licensing, but I work closely with people who are, and my company has a third party to help manage licensing. I don't have the impression that Microsoft is regarded as particularly expensive. The product was licensed directly from Microsoft. I would give Microsoft Office SharePoint Server a rating of seven points on a scale from zero to ten, where ten is the best.

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."
"This solution is the best one."
"We switched to Verse because of enhanced features, better design, and higher security."
"Sharing information is the best feature or advantage of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server based on my experience."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of the product is that it's robust and you can access many features from Microsoft, such as Exchange, through SharePoint."
"Some of the best features with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server are that it is easy to use, security is easy, and it's all integrated into the university's security systems."
"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 is scalable, and you can do both horizontal and vertical scaling."
"There is a lot more flexibility in the cloud, especially for mobile development."
"The most valuable feature is the "Alert Me", which provides the ability to set an alert when content is either added or changed and that the alerts can be either real-time or aggregated for the day or the week."
 

Cons

"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 setup was not very easy due to higher security standards."
"The Branding and User Interface Design and CK Editor should be improved, as well as the upgrade process."
"The search feature needs improvement. I can never find the information I need when I use it."
"The velocity and speed of information retrieval in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server could be improved."
"Probably because I may not have extensively used the advanced search, the search option can sometimes get a little difficult to find out what exactly you're looking for."
"The search functionality on the on-premises version is not very good."
"With the complexity and performance, it's hard to work with."
"The UIs are really clunky and Microsoft needs to fix that."
"However, with time, they raise the price until it becomes somewhat expensive for us."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"This is an affordable solution but the price could be improved."
"The price of the solution is reasonable."
"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."
"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."
"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."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Government
14%
Construction Company
8%
Comms Service Provider
8%
Healthcare Company
8%
Construction Company
10%
Outsourcing Company
10%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Financial Services Firm
8%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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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...
What is your primary use case for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server?
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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