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Categories and Ranking

HipChat [EOL]
Average Rating
7.6
Number of Reviews
10
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
SharePoint
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
166
Ranking in other categories
Enterprise Content Management (1st), Web Content Management (2nd), Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) (1st), Enterprise Intranet (1st)
 

Featured Reviews

it_user669342 - PeerSpot reviewer
Engineering Operations Lead at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
We like setting up automatic notifications to different chat rooms. It talks directly to other Atlasssian products.
The basic version is free to use. We also like setting up automatic notifications to different chat rooms. It is easy to set up new rooms and invite new users. Emoticons are fun and the mobile app is great too Our entire organization uses this as our default messaging app, not just our software…
Ravi Raushan Kumar - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer at ValueMomentum
Centralized document governance has boosted collaboration and made knowledge sharing structured
SharePoint is a powerful platform, but there are a few areas where I think it could be improved, such as user experience. For new users, the interface and navigation can feel quite complex, specifically when working with multiple sites and document libraries. Another improvement would be search functionalities. While it is good sometimes, it does not always return the most relevant result unless a document is very well-structured and tagged. Also, initial setup and customizations can be time-consuming and may require technical expertise, specifically when configuring workflows or permissions. From a modern development perspective, tighter and more seamless integrations with tools including Power Automate and better support for custom backend integrations through APIs could make it more efficient. Overall, simplifying usability and enhancing search and integration capability would make SharePoint even stronger. One additional area I would appreciate improvement would be performance and responsiveness, especially when dealing with a large document library. Sometimes loading or navigating through large datasets can feel quite slow. Another aspect is permissions management. While it is very powerful, it can become complex to manage at scale, specifically when there are multiple levels of access across teams and projects. Improving developer experience would also be beneficial. Making customization, API integrations, and extensions more straightforward would help teams, especially backend developers, leverage SharePoint more efficiently.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Our entire organization uses this as our default messaging app, not just our software engineering teams."
"I would strongly recommend this product."
"If your organization is struggling with team collaboration and never ending email chains, HipChat is the perfect solution for your problems."
"It is a communicator for partners and clients."
"Real time chat organized into channels with archival and search capabilities was a complete game changer for how I work."
"We communicate with teammates instantly within the channel, which helps us to be productive."
"Office 365 SharePoint is a powerful and great tool, as long as your libraries’ content is limited in terms of the number of files."
"The document library feature in this product is most valuable."
"It offers an easy way to store unstructured content (.pdf, .doc, .xls, images) and to tag them with metadata."
"For a medium to large scale business, it is excellent."
"It has helped us collapse all our versions into a single file."
"Its functionality is enormous."
"Sharing information is very easy in SharePoint. We use multiple types of documents, like online Excel tools and online content editing, especially for group editing. This allows us to collaborate, even in distributed teams. Despite being geographically spread out, everyone can access the same files online, edit them, and see changes. We also use SharePoint to track all these changes, making our teamwork more collaborative overall. The tool fastens information sharing and collaboration."
"Overall, since I started using SharePoint, I have seen benefits for sure."
 

Cons

"Occasionally, there were stability issues with uploads and downloads."
"Currently, one email ID is linked to one HipChat cloud group."
"I would like HipChat to be more stable. It crashes pretty often on Windows OS."
"Third-party integrations are continuing to grow, which is good, but sometimes the integration is rocky and not very usable."
"There was some problem with the company firewall. It was not stable in some versions."
"We were actually evaluating a move from HipChat to Slack at my last job out of frustration related to repeated downtime with the service."
"Special implementation and development should be easy."
"SharePoint doesn’t have the Urdu language package, hence we had to work hard for it."
"Replication needs improvement."
"It does not integrate despite being part of the Microsoft family."
"I would like to see the following: More freedom given to a power user Feature development on a site collection level without the need for farm-level rights"
"The user experience is very poor."
"The workflow engine cannot support business needs."
"The user profile synchronization feature is cumbersome to configure and at least initially had some stability issues."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"The pricing is competitive."
"The product is reasonably priced."
"The solution's pricing is relatively expensive because it's bundled with other products."
"The licensing model for SharePoint Online is based on per user, and it is monthly. The price of the solution overall is good."
"The platform has medium pricing."
"SharePoint is included with our Microsoft license."
"Any extended support from Microsoft is expensive."
"It is very expensive.​"
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Comparison Review

it_user8925 - PeerSpot reviewer
Developer with 51-200 employees
Aug 23, 2013
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At Mediacurrent we often get requests to compare Drupal to other platforms used for intranet sites and social business platforms (like https://dev.twitter.com/ for example). This is often referred to as “Social Business Software”, which has grown in popularity in recent years. I decided to do a…
 

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Government
11%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Construction Company
7%
 

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Small Business8
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise1
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business80
Midsize Enterprise40
Large Enterprise83
 

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for SharePoint?
I do not know the difference between the prices of the two solutions; I did not work on this project.
What needs improvement with SharePoint?
SharePoint is a powerful platform, but there are a few areas where I think it could be improved, such as user experience. For new users, the interface and navigation can feel quite complex, specifi...
What is your primary use case for SharePoint?
My main use case for SharePoint is storing data, and it has primarily served as our document management and team collaboration platform. I have used it to organize and share documents, manage versi...
 

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SharePoint 2007, SharePoint 2010
 

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