We performed a comparison between M-Files and SharePoint based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Box, DocuWare, Hyland and others in Document Management Software."Using M-Files means anybody on the executive team to go in and immediately look at a dashboard and know the status of a contract."
"For any organization with more than one person in it, if they are trying to organize things to let people in the company know what others are doing, then this solution is good for them."
"The most valuable features of SharePoint Online are content management, document management, and approval processes. Additionally, there are a number of features that provide integration with multiple Office services and external services."
"The ability to quickly and easily create team sites has been great."
"No code and low code, scalable, and stable collaboration platform. Straightforward to set up. Its support system is good and offers fast issue resolution."
"It keeps our company organized and everything is in one place."
"Its functionality is enormous."
"The workflow feature is valuable because it enables us to cascade responsibilities."
"It offers an easy way to store unstructured content (.pdf, .doc, .xls, images) and to tag them with metadata."
"The integration with other products needs to be improved."
"It is too heavy. MS should not have paid foreign coders dollars per each row of code. They wasted the stability and reliability in the end."
"It does not integrate despite being part of the Microsoft family."
"During uptime under our network, it is hard to find info when content is hefty."
"This solution would benefit from the implementation of enhanced online forms and template development capabilities."
"There's a challenge with desktop applications synchronizing with online documents in real-time. If someone is working on a document in the desktop version of Excel, for example, and someone else is editing the same document online, the changes won't sync immediately. That's the only real challenge we've encountered."
"Needs improvement on the user interface."
"The limitations and boundaries must be extended."
"Annoyingly, many new Office 365 apps always end up being only US locale for the first year of their life. Microsoft needs to realise that most of their customers are not in the USA."
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M-Files is ranked 8th in Document Management Software while SharePoint is ranked 1st in Enterprise Content Management with 146 reviews. M-Files is rated 9.0, while SharePoint is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of M-Files writes "Good workflows, and it is easy to use with a dashboard that improves contract visibility". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SharePoint writes "Good integrations, helps with collaboration, and increases visibility". M-Files is most compared with OpenText Extended ECM, OpenText Documentum, IBM FileNet, Microsoft OneDrive and Alfresco, whereas SharePoint is most compared with Citrix ShareFile, Microsoft OneDrive, Dropbox, Box and OpenText Content Manager.
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