We performed a comparison between Microsoft Office SharePoint Server and Microsoft Teams based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Content Collaboration Platforms solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The software is friendly to use for mixing data and analyzing it."
"The solution's most valuable features is its document management. It allows sharing with external users and integrates well with Office apps and Microsoft Flow."
"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."
"The solution is scalable. You can do both horizontal and vertical scaling."
"The collaboration, the ability for multiple users to work on a single document."
"The support from Microsoft is very quick and they are very proactive."
"The most valuable feature is that it is very usable. I can navigate it, I can have a media call, I can have a call with my project team, so we can chat with every team kind of like WhatsApp. Any time there are projects or other things, we can chat in a secure way. It's automation-specific secure."
"It is a decent tool for collaboration, especially if you are already using other Office products."
"The communication part has been excellent so far."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Teams is its video calling feature which makes it easier to work on the solution."
"The most valuable features are the messaging and the video calling, especially where you can add a background."
"You can use Microsoft Teams to chat with people, share your documents, manage your calendar, manage your project, and assign tasks."
"Microsoft Teams is an easy-to-use solution."
"The most valuable features of Microsoft Teams are the ease of use. It is very good for a small virtual office for meetings and calendars which sync well together."
"Microsoft Teams is a very good collaborative tool."
"This is a reliable and stable solution."
"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."
"Workflows could be simplified."
"The ability to preview files in different formats should be expanded to include formats such as embedded postscript (EPS), AutoCAD, and Adobe Acrobat PDF."
"The permission management features need improvement."
"The search feature needs improvement. I can never find the information I need when I use it."
"I think these tools do a pretty good job. There is only one area of improvement. Maybe Microsoft can invest a little bit more into the ease at which integration can be done with other third party applications."
"The user interface needs improvement because there is a lot of stuff in there. I use five to eight navigation buttons. It should be more user-friendly. Frequently used menu items should be arranged in a proper way. That would be helpful."
"The solution needs to be more collaborative. I believe they are just coming up with the themes for this right now."
"The integration with SharePoint can be cumbersome at times."
"Microsoft Teams is quite demanding on bandwidth, which has been a problem during the COVID situation because we don't get enterprise-class bandwidth at home."
"The solution's user interface could be improved because it initially looked complex."
"The solution needs to be more stable. I have found Zoom to be more stable than Teams."
"Microsoft Teams has a limitation on the number of people, which could be increased."
"I don't like the online version of Word and Excel. It skews the layout. It is no longer representative of the layout that you actually have in a document. You always have to open it in the desktop application to get an accurate representation of how the document will look."
"At times, we encounter difficulties with remote access through Teams, which requires improvement."
"It consumes a high amount of system memory."
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Microsoft Office SharePoint Server is ranked 11th in Content Collaboration Platforms while Microsoft Teams is ranked 5th in Virtual Meetings with 145 reviews. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server is rated 7.6, while Microsoft Teams is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server writes "Stable, integrates well with Teams, and has flexible and helpful support". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Teams writes "Great for project planning and monitoring with easy communication capabilities". Microsoft Office SharePoint Server is most compared with Amazon WorkDocs, Datto Workplace, FileCloud, Kiteworks and HighQ, whereas Microsoft Teams is most compared with Atlassian Confluence, SharePoint, Symphony, Loom and Chatter. See our Microsoft Office SharePoint Server vs. Microsoft Teams report.
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