Microsoft Office SharePoint Server vs Office 365 comparison

"The collaboration, the ability for multiple users to work on a single document."

"The level of stability is good."

"The implementation and configuring of the resolution are very easy in the online version."

"The solution's most valuable aspects are its collaboration capabilities, its communications site and the innovation within the product itself."

"The support from Microsoft is very quick and they are very proactive."

"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."

"It is a decent tool for collaboration, especially if you are already using other Office products."

"The most valuable feature of this solution is the Communication Site."

"The most valuable feature of this solution is the integration."

"The products are quite simple for the end-users to use, the up-time is very good, the product is practically maintenance-free, and the multi-layer security is excellent from the security standpoint."

"Cloud-based management is valuable and software deployment is positive."

"OneNote is the feature I use the most. We also frequently use the Power Apps features."

"The way the ERP presents information for the user is very good."

"As an email provider, I believe Office 365 is the best email provider."

"The integration with other applications is pretty good."

"Many of the features in Office 365 are good, but I think Excel is a very good tool."

"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."

"I would like to see the integration with Teams reinforced."

"Many of our customers would like to see an OCR feature, so it would be very good to have this in a future release."

"The solution needs to enable better sharing capabilities between users and external users. Several users also have problems with linking their emails to their Microsoft account."

"This solution is not very stable. It is useful to arrange data but it's not the best for big data. Sometimes we have issues with our reports as a result."

"The solution needs to be more collaborative. I believe they are just coming up with the themes for this right now."

"The solution needs to have more flexibility. The classic version had more flexibility, however, the modern version has many more limitations."

"The areas around security, such as protection, need to be included."

"Sometimes the synchronization between the desktop and online is a little bit slow."

"The feature to convert PDF file to a Word document needs improvement as well as the feature to save the file automatically when typing, without using the save command."

"As a private user, I do not appreciate the cloud features, but I doubt that this is something Microsoft would consider a feature request."

"I rate the support of Office 365 a four out of five."

"Could include integration with other single sign-on solutions."

"They should do more testing before product releases."

"Integration between Outlook calendar and Google Calendar would be a good improvement since many of our team use Android phones and personal Gmail accounts as their main calendar application."

"I'd like to see them add more features in the future in order to continue to advance the product."

"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."

"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."

"Pricing plans may be flexible depending on volume usage and your corporate relationship with Microsoft."

"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."

"Licensing, billing, and accounting are available from the management interface."

"The pricing is high and has actually caused us to limit the number of licenses we purchase due to budgeting."

"​The pricing/licensing is easy to manage."

"The pricing is not really high, but one can get the software with the license key for free."

"The pricing is good for all the features that we receive, e.g., Skype for Business."

"Licensing fees are paid on a monthly basis, or we prepay them."

"Good reporting and good value subscriptions for international calls."

"I would rate the solution 3 out of 5 for the price. I think Microsoft presents a good solution concerning the price."