We performed a comparison between Office 365 and SharePoint 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."It's inexpensive to license."
"The most valuable features of Office 365 are Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Teams. Teams helped us to collaborate more through its call and document sharing features."
"The most valuable feature is the integration with OneDrive, which has allowed us, a small business, easy access to a cloud environment, with no need to back up the data from five different computers."
"Most of the work that seems not to work offline works perfectly with Microsoft Office 2013, like converting a Word document to a PDF file."
"The product helps us be more efficient. It helps us to have a standardized way of doing things."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the integration."
"We use it for documentation management, to collaborate with Microsoft Teams, web calls, web conference calls, chats, and as a documentation repository mainly. We have an Office pack suite to be able to write documentation, make spreadsheets, and create PowerPoints."
"My primary use case is for preparing presentations to teach, often on PowerPoint."
"It has helped us with storing all the documents, which means that people are not going to intervene. There is a way of extracting knowledge within documentation and tracking it. There are knowledge assets for where documentation is stored, indexed and searchable through SharePoint."
"It keeps our company organized and everything is in one place."
"The initial setup is easy."
"Our staff found it simpler, as they did not have to work within a classification system."
"Its most valuable feature is the document library."
"No code and low code, scalable, and stable collaboration platform. Straightforward to set up. Its support system is good and offers fast issue resolution."
"The most valuable features are the collaboration and sharing."
"We can now share to team members by MS Teams and assign planners to follow and update statuses in a single platform."
"Constantly evolving with new features, which can be challenging for users."
"I'm not sure if there are areas of improvement. For us, it's working quite well."
"I'd like to see them add more features in the future in order to continue to advance the product."
"There are some complexities to the initial setup if you use some of the more advanced features."
"It seems like every other week when we log into the administrative portals, it doesn't matter which one, it could be the active directory portal, it could be the exchange admin center or SharePoint admin center, it seems like Microsoft is consistently updating with new versions of the admin centers, which can be frustrating."
"Microsoft Defender for Office 365 could use some customization, but this area for improvement is trivial."
"A need that a company like ours has is that we want to be able to have data flow into one tool, for example, for all the management of tasks through the company and workflow of who is doing what and so on. There are no real solutions for this at the moment in Office 365. It would be nice if they could implement this in the next release, so we can have one solution from one company giving us the whole data and flow of data into the company."
"The one big problem with the solution is if you are presenting in Teams and someone puts their hand up, you don't get a notification. If you are running a meeting and just presenting you don't know that people have their hands up and want to ask a question."
"The company also needs to make sure that their policies are dictating how information is stored and used, instead of letting SharePoint take control."
"The product must provide more automation."
"Flexibility and extensibility, above everything, could be improved."
"The initial setup was very complex."
"Too many versions being released in a short time period. Too much time being devoted to migration planning."
"Search can be improved a lot because we are always trying to compare it with Google Search. Beyond that, it would be helpful to tag the documents."
"We would like more security features, like automating."
"I understand that some functions are lost when you store the information in a file system, so maybe that's a way SharePoint can improve."
Office 365 is ranked 3rd in Content Collaboration Platforms with 54 reviews while SharePoint is ranked 1st in Enterprise Content Management with 146 reviews. Office 365 is rated 8.4, while SharePoint is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Office 365 writes "Great vulnerability insights, offers very impressive cash savings, and offers great information security tools". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SharePoint writes "Good integrations, helps with collaboration, and increases visibility". Office 365 is most compared with Atlassian Confluence, Amazon WorkDocs, Citrix ShareFile, Box and Slack, whereas SharePoint is most compared with Citrix ShareFile, Microsoft OneDrive, Dropbox, Box and WordPress. See our Office 365 vs. SharePoint report.
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