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."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 solution is quite intuitive and easy to use."
"There's a lot there in terms of apps and features."
"There are no more server and hardware operational costs and downtime, updates, etc. for all the workloads available. Newer features and updates are available immediately. Can be managed from a single web interface. Cloud-based, so same experience for all users, regardless of location."
"Reliable without any glitches."
"There are all sorts of really good tools for use on the information security side that allow us to make sure that our people are doing business and doing business right."
"If you have a global solution, you can go from one product to the other very easily. And then you can share data between all the different tools of Office which is good because participation and sharing is very good. That's the most important aspect of Office 365."
"Quarantine email alerts to users to allow the email to their inbox (tricky but handy) - tricky if one doesn't have third-party email security, handy if one has got good third party email security)."
"It offers an easy way to store unstructured content (.pdf, .doc, .xls, images) and to tag them with metadata."
"Information is now available instantly to managers on all devices."
"The ability to have version control and co-editing is vital to our workflows."
"For SharePoint, I believe the most valuable feature is the customization and allowing you to share and edit files and documents. Being able to share externally and the precise administration of the files in terms of giving permissions and controlling who has access to what is a very good feature."
"We can arrange all our documents on one platform and see the document's changes and edits."
"SharePoint enabled the staff to share documents and work on a document simultaneously."
"It offers ease of use, which is crucial."
"The most valuable features are the collaboration and sharing."
"They should do more testing before product releases."
"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."
"Normally, they have a way to work with specific developments, and I think they shouldn't allow the partners to make some changes they have made. When I have a client with a lot of changes, we have a problem with that because there aren't rules to develop inside the ERP, so you can do anything."
"Data protection and email security are almost the same for all the organizations, irrespective of their segment (SMB or enterprises), with standard subscription at least basic Data loss prevention and Advance threat protection can be enabled for SMB segments, it is available in enterprise version / Premium versions."
"I'd like to see them add more features in the future in order to continue to advance the product."
"Office 365 could allow for smoother collaboration with other companies, which is the main reason we use it. The B2B connection is something we need, like global adverse lists between two tenants or multiple users. That's what we're missing at the moment."
"It would be a fantastic opportunity if their solution could be used in combination with VoIP software, allowing you to combine VoIP software and Office 365 on a single platform."
"Using Office 365 is not that flexible on some mobile devices, like Android."
"We would like more security features, like automating."
"The product could be improved in a lot of way. It is so frustrating to get things to work as advertised."
"The company also needs to make sure that their policies are dictating how information is stored and used, instead of letting SharePoint take control."
"Make it more intuitive."
"The limitations and boundaries must be extended."
"SharePoint Online could improve the user interface and when modifying any of the user interfaces can be challenging. Additionally, there are challenges with the detail in the analytics user interface and the overall customization could improve."
"It should have a Google-caliber search ability and a model-based GUI."
"This solution would benefit from the implementation of enhanced online forms and template development capabilities."
Office 365 is ranked 6th 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 Zoom, whereas SharePoint is most compared with Citrix ShareFile, Microsoft OneDrive, Dropbox, WordPress and Box. See our Office 365 vs. SharePoint report.
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