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Drupal vs Microsoft Teams comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Drupal
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
37
Ranking in other categories
Web Content Management (5th), Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) (4th)
Microsoft Teams
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.8
Number of Reviews
177
Ranking in other categories
Virtual Meetings (4th), Enterprise Social Software (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

Drupal and Microsoft Teams aren’t in the same category and serve different purposes. Drupal is designed for Web Content Management and holds a mindshare of 9.2%, up 6.8% compared to last year.
Microsoft Teams, on the other hand, focuses on Virtual Meetings, holds 3.1% mindshare, up 3.1% since last year.
Web Content Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Drupal9.2%
Adobe Experience Manager8.9%
SharePoint7.3%
Other74.6%
Web Content Management
Virtual Meetings Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Microsoft Teams3.1%
Zoom Workplace Business7.8%
Webex5.5%
Other83.6%
Virtual Meetings
 

Featured Reviews

it_user982032 - PeerSpot reviewer
Owner at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
A good product that helps me to manage complex digital solutions
My advice to others would be that Drupal is not only a CMS, you need to learn the Drupal fundamentals before to start the project. Drupal is a handy tool whenever you work on a digital infrastructure broad project and not only a simple website. So if you have a big project, you can use Drupal. But if you have a small website, like a blog or simple website, my advice would be not to use Drupal, because Drupal is too complex and the cost to maintain the platform can be too high, related to the value of your website, for example. If you have a website with a big product catalog, for example, in many languages and in many countries in the world, then Drupal is good. But if you have a simple website, like a portfolio or five page-website, you can use many other technologies that'd be simple to maintain and implement. On a scale from one to 10, I will rate Drupal an eight. In the next release, I would like to see basic page buttons and better integration with the analytics platform. A drag and drop function to create simple pages will also be handy. For example, if a customer wants to create a landing page, it should be easy for him or her to do so. I would also like to see better translation management.
Anna Virtsan - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Project Manager at UkrSibbank
Have streamlined daily workflow and task management but still face inconvenience from recent interface changes and limited integration options
There are challenges and issues in Microsoft Teams, such as after recent updates where group chats were combined with Teams, chats, and groups into one. Users have to work with settings to make it normal again so Teams are separated from chats, and that was a really inconvenient update. Many users ask me to help make it back again to separate Teams and groups from one-to-one chats. That's probably the worst update they've made recently. Additionally, there are some minor features, such as when I work with messages, I don't have an actual forward or quote option when replying to someone's message. I need to be careful not to miss the quote sign. For a lot of people, they are confused about where the quotes option is. I've received a couple of hundred support tickets just regarding this issue. The function to share email to Teams chat doesn't work sometimes due to our compliance policies, and sometimes it would be nice to be able to forward an email to the group chat and have further discussions. Microsoft Teams could improve by being less glitchy because it glitches a lot, leading to undelivered emails and undelivered messages. It would be beneficial if the MS application Shifts, which adds functionality to groups, could be integrated into the groups calendar. Currently, many teams don't use the app because it is not integrated with the general calendar or the Outlook calendar, making it basically a useless application. The platform needs less Copilot and more people. The general Copilot integration into the platform is less glitchy, but Microsoft Teams is quite heavy and glitchy sometimes. Stability depends a lot on compliance restrictions, policies, and quality of internet. Sometimes, when updates are enrolling, the platform glitches, breaks, or shuts down.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Being a community based product, the relationship with the product itself is providing back to the community."
"It is good for big projects."
"The velocity of its extensibility and prototyping is a valuable feature."
"With over 23,000 contributed modules, there’s a high chance that any feature you want has already been built, and is available for you to use at no cost."
"Drupal CMS helped in the realization of content-rich web sites that combine article presentation with sophisticated, back-end admin functionality."
"We use a part of the solution called Acquia, and the personalization portion of this is the most valuable aspect of the solution."
"In the end, you’ll have a solid CMS platform with which to work."
"Use Drupal if expandability is a must or if you are building a large website with various kinds of functionality."
"The feature for video conferencing capability works efficiently for remote meetings."
"It's great for meeting conferences."
"It is a stable solution."
"I think it has helped me organize my day-to-day activities. It has also helped me to align with the schedule of my colleagues and other partners because there's a feature where we can see the schedule of other Team members."
"The tool is very useful since it helps us to share documents and make calls."
"Overall, this is a very good collaboration product and the only thing stopping me from giving it a perfect grade is the heavy bandwidth usage."
"It's mainly the integration of everything document-wise and the consistency that I really liked within Microsoft Teams."
"The solution provides very clear conferencing, even on mobile devices."
 

Cons

"The admin interface has been lacking in usability."
"Sometimes, you just have to read the code to understand how it works or how to use an API, which is not the best way to learn for everyone."
"However, when you want to add a permission to a user role, something as simple as that checkbox, forces a config push, which annoys me."
"Since Drupal is not developed for any specific use cases, it has some learning curve and requires effort to learn."
"Unfortunately, with Drupal, there is a number of learning paradigms that you have to discover, which can make it difficult to understand as a newcomer."
"The user experience in designing layouts should be much easier or much more helpful."
"Admin Interface: You'll often hear that Drupal has a pretty high learning curve."
"It has to improve the speed of the admin section. Sometimes you will get stuck while updating the configurations, especially because it uses AJAX in the interface."
"The tool lacks AI. We will require AI in the solution to be able to integrate with all other tools."
"The solution should fix the ease of use directly outside of the office environment. Right now, unless I'm at my office desktop, it's hard to access it."
"I would rate the stability of Microsoft Teams as a six or seven, as there is a lot of audio drop in between, so it's not that stable."
"The solution's user interface could be improved because it initially looked complex."
"I have had concerns with login and resource consumption using Microsoft Teams, I would consider Zoom or Cisco WebEx as better solutions."
"If I could completely eliminate Outlook and only use Teams, that would help me immensely."
"The call quality could be better sometimes. Microsoft could improve the quality of the backgrounds. File sharing could also be smoother. It takes a lot of clicks to download and copy the links. It should be only one click."
"The solution’s stability could be improved."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I would like to see better pricing."
"I would rate the solution's pricing a nine out of ten."
"Microsoft Teams is a cheap solution because it's included in the Microsoft 365 suite."
"It is a bit more than moderately expensive."
"If you have content that requires more security and you want to use it in a more secure manner, with more protection, then it will come at a higher cost."
"You don't buy only the Teams license; you buy it as part of the Microsoft 365 bundle."
"The tool comes as part of the Office 365 bundle and you don't have to pay anything extra."
"We get the solution on a corporate plan, where everything is included."
"We don't have to pay for the solution."
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Comparison Review

it_user8925 - PeerSpot reviewer
Developer with 51-200 employees
Aug 23, 2013
Jive vs Sharepoint vs Drupal Commons
At Mediacurrent we often get requests to compare Drupal to other platforms used for intranet sites and social business platforms (like https://dev.twitter.com/ for example). This is often referred to as “Social Business Software”, which has grown in popularity in recent years. I decided to do a…
 

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
13%
Government
12%
Construction Company
8%
Marketing Services Firm
8%
Financial Services Firm
20%
Construction Company
9%
Marketing Services Firm
8%
Manufacturing Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business15
Midsize Enterprise13
Large Enterprise11
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business66
Midsize Enterprise45
Large Enterprise71
 

Questions from the Community

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What do you like most about Microsoft Teams?
The most valuable feature of Microsoft Teams for us is the ability to share files from OneDrive seamlessly.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Microsoft Teams?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for Microsoft Teams is good and fine.
What needs improvement with Microsoft Teams?
Microsoft Teams already comes with rich qualities, and the impact on the IT professional is very large with great features in terms of collaboration, team activity engagements, and friendly emojis ...
 

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Sample Customers

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