Egnyte vs Office 365 comparison

Egnyte and Microsoft are both solutions in the Content Collaboration Platforms category. Egnyte is ranked #15, while Microsoft is ranked #2 with an average rating of 8.5. Egnyte holds a 6.2% mindshare in CCP, compared to Microsoft’s 6.9% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Egnyte users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 95% of Microsoft users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jun 29, 2025

Egnyte and Office 365 are key players in the cloud storage and productivity software market. Office 365 leads with a comprehensive feature set, surpassing Egnyte despite its competitive pricing and strong support.

Features: Egnyte provides robust file-sharing, secure data management, and collaboration tools that are ideal for businesses prioritizing security. Office 365 offers a vast suite of productivity applications like Word, Excel, and Teams, making it extremely versatile for varied business applications. Its expansive feature set meets a wide array of business requirements effectively.

Room for Improvement: Egnyte could improve by expanding its feature offerings beyond data management to enhance versatility. Additionally, greater integration capabilities with third-party applications would enhance its functionality. Simplifying user interface navigation could also benefit user experience. Office 365 could focus on simplifying its deployment process, which can be complex due to the multitude of applications. Enhancing mobile app performance and providing more cost-effective premium options could also add value for users. Increased offline capabilities for essential applications would be an advantageous addition.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Egnyte ensures streamlined deployment with robust customer support tailored to its platform, making it user-friendly. Office 365, while offering complex deployment due to its extensive suite, benefits from extensive Microsoft support resources that facilitate a smooth user experience. Office 365's widespread adoption and comprehensive support options provide an advantage in ease of deployment.

Pricing and ROI: Egnyte's pricing is attractive with lower setup costs, giving a solid ROI especially through secure file storage. In contrast, Office 365's higher pricing is justified by its wide bundle of productivity tools, offering significant overall ROI when fully integrated into business operations due to its broad capabilities.

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Categories and Ranking

Egnyte

Ranking in Content Collaboration Platforms

15th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Office 365

Ranking in Content Collaboration Platforms

2nd

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

143

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2025, in the Content Collaboration Platforms category, the mindshare of Egnyte is 6.2%, up from 3.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Office 365 is 6.9%, up from 5.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Jonathan Songoni

Manager of Operations at a engineering company with 10,001+ employees

A great solution for uploading files with good protection and security features

We use this solution to upload our files according to our activities for the project. All the files we create are uploaded or saved on Egnyte Connect to protect and securitize them Egnyte Connect is a great application to save files. All files are secure and available. If we are connected, we can…

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Gary Cook

Executive at Empowered Analytics

Access to advanced features boosts productivity despite pricing concerns in developing regions

I need to do maintenance for Office 365 very seldom, once a year. In the maintenance process for Office 365, we have about 12 people involved. For the maintenance side of Office 365, only one person is involved. Looking at Office 365's pricing, I would give it a 4 on a scale from 1 to 10. My overall rating for Office 365 is an 8 out of 10, but for the product itself, I would give it a 10. I would definitely recommend Office 365 to other businesses, probably a 9 out of 10 for recommendation. This is only because of its price and the fact that they do not take into account developing countries such as South Africa, where they should give us more favorable prices or local prices. We do not have a partnership with Microsoft, which is a sore point for us. We have reached out to Microsoft South Africa, and they are very hard to contact and largely uncooperative. We are a B-Level 2 and a B-Level 1, which are local affirmative action ratings that companies get. Level 1 is the highest, and Level 8 is the lowest. We hold amongst the highest BEE ratings, but we have not found Microsoft South Africa to be forthcoming or very open. We should have a partnership with them, and we run Power BI as we are a Power BI shop now. I strongly would want to see a box within Office 365 for our team to have ChatGPT through OpenAI as well. We use Excel as a data source for many tasks and find that it integrates really well with Python. We write a lot of Python code and use Excel as a data sheet many times, and we operate through SQL and other zero elements as well. From an Office 365 viewpoint, we find that with Copilot and Python and Excel's provision for Python, it is very useful.

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Pros

"Egnyte Connect is a great application to save files."

"You can really do a lot of cool things with it in terms of being able to co-author and share documents with users that are not in your organization."

"It provides a way to granularly choose which folders from the internet you want to sync to your computer. It is really useful for people who are working on teams that are working with files that are frequently changing. You can go in and pretty clearly see what changes have been made. It gives you a constant feed."

"It is scalable and stable."

"It is a good storage solution."

"It's easy to move files around, even to, for example, SharePoint."

"From a small firm perspective, Egnyte Connect is simple, it is easy to get users up and running the same day, and I have nothing negative to say about the software. I can't speak to how Egnyte Connect would operate in a midsize company or even a large Fortune 500 company, but, from our perspective as a small business, it is fantastic."

"It has more features than somebody would expect, and it is worth taking a deeper look into the features available."

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

"It's nice that it's an all-in-one solution and everything is all in one place."

"I love all of the applications being interlinked. I do not have to separately work on an independent system when it comes to file storage, email, and other tools."

"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."

"The functionality that is most valuable is the solution's ability to detect patient data in email attachments. Whenever a user sends out an email with patient data embedded in an attachment, it triggers an alert. The tool can detect a social security number and various other forms of patient identity. Emails are then automatically generated and sent."

"The product helps us be more efficient. It helps us to have a standardized way of doing things."

"It's very stable."

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Cons

"As of right now, I have everything that I and my team need."

"Before, when we were starting to use Egnyte, we were struggling with a lot of bugs with Egnyte desktop sync."

"You cannot delete a file when you have uploaded it in error."

"The issue of my authorization token expiring pretty quickly was pretty annoying. On pretty much every update, it would expire on every computer. On every computer update, at the first opportunity, it would expire. When my computer got updated or the authorization got cut, my saved drives would get messed up. So, I had to reconnect them all. I was never able to set up a useful drive system with my local computer with Egnyte Connect. It would be a big improvement if there was a cached system so that when it loses connection, it can still save what kind of connections were set up, and when it reconnects, it repopulates all those. I don't know if that's even possible, but that's the feature I'd want."

"If this solution had a better ability to search, that would be helpful. In addition, if there was an ability to collaborate, that would also be a benefit. At present, the vision control is had because if someone gets out of it, it locks. And, whoever saves last overrides everyone's work."

"It would be nice to see an integration of using an active directory to validate and authenticate users on our end as well as on the client user's end."

"I'm not sure if there are areas of improvement. For us, it's working quite well."

"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."

"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."

"It could be more user-friendly for inexperienced people."

"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."

"It needs improvements around its compatibility with non-Microsoft products."

"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."

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

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"I do not have experience with the pricing of this solution."

"As far as I understand, licenses are associated with the Egnyte platform. There aren't any licenses associated with Egnyte Connect."

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

"The pricing/licensing is easy to manage."

"Most of the time, we purchase Microsoft Exchange licenses, which are less expensive and provide only an email platform and 50 gigabytes of email storage for free."

"The price of Office 365 is very expensive."

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

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

"For the moment, we are paying on a monthly basis because we are still adapting the support and how we want to proceed. I think we will move to paying for the annual license."

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

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Educational Organization

12%

Computer Software Company

11%

Construction Company

Financial Services Firm

Educational Organization

32%

Computer Software Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

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Midsize Enterprise

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Microsoft Office 365, Office 365 Enterprise, Office 365 Enterprise E1, Office 365 Enterprise E3, Office 365 Enterprise E5, Office 365 ProPlus, Office 365 Business, Office 365 Business Essentials, Office 365 Business Premium, Office 365 F1

Overview

Egnyte is a hybrid cloud storage service that provides online file sharing, file transfer, and cross-office syncing solutions to small, medium, and large businesses. The company specializes in providing businesses with customizable solutions using both cloud-only technology and local storage. Businesses using Egnyte's services benefit from increased efficiency, reliable security, and removal of communication barriers. Egnyte, like many of its competitors, features customizable services that help businesses stay organized and productive while maintaining a high level of security. In order to provide uninterrupted levels of security, Egnyte only allows access to files though certificate-based trusted devices via a two-step login verification process. Egnyte offers businesses control over its services with the ability to monitor use and access information through a single, user-friendly control panel, which is accessible in any web browser. The Egnyte platform is able to integrate with local storage, providing businesses with the option of using cloud-based storage or local devices, depending upon security preferences. Companies with satellite locations or remote employees benefit from Egnyte's flexible deployment models, scalable file sharing, and high speed collaboration capabilities regardless of changes in bandwidth limitations across locations. Additionally, Egnyte's platform makes use of hybrid storage synchronization, which reduces bandwidth saturation and increases performance. Egnyte appeals to growing businesses because it offers customizable services and flexible file sharing solutions. Atlanta Fine Homes Sotheby's International Realty, with over 275 agents and employees spread throughout the Atlanta metro area, was struggling to increase the efficiency of staff communication. After working with Egnyte, Atlanta Fine Homes Sotheby's International Realty was able to develop a hybrid file sharing infrastructure that allowed for the syncing and sharing of large files, protection of confidential information, and a reduction in bandwidth use.

Egnyte

Office 365 is more than just Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. It provides powerful services like business-class email, online storage, and teamwork solutions that you can access from anywhere. Bring teams and resources together with solutions like Microsoft Teams and Skype for Business that make working together more productive and enjoyable regardless of where participants are located. Easily implement security and privacy controls to help protect business data and devices against malicious threats and help you meet your compliance obligations. Automatic updates ensure your employees will always have the latest features and security updates.

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M&C Saatchi, FMC Technologies, Learfield Communications Inc., Aerohive Networks, Devcon, Semperian, Balfour Beatty Construction, Red Bull

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