Microsoft Office SharePoint Server vs Office 365 comparison

"The software is friendly to use for mixing data and analyzing it."

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

"The most valuable aspect of the solution is the fact that it doesn't require coding. You just need to configure it. You don't need to code before getting something running. It makes it very fast."

"The solution is scalable. You can do both horizontal and vertical scaling."

"This solution has provided us with a collaborative workspace to allow everyone to work together and be on the same page."

"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."

"The solution is pretty easy to use for the most part."

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

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

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

"The most innovative feature of Office 365 is the Power Apps, which allows us to automate literally everything that we want automated. For example, sending attachments to specific folders on SharePoint, adding people's SharePoint when certain apps are performed, or emailing certain people at certain instances, such as when you've done a follow-up with the CRM and you need a marketing email to be sent out at a particular point."

"The integration with other applications is pretty good."

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

"I like all of the features."

"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."

"It is stable."

"The GUI is outdated."

"Workflows could be simplified."

"The permission management features need improvement."

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

"Sharepoint doesn't integrate well with Oracle, and we use a lot of Oracle products at our company. Therefore, it makes more sense for us to go to Oracle instead of continuing to use Sharepoint."

"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."

"The search feature needs improvement. I can never find the information I need when I use it."

"I would like to see more Agile techniques and seamless integration with other applications."

"In terms of improvement, it should have tutorials when you first have the opportunity to use it, to be able to really learn it."

"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."

"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."

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

"The security should be improved."

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

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

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

"​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."

"We have a license to use this solution. We have an E3 license which covers many different solutions."

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

"I think that we pay $9.99 USD per user, monthly."

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

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