Microsoft Office SharePoint Server vs Office 365 comparison

"Document management and records management features are the most valuable."

"The level of stability is good."

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

"The most valuable feature of this solution is the Communication Site."

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

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

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

"I like Office 365's usability."

"Using Office 365 has allowed us to go digital and onboard people seamlessly for working at home during the COVID pandemic."

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

"OneNote is the feature I use the most. We also frequently use the Power Apps features."

"I like that it is cloud-based, wherefrom any computer I can access my documents and continue working."

"Many of the features in Office 365 are good, but I think Excel is a very good tool."

"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."

"​Great impact on project management and team collaboration."

"The ability to preview files in different formats should be expanded to include formats such as embedded postscript (EPS), AutoCAD, and Adobe Acrobat PDF."

"The product could be improved by accommodating different technologies, particularly integration."

"I would like to see the integration with Teams reinforced."

"The solution is like a CRM, so the initial setup is complex. It takes a few days to deploy the solution and the length of time depends on how large the company's topology is and what the client's demands are."

"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."

"Many of our customers would like to see an OCR feature, so it would be very good to have this in a future release."

"The solution needs to enable better sharing capabilities between users and external users. Several users also have problems with linking their emails to their Microsoft account."

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

"Could include integration with other single sign-on solutions."

"Microsoft Defender for Office 365 could use some customization, but this area for improvement is trivial."

"Performance-wise, Office 365 needs a lot of bandwidth. The problem is, the solution requires very high bandwidth and internet usage. Meaning, the desktop application consumes a lot of internet data. Sometimes, when the connection is slow, it won't work and it won't load. This is an area for improvement for Office 365."

"Integration between Outlook calendar and Google Calendar would be a good improvement since many of our team use Android phones and personal Gmail accounts as their main calendar application."

"Microsoft Word is a little bit left behind regarding the tools it has."

"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."

"Office 365 could be easier to use at first. Tutorials are needed to know how to use the solution."

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

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

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

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

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

"​The pricing/licensing is easy to manage."

"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 price of Office 365 is very expensive."

"The pricing is good for all the features that we receive, e.g., Skype for Business."