Microsoft Office SharePoint Server vs SharePoint comparison

The compared Microsoft Office SharePoint Server and SharePoint solutions aren't in the same category. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server is ranked #3 in CCP , with an average rating of 8.5, and holds a 4.3% mindshare in the category. SharePoint is ranked #1 in ECM , with an average rating of 8.0, and holds a 14.3% mindshare. Additionally, 82% of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 79% of SharePoint users who would recommend it.

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79% willing to recommend

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 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.

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Categories and Ranking

Microsoft Office SharePoint...

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

4.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Content Collaboration Platforms (3rd)

SharePoint

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.5

Number of Reviews

164

Ranking in other categories

Enterprise Content Management (1st), Web Content Management (1st), Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) (1st), Enterprise Intranet (1st)

Mindshare comparison

While both are Messaging and Collaboration solutions, they serve different purposes. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server is designed for Content Collaboration Platforms and holds a mindshare of 4.3%, down 10.1% compared to last year.
SharePoint, on the other hand, focuses on Enterprise Content Management, holds 14.3% mindshare, down 18.6% since last year.

Content Collaboration Platforms Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server	4.3%
Google Workspace	10.2%
Office 365	10.1%
Other	75.4%

Content Collaboration Platforms

Enterprise Content Management Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
SharePoint	14.3%
OpenText Documentum Content Management	9.8%
OpenText Content Management	9.7%
Other	66.2%

Enterprise Content Management

Featured Reviews

Daniel Giacomelli

Security and Compliance at a outsourcing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Has transformed how I manage documents through metadata and automation while enabling structured collaboration

Microsoft should restore some functionalities from older versions of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2003 and 2010. Specifically, bringing back something similar to SharePoint Designer would be beneficial. SharePoint Designer was both advantageous and challenging - developers found it limiting and preferred Visual Studio, while non-developers struggled to use it effectively. A new tool for configuring webpage design and development for content pages would be valuable. The current system is too basic. While integration of filtered lists and libraries is possible, it requires knowledge of Python or jQuery. A WYSIWYG editor would be preferable to requiring programming knowledge or Visual Studio.

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AnjneyBhardwaj

Senior Market Research Analyst at IDC Corporate

Collaboration has improved through simplified document access and controlled sharing

SharePoint is definitely used to keep a record of our files and data. The capability is quite good because it is time-saving. I have used it only four or five times, but it has been very helpful to keep all my information in a consolidated manner. The search feature is one of the most beneficial factors that we use to filter out the latest data or the latest file as per our convenience and use case. When you have a large repository, this feature is particularly valuable. Role-based access control has been helpful while developing the knowledge platform. The roles were defined clearly, which made it easy for the four or five of us to work simultaneously and collaborate on our project in a similar manner.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Microsoft Office SharePoint Server is a scalable solution because our applications are not staying in one place, year on year we are increasing users, so definitely it can scale with what we need."

"The level of stability is good."

"The support from Microsoft is very quick and they are very proactive."

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

"The features for low-code and no-code capabilities in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server are among the best, which are very user-friendly and not seen in any other cloud services, such as S3 from AWS and blob storage from Azure."

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

"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's most valuable aspects are its collaboration capabilities, its communications site and the innovation within the product itself."

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"The most valuable features of SharePoint include the ability to co-edit documents in the Office suite, particularly Excel and Word."

"Tech support tops off as excellent."

"Ability to store files of any type."

"The search feature is valuable."

"There is not just one valuable feature; it is all of them working together."

"Staff training is reduced because learning basic SharePoint is not as complicated as an EDRMS."

"From my perspective, since I am a data professional and we have to keep a record of all the data as per our client's demand, SharePoint provides us a repository where we can keep all our data intact and updated."

"The most valuable features are the collaboration and sharing."

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Cons

"I would rate my experience with Microsoft technical support as sometimes frustrating because of the time it takes for the Microsoft team to react to their particular case."

"The velocity and speed of information retrieval in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server could be improved."

"The GUI is outdated."

"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."

"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."

"Workflows could be simplified."

"Technical support could be improved. They are not fast enough, especially when we'll go deeper in the product itself. More complex issues make it very tough to find someone that can help you."

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

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"No good process to import emails from several users into a single comprehensive SP repository."

"The company also needs to make sure that their policies are dictating how information is stored and used, instead of letting SharePoint take control."

"The integration with Outlook could be improved."

"It is not really better; we use the same solution as before with Google Drive and the Google App solution."

"I have been facing some challenges when using SharePoint, as the workflows freeze at times, so there is a maintenance activity which needs to be done periodically."

"The initial setup process is not intuitive."

"Workflow is something that can become more intelligent."

"More hints and make it more user-customizable."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."

"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."

"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."

"The data classification and search elements are cheap."

"It is pretty reasonable. It is $5 per month per user. We have 12 users now, so it is about $60 per month."

"SharePoint is included with our Microsoft license."

"Any extended support from Microsoft is expensive."

"As usual, Microsoft’s licensing structures don’t really seem to fit the needs of their products. This leads to always paying for a project you will never use fully or always be adding to."

"The pricing is competitive."

"For this type of solution, it is not wise to buy it without Software Assurance."

"The cost is expensive, but worthwhile."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

11%

Comms Service Provider

11%

Manufacturing Company

Healthcare Company

Government

13%

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	13
Midsize Enterprise	13
Large Enterprise	15

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	79
Midsize Enterprise	38
Large Enterprise	81

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server?

The price of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server is affordable for us.

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What needs improvement with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server?

There are areas that could be improved with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server. My company has more than 5,000 collaborators. The question of how Microsoft Office SharePoint Server can be a better ...

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What is your primary use case for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server?

The regular use cases with Microsoft Office SharePoint Server are to share files and to plug them into websites in collaboration features from Office 365. The advanced search functionality is accep...

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What do you like most about SharePoint?

The search feature is valuable.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for SharePoint?

As SharePoint is part of the Microsoft 365 suite, the pricing is acceptable.

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What needs improvement with SharePoint?

Not with SharePoint specifically, but overall with the software or tools from Microsoft, I think there are areas that need improvement. It's very difficult to understand the objective. There are so...

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Also Known As

Office SharePoint Server, MS Office SharePoint Server

SharePoint 2007, SharePoint 2010

Overview

Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) is a Microsoft software portal based on the ASP.NET framework. MOSS facilitates file sharing and collaboration, social networking, Web databases and Web publishing. It is hosted by Microsoft Windows Server and is accessible through Microsoft Office or the Web.

Microsoft

SharePoint is a Microsoft-based platform for building web applications. It covers a widerange of capabilities and while it is appropriate for experienced webdevelopers, even non-technical minded users can easily navigate through thesystem and execute functions such as collaborating data, managing documents andfiles, creating websites, managing social networking solutions, and automatingworkflow.

Major areas that SharePoint deals with are websites,communities, content, search, insights, and composites. The purpose is to give usersthe ability to create or develop these key business components on their owneven without technical knowledge of, for example, how to build a website or howto integrate coding. Configuring SharePoint into a business's system is meantto cut out all of the complicated steps, and pave the way for easierimplementation all around.

Microsoft

Sample Customers

Del Monte Foods, Unicredit Leasing, Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council, Nokia Czech Republic, Perkins Eastman, JLL, ICA, óxito Software, Dorset Software, PKP Cargo, Arcapita Bank B.S.C., AVE CZ, Chesapeake Energy

Toyota, Aeroports de Paris, ASBBank Ltd., Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals, CambridgeshireConstabulary, D&M Group, NPL Construction Company, and The Regional Municipality of Niagara.

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