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Microsoft Teams vs SharePoint comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive Summary

Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score
7.4
Microsoft Teams saves time, ensures remote collaboration, boosts efficiency, reduces costs, and is valued for investment and increased productivity.
Sentiment score
7.5
Organizations achieve cost savings with SharePoint, boosting efficiency, centralizing data, and enhancing stability, despite unspecified ROI metrics.
 

Customer Service

Sentiment score
6.6
Users have mixed experiences with Microsoft Teams support; large enterprises often receive better service than small businesses.
Sentiment score
5.9
SharePoint support quality varies significantly based on subscription, with users often relying on communities due to mixed satisfaction.
Microsoft support is excellent, offering instantaneous assistance through either robo support or live personnel.
I have logged tickets for Office 365 and received responses within 24 hours, depending on the severity.
I deal with a third-party service provider, which is a Microsoft partner, and they have been very good to me.
technical support has been efficient and reactive to problems we encountered with SharePoint.
Microsoft support could be better, especially for enterprise troubleshooting.
 

Scalability Issues

Sentiment score
7.7
Microsoft Teams is scalable and user-friendly but faces challenges with licensing, permissions, and feature limitations.
Sentiment score
7.7
SharePoint is highly scalable with proper planning, despite some initial configuration challenges and storage constraints in the cloud version.
Microsoft Teams is scalable, and I have successfully conducted sessions with close to forty people without significant issues.
SharePoint is massively scalable and I would rate it as 8.5 out of ten.
Making it easy to scale from a load-balancing and infrastructure perspective.
SharePoint allows multiple teams to work at the same time, making it adaptable for large data volumes.
 

Stability Issues

Sentiment score
7.7
Microsoft Teams is stable across platforms, with occasional issues mostly due to network, maintaining high reliability with frequent updates.
Sentiment score
8.2
SharePoint's stability varies; it is generally stable with proper setup, but issues arise with updates and large data volumes.
Microsoft Teams is stable once the setup is completed properly.
Everything runs smoothly, and I have no problems with its stability.
SharePoint is a stable product.
The stability of SharePoint is high; it is quite stable and resilient.
 

Room For Improvement

Microsoft Teams users seek improved interface, third-party integration, seamless file sharing, enhanced security, and better low-bandwidth connectivity.
SharePoint needs improvements in co-authoring, permissions, search, integration, mobile optimization, user interface, workflows, and interoperability for better usability.
The biggest issue with Microsoft Teams is switching identities, especially when communicating with external organizations.
AI capabilities should be integrated into Microsoft Teams to provide better transcript services and offer multiple language support.
Expansion of scalability is needed, specifically the threshold limits for site items should be increased beyond the current 5,000 items.
A chat support or chatbot feature could also improve the response time of technical support.
The rights management aspect can be particularly challenging, which may affect the overall user-friendliness of the product.
 

Setup Cost

Microsoft Teams offers cost-effective pricing with various licensing in Microsoft 365, affordable in enterprise agreements or Office 365 subscriptions.
SharePoint offers variable pricing influenced by CAL agreements, requiring careful planning and expert consultation for tailored organizational needs.
Microsoft Teams comes with Office 365 licenses like E3, but there are options for those who prefer not to pay for Teams by using alternative products like Slack.
Microsoft Teams is economical when purchased as part of an Office 365 bundle.
Unlike Drupal, all necessary applications are included in the Microsoft license, making it cost-effective.
Ten dollars might be cheap, but if everyone else is charging one dollar, it is very expensive.
Microsoft offers bundled pricing for Office, SharePoint, and Exchange, making it cost-effective.
 

Valuable Features

Microsoft Teams enhances global collaboration with chat, video, file sharing, document co-authoring, and Microsoft 365 integration for seamless teamwork.
SharePoint offers collaboration, Office integration, document management, search, version control, multi-device access, customization, and robust workflow features.
Teams offers the ability to record sessions and store them in OneDrive, which provides 1 terabyte of space.
It serves everything in one place and improves communication within organizations.
The most valuable feature of SharePoint is the ability to collaborate on documents without having multiple versions.
Its rights management capabilities and ability to restrict access to certain people are also very useful.
Additionally, SharePoint acts as a version control system, allowing easy recovery of past document versions.
 

Categories and Ranking

Microsoft Teams
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.6
Number of Reviews
165
Ranking in other categories
Virtual Meetings (4th), Enterprise Social Software (1st)
SharePoint
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
158
Ranking in other categories
Enterprise Content Management (1st), Web Content Management (2nd), Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) (1st), Enterprise Intranet (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

While both are Messaging and Collaboration solutions, they serve different purposes. Microsoft Teams is designed for Virtual Meetings and holds a mindshare of 2.9%, up 1.4% compared to last year.
SharePoint, on the other hand, focuses on Enterprise Content Management, holds 17.3% mindshare, down 20.8% since last year.
Virtual Meetings
Enterprise Content Management
 

Featured Reviews

Arun Srivastav - PeerSpot reviewer
Seamless presentation and collaboration enhance organizational productivity
There are three main areas for improvement: Firstly, AI capabilities should be integrated into Microsoft Teams to provide better transcript services and offer multiple language support. Secondly, it should allow participants to remain visible during presentations, enhancing interaction. Lastly, it needs broader integration capabilities with other products, like Salesforce ( /vendors/salesforce ), which is currently limited.
Sanil Paul - PeerSpot reviewer
Streamlined collaboration through seamless integration and customization
I have been an administrator for SharePoint and have used it as an end-user for document storage. Predominantly, I've been involved in administration SharePoint helps a lot since we've moved from using it directly to using it as a backend for Teams, which makes collaboration easier. It supports…
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Educational Organization
71%
Financial Services Firm
7%
Government
3%
Computer Software Company
3%
Government
13%
Computer Software Company
10%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Manufacturing Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

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?
I’m unsure about the exact cost, but I believe it’s reasonable. Using Teams for collaboration, video conferencing, and messaging helps save costs, especially for communicating with third-party comp...
What needs improvement with Microsoft Teams?
Improvements could be made in utilizing AI features, such as getting a transcript of meetings. During my usage, there were no AI features available.
Would Alfresco give an organization more benefits in terms of cost, features & security as compared to Sharepoint?
Alfresco scores are high on all features of an ECM solution and tools. Back office processing, rated as 3.36 good. Business Process Application 3.55 Good to excellent. Document Management 4.12...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for SharePoint?
With SharePoint, we save by not needing multiple external licenses. Unlike Drupal ( /products/drupal-reviews ), all necessary applications are included in the Microsoft license, making it cost-effe...
 

Comparisons

 

Also Known As

MS Teams
SharePoint 2007, SharePoint 2010
 

Overview

 

Sample Customers

Honeywll, AIRFRANCE, AccuWeather, Lilly
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.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft Teams vs. SharePoint and other solutions. Updated: January 2023.
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