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Office 365 vs ShareFile comparison

 

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Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

Office 365
Ranking in Content Collaboration Platforms
9th
Average Rating
8.4
Number of Reviews
54
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
ShareFile
Ranking in Content Collaboration Platforms
8th
Average Rating
8.4
Number of Reviews
11
Ranking in other categories
eSignature (Electronic Signature) (5th), Cloud Data Exchange Services (3rd)
 

Featured Reviews

Minos Pitsillides - PeerSpot reviewer
Mar 31, 2022
Excellent technical support, easy to install, but the price, while affordable, could be improved
Office 365 is scalable, but it is dependent on the situation. We don't have a problem with it from an organizational standpoint. They started with 100 employees and then added another 500 after six months, for a total of 600 employees. The setup of new users, new emails, and new applications to be assigned to the new users is straightforward. They also provide the PowerShell command, which they provided more, development type, like, for example, you can create users, not manually, but through a script that can create users, for example, 100 users in two, three minutes, and you don't do it manually. They're fantastic. My portfolio contains approximately 50 companies. Office 365 is our primary platform for the 50 companies. I only have one on G Suite, and the majority of them will be migrating from G Suite to 365 in the coming month.
David Donaldson - PeerSpot reviewer
Feb 22, 2023
Flexible plans, stable, and scalable
I used another solution at the same time, which was far worse. The American company I worked for used a similar file-sharing solution called LeapFile, a secure file transfer service. Personally, I found Citrix ShareFile to be much better than LeapFile, which was quite clunky. I later used a solution called Egnyte, which my company used as its main file transfer solution, though I'm not sure if it's still in use. The company moved to Egnyte because it is more of an enterprise-level solution. Egnyte was expensive, but it worked. I believe Citrix ShareFile is aimed at smaller to medium-sized organizations, making it a more appropriate solution than Egnyte due to its pricing.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"As an email provider, I believe Office 365 is the best email provider."
"Using Office 365 has allowed us to go digital and onboard people seamlessly for working at home during the COVID pandemic."
"OneNote is the feature I use the most. We also frequently use the Power Apps features."
"My primary use case is for preparing presentations to teach, often on PowerPoint."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the integration."
"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."
"The technical support is outstanding."
"Cloud-based management is valuable and software deployment is positive."
"ShareFile gives you all of the features of cloud providers, but in an on-premises solution."
"Citrix has a very good file auditing features and security features."
"This provides us with a secure way of sending tax returns without having to use passwords."
"The Enterprise Dropbox solution is highly integrated with Microsoft's Office 365 and Azure products."
"It's user-friendly for end users."
"The solution is scalable."
"The solution would query the Active Directory, and if new accounts were identified, Citrix ShareFile would add them automatically."
"Easy to manage and fully secure."
 

Cons

"Their support is so terrible and unusable except during dire emergencies."
"Integration with other platforms can be improved."
"Improvements can be made to the products generic offering. It's not customized for health care. It doesn't understand the meaning of health care related concepts. Providing a greater degree of industry specificity would make the tool much more unique and valuable."
"It could be more user-friendly for inexperienced people."
"There are several additional features we would like to see, such as advanced features of SAN protection in Office 365. The main thing is the SAN protection; we would like to see a lot of advanced features added because we had a lot of spam attacks."
"I'm not sure if there are areas of improvement. For us, it's working quite well."
"The integration with mobile services is not so good. It's coming, but they could improve a lot."
"I would like to see the macro functionality in Excel made simpler."
"There are sometimes scalability issues after updates."
"My only issue with this solution is the cost, which should be improved."
"The user interface is not very intuitive."
"DLP features are lacking and required because, especially with everyone working from home, security is now paramount when the data is on BYOD devices."
"The configuration on the mobile devices is a little clunky, in terms of setting up the application."
"They should integrate the solution with more email services."
"Some of our customers are facing issues if they've deployed in hybrid mode."
"Everything they have should be integrated into one item."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."
"Licensing fees are paid on a monthly basis, or we prepay them."
"Licensing, billing, and accounting are available from the management interface."
"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 pricing/licensing is easy to manage."
"The price of Office 365 is very expensive."
"The pricing is good for all the features that we receive, e.g., Skype for Business."
"Good reporting and good value subscriptions for international calls."
"Citrix has a very good file auditing features and security features."
"If you are already a Citrix customer, I recommend having the Platinum licensing level, as it provides licensing for a number of various features that all integrate together."
"You have to work hard in order to get the suitable licenses."
"I give the cost of the solution a five out of five."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Educational Organization
81%
Computer Software Company
3%
Financial Services Firm
2%
Government
2%
Computer Software Company
13%
Legal Firm
10%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Construction Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

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What needs improvement with Citrix ShareFile?
They should integrate the solution with more email services. That would be very helpful.
What is your primary use case for Citrix ShareFile?
We use the solution primarily for sending and receiving encrypted files. It helps us share large files as well.
 

Comparisons

 

Also Known As

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
Citrix RightSignature, Citrix ShareFile
 

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