What is the best alternative to SharePoint?
Table of Contents
- 1 What is the best alternative to SharePoint?
- 2 What are SharePoint competitors?
- 3 Does Google have something like SharePoint?
- 4 Does Apple have something like SharePoint?
- 5 Why is G Suite bad?
- 6 Is SharePoint still relevant in 2020?
- 7 Is SharePoint too complicated?
- 8 Which companies use SharePoint?
- 9 What are the best alternatives to Microsoft SharePoint?
Here are some of the top Microsoft SharePoint alternatives:
- Confluence.
- Huddle.
- Glasscubes.
- Google G Suite.
- Samepage.
- 6. Box.
- Basecamp.
Potential alternatives to SharePoint include Glasscubes, Huddle, Samepage, Liferay, Nuxeo, Confluence, Source by IC Thrive, Jostle, G Suite, ClearPoint, Redbooth, and Slack. Each of these applications provide similar capabilities to SharePoint while providing some more unique features.
As a SharePoint alternative, Google Drive, on the other hand, comes with Google’s most famous ability baked in: the search feature. Users can even search for features from directly within Gmail. Unlike SharePoint, Google Drive doesn’t have project management capabilities.
Is Microsoft doing away with SharePoint?
Therefore, we’ve made the difficult decision to discontinue the SharePoint Online Public Website feature so that we can focus our efforts and investments on delivering capabilities in Office 365 that will bring more value to our customers.
What is the best use of SharePoint?
Sharing and managing documents. The most common use for SharePoint is as a document repository. You and other team members and colleagues can put documents and files all in one specific place, accessible to everyone, and then avoid the all-too-familiar email blasts with Word documents attached.
Microsoft SharePoint is not available for Mac but there are plenty of alternatives that runs on macOS with similar functionality. Other interesting Mac alternatives to Microsoft SharePoint are ownCloud (Freemium, Open Source), Basecamp (Freemium), Nuclino (Freemium) and Google Workspace (Paid).
Why is G Suite bad?
The biggest disadvantage of G Suite versus Microsoft Office 365 is with the document software. The Google Docs software just doesn’t quite match up to the advanced features in the Office software.
SharePoint provides a robust solution for file sharing among groups of individuals, internally and externally, and is more than just your average intranet. Because of its versatility, SharePoint is used by over 200,00 organizations and 190 million people worldwide.
What is the future of Microsoft SharePoint?
Recent improvements in metadata combined with SharePoint Syntex will add security, compliance, and structure to an unstructured environment and accelerate business process automation and improvements with a variety of structured and semi structured data. New intelligent storage platform improvements coming.
Is it better to use SharePoint or OneDrive?
OneDrive provides a consistent, intuitive files experience across all your devices, including web, mobile, and the desktop of your Windows PC or Mac. Behind the scenes, SharePoint in Microsoft 365 provides the content services for all files in Microsoft 365, including files you work with in Teams, Yammer, and Outlook.
Too complicated: SharePoint is less a single product than an ecosystem of product modules. This is good in terms of versatility, but doesn’t always translate into “user-friendly,” or even “buyer friendly,” for that matter. It’s probably why, if you Google “SharePoint,” the second result is a post by Microsoft Support called “What is SharePoint?”
In 2011, at the peak of its fame (shortly following the 2010 update), SharePoint was allegedly used by 78 percent of Fortune 500 companies, some of which include the Associated Press, Toyota, UPS, and Monsanto.
Collaboration apps like address books, project management, notes etc. Box has gained momentum in the document sharing and collaborative arena. Although Box is primarily focused on the document management piece for Sharepoint, it qualifies as a worthy alternative because most companies use Sharepoint primarily for this feature.
Why SharePoint is not suitable for small businesses?
Companies that successfully use SharePoint often hire a dedicated SharePoint specialist to configure, maintain, and update the system, which is quite unrealistic for the average small or medium-sized business. Too complicated: SharePoint is less a single product than an ecosystem of product modules.