OneDrive: A stripped down, cheaper, more efficient version of SharePoint
September 29, 2016
OneDrive: A stripped down, cheaper, more efficient version of SharePoint
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with OneDrive
We use onedrive as a quick, easy alternative to SharePoint. It is mainly used within select engineering teams and has expanded to IT. It is a tool that each team chooses whether they want to implement it or not. The main benefit of it is it gives us a living document for installs and documentation that can be updated by anyone with access in real time with multiple collaborators.
- Easy storage of Microsoft Office application files
- Live collaboration with multiple users
- Easy online and native app access
- Sharing is not very granular
- Storage limits
- Web interface of directory is chunky and not elegant.
- It has made our team much more efficient by easily accessing documents and editing them without having to check them out, edit, and check in. Great time saver.
- It allows us to share documents with permissions across teams easily just using email verification instead of creating complicated roles and groups.
- It is very similar to Google Drive, but better integrated for Microsoft based companies.
I would say OneDrive is better than Amazon and Dropbox and about on par with iCloud and Google. OneDrive was best for us since we are a Microsoft shop. Its storage, collaboration, and office integration made it the best option for us. Google Drive is also used by us when interfacing with external clients and contractors.