Microsoft SharePoint vs. Progress ShareFile

Microsoft SharePoint

Progress ShareFile

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
SharePoint	Score 7.5 out of 10	N/A	Microsoft's SharePoint is an Intranet solution that enables users to share and manage content, knowledge, and applications to empower teamwork, quickly find information, and collaborate across the organization.	$5 Per User Per Month
Progress ShareFile	Score 8.2 out of 10	N/A	ShareFile is a cloud-based file sharing and storage service built for business. The product was acquired by Citrix Systems in 2011.	$17.60 per month per user (minimum 3 users)

Pricing

Microsoft SharePoint

Progress ShareFile

Editions & Modules

Plan 1: $5.00
Per User Per Month
Plan 2: $10.00
Per User Per Month
Office 365 E3: $20.00
Per User Per Month

Advanced: $17.60
per month per user (minimum 3 users)
Premium: $27.50
per month per user (minimum 3 users)
Industry Advantage: $45.83
per month per user (minimum 3 users)
Virtual Data Room: $75.00
per month per user (minimum 5 users)

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
SharePoint	Progress ShareFile
Free Trial
Yes	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	No
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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Discount available for annual pricing.

More Pricing Information

Community Pulse
	Microsoft SharePoint	Progress ShareFile
Considered Both Products	SharePoint Kayla Jane McLaughlin DIRECTOR Chose SharePoint We don't have to pay for SharePoint, unlike Dropbox, and SharePoint integrates our existing email addresses, which is convenient for sharing. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SharePoint We already had a license to Microsoft so it made sense to use SharePoint Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SharePoint None - have always used SharePoint Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SharePoint Microsoft SharePoint is more feature rich but that also comes with the cost of complexity. Needing to learn how to set up folders, documents, etc, with the right permissions isn't difficult, but to make sure it is done correctly does take some time to understand where to do … Incentivized Helpful? Clarence White Chief Information Officer Chose SharePoint Microsoft SharePoint shares many of the same pros and cons as HCL Notes. It does a lot. Maybe too much to understand. Incentivized Helpful? Erin Gracyalny Customer Success Manager Chose SharePoint Egnyte is the superior solution due to the way it segments data and provides a holistic approach to sharing and access. Microsoft SharePoint provides this a bit but could improve but the value of Microsoft SharePoint is greater given it is included in our subscription. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SharePoint I like Microsoft SharePoint over Google Drive for its organization. I believe that Microsoft SharePoint keeps things much more organized than Google Drive. Also, typically when you purchase Microsoft SharePoint, you get the rest of the Microsoft Suite. However, Google Drive has … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SharePoint One drive I think is more for personal use as a cloud storage. SharePoint can be more of use in businesses where teams can easily collaborate in various documents and files. This can also automate other processes to make it easier for the business in their day to day work tasks. Incentivized Helpful? Siddharth Nair Customer Service Chose SharePoint Google Drive Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SharePoint From what I have seen, Google Workspace seems to get the balance better. I think both tech giants are in a position to be indifferent to end user experience. Incentivized Helpful? Helmi Tatanaki Data Management Consultant Chose SharePoint The reasons for selecting MS SharePoint are: SharePoint provides ease of use and web design assistance and support SharePoint helps you schedule your content for publishing. enables users to share documents with external parties and offers a better internal structure of the … Incentivized Helpful? Thushitha A. Chandrasiri ERP Consultant Chose SharePoint Since Microsoft SharePoint comes with the MS business office package, it is fully integrated with other office products and really works together with other MS Office products like Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Access, Publisher, etc.. in real-time, so it's really easy to maintain … Incentivized Helpful? EH Eddie Hicks Enrollment Specialist Chose SharePoint Microsoft SharePoint and Glasscubes are very similar products. I selected Microsoft SharePoint simply because I am more familiar with the product. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SharePoint Microsoft SharePoint definitely has the highest ranking for use with MS Office packages and integration into Windows devices--mobile or normal desktop devices. The cost for Microsoft SharePoint is also competitive in comparison and with local hosting options within APAC regions. Incentivized Helpful? Damon Darling Engineering Manager Chose SharePoint I prefer Atlassian Confluence for file sharing, wiki markups, and as a better tool for engineering documentation. Microsoft SharePoint is the tool that was chosen for my current organization, and I do miss using Confluence. Both tools get the job done and it is largely a … Incentivized Helpful? Puneet Pandey Procurement Specialist Chose SharePoint MS Sharepoint is much more simpler way to use if we compare it with BOX, Box is very slow loading app not that user friendly. Box need really good quality of connectivity. MS Sharepoint provide good after sales support. Query resolution time is really fast in case of MS … Incentivized Helpful? Mst Rahima Khatun Marketing Product Management Chose SharePoint Both Confluence and Sharepoint have similarities, but they also have significant differences. In both cases, people can use the wiki to exchange information with each other. Many platforms, including Mac, are easier to use with Confluence's better user interface. Compared to … Incentivized Helpful? SD Shanaya Desai Process Executive Chose SharePoint Dropbox UI is very cluttered and not well organized. It doesn't come with an office suite, unlike SharePoint. Inbuilt video player on SharePoint is great and has better playback controls than dropbox video player. Sharepoint is integrated well with other offices 365 apps. … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SharePoint MS SharePoint lags behind its competitors in most areas. While it does offer more functionality, such as custom sites, MS SharePoint's bogged-down sharing system really hurts it. While sharing documents with coworkers, outside contractors, and guests is hassle-free with Google … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SharePoint I think that MS SharePoint is a more robust and well integrated tool than other products. Because it lives in the Microsoft universe it likely integrates to the other software products you already have very easily. Most users will not have trouble adopting it as the UI is … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SharePoint We still have Confluence and Google Drive, but we wanted a product that could provide document security and a single point of access that easily integrated into our active directory. Since we use this for our intranet site, we found the features easier to stand up and the UI … Incentivized Helpful? Adam Friedli System Administrator Chose SharePoint I have not personally used any direct competitors to SharePoint as a whole. However, I have used Dropbox Business and Google Drive. While these do work well for file collaboration, they do not offer the website structure that SharePoint does. SharePoint also integrates … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SharePoint The above mentioned tools can be used as an alternative for SharePoint based on the business cases. However, the features provided by all these products are very limited [when] we compare the product SharePoint. These alternatives have space in their own area or market. … Incentivized Helpful? Stephanie W Director, Digital Strategy & Engagement Chose SharePoint Slack is not great for document sharing, but it does integrate with SharePoint and One Drive when we need to post links. Slack is better at the chat function though, which is definitely missed from SharePoint. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose SharePoint Given the Brand name "Microsoft", tool has lot of expectation and it lives up to the name. High level Security and content management is one of the key points in adopting to MS SharePoint in our organization. Each team can management and develop their own sites according to the … Incentivized Helpful?	Progress ShareFile Terry Hamberg Publisher Chose Progress ShareFile ShareFile offers more professional level services, and doesn't constantly "run out" of space, forcing you to upgrade to continue. When doing a cost comparison, the competitors may seem cheaper at first, but by the time you add on the features to make it comparable, the pricing … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Progress ShareFile The ability to learn how to access, store, share, and retrieve documents is simpler than in other applications, and that is what keeps me in the application. Even though my Microsoft 365 professional and Adobe Acrobat Pro applications, which I currently subscribe to, include … Incentivized Helpful? Tom Hamilton Sr. Engineer Chose Progress ShareFile Dropbox and others like Mega is are open to anyone and when they leave your company they take those documents with them. ShareFile give secure sharing but you keep control of your documents. ShareFile also offers other tools like Outlook plug-ins and windows mapping tools. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Progress ShareFile ShareFile is cheaper, but I think Box had more user friendly features Incentivized Helpful? CC Christy Chapman Executive Director Chose Progress ShareFile DocuSign did not allow me to save directly to a client folder. ShareFile will allow this, and it cut out having to move or download the file then store it in a client folder. We used that along with Dropbox. Dropbox did not allow us to seamlessly see who had access to what … Incentivized Helpful? Ryan Ippolito Partner Chose Progress ShareFile I use ShareFile because it is simple and offers easy use of esignatures - and unlimited. Docusign is getting expensive and charges often on a per "envelope" basis which doesn't work for me. Incentivized Helpful? Judy Hughes CSR/Agent Chose Progress ShareFile Ease of use, cost and proficiency is above and beyond what other products offer. Customer service is down to earth, and you feel like your concerns are addressed appropriately. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Progress ShareFile I chose to stick with ShareFile because of the signature certificate feature that is included with the software. The two programs are both relativley easy for me to use, but Adobe Acrobat does not have this feature included. Additionally, ShareFile can be opened in Browser and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Progress ShareFile The ShareFile website never broke, so we switched the signature service to this platform too. Because in PandaDoc sometimes it was hard to find some signed documents from years ago, also we couldn't find an efficient way to order the signature documents for each client, but … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Progress ShareFile A lot more user friendly and less phone calls for assistance which make the purpose of smooth electronic communication a great thing. I like that it doesn't require 1 person to sign before the other person can and that we are notified separately once each person signs required … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Progress ShareFile The large file size for uploading and downloading documents was the one thing that the others just couldn't compare to. Incentivized Helpful? SS Sergio Sancho Product Manager Chose Progress ShareFile Other platforms allow you to share information but without the security and confirmation guarantees that ShareFile offers. Although they provide fewer features, they are often less intuitive and less easy to work with. To date we do not consider trying other options, as we do … Incentivized Helpful? Richard Corner Senior Partner Chose Progress ShareFile We have one consulting engineer that uses MS Sharepoint. We find it comparable to ShareFile, but see no particular advantage to it over ShareFile. We don't really know a lot about it, or what it costs to use. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Progress ShareFile I think Dropbox is a plague to the world of cloud storage. It sucks. ShareFile doesn't suck. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Progress ShareFile For an organization that requires reliable security when sending sensitive data, ShareFile is the application to use. ShareFile has multiple features to ensure that the right information is being sent with the file so the end receiver has the pertinent information when the file … Incentivized Helpful? PC Pamela Corn Owner Chose Progress ShareFile I like ShareFile much better than Mango Practice Management. I think the navigation is much more intuitive and user-friendly. Incentivized Helpful? GP Guy Page Sr Director of Operations Chose Progress ShareFile The workflow are more difficult to follow in the others. Incentivized Helpful? KH Kate Herman Owner CPA Chose Progress ShareFile I feel ShareFile is much more secure. Incentivized Helpful? GK Gabriel Krozkin CEO (Chief Executive Officer) Chose Progress ShareFile ShareFile is better and easier to use than other products (i.e. SmartVault). I love ShareFile's ability to set up new clients easily. Their customer service is excellent as well. For any accounting firm, this is a great tool to have. Do not hesitate, you will not regret it. I … Incentivized Helpful? Carlos Rangel, CPA, MBA Managing Director Chose Progress ShareFile No other applications used. Incentivized Helpful? Shivam Sharma Consultant Chose Progress ShareFile Citrix RightSignature meets the needs of our business better than DocuSign. It also has an awesome interface that lets me keep track of pending documents and integrate with our webform on our website. Along with the e-signature features it offers best encryption. Also, customer … Incentivized Helpful? Curtis Neuman owner Chose Progress ShareFile DocuSign is well known and accepted and recognized in the industry overall but a subscription is needed for full usage Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Progress ShareFile I haven't used any other products yet. Incentivized Helpful? Mike Narumiya President, Principal Chose Progress ShareFile ShareFile is easier and does what you need. I have moved a few organizations from SharePoint to ShareFile. Just easier. You can setup different areas for different departments, setup their permissions and it is easy enough for them to do what they want in their zones. The … Incentivized Helpful? Alvin Landicho Cloud Integration Consultant Chose Progress ShareFile First and foremost we are both a Citrix and Microsoft partner so we will always recommend their products. 3 years ago we found ShareFile's biggest selling point was the ease of setup, administration, and ease of use while still being an enterprise-grade product. We also enjoyed … Incentivized Helpful?

Features

Microsoft SharePoint

Progress ShareFile

File Sharing & Management

Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Product A and Product B
	Microsoft SharePoint - Ratings	Progress ShareFile 8.3 Ratings 1% below category average
Versioning	00 Ratings	7.70 Ratings
Video files	00 Ratings	9.00 Ratings
Audio files	00 Ratings	9.60 Ratings
Document collaboration	00 Ratings	6.50 Ratings
Access control	00 Ratings	7.80 Ratings
File search	00 Ratings	8.20 Ratings
Device sync	00 Ratings	9.50 Ratings

Cloud Storage Security & Administration

Comparison of Cloud Storage Security & Administration features of Product A and Product B
	Microsoft SharePoint - Ratings	Progress ShareFile 9.5 Ratings 9% above category average
User and role management	00 Ratings	9.50 Ratings
File organization	00 Ratings	9.80 Ratings
Device management	00 Ratings	9.10 Ratings

Cloud Storage Platform

Comparison of Cloud Storage Platform features of Product A and Product B
	Microsoft SharePoint - Ratings	Progress ShareFile 6.3 Ratings 30% below category average
Performance	00 Ratings	4.90 Ratings
Reliability	00 Ratings	5.00 Ratings
Storage Reports	00 Ratings	8.80 Ratings

Best Alternatives
	Microsoft SharePoint	Progress ShareFile
Small Businesses	HCL Connections Score 9.0 out of 10	SugarSync Score 5.8 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	RWS Tridion Sites Score 9.0 out of 10	Druva Security Cloud Score 9.7 out of 10
Enterprises	RWS Tridion Sites Score 9.0 out of 10	Druva Security Cloud Score 9.7 out of 10
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User Ratings
	Microsoft SharePoint	Progress ShareFile
Likelihood to Recommend	9.4 (0 ratings)	7.8 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.8 (0 ratings)	9.1 (0 ratings)
Usability	8.2 (0 ratings)	9.1 (0 ratings)
Availability	- (0 ratings)	9.1 (0 ratings)
Performance	- (0 ratings)	9.1 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	8.6 (0 ratings)	1.0 (0 ratings)
In-Person Training	4.5 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Online Training	6.4 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	6.0 (0 ratings)	9.1 (0 ratings)
Configurability	- (0 ratings)	6.6 (0 ratings)
Ease of integration	- (0 ratings)	1.0 (0 ratings)
Product Scalability	- (0 ratings)	1.0 (0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	- (0 ratings)	9.1 (0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	- (0 ratings)	9.1 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Microsoft SharePoint	Progress ShareFile
Likelihood to Recommend	SharePoint Document Management excels as a central repository for storing, organising, and retrieving documents. It supports version control, metadata tagging, secure access, and integration with tools like Power Automate. At our organisation, it's used for managing contracts, policies, and supplier documents. SharePoint Workflow Automation integrates with Power Automate to streamline approvals, gather feedback, and automate recurring tasks. This reduces reliance on email chains and manual trackers. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Progress ShareFile has been a great tool for sharing files. When you send to outside people they get an easy link to click on to download the needed files. On the sender side you get options to have the person do things logon to get the file, just enter a name and email address, or just click on the link and download. There are hooks to use other tools to scan for personal information like SSN or credit card numbers. Many of our users use email to send and store emails. They have found that clicking on a link to get a file adds a bit of complexity but many have learned how to adjust to the change. Incentivized Tom Hamilton Sr. Engineer Read full review
Pros	Making collaboration easier via a better connection between accounts. You can share anything from a file to events with just a couple of clicks. All services are connected and switching between services is a breeze[.] Solutions to the majority of everyday business problems. Incentivized RIDWAN AHAMMAD Training Manager Read full review	I think that one of ShareFile's greatest strengths is its ease of use. With the outlook plug-in sharing large documents is so quick and easy. I also like the security and control that is provided for who can access the documents and tracking the changes within them. I think it does well at protecting information that leaves the company. I also think the website is well organized and easy to use. It was very easy for us to implement and train our employees on the proper use of the website and software. Incentivized christian Maxwell Project Engineer Read full review
Cons	There are far too many good features to choose from, and advanced features are noticeably absent. There is room for improvement in terms of integration with non-Microsoft products, as well as developer Story. It is challenging to provide easier access via file explorer while also granting outside users and guests access. Mst Rahima Khatun Marketing Product Management Read full review	Users grow quickly (each client gets a separate account). Automated pruning would be nice. I'm not aware of integration with Office365 online (only the outlook app). This could make it harder for some users. It would be nice to have something that auto-scans emails and attachments for PII and would require Sharefile for those emails. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	We have too much invested at this point to do anything different and there are too many reasons as a company our size to keep it. We are heavily licensed out for Microsoft and have 12 years of SharePoint development baked into who we are. Extracting that as a tool at this point would be dumb and devastating. There are no like-kind competitors to it at an enterprise level that scale and integrate as well. Incentivized Chris Carpenter Staff Project Manager, Awesomizer, Fixer, Maker, Collaboration Enabler Read full review	It's a highly effective and secure storage system, has robust workarounds for serving the various equipment limits of our users, meets high security requirements of HIPAA standards, significantly reduces our needs for producing paper trails. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Usability	No usability issues reported. Individual teams also have allocated areas which replace legacy shared drives on local LANs. Access to Sharepoint resources is fully integrated with corporate Active Directory with additional two-factor authentication required for administrative users. Users have access to Microsoft Services Hub which allows you to create, manage, and track support requests while staying current on Microsoft technologies with access to select self-paced learning paths Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Some of the clunkiness in the user interface and the processing of documents could be made more seamless. However, once you get over that learning curve, it's straightforward enough. The API for integrating external systems is well documented, and the support crew is great at getting you over the rough spots. There's nothing bad about their system, just a few things I thought could be more elegant. Michael Sypes Programmer Analyst Read full review
Reliability and Availability	No answers on this topic	The software has never been down when I needed to use it. Incentivized PC Pamela Corn Owner Read full review
Performance	No answers on this topic	Easy to use, easy to integrate with Outlook. I only gave it a 9 because I have found that sometimes it does not play nicely with Outlook and can slow it down. But, when that happens (not frequent), I restart Outlook and all is well again Incentivized Andrew Simpson Attorney/President Read full review
Support Rating	Support for SharePoint is quite good. Microsoft provides good support. Microsoft offers Quick turnaround time for issues A range of support services Access to a network of resources Escalation of issues Ongoing development and commitment to produce enhancement The majority of support is required for initial installation. Once complete and the system is operating we have had very few support issues. Incentivized TD Tim Daciuk Director Advanced Analytics Read full review	Typically the support is very knowledgeable and interested in following an issue until it is fully resolved. I have not had any issues working with their staff as they are all polite and easy to communicate with. If the first or second level tech does not fix the concern then it is escalated until we get to someone who can close the case. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
In-Person Training	The face to face training I received was on SharePoint Administration. It was rushed as there was a lot of information to cover and the application of the labs weren't that great either. I like to be able to relate what I am learning to what I am currently doing. Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Online Training	I like to learn at my own pace and online training allows for that. Additionally, you can skip through pieces of content that you already know or are already comfortable with. Microsoft actually offers great videos on their website for basic fundamental SharePoint Training. I have used these training videos in some of my own training sessions with end users. Verified User Anonymous Read full review	No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating	Planning to the last detail would be advised. SharePoint is a very large application that takes a lot of finesse to get operational Christopher Corbett Database Administrator Read full review	Good documentation for the API. With a little help from RS tech staff, any competent programmer should be able to integrate RightSignature with an existing system in a week or three. That help is easy to get as well Michael Sypes Programmer Analyst Read full review
Alternatives Considered	The reasons for selecting MS SharePoint are: SharePoint provides ease of use and web design assistance and support SharePoint helps you schedule your content for publishing. enables users to share documents with external parties and offers a better internal structure of the content and better indexing and searching capabilities. Incentivized Helmi Tatanaki Data Management Consultant Read full review	ShareFile offers more professional level services, and doesn't constantly "run out" of space, forcing you to upgrade to continue. When doing a cost comparison, the competitors may seem cheaper at first, but by the time you add on the features to make it comparable, the pricing is as much, if not more, than what we're paying for ShareFile. The access control level is better with ShareFile, so we chose to stay with them. Terry Hamberg Publisher Read full review
Scalability	No answers on this topic	I am a one person office. I have no idea how this software would scale to a larger office. Incentivized PC Pamela Corn Owner Read full review
Return on Investment	We've recently implemented Microsoft SharePoint access via iPads for our Template teams out on job sites. They can easily upload CAD / Laser files into Microsoft SharePoint for our production team to review in real time. Serious ROI when we don't have to wait for our Template team to get back to the shop! We have multiple physical locations. Microsoft SharePoint allows users at each location to collaborate by working on documents simultaneously. Allowing us to solve multi-site problems & strategize on multi-site initiatives much faster! We can also share key information with external partners. As long as they have a registered MS account (not necessarily an O365 account) we can share our information with them in a variety of ways. This allows consistent & concise communication with our partners. Incentivized Jimmy Harrell IT Manager Read full review	All of our clients and consulting engineers find ShareFile easy to use, thus complementing our business. Our staff also find ShareFile intuitive, accessible, and easy to use, making it an ideal, everyday indispensable desktop tool for everyone in our company. ShareFile can be linked to our firm's primary website as a placed for private use. We haven't found need for this yet, but might in the future. Incentivized Richard Corner Senior Partner Read full review
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