Microsoft SharePoint vs Nextcloud Comparison

Easy to setup and ease of use. Clients available on all plattforms (W10, OSX, iOS, Linux). Integratrion with Active Directory is quite essential for us. Easy to administrate. UNIX Platform. It is very robust!

That there is no integration with MS-SharePoint or MS-o365. This is really neccessary in todays world, although I am not a MS fan at all, but for business purposes this is really essential!

What I like the most is the complete integration of Nextcloud with other devices like mobile telephone and all OS-platforms. For an administrator Nextcloud provides a 'one button' check on all security aspects of your server. Next to that, Nextcloud provides very good documentation on to how to harden your server. Updates are very easy with the GUI, I had not one single issue since I use Nextcloud...

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Hardening my Apache server was a bit difficult, although Nextcloud provides also quite good documentation for that issue.

It works on raspberry pi (20 Watts only) and therefore it is possible to build a local storage inside my organization with unlimited disk storage and only on intranet (speed up the transfer and uses less bandwith and energy).

The sharing of multiple folders to multiple users is difficult to follow. About 100 filders are quickly shared in the owncloud root folder. One should add a folder synchronization to each of them manually on each client to really share the files (otherwise, it is just an authorization to access the files, that usually never reaches the several clients even if available in the root folder). A solution to really share (and put the files on the final user hard drive) should be perfect. example : start the sharing of a folder and select which user and where (in which folder of the final user hierarchy) it should start to synchronize : no action on the final user client (mayba an approval ?)

I love that Nextcloud is a pluggable platform that allows me to control how many cloud capabilities I use.

As a collection of random open source projects, it lacks the polish that the industry kings like Google, Microsoft and Apple offer.

Thank you for your feedback! We will most certainly keep improving Nextcloud and exceeding your expectations!

It's been rock solid and upgrades have been mostly unproblematic (at first I was updating too early, with some plugins lagging behind, but then I switched to a different release chanel). The wide variety of access methods (webdav, access over website, the desktop and phone sync clients, API) have all lent themselves to different solutions. As the files are stored as normal files it makes backing up easy (e.g. with rsync) The recently added Google-doc-like multi-simultaneous-editors functionality for text documents (MarkDown) is brilliant.

Despite Microsoft inventing WebDav, their implementation is buggy with Windows 10 users having to re-log in every session. The mobile (Android) sync client could be improved.

Although dependent on the rental server, the system is currently stable and is useful for pulling data and making backups. The build and setup require some skill, but if you can complete it, you can get a low cost and a high degree of freedom. When I was worried about large mail files on each PC, I discovered that I could send files by URL.

As for the abundance of add-ons and insufficient localization, it is a waste of treasure because it is not possible to expand functions without knowing how to use them. It is not as collaborative as OneDrive versus Microsoft Office or Google Drive versus Google Docs. Similar to Microsoft Office, I would like to have a system that enables multiple users to edit the same document simultaneously.

I was able to ditch monthly fees for iTunes Match and iCloud monthly storage fees by switching to Nextcloud. Privacy concerns lead me to abandon Microsoft/Apple/Amazon/Google/Dropbox cloud drives in favor of Nextcloud who can do it all.

It takes some initial effort if you want to build your own webserver on an old PC, installing linux, etc. but its doable for non-linux people.

Looking to move out of the Microsoft ecosystem and bring our data back on to our own systems. NextCloud provides so much which you can extend with additional apps to cover most of what you need in a collaboration suite.

Some third party apps cause system errors but easy enough to roll back. It would be nice to be able to roll back from the interface but this is an open source solution and not really a complaint when comparing to its capabilities.

rich of functions easy integration with PC desktop (exactly like Dropbox) easy integration with Android mobile

for domestic usage you can get big saving of money against 2 terabyte web services provided by Google / Dropbox / Microsoft etc. and small cost of hardware (raspberry plus 2 terabyte HD USB 3 is much lower than QNAP Nas).

Dear user, Thank you for the review on Capterra! We're very glad you are happy with Nextcloud! Take care!

I love the simplicity of using NextCloud as my own private cloud solution (on a selfhosted server). All my local files are securely replicated to my private cloud now, no more bothering about others (Google, Microsoft) having their hands on my data.

For the web-frontend and the apps (i.e. Cards) i see some room für improvement. Apps like Trello or ZenKit are loaded with much nore functionality, so cards isn't really an option.

* easy to use * integrates with enterprise identity services * mobile apps available

* integration with iOS Files and Microsoft apps is not bulletproof, risking data loss when editing documents on Word for iPad, for example. * OAuth plugin for the server could be better supported and enhanced to share usernames (rather than Nextcloud use the OAuth userID as the username) * Support for multiple servers in the mobile apps would be great!

The customization for the service is very nice and allows us to make it fit our needs. We use it on a Truenas box and it works great. Another this i like a lot is the huge amount of plugins for the service.

The thing I don't care for the most is the lack of documentation for the Freenas / Truenas integrations for when something goes wrong. Also the lack of 2fa out of the box is down side as well.

We needed the ability to accept files (e.g., a file drop service), and this was easily accomplished with Nextcloud. It was fairly simple to set up and has worked very well.

I wish integrations like Microsoft 365 authentication were better built in. There is some support, but it's extremely cumbersome. I had it working for a while, and then out of nowhere it just stopped. No clue what happened. I didn't want to risk that in production, so for now, we've disabled that and created separate accounts. I would also like better local encryption options.

The software is free to use Everything is simple to setup through the browser There are mobile and desktop clients so files can be accessed on any device and synced to a folder on your PC for easier access It is easy to share files with other people

There are normally 1-5 hidden files of metadata on the root directory of each user's area - this can be annoying if you can see hidden files on your computer It would be good to have better integration with Microsoft Office, including having NextCloud as a shared area that you can save directly to (both on PC and mobile) A special section in File Explorer is not setup like OneDrive or Dropbox - instead it syncs to a folder (although this can be pinned to quick access)

Hi Joshua! We're glad you are happy with Nextcloud! Stay tuned wrt the special section in File Explorer, we might just be working on something ;-) If you want to get the most out of Nextcloud, don't forget we have Nextcloud Subscriptions available. That improves much on the community help aimed at home users like you'll find on the forums and gives access to additional documentation and capabilities like our Outlook integration, Global Scale for higher scaelability, lower cost and data locality control and more. Take care!

I chose the VPS version of Nextcloud through a hosting partner and found that I have access to almost every service I need except bookkeeping. The hosted service costs me less than $10 a month and has allowed me to replace my subscriptions to GSuite and MS Office 365, saving me hundreds of dollars per year. I love that an online office suite, a to-do function, calendar and e-mail all come as part of the Nextcloud Hub. Not to mention Nextcloud Talk, a great Zoom replacement. It is unbelievably convenient to work through a single interface for almost all of my needs - and all with enhanced security. Don't need to worry anymore about Google or Microsoft having access to my business and client files.

I think this would be very difficult for someone like me (not a techie) to set up on his own. I thought about trying to run my own server in my office, but way too hard for me. So glad they have partners who help get you set up.