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SharePoint vs Xerox DocuShare
March 15, 2025 | Author: Michael Stromann
58★
SharePoint's multi-purpose platform allows for managing and provisioning of intranet portals, extranets and websites, document management and file management, collaboration spaces, social networking tools, enterprise search, business intelligence tooling, process/information integration, and third-party developed solutions. SharePoint can also be used as a web application development platform.
4★
DocuShare is one of the most flexible, easy-to-use content management platforms on the market today. It manages a wide range of paper and digital content and automates your business processes so your organization’s, customers, constituents, and partners can efficiently access, share and process business critical information 24 x 7.
SharePoint and Xerox DocuShare are both brilliant inventions designed to manage the eternal struggle of organizing digital documents, a battle humanity has been losing since the dawn of floppy disks. They let people store, search and share files with an air of efficiency that only exists in product brochures. Both systems promise version control so you’ll never accidentally delete the CEO’s latest strategic vision (which is, of course, almost identical to last year’s). They also come with robust security features to ensure that only the right people can see the wrong files at the wrong time. Most importantly, they integrate with all sorts of other software, ensuring that your quest to locate that one critical document is always just a few more clicks away than you thought.
SharePoint, brought into this world by Microsoft in 2001, is particularly good at worming its way into businesses already drowning in Excel sheets and PowerPoint decks. It’s a natural fit for those who believe that the best way to collaborate is by embedding everything into Outlook, thereby ensuring that no one can ever find it again. It loves intranets, workflows and presenting users with an existential crisis when they realize they've been editing the wrong version of a file for the last four hours. Available both in the cloud and on-premises, SharePoint allows IT departments to argue indefinitely about which deployment is the lesser evil.
DocuShare, Xerox’s brainchild from 1997, approaches document management with the unwavering confidence of an office printer that insists it has paper when it absolutely does not. It thrives in places where paperwork breeds like particularly well-fed rabbits—law firms, hospitals, government offices—the sorts of places where losing a document isn’t just an inconvenience but a legally dubious event. Unlike SharePoint, which wants to be your entire digital workplace, DocuShare is content simply making sure your scanned invoices, contracts and incredibly important memos don’t vanish into the digital ether. It’s available mostly on-premises or in private clouds, ensuring that the IT staff can continue their noble tradition of blaming everything on the firewall.
See also: Top 10 ECM software
SharePoint, brought into this world by Microsoft in 2001, is particularly good at worming its way into businesses already drowning in Excel sheets and PowerPoint decks. It’s a natural fit for those who believe that the best way to collaborate is by embedding everything into Outlook, thereby ensuring that no one can ever find it again. It loves intranets, workflows and presenting users with an existential crisis when they realize they've been editing the wrong version of a file for the last four hours. Available both in the cloud and on-premises, SharePoint allows IT departments to argue indefinitely about which deployment is the lesser evil.
DocuShare, Xerox’s brainchild from 1997, approaches document management with the unwavering confidence of an office printer that insists it has paper when it absolutely does not. It thrives in places where paperwork breeds like particularly well-fed rabbits—law firms, hospitals, government offices—the sorts of places where losing a document isn’t just an inconvenience but a legally dubious event. Unlike SharePoint, which wants to be your entire digital workplace, DocuShare is content simply making sure your scanned invoices, contracts and incredibly important memos don’t vanish into the digital ether. It’s available mostly on-premises or in private clouds, ensuring that the IT staff can continue their noble tradition of blaming everything on the firewall.
See also: Top 10 ECM software
