How Drupal Compares to SharePoint

Question

I have no experience with Drupal.

How Drupal compares with SharePoint 2007 (or 2010) for the following "features"

• Document management
• Manage Roles and Permissions
• Office Integration
• Web content management
• Development of user servers (functions, user pages, access to external data ...)
• Deployment

Answer 1

In fact, the main difference between Sharepoint and Drupal is that Sharepoint comes with certain features that you can barely change.

In contrast to Drupal, there are many extensions that are open source that you can modify and suit your needs. So, your question is a little general, it depends on how you are going to configure Drupal, which modules you are going to use, etc ...

In my opinion, Drupal can be very powerful, but there is a little chaos in all the modules developed for it. Everyone can implement the functions that he feels, and in the end, the client-developer looks at a whole bunch of software, wondering what to choose, which is better, how it works, etc.

And back to your question, Drupal has all these features that Sharepoint has. Some of them are better implemented (for example, roles, permissions and deployment), some of them are not very good (office integration).

Answer 2

Arpan Shah, Director of Product Management for SharePoint, recently announced this.

He may be biased, but the comparison is still fair:

SharePoint and Drupal

Answer 3

Unlike the Cryophallion operator, SharePoint works with any file, not just MS Office. Improved features when using MS Office products, but this is the only difference.

You can change the functionality of SharePoint, but like Drupal, this requires the efforts of a developer. SharePoint actually provides you with rich off-the-shelf functionality that can be modified if necessary.

SP document management is good, not the best breed. This gives you natural version control, record keeping, and alerts. I'm not sure about Drupal

Role and permission management is rich in SP (it can be as granular as you need), especially in combination with AD. Not Sure About Drupal

Content management in SP is very good. On the same site you can create your changes and publish only when they are ready, for this you do not need a separate site. This was done using major and minor versions. If necessary, you can choose that this is a separate site, you have the flexibility.

Answer 4

I am not sure about document management with Drupal, since it was developed as a CMS site, so I do not know about document management and Office integration. Another detail: what performance package are you using? Sharepoint will not work with Open Office or any other Office suite other than Microsoft.

However, if you are looking for an alternative to Sharepoint, I would take a look at Alfresco .

Answer 5

If you are looking for Document Management, you will need some type of integration module. I would recommend learning this one: http://drupal.org/project/kt . KnowledgeTree is fully capable and provides integration with your office.