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Drupal vs SharePoint comparison

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Drupal
Ranking in Web Content Management
5th
Ranking in Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals)
4th
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
37
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
SharePoint
Ranking in Web Content Management
2nd
Ranking in Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals)
1st
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
166
Ranking in other categories
Enterprise Content Management (1st), Enterprise Intranet (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2026, in the Web Content Management category, the mindshare of Drupal is 9.0%, up from 5.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SharePoint is 6.9%, down from 10.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Web Content Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
SharePoint6.9%
Drupal9.0%
Other84.1%
Web Content Management
 

Featured Reviews

it_user982032 - PeerSpot reviewer
Owner at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
A good product that helps me to manage complex digital solutions
My advice to others would be that Drupal is not only a CMS, you need to learn the Drupal fundamentals before to start the project. Drupal is a handy tool whenever you work on a digital infrastructure broad project and not only a simple website. So if you have a big project, you can use Drupal. But if you have a small website, like a blog or simple website, my advice would be not to use Drupal, because Drupal is too complex and the cost to maintain the platform can be too high, related to the value of your website, for example. If you have a website with a big product catalog, for example, in many languages and in many countries in the world, then Drupal is good. But if you have a simple website, like a portfolio or five page-website, you can use many other technologies that'd be simple to maintain and implement. On a scale from one to 10, I will rate Drupal an eight. In the next release, I would like to see basic page buttons and better integration with the analytics platform. A drag and drop function to create simple pages will also be handy. For example, if a customer wants to create a landing page, it should be easy for him or her to do so. I would also like to see better translation management.
AnjneyBhardwaj - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Market Research Analyst at IDC Corporate
Collaboration has improved through simplified document access and controlled sharing
SharePoint is definitely used to keep a record of our files and data. The capability is quite good because it is time-saving. I have used it only four or five times, but it has been very helpful to keep all my information in a consolidated manner. The search feature is one of the most beneficial factors that we use to filter out the latest data or the latest file as per our convenience and use case. When you have a large repository, this feature is particularly valuable. Role-based access control has been helpful while developing the knowledge platform. The roles were defined clearly, which made it easy for the four or five of us to work simultaneously and collaborate on our project in a similar manner.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"Drupal’s extensible nature allows me to easily integrate with third-party hosted systems and pull or push data to those systems."
"The velocity of its extensibility and prototyping is a valuable feature."
"The open source nature of Drupal, being free to extend or alter it is massively important for us."
"Significantly less time spent on production issues and maintaining existing functionality, translating into significantly more time adding new and enhanced functionality."
"Views, terms, panels, and entity conception. It is a very useful and fast solution to build successful web applications."
"Drupal is the most powerful and flexible CMS."
"Use Drupal if expandability is a must or if you are building a large website with various kinds of functionality."
"Drupal could be chosen not only for its adaptability and ability to tackle big website projects, but for its core functionalities, which are unmatched in the free software CMS world."
"SharePoint is a ten out of ten solution."
"Using this product, one can benefit from OOB features in regards to content and document management, and it provides a single platform where multiple applications can be integrated under one roof."
"No code and low code, scalable, and stable collaboration platform. Straightforward to set up. Its support system is good and offers fast issue resolution."
"This solution is extremely scalable."
"Compared to other products, SharePoint is not only a content manager, but a wider product, like enterprise content management."
"For any organization with more than one person in it, if they are trying to organize things to let people in the company know what others are doing, then this solution is good for them."
"Easy management of content and portal and the document repository features are a distinguishing point compared to a file server."
"It's very stable; I call it a multifunctional document system because you can do a lot of things with it, and it's just incredible how much we have been able to automate a few steps that people had to do thanks to the integration with other Office products."
 

Cons

"The modules need to be improved."
"Migration from one major version to the next major version requires significant effort."
"Overall business friendliness of the product: Digital experience features like target segmentation and campaign management have a long way to go."
"Creating complex content types (involving translations), is still a very slow and painful process."
"The documentation on how to do things as a complete novice is only subpar in both Drupal 7 and 8."
"There are not enough Drupal developers to satisfy demand."
"There were some stability issues, i.e., only with the new version, the main changes are not stable."
"The technical support is below average as compared to all the other products."
"Technical support rates a 3.5/5."
"We do sell Hyland OnBase, which is probably a competitor to SharePoint and does a lot more. In our own organization, we haven't had a need for it, but certainly, for our customers, we are finding that to be a better fit. In terms of the technical reasons for that, I'm not involved much on that side, so I can't give specifics, but there is certainly room for them to improve or add on certain features that clearly are not available in SharePoint, but they are available in Hyland OnBase."
"There are some limitations on storage."
"It is not really better; we use the same solution as before with Google Drive and the Google App solution."
"The product does not perform 100% when used outside of a Microsoft based browser, Chrome, Firefox, etc."
"As usual, Microsoft’s licensing structures don’t really seem to fit the needs of their products."
"For sure, it should offer customisation of data grids, which is not possible, as it seems to use some proprietary OCX control."
"It's Microsoft; empty your pockets. Seriously, if you obtain SharePoint under one of their blanket licensing agreements you really need to pay attention to the terms and conditions, especially if your acquisition is part of Office 365."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I would like to see better pricing."
"As usual, Microsoft’s licensing structures don’t really seem to fit the needs of their products. This leads to always paying for a project you will never use fully or always be adding to."
"The pricing works for us."
"The platform has medium pricing."
"The solution's pricing is relatively expensive because it's bundled with other products."
"The pricing is competitive."
"The pricing is competitive."
"The replacement costs for it are cheaper if you use only SharePoint."
"SharePoint is included with our Microsoft license."
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Comparison Review

it_user8925 - PeerSpot reviewer
Developer with 51-200 employees
Aug 23, 2013
Jive vs Sharepoint vs Drupal Commons
At Mediacurrent we often get requests to compare Drupal to other platforms used for intranet sites and social business platforms (like https://dev.twitter.com/ for example). This is often referred to as “Social Business Software”, which has grown in popularity in recent years. I decided to do a…
 

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
13%
Financial Services Firm
11%
Government
10%
Outsourcing Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Government
9%
Construction Company
8%
Manufacturing Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business15
Midsize Enterprise13
Large Enterprise11
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business81
Midsize Enterprise40
Large Enterprise84
 

Questions from the Community

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for SharePoint?
I do not know the difference between the prices of the two solutions; I did not work on this project.
What needs improvement with SharePoint?
I don't know how SharePoint can be improved because it works effectively, so I can't think of any improvement. It exists in the background, similar to Windows, where you don't think about it, but i...
What is your primary use case for SharePoint?
I have been using SharePoint for three years since I began employment at Wartsila. My main use case for SharePoint is storing documents, meeting recordings, and visiting websites created by my coll...
 

Also Known As

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SharePoint 2007, SharePoint 2010
 

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Sample Customers

BMJ, The Economist, New Republic, SpaceX, Lush, Danone, Tesla Motors, Peugeot, Stanford Law, Harvard, Oxford University, MIT Media Lab, The Beatles, MTV UK, The Weather Channel, NBC, BBC, grammy.com, Mus_e du Louvre, Whitehouse.gov, London.gov.uk, Gouvernment.fr, New Zealand Government, The Prince of Wales, British Council, NYC Metropolitan Transport Authority, Gatwick Obviously
Toyota, Aeroports de Paris, ASBBank Ltd., Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals, CambridgeshireConstabulary, D&M Group, NPL Construction Company, and The Regional Municipality of Niagara.
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