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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)
3rd
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
6.7
Number of Reviews
166
Ranking in other categories
Enterprise Content Management (1st), Enterprise Intranet (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the Web Content Management category, the mindshare of Drupal is 9.5%, up from 6.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SharePoint is 7.1%, down from 12.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Web Content Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
SharePoint7.1%
Drupal9.5%
Other83.4%
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.
Ravi Raushan Kumar - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Engineer at ValueMomentum
Centralized document governance has boosted collaboration and made knowledge sharing structured
SharePoint is a powerful platform, but there are a few areas where I think it could be improved, such as user experience. For new users, the interface and navigation can feel quite complex, specifically when working with multiple sites and document libraries. Another improvement would be search functionalities. While it is good sometimes, it does not always return the most relevant result unless a document is very well-structured and tagged. Also, initial setup and customizations can be time-consuming and may require technical expertise, specifically when configuring workflows or permissions. From a modern development perspective, tighter and more seamless integrations with tools including Power Automate and better support for custom backend integrations through APIs could make it more efficient. Overall, simplifying usability and enhancing search and integration capability would make SharePoint even stronger. One additional area I would appreciate improvement would be performance and responsiveness, especially when dealing with a large document library. Sometimes loading or navigating through large datasets can feel quite slow. Another aspect is permissions management. While it is very powerful, it can become complex to manage at scale, specifically when there are multiple levels of access across teams and projects. Improving developer experience would also be beneficial. Making customization, API integrations, and extensions more straightforward would help teams, especially backend developers, leverage SharePoint more efficiently.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The feature I find most valuable is that Drupal is a framework and not only a CMS, and I like that it's a good product to manage complex digital solutions."
"Significantly less time spent on production issues and maintaining existing functionality, translating into significantly more time adding new and enhanced functionality."
"Its ability to style the article module is the most valuable feature, as it gives the developer the flexibility to show the articles the way he or she wants."
"I encourage others to use this product; it is a very powerful CMS tool with a lot of themes and modules and is great for enterprise use."
"The site was built on Drupal in three hours."
"The velocity of its extensibility and prototyping is a valuable feature."
"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."
"Drupal is an open source content management system which provides an easy installation process, a good range of modules for features' expansion, as well as a supportive community that will help resolve issues that you face with Drupal."
"The search feature is valuable."
"Document flows, storage, and numbering take off the actions for checking and assigning the numbering and running around with approvals and pre-approvals."
"The ability to assign an attribute to a library artifact allows the site owner to create the appropriate views based on artifact attributes (category, owner, etc.)."
"It's very easy to integrate with other software from Microsoft; it works fine with Excel, Word, email, and similar tools, which I find valuable."
"The most valuable features are the high number of ready-made snippets, easy basic process automation functionality, security model, and good integration with other Microsoft products."
"Lists, documents, wiki pages and being able to create sites/subsites are valuable features."
"Being able to drop all the cloud service subscriptions saves a lot: the amount depends on how many of those services can be replaced."
"Collaboration with other Microsoft products has made SharePoint a real tool for us."
 

Cons

"If you have a high traffic site and speed is important, to optimize Drupal you will probably need an expert."
"Modifying the themes (colors, dimensions, and pictures) could be easier."
"We had some stability issues."
"The main complaints of the clients or newcomers to Drupal are about the UX of the admin interface."
"It is a little bit simplified."
"The user experience in designing layouts should be much easier or much more helpful."
"It needs better and more themes available for download, like you have in WordPress."
"There is need for better organization of the documentation on the drupal.org site."
"Well, for SharePoint Online, the add-on features which are free tend to expire within a month or earlier."
"The technical support process should be more streamlined as it usually involves contacting vendors and arranging calls for resolution."
"It is not really better; we use the same solution as before with Google Drive and the Google App solution."
"It is not very intuitive to most users."
"Administration is still very complex."
"Mobile rendering is not up to the mark."
"The solution should improve its integration with other project management tools."
"The product could be improved in a lot of way. It is so frustrating to get things to work as advertised."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"I would like to see better pricing."
"The data classification and search elements are cheap."
"The pricing is competitive."
"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 is competitive."
"The replacement costs for it are cheaper if you use only SharePoint."
"SharePoint is included with our Microsoft license."
"The solution's pricing is relatively expensive because it's bundled with other products."
"Any extended support from Microsoft is expensive."
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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
14%
Financial Services Firm
12%
Government
10%
Marketing Services Firm
7%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Government
9%
Construction Company
9%
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 Enterprise83
 

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?
For me SharePoint is amazing. I have not thought about any feature that could be better because downloads and renaming are all easy. However, there is a feature that could be better. When you are u...
What is your primary use case for SharePoint?
We use SharePoint as our cloud storage for files, folders, and everything else. We have different teams, including the evidence and impact team which I work with, the alumni team, and other teams t...
 

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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