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Joomla vs SharePoint comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

Joomla
Ranking in Web Content Management
13th
Average Rating
8.6
Number of Reviews
9
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
SharePoint
Ranking in Web Content Management
2nd
Average Rating
7.8
Reviews Sentiment
6.7
Number of Reviews
167
Ranking in other categories
Enterprise Content Management (1st), Corporate Portals (Enterprise Information Portals) (1st), Enterprise Intranet (1st)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2026, in the Web Content Management category, the mindshare of Joomla is 2.2%, down from 2.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SharePoint is 6.9%, down from 12.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Web Content Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
SharePoint6.9%
Joomla2.2%
Other90.9%
Web Content Management
 

Featured Reviews

JS
Techvangelist & CEO at IT Guru Solutions, Inc.
One of the most robust, stable, secure, feature-rich CMSs on the market
I would like to see more back-end admin power pulled into the front-end, therefore the admins will not have to use the back-end as much, especially for the menu manager, user manager, etc. versus using third-party extensions to achieve this. As it is today, it often ends up introducing some potentially serious security concerns. When I turn over a Joomla site, editing content is easy for most folks (i.e., changing the Contact Us or About Us pages). However, when it comes time for them to edit menus and navigation to add a new page or article into the menu somewhere, it starts to get a little complex for many users to build these menu items, especially when there are multiple menus being used in different positions. I also would like to see the same sorting and attributes available through the web browser on the JED (sorting by free or commercial license, sort by rating, popularity, etc.) within the back-end Joomla Web Installer when browsing extensions. I would also like to see the Joomla security bulletins pulled into the admin back-end with better publishing of known extension issues, especially for ones we have installed. Therefore, if we do not have them installed, we never see those bulletins. If we do, then pertinent messages showing up like "there are X number of extension updates available" can pushed upfront and center like updates and security notice usually are.
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

"This CMS lets you create an own website within minutes, no matter if the user has knowledge in coding."
"Despite some limitations, Joomla stands out from the crowd and manages to retain its position in the market."
"With a fairly small learning curve for the end user who wants the basics, Joomla is one of the most robust, stable, secure, feature-rich CMSs on the market."
"The speed in which you can take a CMS and make it a full-blown shopping cart with analytics tracking, SEO, user accounts, security, and ease of use through a robust framework of modules and plugins to enhance and promote-related content is about as turnkey as it gets with Joomla."
"Joomla is one of the most popular CMSs today."
"Do your project in Joomla; you will see that it is a better solution for website development."
"Simplicity and security are basic elements to build a website quickly and safely, and with JoomShaper it was for me even easier."
"Joomla is a complete and easy-to-use content manager system; it's possible to create a website, manage its structure and contents, and add features using hundreds of extensions, and the most valuable thing for us is the easy way you update content, add articles, modify structure, and apply SEO tags and info."
"OneDrive and SharePoint provide a secure, fully auditable way of storing information."
"For all-around capabilities that include not just document management, workflows, calendar, task management, blogging, calendars and overall business process management, we deemed SharePoint as the best overall."
"With accessibility from a DMZ, SharePoint is a good solution for outside access."
"SharePoint is the ideal platform in the collaboration scenario where it is quite easy to set up document repositories with appropriate permissions with just a few mouse clicks."
"My advice is to not hesitate; just plunge in and implement SharePoint."
"The collaboration features of SharePoint 2013 are probably the best I have seen in an enterprise product out of the box."
"From my perspective as a developer I would say that the most valuable features are the wide variety of data source connections, completeness of features, and strong query possibilities (customisation, SQL, MDX, macros)."
"Integration with Office 365 and Active Directory, and access from all our company users as part of the Office 365 licenses, plus hassle free access from mobile devices to sites, forms, and lists, with powerful content search and preview."
 

Cons

"When it comes time for them to edit menus and navigation to add a new page or article into the menu somewhere, it starts to get a little complex for many users to build these menu items, especially when there are multiple menus being used in different positions."
"I would like to see more back-end admin power pulled into the front-end, therefore the admins will not have to use the back-end as much, especially for the menu manager, user manager, etc. versus using third-party extensions to achieve this."
"Joomla itself seems to be secure, but many add-ons are badly written and allow LFI, RFI, SQL injection and XSS attacks."
"Customizing components is not so easy."
"With even basic Joomla, it requires a course."
"I would like to see the same sorting and attributes available through the web browser on the JED (sorting by free or commercial license, sort by rating, popularity, etc.) within the back-end Joomla Web Installer when browsing extensions."
"Web applications created in Joomla eat up a lot of server resources."
"The product must provide more automation."
"SharePoint doesn’t have the Urdu language package, hence we had to work hard for it."
"SharePoint designer workflows can be buggy sometimes without any apparent reason."
"​The support is the worst. It is bad when Microsoft support does not even know what to do and you have to tell them. Also, they take too long to solve a problem.​"
"Submitting document changes function needs to be improved."
"No good process to import emails from several users into a single comprehensive SP repository."
"SharePoint Online could improve the user interface and when modifying any of the user interfaces can be challenging. Additionally, there are challenges with the detail in the analytics user interface and the overall customization could improve."
"Mobile rendering is not up to the mark."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Joomla is open source, therefore free. Only hosting, the time to build it along with the training time is your startup cost."
"We have purchased add-ons to handle multiple site collections, form creation, and design."
"The platform has medium pricing."
"They are about an eight in comparison to other similar products."
"The pricing works for us."
"The pricing is competitive."
"Licensing can be by server or by seat."
"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."
"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
Financial Services Firm
13%
Government
12%
Comms Service Provider
10%
Media Company
8%
Government
10%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Construction Company
8%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business9
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?
It is a little difficult to name the areas for improvements in SharePoint because I don't use it all that much. I know I can host pages on it and feel that the CMS platform, which helps create thos...
What is your primary use case for SharePoint?
SharePoint is a repository that I use primarily for collaboration and sharing resources and assets. It's a good way to collaborate, and one benefit of SharePoint is the pages you can create on it, ...
 

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SharePoint 2007, SharePoint 2010
 

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Sample Customers

Artisan Web and Print, HLVC Design, Media A-Team Inc, Holdingbay - Tristan Bailey, Molehill Web Works, Sysgen Media, Pappy Productions, Inc., Turn To The ProsPB Web Development, LC Publishing - LambCottage Foundation
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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