

What it does not include are your marketing resources, such as website and social media connections. OneDrive (for Business) now contains all of the original SharePoint document offerings, including workflows, auditing, templates, and version control. While both Office 365 and OneDrive encrypt to keep documents safe from prying eyes, only SharePoint can offer the added security of a standalone server. Using OneDrive and SharePoint in Businessesīusinesses concerned with document safety, auditing, or regulatory compliance often find that SharePoint’s granular version control and user access settings help them control their internal and customer data security. The cloud collaboration tool, Office 365, includes both SharePoint features and the OneDrive storage platform, making those available on any device from the cloud. If we discuss hybrid or cloud solutions, we’ll call that Office 365. Over the last couple of years, Microsoft released updates to its Office 365 product that have absorbed SharePoint into the Office 365 cloud platform, so for this post, we’ll talk specifically about SharePoint as an on-premise solution. SharePoint is a collaboration tool for businesses that need multiple individuals and teams to work on documents and products simultaneously. Microsoft distinguishes between personal and business versions of the tool for this article’s purposes, we’ll focus on the business version. OneDrive’s versioning and sharing features make it easy to work together, so it’s more than an online filing cabinet. It’s typically used by individuals and business teams who need a central location to store and access files.

OneDrive is an online document/file storage platform. But before we get into how to use them for business, let us explain exactly what they are.

Microsoft’s enterprise sync and share tools OneDrive and SharePoint have enormously grown and continue to be used by organizations to carry out their business operations.
