SharePoint vs. OneDrive for Business: What’s the Difference?

When you compare OneDrive vs. SharePoint, you'll notice that they approach collaboration, file sharing, and project management in different ways.

 

OneDrive:

  • OneDrive is an online document/file storage platform. It's typically used by individuals and business teams who need a central location to store and access files. OneDrive's versioning and sharing features make it easy to work together, so it's more than an online filing cabinet.
  • Both contain work flows, auditing templates, and version control. OneDrive does not include marketing resources, such as website and social media connections.
  • OneDrive doesn't offer the ability to publish your content to the web. While you can email links to documents, you cannot publish those documents directly to a web page from the OneDrive platform.
  • OneDrive gives different members of your team access to documents for storage and sharing and tracks versions, but it's essentially an online folder system and does not include many of the extras available in SharePoint.

SharePoint

  • SharePoint is a collaboration tool for businesses that need multiple individuals and teams to work on documents and products at the same time
  • Both contain work flows, auditing templates, and version control. OneDrive does not include marketing resources, such as website and social media connections.
  • SharePoint lets you publish documents directly to a website or make them available for access and download by customers or employees.
  • SharePoint gives your team a collaborative workspace with dashboards, calendars, tasks, notifications, and updates. You can set up a SharePoint site for each of your teams to access, with dashboards that give team and company notifications.

Additional Information:

  • Search or browse our online Knowledge Base
  • Call the CCRI IT Help Desk at (401) 825-1112
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