Egnyte vs SharePoint (2026): The CTO's Technical Comparison

SharePoint is already in your M365 bundle. Egnyte costs $20–55/user/month on top of it. The real question isn't which platform has more features — it's whether SharePoint's architectural limitations around large files, file locking, and sync scale are costing you more in lost productivity and IT overhead than Egnyte's license fee.

This guide breaks down the technical differences that actually determine platform choice: architecture, sync limits, CAD compatibility, compliance posture, total cost of ownership, and migration complexity. Every section is written for the CTO or IT Director who needs to justify the decision to a board, not just pick a tool.

Egnyte vs SharePoint: Platform Positioning

SharePoint Online is Microsoft's intranet, collaboration, and document management platform, bundled into every Microsoft 365 Business and Enterprise plan. It powers Teams file storage, company intranets, workflows via Power Automate, and document co-authoring in Office apps. Its strength is breadth: it touches nearly every Microsoft surface. Think of it as a web-based collaboration platform that happens to store files, not a traditional file server.

Egnyte is a purpose-built enterprise content platform with a hybrid cloud architecture. Egnyte was founded in 2007 to solve a problem that still haunts most businesses: how do you give every employee fast, reliable access to files — whether they are sitting in the office or working from a hotel room 3,000 miles away? The answer is a hybrid architecture that stores files in the cloud for global access while caching them on-premises for LAN-speed performance. It targets architecture, engineering, construction (AEC), legal, healthcare, and life sciences firms that handle massive files and require granular, folder-level compliance controls.

One-line verdicts:

• Choose SharePoint if your company lives in Microsoft 365, works primarily with Office documents, and doesn't have large-file or file-locking requirements.
• Choose Egnyte if you're in AEC, healthcare, legal, or any industry where large files, granular permissions, native file locking, and compliance controls are non-negotiable.

Architecture: Cloud-Only vs Hybrid Caching

The architectural difference between these platforms is the single most important factor in your decision. Everything else — performance, CAD support, compliance — flows from it.

SharePoint: Cloud-First, Sync-Based

SharePoint Online stores files in Microsoft's cloud infrastructure. While users perceive a folder hierarchy, SharePoint actually stores data in Document Libraries on Sites, backed by SQL Server databases in Azure. Users access files through the browser, Teams, or the OneDrive sync client, which creates a local mirror of cloud content on each device. Changes sync through Microsoft's servers.

This model works well for Office documents under typical conditions. It breaks down in three specific scenarios:

1. High file counts — the sync client struggles at scale
2. Large binary files — multi-hundred-MB CAD, video, or design files sync slowly and create conflicts
3. File-locking-dependent applications — the sync model fundamentally cannot enforce real-time file locks for non-Office apps

Microsoft's architecture is opinionated: it wants you working in the browser or via Microsoft Teams. The local sync client is a bridge, not the primary access method.

Egnyte: Hybrid Cloud with Edge Caching

An on-premises cache node sits in your server room and keeps frequently accessed files available at gigabit LAN speed. Behind the scenes, every file is synced to Egnyte's cloud with full versioning, audit trails, and compliance controls. Remote users access the same files through a desktop client or web browser with no VPN required.

Smart Cache is the next-generation hybrid technology platform from Egnyte. This solution combines the performance and scalability aspects of Storage Sync along with many new and compelling end-user and Administrator features. Key capabilities include:

• Global File Locking — Smart Cache allows users to lock files they are editing, preventing others from editing the same file. Global File Locking is enforced if a user opens the file on their device, preventing other users from opening the file in the cloud or on another Smart Cache device at a different location.
• Automatic Discovery and Location Awareness — traveling users can access files stored in Smart Cache devices at different offices. The Desktop App determines the nearest Smart Cache device using network tests for bandwidth and latency and connects to the appropriate device or the cloud.
• Single-Site Revit Co-Editing — in SMB collaboration mode, Smart Cache allows users to co-edit Revit files with enabled worksharing, designed specifically for the AEC industry.

Smart Cache supports up to 300 users on a single device. When a user saves a 2GB AutoCAD file, it saves instantly to the local cache, and Egnyte handles the byte-level differential sync to the cloud in the background. Users connect via standard SMB protocols at LAN speeds — there is no sync agent churning through millions of file metadata indexes on the endpoint.

Day to day, SharePoint asks users to think in site architecture. Egnyte lets them stay in a folder tree. If you do move Egnyte data into SharePoint, plan around hub sites instead of subsites. Recreating a file-server tree as a SharePoint site tree is one of the fastest ways to build a platform users hate.

The CAD and Large File Problem

This is where the comparison gets decisive for AEC, manufacturing, and media companies.

SharePoint's Sync Limits

Microsoft's official documentation states that syncing more than 300,000 items across all synced libraries can cause performance degradation. In practice, once a user syncs over 100,000 files, the OneDrive sync client often enters a continuous indexing loop, spiking CPU usage and draining batteries. For an engineering firm with millions of project files, relying on the OneDrive sync client across the organization is a guaranteed failure point.

OneDrive sync on Windows will support syncing up to 1 million items per device starting in Public Preview in late April 2026, benefiting users with large libraries. Devices not meeting requirements will remain at the 300,000-item limit. The hardware requirements are steep: Windows 11 or Windows Server 2022, with the Windows public preview. Memory: 16 GB RAM minimum (32 GB recommended). Storage: Solid-state drive (SSD) required. Processor: Intel i5 / AMD Ryzen 5 or later, Snapdragon X Plus.

This is promising but still in preview — the initial rollout is available to participants in the Insiders ring as a Public Preview. General Availability is planned for a later date. Most production environments won't see this until late 2026 at the earliest. It's Windows-only. Mac users and older hardware remain at 300K. Design for the 300,000-item limit unless your tenant has validated the newer behavior.

To be fair, SharePoint's back end is not small. Microsoft documents up to 25 TB per site and up to 30 million items in a list or library. The problem isn't raw cloud capacity — it's what happens at the sync client, permission layer, and desktop workflow. The list view threshold is 5,000 items without indexed columns, meaning folder views with more than 5,000 items require specific configuration to function correctly.

Egnyte bypasses the sync-count issue entirely. Because users access the Smart Cache drive via mapped network drives over SMB, there is no local sync agent indexing files on the endpoint. Egnyte stores, analyzes, organizes, and secures billions of files and petabytes of data from millions of users. On average, they observe more than a million API requests per minute.

SharePoint Cannot Lock CAD Files

This is the dealbreaker for AEC firms. AutoCAD does not natively support SharePoint as a network file storage location. The software does not manage file check-out or locking functionality for external document management systems.

The practical impact: based on Microsoft's own integration announcement, firms migrated their .dwg files to SharePoint with the intent of leveraging the OneDrive sync client. The result was lost work, and they later found Autodesk's article stating SharePoint is not a supported storage location for AutoCAD drawings.

AutoCAD is designed to work with network drives, where files are accessed directly through a consistent path and file locking is applied in real time. The OneDrive sync client uses a different model. Files are downloaded locally, edited, and then synchronized back to the cloud. While effective for Office documents, this approach can introduce issues for AutoCAD workflows.

If two engineers open the same .dwg AutoCAD file via SharePoint/OneDrive, neither is warned that the file is in use. When they save, SharePoint creates a "conflict copy," resulting in overwritten work and lost hours. SharePoint supports native file locking only for Microsoft Office applications — not for CAD, Adobe, or other desktop software.

How Egnyte Handles This

Multiple users specifically praise Egnyte for AEC use cases involving AutoCAD files and large drawings. The platform handles large files better than SharePoint and includes features like local caching and SmartCache VM for improved performance.

Egnyte's Smart Cache presents files through a mapped drive letter with real-time file locking — exactly what CAD applications expect. If an engineer in London opens a CAD file, the file is locked globally. An engineer in New York attempting to open it receives a prompt stating the file is read-only and currently locked by the London user. This single feature is why Egnyte dominates the AEC sector.

In SMB collaboration mode, Smart Cache allows multiple users to work on single Civil 3D files, allowing the master file to load cross-reference files faster.

Winner: Egnyte. This isn't close. If your team uses AutoCAD, Revit, Civil 3D, or any application that requires native file locking and drive-letter paths, SharePoint is architecturally unsuitable without third-party workarounds. Note that Egnyte's AEC-specific add-ons (BIM/CAD preview, DWG search, 250GB file size limit) require the Specialized File Handler at $6/user/month — the advantage is real but not included in the base price.

Feature-by-Feature Comparison

Capability	SharePoint Online	Egnyte	Winner
Office document co-authoring	Native, real-time in Word/Excel/PPT	Supports M365 co-authoring via integration	SharePoint
Intranet / site building	Full intranet platform with sites, pages, news	Not an intranet tool	SharePoint
Large file handling (>500MB)	250GB upload limit but sync-dependent delivery	Hybrid cache delivers at LAN speed	Egnyte
CAD file locking	Not supported natively	Global file locking via Smart Cache	Egnyte
Sync reliability at scale	300K soft limit (1M in preview, Windows only)	No sync-count limit; cache-based	Egnyte
Granular folder permissions	Site-based inheritance model, complex at scale	NTFS-style folder-level controls	Egnyte
Compliance (HIPAA, FINRA)	Requires M365 E5 or compliance add-ons	Built into Enterprise Lite and above	Egnyte
Content classification / DLP	Via Microsoft Purview (separate licensing)	Built-in AI-driven classification	Egnyte
Workflow automation	Power Automate (M365 ecosystem)	Basic multi-step workflows	SharePoint
Search	Microsoft Search (tenant-wide, AI-enhanced)	File and metadata search	SharePoint
Third-party integrations	Massive ecosystem (Power Platform, Teams, etc.)	150+ integrations including M365, Salesforce, Adobe	SharePoint
API maturity	Microsoft Graph — deep, well-documented	REST API with per-token rate limits	SharePoint
Data sovereignty	Azure regions (50+), Multi-Geo as add-on	US/EU cloud + on-prem cache nodes	Egnyte

Collaboration

SharePoint wins for Office-centric collaboration. Real-time co-authoring in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint is native, fast, and deeply integrated into Teams. Egnyte integrates with M365 for co-authoring, but it's an integration layer — Egnyte integrates with Outlook, Teams, and Office co-authoring. Users keep their M365 workflow — Egnyte replaces only the storage and sync layer underneath. Users can co-author Word and Excel documents stored in Egnyte without noticing the difference, and no SharePoint setup is required for that path.

Customization and Extensibility

SharePoint is dramatically more extensible. Between SPFx (SharePoint Framework), Power Automate, Power Apps, and the Microsoft Graph API, you can build custom solutions that are impossible on Egnyte. One note for 2026: SharePoint add-ins retired on April 2, 2026, so legacy add-in estates need remediation if you're still running them.

Egnyte's API is RESTful and functional for file operations, permissions, search, events, and webhooks. But the public API is plan-gated with default caps of 2 calls/second and daily/monthly quotas by plan. API rate limits and daily usage limits are enforced per access token rather than against the entire key. So, even if one user exceeds their quota under your key, other users will still be able to access Egnyte through your application. The default settings for all tokens have rate limits that can be increased by contacting Egnyte. It's not in the same league as Microsoft Graph for building custom applications.

Search and Organization

SharePoint's search is tenant-wide and AI-enhanced via Microsoft Search and Copilot. Managed metadata, content types, and term stores provide a structured information architecture that Egnyte's folder-and-metadata model can't match. For details on designing this correctly, see our guide on SharePoint information architecture.

Egnyte indexes metadata and textual content and supports metadata-driven search. Both platforms have documented content-processing limits: SharePoint may only index metadata for files above certain thresholds, while Egnyte documents indexed-text limits of 50 KB and 10,000 tokens. Egnyte's DWG search (up to 100 MB) is available via the AEC add-on.

Security, Permissions, and Compliance

Permission management is the second most common reason IT teams consider switching between these platforms.

Permission Models

SharePoint uses a site-based permission inheritance model. Permissions cascade from site → library → folder → item. Breaking inheritance creates "unique security scopes" — and Microsoft recommends staying under 5,000 unique scopes per list or library (hard limit: 50,000). You also cannot break or reinherit permissions on folders, libraries, or lists above 100,000 items.

At enterprise scale, deeply nested unique permissions become difficult to audit and create performance issues during security trimming — the process where SharePoint checks what a user is allowed to see before returning search results. Microsoft explicitly warns against this pattern. For a deep dive into securing this model, see our SharePoint permissions guide.

Egnyte uses NTFS-style folder permissions. Administrators can configure access at the user, group, or role level, with overrides for individual files or subfolders where needed. View-only permissions prevent downloading or printing; link-based sharing can be password-protected, time-limited, and scoped to specific recipients. These controls are enforced consistently across web, desktop, and mobile interfaces. For regulated industries, this access model aligns with SOC 2, HIPAA, CMMC, and ISO 27001 requirements.

You can assign read, write, or delete permissions to specific sub-folders deep within a directory without breaking the system. IT admins familiar with Windows File Server permissions (NTFS) will find this immediately intuitive — it's the same top-down inheritance model.

Compliance Certifications

Egnyte: ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certified. Data is housed in secured, SOC 2-certified datacenters. Supports HIPAA, FINRA, SEC 17a-3/17a-4, GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, CMMC/NIST 800-171, and GxP. Egnyte is committed to data sovereignty by directing that all European customer data and metadata be stored solely within European-based cloud repositories. Egnyte includes built-in data classification and compliance scanning — it actively scans repositories for PII, PHI, and GDPR-sensitive data, alerting administrators to open access links or unusual download behaviors.

SharePoint: Inherits Microsoft 365's compliance certifications — SOC 1/2/3, ISO 27001/27018, HIPAA BAA, FedRAMP, and more. Audit logging is on by default, with records retained for 180 days for non-E5 users and 1 year under Audit Premium for E5-class users (custom policies can retain up to 10 years). But advanced compliance features — DLP, eDiscovery, sensitivity labels, advanced audit — require Microsoft 365 E5 or compliance add-on licenses, which significantly increase cost. Multi-Geo provides geographic data placement across Azure's 50+ regions, but it's a paid add-on with licensing conditions.

Winner: For out-of-the-box compliance in regulated industries, Egnyte wins. Its compliance features are built into the Enterprise Lite tier (~$38/user/month) without requiring a separate compliance stack. SharePoint can match or exceed Egnyte's compliance capabilities, but only at E5 pricing ($57/user/month) with Purview add-ons.

For GDPR-specific migration considerations, see our GDPR data migration blueprint.

Pricing and Total Cost of Ownership

SharePoint: The "Free" Illusion

SharePoint Online is included in Microsoft 365 plans:

• SharePoint Plan 1 (standalone): $5/user/month
• M365 Business Basic: $6/user/month
• M365 Business Standard: $12.50/user/month
• M365 Enterprise E3: $36/user/month
• M365 Enterprise E5: $57/user/month

If you're already paying for M365, SharePoint's incremental license cost is effectively $0. Storage is pooled at the tenant level (1 TB base + 10 GB per user).

The real cost of SharePoint emerges in:

• Extra storage at $0.20/GB/month when the tenant limit is reached
• IT overhead troubleshooting sync failures at scale
• Compliance add-ons — E5 or Purview licensing for DLP, eDiscovery, and advanced audit
• Third-party tools to solve CAD file locking (e.g., Cloud Drive Mapper, Triofox)
• Third-party backup solutions for granular point-in-time recovery
• Consulting time restructuring deep folder hierarchies to fit SharePoint's flat architecture

Egnyte: Transparent but Premium

Egnyte pricing in 2026 ranges from approximately $8 to $40+ per user per month depending on the tier, user volume, and storage requirements. Most mid-market companies with 100-500 users can expect to pay between $15,000 and $75,000 annually for Enterprise Lite or Ultimate plans. The platform uses a per-user licensing model with additional charges for storage beyond included allocations.

Tier	Price/User/Month	Key Capabilities
Team	~$10	Max 10 users, 1TB shared storage, basic sharing
Business	$20–22	Granular permissions, hybrid sync, M365 integration
Enterprise Lite	$35–39	Ransomware detection, compliance controls, SSO, unlimited cloud storage
Enterprise	$55–66	Full hybrid (Smart Cache/Storage Sync), advanced governance

Common add-ons include the Specialized File Handler ($6/user/month) for BIM/CAD preview and search, and Snapshot & Recovery ($10/user/month).

TCO by Company Size

Scenario	SharePoint (M365 E3)	Egnyte Enterprise Lite	Notes
25-user startup	$0 incremental (already in M365)	~$11,400/yr	Hard to justify Egnyte unless CAD-dependent
150-user mid-market	$0 incremental + ~$15K compliance add-ons	~$68,400/yr	Egnyte wins if you'd need E5 + Purview anyway
500-user enterprise (AEC)	$0 incremental + $50K+ in workarounds	~$228,000/yr	Egnyte often cheaper than SharePoint + third-party fixes

Integrations and Ecosystem

SharePoint

SharePoint's ecosystem is unmatched. Microsoft Graph API provides deep access to files, permissions, sites, lists, search, and analytics. Power Automate connects SharePoint to 1,000+ services. Power Apps lets you build custom front-ends. Teams, Outlook, and every Microsoft surface integrates natively. SharePoint is the backbone of the Microsoft ecosystem — it powers Teams, is the foundation for Microsoft Copilot, and the default storage layer for M365 Groups.

Egnyte

The platform provides integration with 150+ business applications including Office 365, Adobe Creative Cloud, AutoCAD, and Salesforce. Egnyte also integrates directly with industry-specific tools like Procore and Google Workspace. Its API covers file operations, permissions, search, events, and webhooks — functional for file-centric automation but narrower in scope than Microsoft Graph.

Winner: SharePoint, by a wide margin. If your decision hinges on ecosystem, extensibility, and building custom applications, SharePoint is the only realistic choice.

Migration and Lock-in

Migrating between these platforms is non-trivial in either direction. The architectural mismatch between SharePoint's site-based model and Egnyte's folder tree creates friction regardless of which way you're moving.

SharePoint → Egnyte

Moving to Egnyte is structurally simpler, as Egnyte can handle deep folder trees natively. The main challenges are:

• Permission mapping — translating SharePoint's site-based permissions to Egnyte's folder-level model
• Metadata flattening — SharePoint content types and managed metadata don't have a direct Egnyte equivalent
• Non-file content — SharePoint lists, pages, web parts, Power Automate flows, and SPFx customizations have no Egnyte equivalent
• API throttling — extracting data from SharePoint without hitting Microsoft Graph API rate limits, especially with terabytes of historical data

For details on exporting from SharePoint, see our SharePoint export guide.

Egnyte → SharePoint

This direction has significantly more friction:

• Folder structure limits: When sharing a folder, the total number of sub-items contained within it and its sub-folders is limited to 50,000. Deep Egnyte hierarchies must be restructured and distributed across multiple SharePoint Sites and Document Libraries. If you map a 500GB Egnyte folder directly into a single SharePoint library, the migration will choke. You need to understand SharePoint's hub-site architecture before mapping your folder tree.
• Permission translation: Egnyte's granular folder permissions don't map cleanly to SharePoint's inheritance model. Every permission break creates a unique security scope, and hitting the 5,000 recommended limit is easy with complex permission trees.
• API throttling: SharePoint Online aggressively throttles API calls during migration with 429 and 503 responses and expects you to honor Retry-After headers. Large migrations require careful batching and retry logic. See our guide on SPMT limits and what breaks.
• File path limits: SharePoint enforces a 400-character total path length. Egnyte allows much longer paths — which means deep folders often must be renamed or restructured during migration.

Lock-in Risk

SharePoint lock-in is moderate. Your files are standard formats (DOCX, XLSX, PDF), but your workflows (Power Automate), custom apps (SPFx), metadata structures (content types, term stores), and intranet sites are deeply Microsoft-specific. The data is portable; the system around it is not. Legacy SharePoint add-ins already retired as of April 2, 2026, adding another migration vector.

Egnyte lock-in is lower for raw files — everything lives as standard files in a folder structure. But Egnyte-specific compliance policies, retention rules, and classification labels don't export. The hybrid cache nodes are proprietary VMs.

Use-Case Recommendations

Small Business / Startup (Under 50 Users)

Recommendation: SharePoint You're already paying for M365. SharePoint handles your document storage, Teams collaboration, and basic workflows. Egnyte's $20+/user/month is hard to justify unless you're a small AEC firm with CAD file needs.

Mid-Market / Scaling Team (50–500 Users)

Recommendation: Depends on workload

• Office-document-heavy teams (SaaS, consulting, marketing): SharePoint. The M365 ecosystem is your advantage. Invest in proper information architecture — use Hub Sites, avoid deep folders.
• File-heavy teams (AEC, engineering, manufacturing, media): Egnyte. The hybrid cache and file locking pay for themselves in avoided sync failures and IT tickets.
• Low technical bandwidth: Egnyte is often operationally simpler when the requirement is "make the shared drive work." SharePoint is cheaper but demands more architectural discipline.

Enterprise (500+ Users)

Recommendation: Both, often Many large enterprises run SharePoint for intranet, collaboration, and Office document workflows — and Egnyte for project file storage, compliance, and CAD-heavy departments. This isn't a failure to decide; it's an acknowledgment that the tools solve different problems.

Industry-Specific Wins

• AEC / Construction: Egnyte. AutoCAD, Revit, Civil 3D, and BIM workflows require native file locking.
• Healthcare: Egnyte. Built-in HIPAA controls at the Enterprise Lite tier beat SharePoint's compliance add-on pricing.
• Legal: Egnyte. Granular permissions, audit trails, and retention policies are native.
• Regulated finance: Egnyte if you need out-of-the-box data classification and anomaly detection. SharePoint E5 if you have a dedicated compliance team to configure Microsoft Purview.
• General corporate / knowledge work: SharePoint. The M365 integration is unbeatable.
• Software / tech companies: SharePoint. Better APIs, better automation, better developer tools.

Strengths and Weaknesses

Egnyte Strengths

1. Hybrid architecture — LAN-speed access with cloud backup, no VPN required
2. Native file locking — the only cloud platform that properly supports CAD workflows
3. Compliance built-in — HIPAA, FINRA, CMMC controls without add-on licensing
4. Granular permissions — NTFS-style folder controls that IT admins understand immediately
5. Industry specialization — purpose-built for AEC, healthcare, and legal workflows

Egnyte Weaknesses

1. Cost — $20–66/user/month on top of your existing M365 spend
2. Limited extensibility — no equivalent to Power Platform or SPFx
3. Smaller ecosystem — 150+ integrations vs SharePoint's thousands
4. Not an intranet — zero site-building, news, or internal communications capabilities
5. Add-on creep — AEC features, recovery tools, and hybrid caching all carry extra cost; opaque enterprise pricing

SharePoint Strengths

1. Bundled with M365 — zero incremental cost for basic use
2. Deep Microsoft integration — Teams, Outlook, Power Platform, Copilot
3. Extensibility — SPFx, Graph API, Power Automate, Power Apps
4. Search — Microsoft Search is tenant-wide and AI-enhanced
5. Scale — 25TB per site, 30M items per library, massive infrastructure backing

SharePoint Weaknesses

1. Sync limits — 300K file soft limit causes real pain at scale (1M in preview, not GA)
2. No native CAD file locking — architecturally incompatible with AutoCAD/Revit workflows
3. Permission complexity — inheritance model becomes unmanageable with granular needs
4. Compliance add-on cost — advanced DLP, eDiscovery, and audit require E5 or Purview licenses
5. No hybrid/edge caching — no built-in answer for LAN-speed access to large files in branch offices

Overhyped vs Underrated

• SharePoint is overhyped as a file server replacement. It's an excellent collaboration and intranet platform, but treating it as a drop-in for a traditional file server creates pain — especially for engineering teams.
• Egnyte is underrated for its M365 integration. Many CTOs assume adopting Egnyte means abandoning Microsoft. It doesn't — Egnyte replaces only the storage and sync layer while preserving the Office co-authoring experience.

The Verdict

Choose SharePoint if:

• Your company is Microsoft-first and your primary files are Office documents
• You need an intranet, not just file storage
• Your team builds custom workflows with Power Automate and Power Apps
• You have under 100,000 files and no CAD/large-binary requirements
• Budget is the primary constraint and M365 is already deployed

Choose Egnyte if:

• Your team works with CAD files, large binaries, or design assets daily
• You need native file locking across distributed offices
• HIPAA, FINRA, or CMMC compliance is a baseline requirement, not an add-on
• Your folder structures are deep and permission needs are granular
• You have field offices, job sites, or locations with inconsistent internet

Choose both if:

• You're an enterprise with a general corporate workforce on M365 and a specialized department (engineering, construction, legal) that needs Egnyte's file-handling capabilities

For the CTO skimming this page: SharePoint is the right default for Office-document-centric organizations already invested in Microsoft 365. Egnyte justifies its premium when your actual workflows involve large binary files, native file locking, multi-office hybrid access, or out-of-the-box compliance — scenarios where SharePoint's architecture creates more IT overhead than Egnyte's license costs.

If your evaluation is really about sync pain, CAD locking, permission sprawl, or migration risk, run a pilot with your ugliest dataset — not your cleanest folder. That's where the real answer shows up.