European alternatives · SharePoint alternative
The European alternative to SharePoint for your documents
Team folders in Binadit Drive do what most companies use SharePoint for: shared documents with rights per group, retention periods, legal hold, guests from outside and a history per file. Without sites, libraries or a consultant.
Why companies look for an alternative
Too much to manage
Sites, libraries, content types and permissions per item. Without an expert, SharePoint quickly becomes a maze.
An American supplier
SharePoint is part of Microsoft 365, to which the US Cloud Act applies.
Licences on top of licences
Retention and legal hold come with Purview and the more expensive plans.
Binadit Drive team folders and SharePoint
What you have today, and what is still being built. We only list what works now as available.
| Aspect | Binadit Drive | SharePoint |
|---|---|---|
| Shared documents | Team folders with read or write rights, per person or per group | Sites and document libraries |
| Retention and legal hold | Per team folder, included; a signed retention report | With Microsoft Purview, in the more expensive plans |
| Guests from outside | Sign in with a code by email, one team folder, with an end date | Guest access through Entra ID |
| Mail with the case | Save to Drive from the webmail and Northmail | Through Outlook or add-ins |
| Check-out, version numbers, metadata, approvals | Being built in this order; not available yet | Available |
| Company and law | Binadit B.V., Rotterdam, under European law | Microsoft Corporation, United States |
How the switch works
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Look at your sites
We go through your sites and libraries and decide which become team folders and which groups get access.
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Move the documents
We help you copy the files and folders from your libraries to the team folders.
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Set the rules
Turn on retention, view logging or guests per team folder. Nothing is on until you choose it.
When SharePoint fits better
If you use SharePoint as an intranet with news pages, lists and Power Automate flows, or need co-authoring in the Word desktop app, SharePoint remains the better fit. Binadit Drive is for companies that mainly use it for documents.
Documents without the maze
In a demo we show your team folders, retention and guests with your own example.