Shade unifies your data across local, on-prem, and cloud. See how SharePoint compares in managing permissions, access, and ease of use.
Key takeaways
First-party support > legacy management
SharePoint offers a legacy method of managing files via websites with limited permissions. Shade is a first-party solution that helps solve permission management, access, and sharing across local, on-prem, and cloud. It enables your creative team to work with your files as if they were all in the same room. For enterprise customers, we also offer direct support and SLA agreements.
AI Multimodal search
Shade offers a full multimedia search across images, video, audio, documents, and 3D assets. This includes not just the natural language AI search capability but also previews for over 500 different file types, including BRAW, R3D, Prefabs, Unreal, and more.
Real-time sharing for internal & externall collaborators.
Shade offers the ability to unify your data across multiple regions and locations, including bringing your own cloud blob storage and NAS infrastructure. With ShadeFS, Shade offers a unified permission layer that syncs with Azure Active Directory and significantly improves over SharePoint.
Ready to switch from SharePoint to Shade?
You need a file system, not a website.
File systems are meant to be mounted, searched, and accessed across multiple locations and computers for various purposes. SharePoint simply does not offer the customization necessary to build a comprehensive asset management solution.
With Shade, you have complete control over how you want to configure your folder and file management while also maintaining a flat way to search through your assets via our AI search. In addition, you have a real-time way to mount your files directly to your computer - something that SharePoint does not provide. Finally, with Shade published links, you can easily share assets and folders with external clients without having to create a dedicated SharePoint website for each client.
Never lose an asset again with Shade AI.
Shade’s multimodal AI search is unmatched and enables users to quickly sift through millions of assets to find exactly what they need. Shade provides not just a natural language engine to search through files but also over 100 different filter options and other data values, including EXIF metadata, camera configurations, facial recognition, transcripts, and more. SharePoint does not offer any of these features.
When to use SharePoint over Shade.
If you are looking for something that deeply integrates with your files already in OneDrive and needs an internal website manager - then SharePoint would make more sense. However, if you want to manage terabytes of files, especially assets that you will use often, then Shade makes a lot more sense.
