Intranet & file platform

Elium vs SharePoint

SharePoint is where your documents live. Elium is the trusted knowledge platform on top – one governed source your teams and your AI answer from. Most customers run both.

Global leaders to growing teams, turning knowledge into answers with Elium

L'Oréal
VINCI
BNP Paribas
BCG
Lime
Council of Europe
Restos du Cœur
Servier
ENEDIS
Fnac Darty
SPIE
Savencia

Governed foundation

Trusted answers, not another document library

In Elium, every article has a named owner, a review date and a validation flow. Stale content gets flagged before anyone acts on it. SharePoint stores files well – but a file store tells you nothing about what is current, owned or safe to follow. Elium is built for exactly that.

  • A named owner on every article
  • Review dates and validation flows built in
  • Freshness, usage and gap analytics

AI you can stand behind

Same Copilot, more reliable answers

Copilot is good at finding content. Whether that content is current, owned and safe to follow depends on the governance underneath – in the Microsoft stack, that means extra licensing, setup and site-level policies. Elium ships it as product: every article verified and current, and every answer cites where it came from.

  • Every answer cites its source article
  • Permissions respected in every AI response
  • Workswith Microsoft Copilot, agent platforms and Elium's own AI

Delivered everywhere

One source, served wherever your teams work

Elium serves answers inside the tools your teams already use – Teams, Slack, ITSM tools, portals and your own apps through the API – in every language you work in. Global Operations, Customer Service and IT Support all work from the same source. Documents live in SharePoint. Answers reach every team.

  • Served in Teams, Slack, ITSM tools and portals
  • Multi-language publishing and translation built in
  • Open APIsfor your own apps and agents

Purpose-built, not a project

A platform you run, not one you have to build

Knowledge management on SharePoint is a build: site structures, permissions, workflows, training. Elium ships those mechanics as product. Business teams create, structure and govern their own spaces – IT stays involved for SSO and integrations, not for day-to-day changes.

  • Purpose-builtfor knowledge creation and discovery
  • Templatesfor procedures, decision trees and policies
  • Run by business teams – IT onlyfor SSO and integrations

When knowledge is only stored on a file server, you're not working in a shared context. It's content management, not knowledge sharing.

Pascal Coquerel, Head of Outsourcing Development – SPIE ICS

Each department had found their own way to manage documents. Some teams sent people to SharePoint training who'd come back with thick manuals just to understand the parameterisation. The IT costs were spiralling, and users were frustrated.

Olivier Cocaud, Knowledge Manager – L'Oréal Operations

  • Independently owned for over a decade
  • Based in Belgium
  • ISO 27001
  • GDPR

Switching to Elium is easier than you think.

Get a dedicated onboarding team

You're never in it alone. Our specialists design a knowledge structure around your teams, your workflows and your existing content, not a template.

See our deployment services

Migrate with tools and a team

Our tools and team migrate your SharePoint content. We keep the structure worth keeping and help you archive the rest. Most teams are live in four to eight weeks.

How switching works

Get support built for knowledge managers

Always-on customer success, a deep help centre, and training for the people who manage knowledge, not just the people who read it.

Talk to an advisor

And your knowledge stays yours: everything exports in open formats, any time.

FAQ

Questions we hearfrom teams switching from SharePoint

No. Most customers keep SharePoint for document storage, intranet portals and collaboration, and use Elium as the trusted knowledge platform for procedures, support documentation and AI grounding. See how Elium and SharePoint work together.
Partly. With SharePoint's Knowledge Agent and the right licensing, Copilot can flag stale pages and content gaps at the site level. What it does not give you is per-article ownership, review dates and approval flows. AI answers are only as good as the knowledge underneath – Elium ships that governance as the product.
Yes – that is a deliberate design choice. Structure changes, new spaces and workflow updates are handled by the project team. IT stays involved for SSO and integrations, not for day-to-day platform work.
Most teams are live in four to eight weeks – not the multi-month projects that big SharePoint overhauls tend to need. See how a switch to Elium works, or start with a knowledge assessment: we look at your estate and give you a clear plan.
Elium is ISO 27001 certified, GDPR-compliant, built and run in Belgium, and hosted in Europe. We work with customers in pharma, finance, public sector and IT services. Full documentation is available in the Trust Center.

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