datapine vs MS SharePoint / SQL

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For someone like me, who had no real experience in using BI tools before, datapine suits quite well. Most of the features I was able to explore on my own, and their support was always really helpful (as well as the tutorials). In general, I was most impressed from their dashboard features. If you look for a software with detailed statistical analysis options, you maybe need to take another (additional) tool. My main use-case was the visualization and reporting of the analysis results, not the statistical analysis itself. This usually was done before with SPSS.

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Verified User

Manager in Research & Development

Consumer Electronics Company, 201-500 employees

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We have used it successfully as mentioned on two large programs, but again it is an enterprise tool so I am only speaking from the standpoint of my team. Hundreds of teams across our enterprise use this every day. We keep our decision tracker out there as well as important program documents required by our SDLC process like requirements, etc. We also publish test results for the team to see. We use SharePoint to share test data across the organization as we can not just email files back and forth. We can rely on the security settings of SharePoint to allow access to only those team members that need to see the test data. And even though our test data is masked, we still control access to it. I would recommend that any team can benefit from using SharePoint and it gives a good place to store program/project files. It becomes the source of the truth and you just keep putting the most current versions and save them to SharePoint.

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Gene Baker

Vice President, Chief Architect, Development Manager and Software Engineer

WySTAR Global Retirement Solutions, a Wells Fargo CompanyFinancial Services, 10,001+ employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

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MS SharePoint / SQL

Pixel Perfect reports

Customizable dashboards

Report Formatting Templates

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Customizable Platform (Open Source)

Pros

Intuitive user interface, especially within the analyzer (drag & drop).
Dashboard templates helped to create visually appealing dashboards.
Many different reporting options.
Customer support is really helpful.

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Verified User

Manager in Research & Development

Consumer Electronics Company, 201-500 employees

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Flexible - able to make any changes we would like vs traditional service desk system.
ROI - We were already using SharePoint for internal intranet, so we are simply getting more use out of licensing we had already committed to.
Easy to use for end users.

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Verified User

Manager in Information Technology

Government Administration Company, 1001-5000 employees

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Cons

Some advanced functions need SQL knowledge.

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Verified User

Manager in Research & Development

Consumer Electronics Company, 201-500 employees

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It is hard to setup and nightmare
It requires a of infrastructure, thus it could be costly because of requirement and licensing required for everything to run smoothly
If it is not setup and organized properly from the beginning it could be maintenance nightmare
It is hard to have "test" environment to do patches or similar

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Verified User

Administrator in Information Technology

Higher Education Company, 501-1000 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

No score

No answers yet

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MS SharePoint / SQL 8.8

Based on 7 answers

This was a long-term buy-in from a corporate perspective, to remain in the SharePoint space. Migration is certainly possible, which is good for planning and having options further out. At this point, the only planned migration is to eventually move the architecture up to SharePoint/SQL 2013. At that point, we will be able to leverage some greater efficiencies, some enhanced content design and management features, and some more current social features. It is well worth a full consideration in any shop looking at a new implementation of or migration to SharePoint (although you will probably be considering 2013 versions or beyond in those discussions), but the platform should be a strong competitor to any alternatives. Realizing the capability of a fully-branded and customized website was not part of the original choice for the architecture at Lincoln, but seeing it implemented and functioning now with this capacity far beyond original expectations has certainly cemented plans to continue using it.

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Tim Ritter

IT Analyst/Developer

Lincoln Financial GroupFinancial Services, 5001-10,000 employees

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Usability

No score

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MS SharePoint / SQL 9.0

Based on 4 answers

Most of the time it is user-friendly, but if you want[ed] to customize it was difficult in the past. Now it is emerging and evolving. From the point of customization, I feel it needs more focus and hard work! Again from the integration view it does not have... [the best] connectivity but [it] needs proper guidance.

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Harish Engolkar

Splz Senior Infra Engg.

Mphasis an HP companyComputer Software, 10,001+ employees

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Support Rating

No score

No answers yet

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MS SharePoint / SQL 9.5

Based on 4 answers

It's been fantastic in terms of Premier Support so far. If there is an issue and if you report if the product has an issue, they will act upon it immediately. In some cases, if you design/develop something using the platform, Microsoft appreciates it and... publishes it on their public website. But you have to wait for some time if it is a non-Premier Support issue as you may experience delays.

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Harish Engolkar

Splz Senior Infra Engg.

Mphasis an HP companyComputer Software, 10,001+ employees

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Implementation Rating

No score

No answers yet

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MS SharePoint / SQL 7.0

Based on 2 answers

Not implemented in best practice way, there are many customizations

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Vadim Malkin

IT R&D Manager

ComverseTelecommunications, 1001-5000 employees

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Alternatives Considered

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I have used both Google Drive and Zoho Docs which seem similar to MS SharePoint. The main differences I noticed as a user is that the user interfaces in both Google Drive and Zoho Docs were much more intuitive and they were much easier to navigate than MS SharePoint. There are a lot more things that you can do with MS SharePoint, but for a smaller company, it may not be worth the investment.

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Verified User

Engineer in Engineering

Design Company, 51-200 employees

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Return on Investment

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I've installed SharePoint in many different industries and each industry has seen greater collaboration among their teams both locally and nationally. The ability to collaborate more efficiently has reduced the need to have employees centrally located.
Companies which have used SharePoint in a end user training portal have had great ROI, since they can create the content once and share with all their users who subscribe to their training service. The web content management aspect of SharePoint is a very helpful feature.

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Verified User

Consultant in Information Technology

11-50 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

—

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

Entry-level set up fee?

Optional

$2,000*

* per installation

datapine Editions & Modules

On-premise Edition

datapine Server	$999¹

per installation

SaaS Edition

Basic	$249¹
Professional	$499¹
Premium	$769¹

per installation

Additional Pricing Details

Prices are per month.

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Likelihood to Recommend

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Feature Rating Comparison

Pixel Perfect reports

Customizable dashboards

Report Formatting Templates

Drill-down analysis

Formatting capabilities

Report sharing and collaboration

Integration with R or other statistical packages

Publish to Web

Publish to PDF

Report Versioning

Report Delivery Scheduling

Delivery to Remote Servers

Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)

Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization

Predictive Analytics

Multi-User Support (named login)

Role-Based Security Model

Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)

Single Sign-On (SSO)

Responsive Design for Web Access

Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile

Dedicated iOS Application

Dedicated Android Application

REST API

Javascript API

iFrames

Java API

Themeable User Interface (UI)

Customizable Platform (Open Source)

Pros

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MS SharePoint / SQL

Cons

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MS SharePoint / SQL

Likelihood to Renew

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MS SharePoint / SQL

Usability

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MS SharePoint / SQL

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MS SharePoint / SQL

Implementation Rating

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MS SharePoint / SQL

Alternatives Considered

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Return on Investment

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MS SharePoint / SQL

Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

datapine Editions & Modules

On-premise Edition

SaaS Edition

Additional Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

MS SharePoint / SQL Editions & Modules

Additional Pricing Details

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