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Score7.9 out of 10

2,747 Reviews and Ratings

What is SharePoint?

Microsoft's SharePoint is an Intranet solution that enables users to share and manage content, knowledge, and applications to empower teamwork, quickly find information, and collaborate across the organization.

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Pros

  • Robust document sharing and access control with granular permissions
  • Effective collaboration features, including simultaneous editing and version control
  • Reliable large-scale data storage and management, particularly with SQL

Cons

  • Unintuitive navigation and search capabilities, making content difficult to locate
  • Requires technical expertise for customization and can be less user-friendly for general users
  • Difficulties with file management, including moving files and potential misplacement

Sharepoint --- better than Google Docs.

Lauren Wilson
Senior Accounting Manager in Finance and Accounting at Creative West (11-50 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

SharePoint is our main software for maintaining a variety of docs-- Excel sheets, how-to docs, historical imports for 7+ years, audit prep, etc. We transitioned from Google Drive, by and large, to SharePoint about two years ago. It's been fantastic to have actual Excel sheets that don't lose formulas or formatting.

Pros

  • Maintains formulas and formatting in Excel.
  • Allows for collaborating on files internally and externally.
  • Easy, accurate search-- just ensure your team uses informative titles.

Cons

  • Constantly logging in from being kicked out-- though there's a chance that's my company's security protocol
  • Feels less keyboard-first friendly, more clickable

Return on Investment

  • Rapid sharing with internal and external stakeholders.
  • Easy upload/drag and drop capability.
  • Low training effort-- easy to use.

Alternatives Considered

Google Drive and Atlassian Confluence

Other Software Used

Atlassian Confluence, Google Drive

Microsoft SharePoint - Revenue Cycle Educational Materials Storage Access

Incentivized
Carmen MusitanoView profile
BH Continuing Education/Regional Finance/UHS Corporate in Finance and Accounting at Universal Health Services, Inc. (10,001+ employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use SharePoint for our revenue cycle educational/ training tools & resources. We have documents stored along with recorded Webinars on various topics. In addition, we have commonly used links to access websites, applications, reporting tools, etc.

Pros

  • Recorded Webinars
  • Application Links including Facility FAQs
  • Training documents, PPT documents, Announcements, etc.

Cons

  • I've had an issue recently moving a recorded Webinar to the correct/ desired location on the SharePoint Site.
  • It would be helpful to be able to access Webinars that would help/ assist the "owner(s)" of the SharePoint Site.
  • The more "user friendly" Microsoft can make SharePoint for both the "owner(s)" of the Site and users... the better.
  • Are there existing tools that can tell "owners" of the Site what documents, recorded Webinars, application links, etc. are actually reviewed/ accessed?

Return on Investment

  • Overall, the product achieves a very strong ROI. It would just be good as stated previously if we knew how many users access not only the Site but specific documents, applications, etc. inside the Site.

Usability

Definitely Fit for Purpose.

Incentivized
Verified User
Manager in Quality Assurance (51-200 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use this as our Intranet. All documents are stored in Sharepoint so that everyone has access to it. And since it is in the cloud, it is accessible at any time. We can also easily ensure a particular document, folder or library can have restricted access. The use of metadata is also useful when filtering or searching for a particular document. The fact that multiple users can edit and collaborate on the document at the same time is also really useful. It also keeps previous version(s) which can be rolled back at any time.

Pros

  • Easy collaboration.
  • Able to specify specific access.
  • Notifications from workflows.
  • Metadata

Cons

  • It is not easy to identify "archived" documents. When searching for documents, all documents show. The only way to do this is to put "archive" in the document name before setting the metadata to "archived" (eg [ARCHIVED] Document Name).

Return on Investment

  • SharePoint has delivered measurable ROI at our organisation through improved compliance, reduced manual effort, and better collaboration.

Other Software Used

KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training, Aircall, HubSpot CRM

Better ease of doing business

Incentivized
Verified User
C-Level Executive in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use for document management and we had files more than 2 million that needs to be stored and given access to employees. MS SharePoint is best software product that addresses your problem and gives customer delight. We use SQL for effective indexing, archiving and helps addresses the problem. I highly recommend MS SharePoint / SQL.

Pros

  • Documents management
  • File movements
  • Indexing
  • Ease of data access
  • Ease of doing business

Cons

  • Some features like document folders can be given access in main page
  • File movements can be improved from folder to folder
  • Faster page loading

Return on Investment

  • Better ease of business for faster access to file movements
  • It helped saved company times by more than 5 hours and results in better decision points

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Apache Kafka and Canon Business Services Managed IT Services

Other Software Used

Adobe Analytics, Google Analytics, Cargo365cloud

SharePoint SQL Powerful for Collaboration and Data Management but with a learning curve

Incentivized
Verified User
Professional in Information Technology (1001-5000 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

SharePoint is our central hub for collaboration and document management. It brings a new way of working eliminating the need of sending documents back and forth and easy way to access version history.

Pros

  • Enables secure document sharing with version control, automated approval workflows, and team-specific collaboration sites
  • Handles large-scale data storage and querying, supports real-time reporting through Power BI, and ensures centralized access to business-critical information

Cons

  • Navigation and search in sharepoint can be unintuitive, and customizing sites often requires more technical expertise
  • SQL can be really complex when it comes to performance tuning and advanced configuration

Return on Investment

  • SharePoint has boosted productivity by streamlining collaboration and reducing time spent on document management
  • SQL has improved decision-making with faster, more accurate reporting

Usability

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