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SharePoint

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2,763 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

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

MS SharePoint / SQ

Incentivized
Verified User
Professional in Information Technology (51-200 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use MS SharePoint to share documents and handle workflow options. We use SQL in our test and production environments. We use it for Acumatica (our ERP) and our client facing websites/billing.

Pros

  • SQL has come a long way in reliability and dependability. It allows large datasets and does really well with JSON.
  • MS SharePoint works well with sharing files and workflow

Cons

  • I honestly can't think of any. Maybe change control?

Usability

Other Software Used

Microsoft Visual Studio

Great tool to add to your Toolbox

Incentivized
Verified User
Manager (1001-5000 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use SharePoint as a "Home Screen" for internal staff. When you open your browser, it defaults to this screen. It is used to navigate most departmental functions and link you to your software that you need to use as well. This helps with making everything an employee may need centrally localized in one spot.

Pros

  • Building of the Site is Easy
  • Linking softwares/sites/procedures in one spot
  • easy navigation

Cons

  • Things can get lost in folders
  • Can be a little glitchy at times

Return on Investment

  • Positive impact on spreading of information
  • One database for all information

Other Software Used

FMX, Cityworks from Trimble

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