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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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What is SharePoint?
MS SharePoint / SQL refers to Microsoft Sharepoint, a web-based collaborative platform, being used in tandem with Microsoft SQL Server to provide business intelligence analytics and reporting. They can provide BI content such as data connections, reports, scorecards, dashboards, and more.
With Sharepoint, users can share files, data, news, and resources. Sites can be customized to streamline teams’ work. Team members can collaborate inside and outside the organization, across PCs, Macs, and mobile devices.
Sharepoint also supports the ability to discover data, expertise, and insights to inform decisions and guide action. SharePoint’s content management features, along with connections and conversations surfaced in Yammer, enable organizations to maximize their velocity of knowledge.
Users can also accelerate productivity by transforming processes—from tasks like notifications and approvals to operational workflows. With SharePoint lists and libraries, Microsoft Flow, and PowerApps, they can create digital experiences with forms, workflows, and custom apps for every device.
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What is Microsoft SharePoint and How Can I Use It?
SharePoint is a great tool for sharing files and delivering information to employees. Some businesses even use SharePoint to build their company website. Whether you use SharePoint for your internet, intranet, or both, though, it can be tricky to get started with.
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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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The most common users of SharePoint are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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December 30, 2021
Good Investment for Cloud Sharing
Score 7 out of 10
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Microsoft SharePoint is used by our organization for creating focus topics for communication, distributing files, contracts, financial documents, and onboarding information. It is a social venue for the teams to share company photos, make announcement,s and have contests. It is integrated well with Teams and Office, making it a good choice for our organization.
- Shares files and photos securely.
- Searches files and documents easily.
- Provides a clean and easy user interface.
- There should be a photo slideshow viewer.
- Photos in posts are smaller in size and do not zoom.
November 22, 2021
"Innovate, create, and solve with SharePoint."
Score 9 out of 10
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MS SharePoint makes it simple to set up access levels based on user roles and privileges. In terms of security and project management, it’s a great tool. Because everyone had access to SharePoint, it was possible to work from home during this period of uncertainty. We use it across departments because we have many client projects in our offices. Project resources and training materials are organized with Microsoft SharePoint. In addition, we have access to classified documents. Its simplicity and ease of use are among my favorite aspects of the product. This feature enables us to easily share anything we want within the group with a few mouse clicks. We can also set permissions to read, write or both. I’m satisfied with the platform’s functionality and design.
- Microsoft SharePoint integrates well with Office 365. So long as the content is organized and users know what they are looking for, it can store a wealth of information.
- It's simple for administrators to add and remove users. It is possible to restrict access to specific pages of a website to particular individuals or groups.
- As long as the document structure is simple and keeps track of authors and last edited dates, it is simple to store documents in Microsoft's simple document structure.
- There are far too many good features to choose from, and advanced features are noticeably absent.
- There is room for improvement in terms of integration with non-Microsoft products, as well as developer Story.
- It is challenging to provide easier access via file explorer while also granting outside users and guests access.
We use MS SharePoint in a variety of ways. First, it is an excellent shared file depository. You can collaborate with people across campus by placing the file in SharePoint and allowing the people on the team on which you are working access. Thanks to the capabilities of office you can all edit the document in a single place and don't have to worry about people downloading their own copies and different revisions developing. We also use this feature as a sort of wiki to show changes over time. I also use the calendar feature quite a bit. It is helpful for tracking past events and planning those in the future. The color coding features are nice so you can run parallel calendars over top of one another. The last feature I like is setting up a landing page or home page that you can use to keep people that maybe don't use the SharePoint site as regularly up to date on the project or area that you have developed.
- The calendar features are quite robust.
- Document storage is a breeze.
- Live document editing is simple.
- Organizing information and creating a structure is done in a way even novice users can manage with little assistance.
- It does take some work to get your setup to be as graphical as modern design tends to be.
- Overlapping calendars are great but they do take some time investment to create.
- Depending on how many project or teams you work with it can get a little overwhelming to have so many different groupings.
April 05, 2021
Sharepoint much better then a file server
We use SharePoint for our local intranet site. Its been set as everyone's home page with a blog set up as the landing page. We primarily use it for sharing files, wikis and calendars. The search functions work well enough when files are uploaded with appropriate metadata. For the most part we run an out of the box, basic configuration to ensure future versions of SharePoint won't break anything we currently have set up.
- Wikis
- File Sharing
- Searching
- Could be more user friendly, large learning curve since it is such a complex tool.
- Built in reporting features could be more robust.
- Built in permissions vs. domain permissions are confusing.
October 09, 2019
Great for team collaboration and project management
SharePoint is in use across our entire organization. It provides a central location for our document libraries, collaboration, private, and internal intranet websites for all of our corporate departments.
- Team discussion message boards and also internal Wikis our DevOps teams.
- Document sharing is fantastic within SharePoint since it's a central location for all users to access their department files from.
- Office 365 integration is great and is globally accessible.
- Sometimes it's slow to sync with OneDrive or requires you to un-sync and then re-sync.
- UI can be difficult to navigate.
- Version and sharing control should be more straightforward.
September 17, 2019
MS SharePoint is great for sharing
SharePoint is used across the entire organization. It provides centrally-located, always available and easily-accessible document libraries, collaboration spaces, private, internal websites for all of our corporate divisions and their departments and a way to quickly share documents with other users.
- Document sharing - it works really well for this. documents can be included in libraries and organized in folders. Documents can be uploaded as files or links to files stored anywhere that is accessible by URL.
- Team discussion boards - It does discussion format very well and presents discussion sin a familiar format that all users will recognize. it can also do Wikis.
- Managing access permissions is still clunky - not a whole lot better in newer versions than it was way back when it was first launched.
- Re-organization of the site hierarchy isn't very easy. You need a third-party tool to do anything meaningful when you want to rearrange your site pages and move site libraries.
- It doesn't provide for any kind of backup, so you have to either have it on=prem where you can backup the entire server or you have to buy a third-party tool if you are using the online hosted version (SPO).
June 23, 2019
SharePoint: It does, so you don't have to!
SharePoint is used by my entire organization. Its tools and scalability allow all our sites across the world to communicate and increase efficiency, which is hard given our sizable footprint. A team in Oregon needs to be using the same processes and information as the team in New York, and SharePoint allows us to do this. From easily making personalized websites for each team to use, to making wikis with information that all teams can access, SharePoint has been a time and lifesaver.
- User interface. I went from knowing nothing about SharePoint, to being a site leader managing 12 different sites and multiple subsites. It's really intuitive, easy to work out, and there are tons of materials and how-to's out there if you want to go deeper
- Speed. A website is no good if it takes a year and a day to load. I'm able to speed through both the web part building process and general use as fast as my mouse can click, regardless of where the servers are located
- Stability. SharePoint is very stable, not crashing under my experience. Of course, it's important to ensure updates are installed but other than that, I was able to guess and check many aspects of how to operate SharePoint without crashing anything.
- Sometimes it's a little hard to know where to go if you want to do a particular action, and SharePoint has its own "language." It's not computer language like C++ or anything, but you do have to learn what SharePoint calls a site, a subsite, a web part, etc. Without that vernacular, it's a much steeper learning curve.
- It can be a little hard to figure out the lists' functionality. We've run into situations where a list will max out on how much info it can hold, and the process for increasing that limit or moving the data to a different kind of list is not straightforward.
- There are currently several design choices, but they're somewhat limited. Yes, it's supposed to be a work program, so you don't want to get too "artsy," but having the option to be a little more creative would be nice and expand the user base.
June 20, 2019
Sharepoint: collaboration for all
We are using SharePoint as our internal intranet solution, it hosts a large number of corporate documents. We also use it for team collaboration, project collaboration and as a central repository for team information. Our corporate news and applications are all linked through the intranet and it also hosts electronic forms and workflows.
- Collaboration
- Electronic forms
- Document warehousing
- Easier migrations to new versions
- Clear communication about outages
- Clear communication about changes
April 20, 2019
SharePoint: Capable but could be made more user friendly
SharePoint, when it was rolled out several years ago, was in replacement for Atlassian's Confluence. It is intended to be used by the whole organization, and was the de-facto tool for collaboration. There were a wide variety of uses for SharePoint. Teams were managing their own SharePoint sites to share internal information to the team, educate external teams, and make project-specific sites where all documentation and discussions related to a specific site were stored. Much more than a document repository, we have been using SharePoint as public and private wikis, calendar sharing, and data collection through generated forms for input.
- Simple to use and learn the basics.
- Lots of customization options if you require advanced features.
- Tight integration with Microsoft software -- Excel data can be converted to charts, Outlook calendars.
- Searching with a site is decent, as it will return results within documents such as Word uploaded in the repository.
- The way permissions are configured can be difficult to control. I have seen permissions granted accidentally and give access to areas where they should not be.
- Images for wiki pages are more difficult than necessary, as it requires you to first upload an image first before linking to it. It should work similarly to OneNote, where you can simply paste the image in.
- Maintaining document folder structures is difficult. While there's a Windows Explorer-like function, it's not obvious where it can be found.
September 14, 2018
Collaboration for the Organization Hackers!
The entire company that I work for uses MS SharePoint. It is a great collaboration tool and is nice to have a central hub for common documents, announcements, etc. We have one central location where you can access all the SharePoints throughout the company and it is helpful when first joining or just working with a new team. Most teams across the organization use the tool and more and more are adopting it.
- It is easy to use and you can be simple or do advanced coding
- It has a document library that you can use similar to a shared drive, but it also monitors when updates were made and only allows a single user to edit at one particular time
- It allows you to create different user groups with varying levels of permissions
- If you want to make it look extra nice, you need coding experience and it's very hard to add that nice extra touch without it
- I wish that they had more templates to build off of when first creating it
- I am never able to open it in Chrome and IE is very slow on this website causing sessions to time out quickly
August 20, 2018
Improving the organization with MS Share Point
In these moments, we find a pilot test in a department of the production area. We are automating several processes that are key in the company. Up to now, we have made significant changes, improving product review time, reducing project delays. It is an excellent tool, but you must have people trained in the implementation to ensure that the change in the company is simple and taken without much rejection by end users.
- It is a versatile tool, it allows creating workflows that support and streamline project management. It allows you to create documents and carry out your change control. You can establish checkpoints of the revision which makes it more efficient to know who has the document, how long the process lasted and send the client the document with the latest version.
- It is part of the Office platform and integrates with other MS applications, which makes it easy for users.
- From the point of view of performance and security, SharePoint is the best product for any organization.
- To implement it in small companies is expensive because it requires a specialized technical support team to configure to measure, manage and ensure that the tool runs without a problem.
- It is not easy to configure custom forms. There are some lists that are inflexible. To search efficiently, you need a lot of internal customization.
- It takes a lot of time to achieve the personalization of the application, since it requires a lot of configuration and training of the staff, added to the development effort to achieve the correct configuration.
June 06, 2018
Workhorse that gets the job done, but poor UX
Our organization's information technology platform is built under the Microsoft ecosystem and products umbrella. When it comes to groupware (creation of micro sites that enable content, wikis, and document libraries) the natural tool to deploy is Microsoft SharePoint, and its cousin OneDrive. The whole organization has built-in pre-approved and pre-configured access to SharePoint, and it is encouraged as the go-to tool.
- Transparent integration within an organization under the MS umbrella
- Leveraging of existing single sign-on facilities
- Advanced customization with centralized Active Directory features
- User experience is subpar
- Unclear behaviors when sync-ing devices
- Some users report bugs in the Windows client
February 19, 2018
SharePoint has a lot to share... if you can find out how to do it
[It's] currently used as a project and document repository. In a past organization, it was used to support some workflows as well.
- It is very configurable and has lots of ways to customize views. Many options to choose from. You can do a lot of different things with the SharePoint tools.
- Can do internal project oriented sites with many tools and capabilities. You can create an "entry site" or "working site" for your projects including things like a wiki and repository pretty easily.
- Has separate views of the content depending on what you are trying to do. Makes customization easy.
- Supports building some basic workflows. It's more than a repository.
- If I want just a basic repository - that can be hard to configure given so many options.
- I'm not quite sure what the best way to do what I want is. There are so many options.
- Some of the ways tools are presented to the user and the language used to describe the features is not always intuitive and many times feels clunky.
July 20, 2016
Sharepoint Document Management
We use SharePoint as a central intranet destination. It aggregates business reports, documents, and process workflows into one location.
- Integration with other Microsoft products
- Aggregation of company resources into one location
- Document management
- Versioning
- Search is hit or miss
- Wiki functionality isn't quiet there yet
- Collaboration could be improved
We use MS SharePoint as a collaborative tool for sharing documents and archiving information/files both internally and externally with our clients. The service itself is very useful in a number of ways, especially for interfacing with team members who may not have immediate access to the office, or for clients traveling abroad. It also serves the purpose of customization and ease-of-use we were looking for in a collaborative file-sharing tool.
- Effective hosted-file sharing technology.
- Multiple access points for users, regardless of their location.
- Serves well as a database for information sharing as well, such as an FAQ database or wiki library.
- It can be incredibly overwhelming for novice users.
- The user interface seems more complicated and "busy".
- User permissions can sometimes become a hassle to manage and maintain.
December 06, 2013
Microsoft SharePoint 2013
Score 5 out of 10
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Verified User
- Web Based Team Collaboration Applications - From web based team calendars and issue tracking to social media collaborative apps like Wiki's, SharePoint is a great content management framework for creating content repositories.
- Designing Intranet Portal Landing Pages - For organizations with a variety of different web based tools are used by the business, SharePoint is good at enabling moderately technical user to create portal type pages that centralize important content.
- Personalization - The personalization feature of SharePoint is a powerful plus in a world where custom social media profiles dominate. Empowering end users to design landing pages that contain the content important to them is compelling. Think of Personalization in the same manner you would your custom MSN, Yahoo or Google Home Pages.
- User Experience - I have trained, provided technical support and deployed SharePoint environments since SharePoint Team Services 1.0. From then until the time of this writing, SharePoint's out-of-the-box user experience has tremendous room for improvement. As a long-time developer, it's clear SharePoint's user experience was designed by technical oriented designers, such as myself (clean lines and square boxes). In my opinion, SharePoint would benefit greatly from a total UX redesign with a goal of delivering an intuitive and pleasurable user experience. Positive user experiences translate directly into increased user adoption rates which translate directly into increased market share.
- Document storage - With the dramatic decrease in the cost of storage, SharePoint has an opportunity to improvement it's offering by leveraging existing corporate File Shares as document libraries as opposed to the current paradigm of storing all SharePoint content in SQL Server.
- Social Framework Integration - SharePoint is a best-of-breed Enterprise Content Management platform. However, as the nexus of forces (Social, Mobile, Cloud & Information) continues to converge, it will become increasingly important for content management platforms to intrinsically enable social framework integration. Third party tools offer capabilities in this space, but the total cost of ownership tends to grow as well.