Pros and Cons of MS SharePoint / SQL 2025

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What is MS SharePoint / SQL?

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…

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Excellent to implement solutions quickly

Rating: 9 out of 10

March 7, 2025

IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User

How we use: In different line of businesses with CBRE, we use MS SharePoint / SQL as a central repository to hold datafiles, or structured data in the form of MS SharePoint / ...

Naseem Ahmad

Employee - Information Technology

Sr Technical Architect

CBRE Inc

10 years of experience

Verified on LinkedIn

SharePoint is a good tool!

Rating: 9 out of 10

March 4, 2025

IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User

we use it for internal comminucation tool on to store data such as pdf's, excel and other documents for user access as we have good amount of people who relies on this platfor...

Kushal Rao

Supervisor - Information Technology

Sr. Network Security Engineer

Yamaha Motors

5 years of experience

Verified on LinkedIn

It works and affordable but I would consider other options

Rating: 4 out of 10

February 24, 2025

IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User

We use SharePoint Online. We use it primarily as a file storage system. We migrated our network shares located on-prem to SharePoint Online, so therefore, that is why we use S...

Brandon Schmidt

Employee - Information Technology

Infrastructure Engineer

Crown College

3 years of experience

MS Sharepoint

Rating: 7 out of 10

February 24, 2025

IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User

We use Sharepoint as the ‘shell’ for the frontend of our software, so we can use some functionalities of SharePoint which means we don’t have to provide these ourselves (authe...

Verified user

Manager

15 years of experience

MS SharePoint for Ease of Use, Reliability and Efficiency

Rating: 9 out of 10

February 20, 2025

IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User

We utilize MS SharePoint in many ways across our organization. The main items we use it for are communication, training/onboarding and file retrieval from on premise network s...

Verified user

Employee

12 years of experience

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Pricing

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What is MS SharePoint / SQL?

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.

Entry-level set up fee?

No setup fee

Offerings

Free Trial
Free/Freemium Version
Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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$14

per month per user

What is Microsoft BI (MSBI)?

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SAP Analytics Cloud

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Features

BI Standard Reporting

Standard reporting means pre-built or canned reports available to users without having to create them.

7.2

Avg 8.2

Ad-hoc Reporting

Ad-Hoc Reports are reports built by the user to meet highly specific requirements.

7.1

Avg 8.0

6.4
Drill-down analysis
(46) Ratings
Drill down analysis is the ability to get to a further level of detail by going deeper into the hierarchy.
8
Formatting capabilities
(57) Ratings
Ability to format output e.g. conditional formatting, lines, headers, footers.
5.3
Integration with R or other statistical packages
(34) Ratings
Integration with the open-source R predictive modeling environment.
8.8
Report sharing and collaboration
(54) Ratings
Report sharing and collaboration is the ability to easily share reports with others.

Report Output and Scheduling

Ability to schedule and manager report output.

7.7

Avg 8.3

7.5
Publish to Web
(55) Ratings
8.4
Publish to PDF
(52) Ratings
7.3
Report Versioning
(52) Ratings
Report versioning is the assignment of version numbers to each version of a report to help in tracking.
7.5
Report Delivery Scheduling
(42) Ratings
Report Delivery Schedule is the ability to have reports delivered to a destination at a specific data and time.
7.5
Delivery to Remote Servers
(35) Ratings
Ability to deliver reports to remote servers

Data Discovery and Visualization

Data Discovery and Visualization is the analysis of multiple data sources in a search for patterns and outliers and the ability to represent the data visually.

6.5

Avg 7.9

5.7
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
(38) Ratings
Pre-built visualization formats are canned visualization types that can be selected to visualize different kinds of data.
6
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
(35) Ratings
Location analytics is the visualization of geographical or spatial data.
7.4
Predictive Analytics
(33) Ratings
Predictive Analytics is the ability to build forecasting models based on existing data sets.
6.9
Pattern Recognition and Data Mining
(6) Ratings
Pattern recognition and data mining mean the ability to recognize hidden patterns in large quantities of data.

Access Control and Security

Access control means being able to determine who has access to which data.

8.4

Avg 8.6

8.5
Multi-User Support (named login)
(64) Ratings
Named model access means that users have access based on name and password.
8.4
Role-Based Security Model
(68) Ratings
Role-based access means that access to data is determined by job or position in the corporation.
8.5
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
(73) Ratings
Multiple access permission levels means that different levels of users have different rights.
8.2
Report-Level Access Control
(8) Ratings
Report-level access control means that the type of report determines who has access to it.
8.2
Single Sign-On (SSO)
(59) Ratings
Allows users to use one set of login credentials to access multiple applications

Mobile Capabilities

Support for mobile devices like smartphones and tablets.

8.1

Avg 7.8

Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding

APIs are a set of routines, protocols, and tools for used for embedding one application in another

7

Avg 7.7

7.6
REST API
(33) Ratings
REST is an architecture style for designing networked applications
7.8
Javascript API
(32) Ratings
A Javascript API is a type of API
6.3
iFrames
(31) Ratings
An iFrame is an HTML document embedded inside another HTML document on a website
6.7
Java API
(28) Ratings
A Java application programming interface (API) is a list of all classes that are part of the Java development kit (JDK)
6
Themeable User Interface (UI)
(37) Ratings
A themeable user interface means that a specific visual them can be applied to it
7.8
Customizable Platform (Open Source)
(27) Ratings
A customizable, open source API Gateway is a fast and scalable type of API

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Product Details

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What is MS SharePoint / SQL?

MS SharePoint / SQL Technical Details

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Frequently Asked Questions

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.

Reviewers rate Report sharing and collaboration highest, with a score of 8.8.

The most common users of MS SharePoint / SQL are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).

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Excellent to implement solutions quickly

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

March 07, 2025

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Naseem Ahmad

Sr Technical Architect

CBRE Inc (Financial Services, 10,001+ employees)

Vetted Review

Verified User

10 years of experience

Verified on LinkedIn

Pros

Scalable: I like MS SharePoint / SQL as it comes with builtin scalability when concurrent users are reading or writing even a single file
Quick app development: Using MS SharePoint / SQL lists we can quickly spin up a web applications for general purpose specifically the ones that require users to collaborate
Integration: We have well documented API that provide us a way to quickly integrate them with any applications

Cons

Missing functionality: We dont any native options to deal with big data
Limited scope for customisation: We have very limited scope to customise the MS SharePoint / SQL as a whole, and that too requires you to be a full fledged developer
User exprience: There is a lot of room for ui/ux, such as there is no full list search option

It works and affordable but I would consider other options

Rating: 4 out of 10

Incentivized

February 24, 2025

BS

Brandon Schmidt

Infrastructure Engineer

Crown College (Higher Education, 51-200 employees)

Vetted Review

Verified User

3 years of experience

Pros

Easy to share with people internally
Easy to share with people externally
Integrates with Microsoft Teams
Allows end users to determine permissions to files instead of being centralized in IT

Cons

Hard to understand security controls sometimes
Hard to onboard and train end users
Not as easy to use files with existing applications as compared to having on-prem file shares