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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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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.
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December 28, 2018
Great Collaboration Tool
- The collaboration of Technical Reports.
- Has a good search feature.
- Ease of posting content.
- Updates can be tricky to apply.
- Implementation is difficult.
- It is hard to find good SharePoint consultants at reasonable rates.
December 17, 2018
Hard to setup, but if done right you are golden.
- Perfect for intranet to inform everyone in the company what is happening
- Easy for storing documents, procedures, documentation, etc.
- Most of the time for end users it is "Self-Service" which means very minimal IT involvement.
- 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
December 11, 2018
SharePoint Review
- Collaboration. Our entire university is involved in making SharePoint a success.
- Integration. As we are primarily a Microsoft shop, integration with Office and other Microsoft products is key for us.
- Performance/Design. Microsoft has designed their systems to scale for any environment.
- Learning Curve. SharePoint has a steep curve to figure out what it is and is not and what is required to get everything working together for complete functionality.
- Sprawl. The number of servers required can be daunting.
- SharePoint is only a basis for eventual use. Even functional items like consistent backups, workflows, and forms really require other products to perform.
November 29, 2018
MS Sharepoint/SQL review
- Ease of use - It is very easy to use and can be used by almost anyone with any hierarchy. This helps us save money and not hire programmers.
- It can be integrated with other applications to create more robust and difficult reports.
- It can be role based and secure. This helps restrict all users from making changes.
- It has mobile support. It has a responsive design that can be automatically incorporated with mobile devices.
- Integration with other tools is not very easy. We were trying to extract reports from QC and post them on SP and found it difficult to accomplish.
- The design is not very sleek - the design can be potentially improved so that it is intuitive.
- Sometimes sharing and editing files by multiple users can create issues and not save all changes.
November 20, 2018
MS SharePoint / SQL ... Too much of a good thing?
- Workflows
- As a team collaboration tool
- As a documentation datastore
- A repository of knowledge, like a wiki page
- It can get extremely complex, outside the knowledge of a system admin
- Will eventually take a dedicated backend engineer
- Can sometimes need too much work
November 12, 2018
MS SharePoint / SQL product review
- File version. This helps users stay informed of file version they are using and what changes have been done.
- SharePoint is a great document management solution. Allows you publish and share information within an organization.
- Collaborative capabilities. This maximizes the organization’s productivity.
- The price is high. It could be a good thing if they ever consider bringing its cost slightly down.
- Integration. Sometime integrating other applications and customization can be difficult especially after every update
November 01, 2018
MS SharePoint is the way to go for Documentation Management!
- Documentation Storage
- Collaboration tool
- Simple user interface
- Simple tool to allow end users the ability to create dashboards for reporting purposes
September 17, 2018
Solution for Data That Does Not Fit
- Versioning, the way it tracks changes and when they were made and what was changed is amazing
- Customization of data. The easy way it relates to users to help customize the storing of data
- Integration of user data and meta data
- It isn't granular enough for IT experts
- The data often times does "play well" with SQL
- It seems outside vendors do this better then what Microsoft has in place i.e. Layer2
- File sharing, clear and easy to manage.
- Easy to set up each department site
- Collaboration of work, people can access and work simultaneously
- Not very agile comparing to dedicated agile space like Trello
- Difficult to customize every aspect. High cost of development.
- Task Management
- Departmental Calendars
- E-mail Notification
- Interface is confusing
- Not obvious how to set up and use some features
- Help documentation does not always provide solutions
July 17, 2018
Review of MS SharePoint for Cloud Based Company
- Collaborate
- Access by Cloud
- Sometimes can be cumbersome to sign in
- Had had an issue during an update where we couldn't access SharePoint and had to involve our IT dept to help set up shared drive folders on my computer
- Easy Intranet creation
- A simple way of collecting documents
- Revisions of documents
- Customizing Sharepoint can be a bit of a struggle
- I feel that some of the options aren't very intuitive
- Wish there were more "wizards" to help users guide them through what they want to be done instead of relying on me, or me creating documentation
June 11, 2018
SharePoint Review
- SharePoint is a great document management solution.
- Allows collaboration, which it maximizes productivity since all information needed is centralized.
- Portal has some robust capabilities that allows you to share, publish and interact with others inside your organization.
- Overall I'm very pleased with the solution. We're still learning the ins and outs. Perhaps additional training material on "How To" use some of the features would be helpful from Microsoft.
- I would like to see a dashboard that shows metrics perhaps on some of the data that gets shared or uploaded.
May 08, 2018
My personal experience with SharePoint
- Customization of the website
- Able to pull large amounts of data that we wouldn't want to get someplace else.
- Provides us with an option already packaged without Office 365 subscriptions.
- Cloud-based SharePoint should offer more customization for its users.
- The permissions and user interface of SharePoint can get confusing when trying to manage simple tasks.
April 27, 2018
Straightforward Microsoft
- SharePoint collaboration and dashboards, visual reporting and easy repository
- SQL database and maintenance and easy Reporting services.
- SQL backup wizard for backup and restore could be improved to be more like more modern backup tools, better file management.
- Easier maintenance planning and job management.
- Easier UI for being able to create new Sharepoint sites for sharing.
April 26, 2018
MS SharePoint - Easy to use, create and Share
- Team sites is a great way to keep your users up to date with documents. Users can subscribe to document libraries allowing them to receive notifications when documents are added or changed.
- File versioning is something that cannot be done with a standard file server. SharePoint allows the users to see what versions of files they have and what changes may have been made.
- Workflow is a great feature that can be used to automate the process of signatures and internal back office procedures that can otherwise get stuck on someones desk for days or weeks.
- Customizing beyond the out of box experience can be difficult. There are many bolt on products that can be used with SharePoint but when its time to upgrade SharePoint this can be difficult because any custom coding or bolt on products will need to be verified.
- Having a more robust integration with custom built applications is needed. In house developed applications using the Microsoft .NET frame work can be difficult to integrate with SharePoint and utilize the features of SharePoint.
- Cost. SharePoint can be an expensive product to add into your organization. With all the benefits SharePoint can provide it would be nice to see Microsoft bring the price down.
- Great platform for document management, versioning and sharing data/reports. The ability to keep history of edits and all previous versions of the file is very valuable.
- The solution easily allows you to solve unique business problems. The ability to create custom reports, dashboards, lists or workflows without writing code (most of the time) adds a lot of value.
- Provisioning and permissions are simple and flexible. They can be as global or as granular as you needed. It is very easy to give and remove permissions and there are lots of solutions for automating them.
- This is a great product but sometimes I find that there are 10 ways to do the same exact function or action. SharePoint has lots of ways to do the same ting, from a different screen or menu. This can be challenging when it comes to end user training.
- Staying on track with the current version can be a challenge. Microsoft is also notorious for constant patches, updates and hotfixes. A new major version is released every few years and it can be a pain to migrate to the new version if you have customized heavily.
- Creating intuitive global navigation and menus can sometimes be difficult and require a specific skillset of web designer or similar. SharePoint does great for individual sites/solutions, but it can be confusing sometimes to provide global navigation that makes sense for an end user.
March 01, 2018
Maturing solutions for team work
- Very good content management tool
- Support for team collaboration
- It is easy to search for information on the whole sharepoint space
- Good responsiveness
- Workflow support seems complicated to configure
- Sometimes the system does not allow to edit files in the local MS Office application for no obvious reason
- Minor issues: Calender displays limited information, by longer entries, it is necessary to click event by event to find the details. A switch for short / full view would be helpful.
- Handling the files requires sometimes to go one by one, group functions are not available (moving, deleting, compressing and downloading the whole directory or selected files)
February 15, 2018
MS SharePoint great for Medium to Large Businesses
- Allowing each department to create their own areas to manage.
- Allowing us to tag documents and organize them much better than folders on a NAS.
- MS SQL allows the seamless access to data by multiple different front ends.
- MS Sharepoint/SQL could improve on not requiring so many hardware resources.
- MS Sharepoint/SQL could improve on the ease of setup.
- MS Sharepoint/SQL could improve on the number of servers that are required for their document repository solutions.
February 09, 2018
MS SharePoint / SQL Showplace!
- Content storage is excellent with a full range of data types being supported and able to organize such as individual documents like files in document libraries as well as lists and web parts
- I believe these are strengths because the functionality is already built in and we can concentrate on the more complex needs we have rather than building from the ground up
- I am happy that we can deploy PowerPivot for SharePoint and Reporting Services in the same SharePoint farm
- Until I have my total automation packages in place it is difficult to handle things when a service or services stops.
- Intermittent connectivity has occurred but that has been mainly due to differing versions of software but it still seems more difficult than it should to identify the source than it should be with our automated tools
- Retrieving documents reliably was a difficulty for a while until it was determined, again, that differing versions contributed to the problem
February 01, 2018
SharePoint through an end-user's perspective - easy as 1-2-3!
- Provides a good platform for document versioning. The check-in and check-out functions work particularly well.
- Allows a clear view of documents uploaded on the system. Good clear layout achievable with little effort.
- Allows you to manage people in groups. Easy to manage permissions especially in large organizations.
- The search functionality can be better.
- Limited themes available.
- The back end can be quite complicated to manage.
- Continuing along the lines of answer 1: collaboration, rich search features, online display and edit of office documents, analysis, project tracking, external sharing of data, permission-based access of data/content, shared department/sub-department calendars, reporting, workflow orchestration, organization communication, video/rich media content distribution, version tracking on documents, two-stage recycling bin vs accidental delete within a file share, simultaneous file/ content editing and online presence display within team sites.
- Specifically, SharePoint’s core advantage to an organization is the immediate speed a user can start using without training and structured process. This intuitive ease of use makes the adoption of the platform much more effective at the basic use level of SharePoint. SharePoint obviously integrates extremely well with Office products which are pervasive within any size of company.
- Webparts from solutions, sandbox solutions and/or apps definitely add to the ability of the platform to extend out core list/library elements to custom code development.
- One key area which SharePoint lacks would be within the areas of: ease of modification for interface / UI modifications for branding, site specific /library specific usage data reporting and inline content commenting and real-time collaboration (the Yammer promise).
January 19, 2018
MS SharePoint review (just the basics)
- Document Storage
- Ease of access and collaboration
- Security
- Complex. Steep learning curve to get the most out of SharePoint.
- Steep hardware requirements. Office 365 SharePoint is likely the easier option for smaller orgs.
January 17, 2018
Microsoft SharePoint
- Provide an internal company website for staying up to date with the latest news
- Provides an easy place to upload and access shared documents
- Provides a convenient place for management and HR to post program critical updates
- Uploaded documents are occasionally difficult to access for employees
December 19, 2017
SharePoint - Sharing on Point!
- Stable.
- Easy to use.
- Flexible in terms of integrations.
- Over the years as their improvements have come along the maintenance teams have seen a few hiccups.
- As an end user, have seen sync issues in the past.
- I personally have had troubles uploading/editing files.