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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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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.
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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 14, 2017
Set-up was difficult. Syncing was an issue. It might be better now.
- Cloud access from anywhere.
- Syncs across devices.
- Collaborate on a document.
- Set up was confusing.
- Didn't sync properly.
- Support wasn't easy to find.
November 13, 2017
SharePoint for Sharing!
- Security - easy to set up based on role and department in the company
- Simple - Easy to pick up and use for most users
- Expansive - While simple to use there are tons of features available to the end user as needed
- Workflow can be hard out of the box but tools are available to make it easier
September 27, 2017
SharePoint Review
- Data Organizing
- Searchable Features
- Scheduling Appts / Rooms / Events
- Work flow processes for reporting
- Easier use of page building
- Better interface to development work flows
- Able to allow anonymous access to outside forms for data collecting (surveys)
September 27, 2017
SharePoint probably does more than you remember
- Integration with most Office 365 apps.
- Sharing and group collaboration is MUCH improved from prior iterations.
- Good experiments with new apps. I like getting to play with things in beta.
- Better alignment between new apps like Planner and Teams.
- More variation on question and result types in Forms.
- Easier sharing with non-SP users or outside enterprise collaboration. Such as vendor access to a specific folder for deliverables, but not the rest of the project.
August 16, 2017
Data Centric
- Ease of use
- Ease of Installation
- Scalable
- Compatibility
- Version Changes
August 08, 2017
MS Sharepoint / SQL is a powerful tool for information sharing and collaboration but needs work to customize.
- Intranet. SharePoint makes a great intranet to share information from a central place.
- It's easy to easily start up new lists or wiki pages. End users can create new lists or wiki pages and add their information on the fly without having to engage the IT department.
- Search indexing. SharePoint makes a great platform for searching all documents or files in either SharePoint or your directory structure.
- Custom development with SharePoint is difficult. Development with visual studio for web parts is time-consuming and a black box to try to build with.
- Error reporting and diagnostics are hard to find and hard to decipher. It is difficult to know what went wrong when an error happens.
- Image handling is poor. The wiki could be an incredible documentation tool but because images are so difficult to upload and use, we only use it for text.
- Access Control. SharePoint allows administrators to provide a great amount of control over who can see information, and what they can do with it.
- SharePoint integrates easily with other Microsoft products, making collaboration very easy. It has out of the box integrations with Skype, and Office, of course.
- Support is readily available with a very large user base. Open source alternatives can be frustrating when support is needed.
- For larger installs, the architecture can get complicated.
- Pricing could be better. As a Microsoft product, it tends to be expensive.
- For larger organizations, the layout can be complicated, and it is easy to lose your place. A share point environment can be expansive, so a way to navigate without getting lost is crucial.
- Content Management
- Search ability
- Team work space
- Data sharing/collaboration
- Employee go to for any information
- Office 365 has limitations, however, easy access and secure access is a key
- Could be tricky and complex to set up the security permissions, specially on Office 365
- Setting up workflow could be challenging
May 24, 2017
Great program
- Searching is very easy with SharePoint.
- Very user-friendly.
- Easy to navigate.
- Customer service times can be bothersome.
- Since it is internet based it can't be 100% reliable, but you will have that problem with any cloud based storage.
May 15, 2017
SharePoint Review
- SharePoint is great for document storage.
- SharePoint has good security features to secure your documents.
- SharePoint offers version control of your documents.
- SharePoint allows you to create multiple intranet websites that can be used for various purposes such as dept. collaboration.
- Sharing documents with people/companies that are external to the organization can sometimes be a challenge.
April 19, 2017
Consistency is key with MS Sharepoint
- The file sharing is definitely a plus - to be able to share amongst the entire organization saves time and money.
- Ease of use is another plus - even a beginner can easily learn how to use the tool.
- File management is another great benefit for using MS SharePoint.
- Limitations with integration of some Microsoft products is an area of improvement.
- Response time can also be an area of improvement.
- Portability is a limitiation as well and has room of improvement.
- Document Coloboration
- Speed
- Clean User Interface
- More security
April 11, 2017
MS SharePoint / SQL Review
- It's good resource to store documentation for specific projects.
- It's a good tool to allow teams to stay organized.
- It can serve as a file server in some ways.
- We used to utilize it as a knowledge base, but we've moved away to other tools that execute this functionality better.
- We also used to use SharePoint as a technology wiki, which would allow our employees to quickly find documentation and edit/update obsolete documentation, but we've found that the ServiceNow platform works better since its tightly integrated with out ticketing system.
- We store all of our SharePoint servers on site. A hosted platform may save us some money.
April 03, 2017
SharePoint Review
- Coordinates with OneDive and Apps for all electronic devices.
- SharePoint intranet improves employee collaboration and business practices.
- SharePoint workflows streamline and automate a variety of business processes.
- The process of uploading different types of documents into SharePoint needs to be improved.
- Integration to additional Apps.
March 28, 2017
Sharepoint Review
- Portal
- Shared drive
- Forms
- Templates for knowledgebase
March 23, 2017
SharePoint on SQL Server
- Document versioning - provides an easy way to view the history of a document and allow for collaboration
- Customization - easy to build custom pages to accomplish what you need
- Integration - works well with the rest of MS Office
- Search is not up to modern standards
- Database storage of all documents as BLOBs makes the databases overly large
- Settings required make a dedicated SQL instance required
December 30, 2014
SharePoint review
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Simple to implement in vanilla approach
- Big community
- The main pros: it's big platform which can be customized in very simple way to relevant business need. And this is a big con too
- Good UX
- Based on implementation - not so big maintenance cost.
- Can be fully implemented as self-service approach - users can create sites/libraries/pages by themselves.
- Performance, when implementing in global environment
- Limited actions in OOTB Workflows
- No OOTB option to create Read-only columns in Lists
- No OOTB option to create dependencies between columns in the List
- Too many helper tools, need to know where to use and how to start
- Lock-in with Microsoft
September 16, 2014
Beyond the hype
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Authentication and authorization is built-in and can be administered by non-IT folks.
- User interface is built-in and can be administered by non-IT folks.
- Internationalization is built-in
- Querying large lists
- Sharepoint is not a relational database management system(DBMS), but it should be. Querying SharePoint data should be not different than querying SQL server.
- Business connectivity services (BCS) is not intuitive and difficult to implement.
September 16, 2014
SQL Server is an asset
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- The transact-sql implementation used by SQL Server is far superior than any other database engine that I have used.
- SQL Server has the best object-relational mapping support available (ex: Entity Framework)
- Debugging complicated scripts is extremely easy and intuitive when using the tools supplied with SQL Server
- SQL Server has been around for many years and is debatably the father to many other databases engines. Microsoft pays good attention to SQL Server, and continues to improve as the product grows older.
- SQL Server is a windows-based product; it can't be used in as many applications as I would like due to OS limitations. This will never change, but is sometimes an issue.
- SQL Server is not exactly a "light" database. It is a heavy install. SQL Server offers a "compact" edition, but it isn't straight-forward to use.
- The learning curve for a SQL Server installation can be extreme.
September 15, 2014
SharePoint/SQL 2010 for a Large Enterprise with Multiple Needs
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Document publishing, sharing, and versioning
- List management
- Stable performance of the platform
- Typical UX is perceived by many users as difficult or clunky
- Help is often obscure or too general for typical users
- WYSIWYG editing of content for pages/posts is feature-rich, but still lacks some more advanced capability for layout control.
September 15, 2014
MS SQL Server provides you an optimal database management environment
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Very robust framework for database querying
- Good processing speeds when dealing with large data
- Seemless integration with other MS products like Visual Studio and Sharepoint
- MS SQl Server Management Studio runs slower with ODBC connections and when ported over server proxies
September 13, 2014
Share a Point with SharePoint
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Relays information
- Stores important MS documents
- Enterprise organization for department executives
- Editing pages could be more user friendly.
- Attach departments to documents, like file sharing.
- Connect with LinkedIn and Twitter
December 07, 2013
SharePoint 2013
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
- Probably the best feature of SharePoint is the ability to search / crawl through various content sources and provide reliable information to our users. The search capability in SharePoint 2013 provides the capability to index content stored in SharePoint, such as webpages, list items, and document content. In addition, SharePoint Server search can index content held in other repositories, such as file shares, other websites, Exchange Server, and external databases. In this way, SharePoint Search can provide users with an easy way to find specific content from large data stores, provide metadata-based refinement capabilities, and provide search administrators with the ability to promote certain content where appropriate.
- SharePoint web content management (WCM) is a very useful feature which allows you to customize your users experience based on the way they access the site. WCM extends some of the ECM functionality into web content capabilities, such as version control, content approval and publishing, content deployment, cross-site publishing, managed navigation, and device-specific targeting.
- Business Intelligence in SharePoint 2013 provides organizations with the ability to analyze business data in many different ways. BI features include the ability to display updated chart information, key performance indicators (KPIs), dashboards, and data-driven Visio diagrams directly on a page. Tools such as PowerPivot can give users the ability to process data from billions of rows, and SQL reporting services integration provides the ability to create libraries of reports to match management requirements.
- SharePoint provides a lot of key functionality and they are becoming better integrated with their other products. Tighter integration will make this a better product with each additional version.