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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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Collaborate to Liberate - SharePoint is the way.
Amazing Software for Real Time Collaboration and File Sharing
Microsoft SharePoint to manage all your work
A beginner look at some points I would like to share!!
A fantastic collaborative tool
Good Investment for Cloud Sharing
Microsoft can do better
Make a website for your team
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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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(1-25 of 93)Yurtle the turtle rates Microsoft SharePoint
Collaborate to Liberate - SharePoint is the way.
- Access management.
- easily customizable
- Mutli-purpose functionalities
- User interface.
- Its integration with non Microsoft tools.
- although it is highly customizable, it is not easy to do so.
MS Share Point - 1 Yr uses review
- Share Information / Update
- Document library
- Accessible anywhere
- Need some extra support
- Sometimes it takes longer time to load files
MS SharePoint for file editing and storage
- Organization
- Access from any device with an internet connection
- Permissions
- Advanced features seem to be lacking
- More integration with non-microsoft products
- Easier access via file explorer
Best solution to store files in cloud securely
- Inbuilt office suite
- Works just from any browser
- No additional app download is required
- Alerts and notifications are on par.
- Version control to view any changes made
- Access control over any file or folder
- Requires a Microsoft account
- Doesn't work offline
- No password protection for folders.
- 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.
It might not be a great tool for an organization that already has a solution for data sharing and a robust planning program. If you are using something like Jira or Trello you may have some of these pieces already. I think SharePoint is well suited to do a lot of things very well but it may be redundant if you have solutions for some of these problems already. If you have a staff that is more functional and less techy then you will probably want to have at least one or two staff members that are proficient enough to run the SharePoint and keep it cleaned up.
- File collaboration. Editing files within the browser works very well and most options people need are available in the browser versions of Office Apps.
- Simple website building. While it doesn't offer as much customization as Squarespace or a fully custom site, that is not what it's trying to be. The building blocks and style works very well in my experience to enable everyone to feel like they can manage the sites. Being able to empower users is very important.
- File and list management. Organizing files is easy to accomplish along with managing the permissions. It can be as granular as needed. Lists are also easy to manage and offer a great option to tap into for various report building platforms as a data source.
- Color coding for Calendar Apps. This is very specific, but being able to select the colors for Calendar Overlays is limited to the site theme. You can't select custom colors. You need to change the entire site theme to change color options. I get they do this to maintain a consistent look and feel across the entire site, so it makes sense from that perspective, but, it'd be nice to still be able to select your own colors. This isn't a huge deal though.
- More options for Full Width Section Web Parts. This is also more of a picky complaint. But, the Full Width Web Parts look great, and it would be nice to have more options added.
- Migrate more Classic Experience options to the Modern Experience. Most of the detailed site options are only present in a Classic Experience interface. This works just fine, but it makes it more cumbersome for users to deal with the jarring transition. There's a lot going on in there, and adapting it to the Modern Experience would be useful. Most things can be done without entering the more detailed settings, but some things like managing more settings for List Views are only present in the older style.
Microsoft SharePoint - The Leading Market Player
I can proudly vouch for the fact that our organization has leveraged all the possible features provided by SharePoint, transforming it into many products, applications, and content management. As this is a web based product, SharePoint was adopted to most of the solutions in the enterprise, and can be treated as a best case on how a product can be converted in many different ways.
Our organization was able to understand the business requirements and have trimmed the platform, serv[ing] all those requirements without depending on other technologies. With the introduction of Power platforms, SharePoint was able to take our organization to extraordinary levels, which I believe would have been impossible with any other technology. In a nutshell, SharePoint have done miracles for our organization in every aspect and is still going strong.
- Better Collaboration across organization
- Customized solutions based on business requirements
- Automate business process thereby saving valuable time which transforms into better productivity
- Centralized administration which makes the security and governance easy
- As this is a cloud based product, connectivity can be a challenge at times when there is network issues. However, Microsoft is really working on areas to improve the availability during such times with their inbuilt solutions / products.
- Over the period, complex customizations in SharePoint requires effort and time and may need to involve dedicated developers for the same. However, with the introduction of Power platforms that support low code/ no code solution, even business users are able to automate / build their own solutions which is a great sign and Microsoft should bring more such flexibility for future as well.
- As SharePoint is evolving in a greater pace over the years, this will become difficult for smaller business organizations on adopting those rapid changes as they might not have that much bandwidth to accommodate it. Of course, Microsoft is clearly providing a roadmap of the roll-outs well in advance, still I would feel like there should be a room for improvement around that corner especially for small scale organizations.
- MS SharePoint is the best content management tool available, which is seamlessly connected with all other office products which brings the productivity at the peak
- Based on the organization requirements, we can adopt the right plans and models which will be convenient for small, middle or large enterprise companies
- Security governance of data is well within the hands of the organization and can be managed with minimal efforts
- SharePoint can be well integrated with almost all latest products / features available in the market and they keep adding it over the period which is a great relief for any business wherein they may require to collaborate with other products based on business needs
- For small scale organizations, they need to well analyze their business requirements, budget etc. before adopting SharePoint as complex customizations may take a good amount of effort which might not be feasible for them in every circumstances
Content Management with MS SharePoint
- Easy to collaborate among different teams
- Hassle free document management
- More than a simple Content management tool
- Easy of development with minimum to no scripting
- Slow response while loading pages
- Cost of managing is high
- Slow customer support
Not suited for regulated document management as the tool is not validated and not accepted by regulatory authorities.
Workflow Automation Made Simple
- Automate workflows.
- House content across functions.
- Provide knowledge-sharing capabilities.
- UI is pretty basic and not really sleek.
- Clunky backend.
- Search functionality could be improved.
Microsoft Sharepoint in Azure
- AD integration
- Granular security access
- File lock to support access by multiple users
- Better integrated version control with regression and comments would be useful
SharePoint review by Senior Solution Architect
Currently, in our organization, we use SharePoint Online which is part of Microsoft 365 and we have implemented company's Intranet portal using SharePoint.
- Collaboration.
- Content Management.
- Intranets.
- Security.
- Document Management.
- Too many good features to choose from.
- Developer Story has room for improvement.
- Does not have a good relational database store that can scale. However, it is excellent for document management and collaboration.
Collaboration
Intranets
Document Management
Less Appropriate: Public-facing websites and e-commerce sites
Good use of MS Sharepoint
- Library search
- Folder organization
- Controlled view access/write access
- Permission request is just a click
- Permission grants done via email notification
- Structure of shared via parent folder or individual is difficult to determine until you dig through settings
- Sometimes grant access does not get executed and would need to be redone
Good Collaboration Tool
- Document management
- Knowledge management
- Website building
SharePoint Online is good enough
- Granular permission access of files and folders, via AD groups or team site groups.
- OneDrive offline sync mechanism seems robust and handles online/offline well.
- Microsoft Teams integration is useful.
- SharePoint to OneDrive sync mechanism is hidden or difficult to understand for users coming from Dropbox, Box, or other cloud storage apps.
- UI isn't really that great. SPO is a huge improvement, but is still very Microsoft-ish.
- Uploading a new version of a file with a different name is not possible.
Microsoft SharePoint, at the scale of a large org, has no rivals outside of Microsoft Teams
- SharePoint allows information to self-organize well. One version of the truth visible in multiple contexts (views).
- SharePoint allows for a really good relationship between Microsoft Office products and allows for collaboration in those tools to happen a bit more seamlessly.
- SharePoint allows for permissions to govern access to information very well from any level in the site.
- SharePoint in Office 365 allows for information to be accessed in a mobile environment without the need for VPN or server access that has traditionally been somewhat difficult to navigate on a phone.
- SharePoint sometimes has a challenge with the Share feature in Office 365. Traditional best practices are to govern collaboration with permissions groups and manage access at the group level. Share can sometimes undermine that by creating ad-hoc situations unintentionally.
- SharePoint's success in many organizations is really a function of user adoption and training. It is such a large platform that it is often deployed without much governance or direction.
- SharePoint's lists and libraries can leverage Excel services and like-kind tools, but the ability for a list to do math in the same way that Excel does is very limited. It still has a room for improvement in the business intelligence features of metadata management.
Jack of All Trades, Master of None
- I wouldn't say SharePoint does any one thing particularly well, but rather does everything ok.
- It's a very open environment so it can be used in any number of ways depending on a team's needs and structure.
- This makes it a good enterprise-wide tool because you can require teams with varying technical capabilities and business requirements to use SharePoint and it will accommodate them.
- It offers file-sharing, messaging, security controls and integrates well with all of Microsoft's other products like Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
- Navigation is painful and it would be nice to be able to search all documents and text. Better search in general would be great.
- Its so customizable that its hard to really know the best way to do something. Based on how whoever built a page chose to accomplish something, your means of accessing the data can vary so it's a bit of a headache trying to get to information you want. It's never good when technology gets in the way of business.
- The lists can be frustrating to use and are like an underpowered spreadsheet.
SharePoint And Teams Play Well Together
- SharePoint is great at serving as a document library for your teams/organizations.
- It has particularly good search features.
- It does a good job of keeping document history, using it's version control features.
- It's fairly easy to learn how to develop SharePoint pages/sites with little to know prior knowledge of the tool.
- It needs to be properly set up and configured. Additionally, it requires constant adjustments for it to give the best results to the end-users viewing the content.
- The mobile application could use much further maturing. Often times, this maps back to my first point.
- Everything in SharePoint depends on site columns and content types. There seems to be no way around this. Either accept it or pick another collaboration tool.
- SharePoint is a great file storage tool for collaborating and sharing documents.
- SharePoint allows business users to create collaborative efforts without having to have vast technical knowledge.
- SharePoint allows for the easy creation of dynamic portals that can pull information from numerous sources and present in numerous formats.
- The native SharePoint permissions model could be made to be simpler.
- Development techniques to extend base SharePoint functionality could be simpler and more examples would be nice too.
- More rendering options and controls are always welcome.
Great for team collaboration and project management
- 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.
Daily "Addicted" User
- MS SharePoint is a great tool to share information across departments with multiple groups and people in my organization.
- MS SharePoint offers cloud accessibility, so you do not need to maintain your docs on your hard disk.
- This is a great tool if you work for a large company as it is secured and also updates in real-time. You could easily find who else is currently editing or looking at the doc!
- It took a little bit to get set up and train everyone on how to use that app.
- Some things are just too complicated.
- Sometimes; really slow workflow!
Disappointing Software that could so easily be better!
- Easy to add new information and documents into specified folders.
- Easy to set up folder permissions and control access.
- Familiar Microsoft Ribbon interface in the backend that allows easy configuration.
- The layout and configuration options seem to have stayed very static in the last few upgrades and leave much to be desired.
- Error handling is weak and detailed information on certain errors is not available.
- SharePoint is very difficult to configure and set up on a clean server. The process is not intuitive and makes little sense to the common man. Many hours were spent trying to get a basic setup installed and working.
- Where it is employed in a large enterprise company with a dedicated IT department and dedicated SharePoint support staff who have been trained in its configuration and support.
- Where a small company requires an intranet solution,
- Where the company who wants to use the software does not have a trained team to install, administer and support the software.
SharePoint integrates well with your existing MS infrastructure, but is expensive and clunky
- SharePoint is pretty okay at sharing documents and allowing collaboration
- The ability to see signatures easily is nice
- There's been some effort to integrate SharePoint with Office
- SharePoint is just hella clunky, and much harder to use than other solutions
- The interface is (still) awful
- It's also very very expensive
SharePoint works but not intuitive
- SharePoint is great for version control. By using it as a document repository we are able to see who made the last edit and when.
- SharePoint has some great "list" features which we use to log project decisions, issues, risks, etc and be able to create charts from the lists so you can easily see all of the statuses.
- SharePoint does offer the ability to custom organize your pages. It is nice as you don't need to adhere to a standardized template.
- Calendar feature that syncs with Outlook is not supported in the newer version of SharePoint. We were, however, able to do this with the previous version which was nice.
- News article feature does not allow you to "follow" it so you don't necessarily know there is something new to look at. Kind of defeats the purpose.
- Not super intuitive.
- It is not the easiest for someone to get started. It is not nearly as intuitive as some of the other platforms I have used in the past. I have found that settings hide in different places. For example, something as simple as adding a new column is not just a click, sometimes you have to dig into the site settings or page settings.
SharePoint - Making a Point to Share
- Versioning - Detailed history of when pages and documents are edited.
- Look/feel - it can be basic to ensure that it doesn't get in the way of using the sites, but there is the capability for customization.
- Scalability - It can be used for any size organization.
- Updating the platform - It can be very tricky and should be performed by experienced admins.
- Deprecation of functionalities - 2013 moved away from some 2010 features and 2016 is doing the same... on premise is being phased to SharePoint Online.
- Permissions - If you don't integrate with AD groups from the start then you're double-permissioning, and in some cases even more.