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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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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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- Great at collecting and centralizing information related to projects in a discoverable fashion.
- Good at enforcing security on content while online.
- The integration of Office products like Word, OneNote, Excel, and OneDrive for Business make MS SharePoint a very compelling platform. It is easy to adopt and train people on the core use cases.
- MS SharePoint doesn't come with many solutions baked in or solutions for specific scenarios. Instead it is a toolkit where users are required to customize the lists and repositories to fit their needs. This is frequently too complex for many users.
- MS SharePoint is still error prone, timeouts and conflicts which are not well explained in the UI can baffle some users.
- MS SharePoint is just not as intuitive to interact with compared to other modern Internet experiences. This apparent complexity leads many people to treat it like an online file cabinet.
SharePointy
- Collaboration
- Integration with Microsoft Office clients
- Version Control
- Performance
- UI/UX
- Half-baked feature set
Transitioning!
- Project plan templates that are built both manually and out of the box make the building of client sites and plans upon implementation exceptionally user friendly.
- The project and task structure is also user friendly in regards to communication between various departments as well as employees.
- Transitioning to MS Sharepoint and Project Online the entire company will be using primarily Microsoft products i.e. Excel, Word, OneNote and this allows for constancy and ease of communication.
- The navigation between projects, project details, tasks, editing tasks, etc. is not simple/user friendly and there is a large learning curve.
Why Use SharePoint in a Corporate Environment
Even given the initial capital outlay, it is a far more cost-effective option if you consider a plethora of alternatives that need to be procured to provide the same set of functionality. In our case we have used it for;
- The intranet
- Customer Portals for our partners. that incorporate surfacing data from our other enterprise systems; Oracle, SAP, IBM, Maximo etc.
- Health and Safety System.
- A number of document management sites for various departments, migrating from other expensive products.
- Collaboration to increase security and reduce load on Outlook (constant attachments etc.).
- There are a number of other projects that we're considering that will go on SharePoint.
- The intranet - SharePoint has a mature publishing framework with workflows, content approval, versioning, multi-lingual site and so on.
- Collaboration and Social Features that include complex workflows for documents, multi-user updates, rich metadata association, and much more
- Surfacing line of business data (Business Connectivity Services) and providing ability for rich Dashboards and KPI with integration for Excel graphs (Excel services) and SSRS and a host of other features that provide powerful analysis and reporting capabilities.
- Lists of various types with configurable columns, alerting, and email integration rich taxonomy, secure access - all without writing a single lin eof code.
- Ability to search not only data held within SharePoint, but also on disk shares, outlook and other systems (eDiscovery).
- SharePoint has seen improvements in workflow, but I feel the process for end user can be further simplified.
- I'd like to see LightSwitch somehow integrated to provide building relational applications (similar to force.com in some ways).
- The Client-side Object Model needs to be further developed.
It is not well suited to put relational application on it, although there is some limited relational support.
SharePoint Rocks!
- Request Management
- Communications
- Process Management
- Workflows
- Customization can be difficult when out of the box doesn't work for you
- Limits can be difficult to work around (sometimes 50 views is not enough)
- Search isn't all that it should be
My SharePoint Review
Another way that we use SharePoint is to create applications with the assistance of InfoPath, Nintex (workflows) and SQL Reporting Services (reports). Our Capital Budget has been done through the last three years through one of these applications.
Finally we have also created collaboration sites for the different internal departments that allows them to share information and documents with each other.
- Applications using a combination of SharePoint, InfoPath, Nintex & SQL Reporting Services. By utilizing these technologies you can develop rich web applications in a much shorter span of time than it would take to create it with .Net.
- SQL Reporting Services, Performance Points with SharePoint is a great way to create Business Intelligence. You can create dynamic drill down scorecards that will assist staff in making faster educated decisions.
- SharePoint with Nintex are able to create rich workflows that will greatly assist in business processes.
- Site customization in SharePoint is not a straight forward as ASP.Net sites for example. SharePoint in my opinion is a great functional tool but if the scope of management is to have a site or application where design is a key feature than I'm not sure SharePoint is the best option. SharePoint 2013 has greatly improved on the look and feel but to me is a great functional tool but has limitations on design. So it depends on the focus of the company, if design is more important than functionality than I would avoid SharePoint but if the company is looking for a good looking great functional tool than SharePoint would be my option.
- Creating Visual Webparts for SharePoint 2010 in Visual Studio 2012 is still a challenge because the developer needs to have SharePoint installed on the machine that Visual Studio is running on. This can be quite cumbersome, the best option would be to have developers being able to create and test the webpart on their machines without having to install SharePoint first.
- Are you looking for a quick out of the box solution or something that can be customized as per business needs?
- Is the scope of the solutions more in line with company or specific departments?
- How large are your typical projects?
- Is the level of collaboration on the different projects internal only or do they need to collaborate with external users as well?
- What is the history of IT investment in your company?
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- SharePoint lists/surveys are extremely helpful for tracking purposes
- Document libraries are useful, particularly in situations where organizations do not have a shared drive that all employees can access
- Permissions in SharePoint make it very easy to restrict access to content as needed
- SharePoint workflows perform well for the most part, but can be a bit temperamental
- SharePoint does not offer full functionality in any other browser besides Internet Explorer
- Document sharing and management
- Approval process workflows
- Custom lists
- Mobile friendly with default templates
- Implementation can be daunting and somewhat difficult.
- Better tutorials and guides for new users.
- Modifying the layouts, design etc. to match branding is not very intuitive.
- Search services require extensive configuration and management.
Plan to Share(Point)
- Team collaboration
- Document versioning
- Workflow management
- Integration with other MS products
- SharePoint sites and libraries can be easily configured to limit access to materials on a need-to-know basis.
- Checking documents in and out does not always work as expected.
- Access privileges can be difficult to manage for a typical employee serving as a site administrator.
- Interface for developing site content takes some effort to learn.
Intranet based on SharePoint 2013 (coming from 2007)
- Content Management, as this is probably the most used feature on our intranet.
- Easy integration between client applications
- Document management in combination with search; it's a lot easier to find documents
- Content types and different templates
- Multilingual
- Even better integration with Outlook, mail drag and drop
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- SharePoint can be used as informational portal.
- SharePoint provides ability to categorize information.
- Allows personalization of the view.
- SharePoint manages access and security.
- Complex administration.
- Object model is complex and poor documented.
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- In Build workflow and very easy to create
- Full compatible with .NET so it can be used all .NET controls and application
- Easy to backup and restore the farm,application site and lists etc.
- Well structured permission hierarchy model
- Integration with other plateform (i.e. SAP, Adobe etc) is not easy
Collaboration - SharePoints Number 1 Feature
- Collaboration is the number 1 reason to use SharePoint. It is a great way to share content across systems, therefore improving productivity.
- Document Management is a great feature which allows you to store and organize data in a more proficient manner. Our organization used to have numerous copies of the same document in different folders on the network. Employees were using out of date documents. With SharePoint there is a central place for policy and everyone accesses the most current copy.
- Social Networking give the opportunity to use tagging. Using tags is a way to find information on a specific subject.
- I would like to see a more affordable product.
- I would like to see more out of the box workflows.
- I would like to see more versitile webparts.
- The ability to control documents and the collaboration process. Capturing version history is a big deal for our organization.
- The ability to share documents without sending attachments through emails. We have a major problem with mail storage. Moving to SharePoint has helped us alleviate this as instead of sending documents through email, users are sending a link to the document.
- Anything missing can really be accomplished by developing your own solutions or purchasing an add-on product. SharePoint is just a platform for you to build it as you see fit to meet business needs.
Always remember - no matter what anyone tells you, SharePoint is not the be all, end all. Requirements should be gathered BEFORE making the decision to move to SharePoint and/or build a solution on SharePoint.
SharePoint 2010 - My Thoughts
- Business process automation
- Document collaboration
- Task Management
- Office Integration
- Rendering of information
- Social
- Discussions
Microsoft SharePoint 2013
- 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.