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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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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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SharePoint is a great tool for sharing files and delivering information to employees. Some businesses even use SharePoint to build their company website. Whether you use SharePoint for your internet, intranet, or both, though, it can be tricky to get started with.
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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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April 01, 2021
Workflow Automation Made Simple
Currently, SharePoint is being utilized within our shared services functions to streamline processes by utilizing SharePoint's workflow capabilities. Additionally, we're using SharePoint to manage and track various projects across our shared services. SharePoint allows us to address current issues facing various program teams by being able automate workflows embedded within forms/templates created within SharePoint. By using these features we're able to track progress on deliverables and ensure the current SLAs are being appropriately met.
- 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.
March 19, 2021
Reliable, time saving, increased productivity
Score 8 out of 10
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Used across the whole organisation as a source of truth for documentation, knowledge and collaboration. We use SharePoint as a central hub for processes.
- Document collaboration - people can add and edit at the same time, meaning less time wasted and no need to email versions.
- Integration into Microsoft Teams e.g. you can open a PowerPoint straight from SharePoint into Team and documents can be shared and stored.
- Links to all the MS Apps for easy navigation.
- Some of the online versions of applications don't work as well as the desktop apps e.g. format of documents look weird, not as many options, limited copying, etc.
- The UI/UX is quite clunky if you're not used to it.
January 12, 2021
Microsoft Sharepoint in Azure
[MS] Sharepoint currently used in private Azure instances as departmental document stores and wider use as repository for regulatory evidence required for governance, data protection, risk and compliance requirements for both internal and external audits. Individual teams also have allocated areas which replace legacy shared drives on local LANs. Access to [MS] Sharepoint resources is fully integrated with corporate Active Directory with additional two-factor authentication required for administrative users.
- AD integration
- Granular security access
- File lock to support access by multiple users
- Better integrated version control with regression and comments would be useful
January 09, 2021
Microsoft SharePoint has been great for our company!
SharePoint has been incredibly helpful especially during the pandemic. We are able to easily have a hub that has access to everything our teams need. It is very easy to organize and fun to use. It is a lot easier than sharing each individual document with everyone that should have access. Rather you can choose the groups that have access to what and upload.
- The platform itself is very user friendly.
- I like the customizable designs this helps keep people interested in visiting the pages.
- I like that I can send custom links to particular documents if needed.
- I wish it were a little easier to move everything from One Drive to Share Point.
- I wish it were possible to disable groups from appearing on the home page that you no longer use without losing the information.
- More videos in the support center.
January 07, 2021
SharePoint- A great CMS for creating Web Applications
Microsoft SharePoint is a great Content Management System(CMS) built on Asp.Net Web Forms. It has a lot of features and is very stable and secure. It is used for building websites and web applications. Its major features include managing content on the fly, managing files, versioning, workflows and more. SharePoint can be easily integrated with software like MS Office.
We are using it for Intranet as well as for publishing website. Document workflows can be made easily with out of box features provided. It is being used by the users of IT as well as business department. It can be integrated with SQL server reporting services for displaying reports.
We are using it for Intranet as well as for publishing website. Document workflows can be made easily with out of box features provided. It is being used by the users of IT as well as business department. It can be integrated with SQL server reporting services for displaying reports.
- SharePoint is customizable. One can customize the SharePoint according to its needs and requirements.
- SharePoint can integrate with softwares like MS Office, and other existing business ERP systems.
- SharePoint has a extensive list of out of box features like document library, wokflow management, content management, task management and much more.
- Customization in SharePoint is tough. It requires skilled resource to maintain and customize SharePoint.
- Configuring search in SharePoint is difficult.
- SharePoint on premise requires a higher configuration server to work easily.
December 21, 2020
SharePoint review by Senior Solution Architect
Microsoft SharePoint is primarily used for collaboration, Intranets, and in some cases for Extranets and public-facing web sites as well.
Currently, in our organization, we use SharePoint Online which is part of Microsoft 365 and we have implemented company's Intranet portal using SharePoint.
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.
December 21, 2020
SharePoint for Information Collaboration Management
SharePoint is being used as a central repository and storage area for documents, data and ancillary materials associated with a very large data mining and analytics project. It is used as the central hub for information and provides:
SharePoint has been used in this application for about a year. It is currently used by about 70 people consisting of:
- A single version of the truth
- A repository for current project materials
- An organizational tool for several lines of business
- Management overview of the project
- Communication enhancement between team members
- Tracking of issues and resolution
SharePoint has been used in this application for about a year. It is currently used by about 70 people consisting of:
- Internal employees
- Internal IT resources
- Contracted support and operational teams
- Specialized consulting resources
- Organizational structure.
- Manages a range of materials.
- Easy search and management.
- Security.
- Ability to create a hierarchy of materials.
- Difficult to use.
- Difficult to set up.
- Very complex.
- Not very well liked.
- Has not replaced localization of information.
October 27, 2020
Good use of MS Sharepoint
MS Sharepoint is heavily used in storing un-controlled documents as a library tool. I am the administrator for our department and it helps to be able to control what folders are shared outside of our department.
- 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
October 01, 2020
So comprehensive, built-in, big, and customizable, you think it can do anything you dream of
Currently the entire organization has access to use the software, in the same way the introduction and migration to MS SharePoint from local servers has been gradual, mostly due to people's resistance to something new and unknown. In my department specifically if there has been a greater acceptance, integration and discovery by constant learning by some team members who are not exploiting all the advantages of the software yet.
- Permission management: This is super relevant and wonderful for controlling what your audience can see and do, for example, when you need someone to constantly see changes to a "living document" but not have the ability to intervene in the process.
- Contact groups: I find it super good since not necessarily the site administrators are the only ones who can manage the group, you can make any member of the group can manage the rest of the members without this being involved in other site settings. Also when granting permissions, distributing documents, announcements, tasks, it is very easy to do it by group of contacts than one by one.
- Version history: We know that we are exposed to errors and accidents, so having the previous versions of a document, being able to see who has modified and having the possibility of restoring any of those versions can save the day. I always feel that I am protected and that is why I always promote working in the cloud.
- Integration with other MS tools: The workflows that connect outlook, sharepoint, OneDrive, among others, where you can manage multiple actions for all these tools seems wonderful to me, it allows a super necessary and simple expansion to be able to automate tasks that used to be performed manually on a daily basis, it certainly contributes to efficiency.
- Modern view / classic view: I really appreciate the minimalist change that has been made with many of the menus in the latest versions of sharepoint, but most of the time it complicates me and generates many more clicks (much more time) wanting to do one This action can be done by changing to the classic view from the ribbon, for example, managing permissions for a site, being able to manage sharepoint groups.
- A little more advanced configurations, without becoming complex that depend a lot on the IT department.
- Descriptions of some options or settings can become confusing, complicated and you simply are not able to know if it is what you are looking for or not, the language to the user is sometimes understood only through trial and error.
August 07, 2020
Good Collaboration Tool
Sharepoint is being used for document management across the whole organization. It is majorly used for collaboration purposes. Documents and files can be easily accessed using SharePoint. It provides other amazing functionalities like searching, tracking, and managing documents and files. Anyone across the organization can view and edit a document with access control. It is also used for project management, as it allows managers to manage tasks and teams. Sharepoint was also used to store learning content, which is also helpful in creating an assessment quiz and surveys. A drawback of SharePoint is that it cannot be used for creating public websites because of the poor user interface. With the functionalities that I explored in SharePoint, document and knowledge management are really good.
- Document management
- Knowledge management
- Website building
July 28, 2020
Microsoft SharePoint - in a nonprofit.
It is being used on a department to department level. It replaces the legacy network "Shared Drives" in our network. It helps our field staff access shared drives and interact faster with HQ without using any sort of VPN. This also helps staff work more efficiently from a remote site or even at home.
- Sharing and collaborating documents with the ability to lock documents upon final revision.
- Implementing workflows for specific documents and teams is a plus, this allows certain approval process during a copy edit to run smoothly.
- Project-related sites are quick and easy to deploy templates for fast moving teams or temporary teams.
- Creating a brand new site needs work. More widgets or drop in's perhaps.
- Making the administration a little easier for less technically inclined staff to be able to manage. Sometimes too many features on one screen or too much granular options can be a bad thing. Add an "advanced" menu, but stick with the basics, this saves IT's time.
- Make it easier to design sites that are more appealing to the younger crowd, sites end up just having basic colors and text. The new UI is improved and looks a bit more modern but still is just a bunch of boxes with text in them.
March 10, 2020
SharePoint Online is good enough
We are using SharePoint hosted and SharePoint Online to host intranet team sites and an inter-company website. For my service team, I use SPO to host a large (>100GB) repository of content and software for my field service users to access on the go. The companion mobile and PC OneDrive apps are great for keeping things available even while offline for my field users.
- 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.
January 21, 2020
Microsoft SharePoint, at the scale of a large org, has no rivals outside of Microsoft Teams
SharePoint is used organization-wide from our parent company to each of the operating companies underneath it. It is a collaboration solution within the Office 365 toolkit and has been used in our company since 2007. SharePoint is has been paired with a few tools to run in parallel over the years, but the current deployment is almost purely off-the-shelf Microsoft.
- 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.
December 31, 2019
Abandon Hope, All Ye Who Log In...
My agency has made the profoundly regrettable decision of adopting Microsoft software across departments to be our unified platform for everything from word processing to help desk tickets. SharePoint is (intended as) the lynchpin of this ecosystem, giving each department and program a page to host documents, workflows, news, and so forth, so any time you as an employee want to identify a procedure or locate a document it should be on SharePoint somewhere.
- There isn't much that SharePoint does better than it's competition. Actually, I'm having trouble coming up with a single example. It's our only choice if your business has already committed irrevocably to using MS products.
- Document+page links aren't persistent as files are re-organized, re-named, or have sharing settings adjusted
- Constant performance issues from MS servers, this quarter there have already been two days when the system was essentially offline for most of the business day
December 20, 2019
Jack of All Trades, Master of None
SharePoint is used as our enterprise-wide file sharing and general purpose collaboration space solution. It's intended to replace network folders and serve as an intranet for people outside of a team to familiarize themselves with the team's content and processes.
- 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.
October 25, 2019
Collaborate With SharePoint
SharePoint is the storage and shared area for all documents, spreadsheets, etc. used by the entire company. This provides a safe location that others can get to as well. We do have a separate SharePoint folder for each department as well which provides an area for each specific department without cluttering the lives of the other departments/teams.
- Sharing documents.
- Providing revision history.
- Safe repository.
- Collaboration between users.
- Live collaboration keeping all in-sync.
- Users can get confused if they are editing a local copy or the SharePoint copy.
- If a document gets out of sync, you have to realize it, then find the revision history. Makes sense, but still can be hard for some users.
- SharePoint feels heavy at times.
October 18, 2019
SharePoint And Teams Play Well Together
MS SharePoint is used across the entire organization, with MS Teams primarily as the front-end product. It helps address our company's collaboration problem.
- 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.
We utilize SharePoint across the organization for collaboration, file storage, and custom apps. Teams use SharePoint sites as their landing page to advertise their services and points of contact. Many teams utilize forms and SharePoint workflow to intake work and/or initiate & track business processes. Teams, departments, groups, and projects also utilize file storage and sharing capabilities for collaborative efforts and information sharing.
- 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.
October 09, 2019
Great for team collaboration and project management
SharePoint is in use across our entire organization. It provides a central location for our document libraries, collaboration, private, and internal intranet websites for all of our corporate departments.
- 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.
October 08, 2019
Daily "Addicted" User
MS SharePoint is used by most of my colleagues. My overall experience with SharePoint has been positive across the many years I've used it. MS SharePoint is being used by our entire organization almost every department. With SharePoint, I can integrate with MS Excel and with Office365, so as I do my projects in Excel I could share them on MS SharePoint. I am sure there are still so many things to learn about this app, and I'm still discovering new things. It has definitely been the best product for working with teams inside and outside of the company.
- 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!
October 07, 2019
SharePoint Review
MS SharePoint is used across our entire company as file storage and sharing. It's used on all devices and across multiple office locations.
- Storage.
- Sharing and rights access. Using it correctly, an organization can create a proper hierarchy of rights and access for folders. Also, sharing allows the ability to share access to files without the need to attach the actual file to an email. This helps when a document is later updated - you do not have to resend an email, as the document updates will be reflected to all shared users.
- Backup and security.
- Ease of use. Some things are just too complicated.
- Setting up rights and shared folders. The setup process is not clear and very difficult to control. It's very hard to see who has access to what and if there's an error or a user should or not being seeing a folder they may not have permissions for.
- Sharing and version control.
October 07, 2019
Good product but hard to use
MS SharePoint is being used by our whole organization inside different projects to share documents inside of a team to have access to them and the ability to edit the files online. It has a desktop application as well as an online one and a mobile app to use on the go. Although all of them are a little bit laggy.
- Integrates with MS Office and other MS tools.
- There is cloud-based storage.
- It has online editing of MS files.
- Sometimes it is not easy to predict where to search for some specific settings.
- It can be laggy and every day there is a sync issue so you have to refresh all the online files.
- Not cheap to buy.
October 05, 2019
MS SharePoint Review
We are using SharePoint primarily for document library sharing and we have a few workflow processes in place that help with document review and processing. It allows us to have a single source for shared documents, calendar and scheduling of tasks. We are still in the process of migrating our internal file shares to SharePoint, so we don't have full adoption yet.
- Document libraries is one feature we use most. It allow us to easily organize our files into subs and secure and share them as needed.
- Work flows are very useful as well. We have a process for Capital Expense Requests (CER) that go through a series of approvals before finally hitting the CFO for final approval. This is very valuable as it tracks the process and allows us to report on it as well as see progress.
- OneDrive. We use the file sharing feature which allows you to sync files through OneDrive and easily access those files via OneDrive versus going to a browser and navigating to the share.
- As an admin, I find the navigation for managing some area's of the site a bit more complicated that it needs to be.
- Permissions can be done in two ways, by way of SharePoint or integrated with Active Directory. We use this latter and one issue is granular permissions and identifying groups that have access down to the file level. Basically, if there was a way to report on permissions for a hierarchical perspective down to file level for a particular sub it would be helpful.
- We use SharePoint online and my biggest complaint about that, is the amount of service issues that occur on the hosted service. While I appreciated the constant development and improvements that are being made in the environment, impacting the paying end user as a result is hard to swallow.
October 05, 2019
SharePoint, for when you already pay for Office 365!
We used SharePoint interdepartmentally to share internal files safely and securely within our Office 365 framework.
- Integrates well with Windows and Mac machines.
- Works independently and with other Microsoft applications well.
- Safe and secure cloud storage for files.
- There is a bit of a learning curve to onboard new users.
- Slow workflow.
- Not a lot of support for apps outside of the Microsoft cosmos.
September 26, 2019
Disappointing Software that could so easily be better!
Microsoft SharePoint is used across our whole company as it is the primary service through which our intranet is run. The service is meant as a link between all business departments and to be a central repository for notices, forms, policies, procedures, and various other admin-linked processes. The service ensures that multiple different platforms are not used to serve information and revision control is possible.
- 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.