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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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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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What is Microsoft SharePoint and How Can I Use It?
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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The most common users of SharePoint are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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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.
Sharepoint is currently being used across our entire organization for an internal Intranet. We use sharepoint extensively. It helps our business to stay organized and streamlines projects.
- Enables teams to collaborate more closely
- Great for organizing shared files and folders
- Creating team sites with specific documents and information for the particular team
- Better UI improvements
- More wizard driven so end users have have less of a learning curve
- Better API support for 3rd party software vendors
September 26, 2019
SharePoint integrates well with your existing MS infrastructure, but is expensive and clunky
SharePoint is used for sharing files in a number of different situations, especially departmental documents and forms which can be edited by a number of other users.
- 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
We have run several joint projects with business partners. Data exchange and report sharing are always issues since data sets are rather large. Most business associates have had experience with SharePoint so deploying a SharePoint solution for each project has been very successful. Data was easily exchanged, all staff could easily get to information and it served as an information repository for staff entering the project late. Very easy to set up and administer.
- Many templates available that are easy to deploy.
- Cloud SharePoint is easy to scale and the managed solution minimizes IT resource requirements.
- No steep learning curves.
- It requires some discipline for the users to keep things organized. Some automation templates and features that are easy to deploy could help.
- Some admin features to have user access expire instead of having to go in and lockout users as projects transition.
- More sync and backup from cloud to in-house systems.
September 25, 2019
SharePoint greatly improves project management and collaboration
SharePoint is utilized across the organization and team. We use it for simple document storage, obviously, but there is so much more it can do. Tagging your documentation with metadata is incredibly useful. It makes finding these documents later much easier and allows for better ways to present documents to the users.
- Good search capabilities.
- Sharing documents with external users.
- Document storage, hands down. Online access and storing a synced copy on a hard drive as well.
- The user interface could be improved and made more attractive.
- The public website creation documentation is not that clear.
- There is the potential for save-conflicts if multiple people edit a document while offline.
September 23, 2019
SharePoint works but not intuitive
Our IT PMO uses SharePoint for each of our projects. Each project has its own site. If there are multiple workstreams in a project, they all have their own subsites. We use it as a document repository primarily. We have recently upgraded to the newer version of SharePoint which is nice, but they did remove some of the functionality I got used to. It is also used across other departments in our organization which does make it nice because if you are on a new project team, the other team members know how to use it.
- 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.
September 21, 2019
A good starter, but if you want to customize it too much, prepare to get a consultant involved
We utilized Sharepoint as our company intranet for a number of years and recently migrated some of that onto the cloud version that comes with office365. This has proved relatively successful and the feature set it offers is useful for us to be able to easily manage version control on our documents.
- Simple setup
- Lots of online resources for getting started
- Support is offered both by Microsoft and 3rd parties
- Skinning/rebranding it to not look like SharePoint is nigh on impossible,
- The cloud version is good but becomes costly if you have large numbers of documents to host, so we've not done that with this solution.
- Finding a suitable backup solution was troublesome for some time.
September 20, 2019
Sharepoint: a product that keeps getting better in a changing world.
There are a lot of use cases in our organization for Sharepoint. We use it for team site collaboration, for document repositories that link to our CRM, for individual sites and OneDrive, and our Intranet pages. I also use it to generate some SSRS reports from SQL.
Sharepoint is critical to our company since it ties in with so many aspects. If our document repository has issues, almost the entire company will experience it. It also addresses collaboration, easily working in a central location with your team.
Sharepoint is critical to our company since it ties in with so many aspects. If our document repository has issues, almost the entire company will experience it. It also addresses collaboration, easily working in a central location with your team.
- Collaboration: the team sites are great for storage and collaborating on. Especially on the 365 side. Co-authoring files and the ability to share/restrict is quite easy.
- IT administration is easy - creating new team sites and adding users is super simple. Not a lot of work is involved in getting it all setup.
- While there are a lot of widgets you can add by default, they are lacking in customization. You really have to purchase the good ones, but you can make it work with the basics or build your own if you are inclined to do so.
- Layout customization for the web pages is way too limiting. I would expect it to function more like OneNote, where you can drag the "blocks" of information (or widgets, but not limited to widgets) around freely on the page. There were some layouts that max at 3 columns. What if I wanted 4 columns? And with 2 columns, I can't adjust the width of each. So it was very disappointing to see this not built into the webpages.
- I understand that I could probably use Sharepoint Designer to customize the page, but these should be built into the webpage capabilities for less technical people to use. If I give a non-technical person (who is capable of figuring out how to resize column widths) Sharepoint Designer to edit the site, I can guarantee you that the site will break at some point.
September 19, 2019
MS SharePoint - A Perspective from a Staff Accountant User
Ms SharePoint was used across the organization for submitting purchase orders. It was trying to address the problem of tracking down "paper" purchase orders. Often times, purchase orders would be held up on people's desks for signatures, of whom had gone on vacation or maybe they were out of the office unexpectedly. Also I believe it was trying to solve the problem of printer paper expense. The cost savings of having electronic purchase orders instead of paper purchase orders were attractive.
- Shows the signature status on a summary page at a bird's eye view - this really helps everyone know who signed it and when at a glance
- The user interface is awful and could use a LOT of improvement. What I mean is the whole functionality is not basically intuitive. So many places that you click look the same and it gets confusing. For example, you go to the home page and you can't easily identify where is the page I go to to upload my documents for routing? It could be much more simpler like having a button on the right or left side pane that says "create a packet for routing".
September 18, 2019
Satisfied MS SharePoint user
Within our teams the tool is used to manage our documents. The tool improves collaboration by reducing the number email sent/recieved and simplifies communications which speeds up the entire communication process. The tool brings different stakeholders together to manage documents in a single secure location.
- Enhanced Security
- Effortless Collaboration
- Simplified Information Exchange
- Expensive to license, price is a little high-end since it's per month, per user
- Poor search capablities
- employee training is required to gain full benefits of the tool
September 17, 2019
MS SharePoint is great for sharing
SharePoint is used across the entire organization. It provides centrally-located, always available and easily-accessible document libraries, collaboration spaces, private, internal websites for all of our corporate divisions and their departments and a way to quickly share documents with other users.
- Document sharing - it works really well for this. documents can be included in libraries and organized in folders. Documents can be uploaded as files or links to files stored anywhere that is accessible by URL.
- Team discussion boards - It does discussion format very well and presents discussion sin a familiar format that all users will recognize. it can also do Wikis.
- Managing access permissions is still clunky - not a whole lot better in newer versions than it was way back when it was first launched.
- Re-organization of the site hierarchy isn't very easy. You need a third-party tool to do anything meaningful when you want to rearrange your site pages and move site libraries.
- It doesn't provide for any kind of backup, so you have to either have it on=prem where you can backup the entire server or you have to buy a third-party tool if you are using the online hosted version (SPO).
September 17, 2019
SharePoint - Making a Point to Share
Across the organization, MS SharePoint is used as a collaborative platform for documents/ideas and as a news platform, as well as a change management/audit tracking tool for finance and IT. It addresses versioning to ensure that data is correct and unedited for audits and also for the ability to restore an improperly edited document.
- 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.
September 15, 2019
Keeping everything securely in one place
SharePoint is used to access documents across our company. We can add, delete, edit and review anything that has been placed there. It makes it easier to see the documents rather than emailing it every time a change was made or updates are needed. Everything is in one secure place and anybody with granted access can use it. It saves time and the visibility of who accessed what document on what date is helpful in knowing things get done.
- Easy access with folders and sub-folders.
- Secure access control with email and password.
- It's customizable, as you can add your own logo and content to it.
- Syncing can take sometimes a very long time when starting on a new computer.
- Visibility of folders, as it would be nice to have different layouts.
- The time it takes to set it up and integrate.
September 15, 2019
Sharing my opinion on SharePoint
MS SharePoint is used across our whole organization. It has many different functions that are used through it. It is primarily used as a source to house information and data that is needing across every department. In it, HR has been able to implement important documents. We are able to do our yearly appraisals, house data, and many other resources.
- It houses data in an organized manner and makes it easily accessible.
- It is accessible from any computer. You do not have to be in-office.
- It has many functions, making it useful for a lot of different business types.
- If not used correctly, it can become disorganized and cluttered.
- It could be designed in a more creative/updated way.
September 14, 2019
Good old SharePoint gets very much better Online!
SharePoint is our main document collaboration suite and file storage location. We used to have on-premises versions (since version 2003) and they were ok, but since moving to SharePoint Online we are really doing real collaboration. Microsoft has very much improved SharePoint towards an easy to use platform that integrates with other MS offerings (like Teams) and even external tools.
- Everyone knows SharePoint. It is easy to use and does need a steep learning curve.
- Integration in other 365 tools improves productivity. Automation even more so (ie using Flow).
- There is no real backup available out of the box. We need a backup, so there were extra costs to buy a third party offering.
- The only editing tools are basic. We still need full client tools for a little more advanced stuff.
September 09, 2019
SharePoint MS Review
We used SharePoint to migrate from Google Drive and Dropbox. This decision was made with hopes for seamless integration of platforms and products under one database. While there were many benefits to having Sharepoint active and connected to other tools, it was often slow, and the overall interface is outdated.
- Team integration.
- The diversity of platforms/breadth of tools.
- Familiarity with legacy tools.
- Auto-saving.
- Interface and fonts.
- Working within the browser instead of exporting to Powerpoint.
SharePoint is used across the organization. We use it for simple document storage, obviously, but there is so much more it can do. Tagging your documentation with metadata is incredibly useful. It makes finding these documents later much easier and allows for better ways to present documents to the users. And we use SharePoint for various ad-hoc line-of-business applications. Security is solid and also allows sharing with external users outside of our company.
- Document storage, hands down. Online access and storing a synced copy on a hard drive as well. And this is much improved from years ago.
- Ad-hoc, line of business applications. Automation via workflow. Mobile access via PowerApps. All easy to get started with.
- Sharing news to a team or across an organization.
- Sharing documents with external users.
- Document version control is also incredibly useful.
- If you're already paying for Office 365, many of their licensing levels already include SharePoint. So you might as well use it!
- I've found external users occasionally need assistance walking through the process of getting access. But this is much rarer now than even a couple years ago. But it still happens once in a while.
- There is the potential for save-conflicts if multiple people edit a document while offline. Again, rare, but could happen. But that's the price you have to pay for the online availability, the local storage, etc.
- To get the full benefit of SharePoint, you really want someone how is an expert. You can quickly get started using some of the functionality, but it's such a powerful tool, you should have someone dedicated to learning it and managing it internally or use an outside consultant. Again, you can get simple usage on your own, but for full usage of what's there, an expert is recommended. But learning it on your own, internally, is certainly possible. I just recommend making that the person's job, and not just an added responsibility along with a hundred other things.
August 28, 2019
SharePoint is the best collaboration and content management system for large enterprises!
MS SharePoint is used daily on reporting and documentation tasks across our on-shore and off-shore teams to remain in sync. SharePoint is used across the whole organization as our primary collaboration space and addresses the need for a large number of people to collaborate on documentation.
- Familiarity and ease of use
- Integrated with Office 365
- Ease of content management
- Uploading content to SharePoint can be easier
August 13, 2019
MS SharePoint--a fantastic tool for organizing and sharing information across your organization
My organization fully utilizes MS SharePoint as a critical part of our workflow management process. In combination with Microsoft Teams, SharePoint is used to store all shared documents in a secure, cloud-based location. Due to the diverse nature of our workforce, MS SharePoint allows documents to be quickly and easily shared across multiple, locations, states and even countries. Documents can be checked-out and checked-in for editing allowing easy control and management of document versioning ensuring no document version is ever lost.
- MS SharePoint allows easy, cloud-based document sharing in a controlled, common interface
- MS SharePoint provides in-app document versioning
- MS SharePoint integrates very well with MS Teams providing a seamless interface to a top-notch collaboration tool
- MS SharePoint's link between the Teams app and the online web-based interface is a little awkward as it requires you to click an "open in the app" link rather than allowing you to set this as the default behavior
- It would help in MS SharePoint if one could more easily get to the "Check Out" option rather than having to navigate to the "More..." submenu on right-click of a file
August 07, 2019
MS SharePoint is a must for every organization
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We use MS SharePoint as a way to reach out to our users for communication, tracking, and project management. We have a SharePoint page set up for each department, IT, HR, Finance, etc. Under each specific department, we have designated a person as the "Administrator" for that particular page on SharePoint, and they are being held responsible for maintaining and updating the site as needed.
So far, SharePoint has been a big asset for us in our company, and our users enjoy using it the way it was intended, and always have good feedback.
So far, SharePoint has been a big asset for us in our company, and our users enjoy using it the way it was intended, and always have good feedback.
- SharePoint integrates well with our Active Directory and allows us to maintain security to it.
- We have integrated our SRS reporting into SharePoint, and from that we are able to set up subscriptions to reports.
- Document posting and downloading is a very handy feature for letting end-users know how to do things and post questions if they have any.
- The look and feel of SharePoint could look and feel a little more "fluent."
- The color scheme could be a little updated.
- More customization to your company would be neat too.
August 06, 2019
Useful if you invest your time into it
MS SharePoint is a way to manage shared documents for a project. We use it to manage the necessary information for a project so that anyone in the company can go to the SharePoint page to get whatever relevant information they need. This is useful for the engineering and marketing teams to have access to information on all of the projects that we are working on and for projects that have been completed.
- Shared access to structured web pages.
- Ability to manage documents.
- Customization.
- To utilize it to the fullest, you need to learn a lot about how SharePoint works.
- It can be a bit sluggish if not optimized.
- Navigation can also be difficult if not optimized.
August 01, 2019
Amazing cloud content management platform
Microsoft SharePoint is used throughout the company. All sectors have their own workspaces where they share documents, programs, files, etc., and also spaces where information is shared with other sectors, for which various access, reading or writing permits are applied based on each need. Each user also decides if they want to have the information synchronized on their device with a copy of the information or only have access to it in the cloud.
- One of the key points of this cloud content platform is the security and granularity that can be given by user and by folder or file.
- It handles file versioning very well, this allows you to easily return to an earlier version of the document and recover information that may have been lost.
- The possibility of synchronizing information or just having access in the cloud is essential to not occupy local space on each device.
- The searches within the web are not very friendly, definitely, this is a point of improvement.
- If you decide to synchronize the files on the device, this slows it down and generates high internet consumption.
- It would be ideal to be able to incorporate encryption handling each company the keys.
July 18, 2019
MS SharePoint review from a cybersecurity company
We use it across our organization amongst all of our teams to share documents and collaborate. From a marketing standpoint, we also use their calendar to put in upcoming campaigns that we are running. It is also used to submit or receive tickets amongst our teams for any problems or request that needs addressing.
- Easily share documents and files
- Allows all of our teams to seamlessly collaborate
- Calendar gives the organization visibility into what campaigns or programs are upcoming
- Doesn't handle large files well
- Sometime when uploading video, it does not render properly and the file must be downloaded
- The interface could be more user friendly
July 10, 2019
MS SharePoint provides an excellent document sharing and content management solution for organizations
My entire organization adopted MS SharePoint as a part of our shift to using the new suite of Office 365 applications enterprise-wide. MS SharePoint has helped to streamline communication and collaboration across different organizations and business units at my company by offering an effective tool for storage and document sharing/content management.
- MS SharePoint's standard reporting capabilities are helpful and can be leveraged to perform high-level site analytics.
- MS SharePoint sites are highly configurable and can be customized extensively to suit different groups, teams, and use cases.
- MS SharePoint's document sharing/content management system allows groups to set up a centralized system, allowing for streamlined communication and collaboration.
- MS SharePoint integrates fairly well with Yammer, but I would prefer these two have better integration or be folded into the same application to allow for more streamlined communication, collaboration, and announcements.
July 07, 2019
Great document management tool
MS SharePoint is used in our organization as a document sharing and team collaboration tool. It is used in the whole organization. SharePoint online addresses the problem of document management. Customized workflow enables security.
- Document management
- MS SharePoint combined with other Microsoft Office and 365 products provide great features.
- MS SharePoint can be integrated with an MS flow which helps in a customized approval workflow.
- Site creation is easy and even business users can do it.
- Security is great
- MS SharePoint is a great tool. Only thing is that it is a little expensive.