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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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January 28, 2022
A fantastic collaborative tool
Microsoft SharePoint is used across our organization as a central document repository and intranet portal for staff. This allows a place all employees can go to access company resources regardless of file type.
- Document repository
- Intranet site
- Offline access using add-ins
- Conflict resolution
- Permission control at file/folder level
- Integration with more cloud-based software vendors
May 19, 2021
MS Sharepoint - Good Not Great
MS Sharepoint is the platform that we use for our employee intranet site. It's a great document repository and content management system that can house a multitude of information from all departments in one location. Access is based on active directory settings connected to Office 365. We also use file sharing features to restrict document/content access.
- Content Storage - Gives great features that allow you to house content, images, documentation, spreadsheets, and other assets in a well organized manner
- Privacy Settings - Does a great job of ensuring that you can customize very specifically how you want your content accessed, read, by whom, and takes into consideration how sensitive your data is
- Ease of Access - Because MS Sharepoint is part of the Office 365 suite, it's very easy for users accross the entire organization to access Sharepoint direction from their web browser
- Customizable UI - Although it can be customizable, it's not very intuitive and needs an more experienced web designer/developer to make it look and feel the way you want
- Permissions can be confusing - Even though document security can be a positive, it can also be a negative in the sense that if you don't set it up right or are not familiar with it, then it can be very confusing to figure out which access level to give
- Integration Challenges - Sharepoint is notoriously known to be hard to integrate into other platforms or to bring in data
April 05, 2021
Sharepoint much better then a file server
We use SharePoint for our local intranet site. Its been set as everyone's home page with a blog set up as the landing page. We primarily use it for sharing files, wikis and calendars. The search functions work well enough when files are uploaded with appropriate metadata. For the most part we run an out of the box, basic configuration to ensure future versions of SharePoint won't break anything we currently have set up.
- Wikis
- File Sharing
- Searching
- Could be more user friendly, large learning curve since it is such a complex tool.
- Built in reporting features could be more robust.
- Built in permissions vs. domain permissions are confusing.
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.
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 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 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.
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.
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 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 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 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 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.
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
July 04, 2019
MS Sharepoint, a good sharing software
MS Sharepoint is being used by our entire organization, every department. With MS Sharepoint we can integrate with MS Excel, and with Office 365, so as I do my projects in MS Excel I can share them in MS Sharepoint. The good thing about MS Sharepoint is that all the data is uploaded to the cloud through the internet portal, so anyone with authorization can access anytime. Furthermore, as I work with VBA and MS Excel, there are some projects that I need to upload a series of files to the cloud, and MS Sharepoint gives me that possibility.
- With MS Sharepoint you can share (in my case) projects, initiative trackers, with ID and the information I need to start my developing.
- It offers cloud acaccessibility, so you do not need to maintain your documents on your hard drive.
- It allows Office 365 integration, which for me is really great. Using MS Excel and MS Sharepoint.
- If you are going to implement its intranet system, you may have some problems, Microsoft actually discourages that from happening.
- Sometime if you need to search, it requires a lot of internal customization.
- Social networking is separated from the rest of the intranet.
- Sometimes when you need to upload a great number of files, it becomes slow, and even some files do not upload, so you need to upload them manually.
June 20, 2019
Sharepoint: collaboration for all
We are using SharePoint as our internal intranet solution, it hosts a large number of corporate documents. We also use it for team collaboration, project collaboration and as a central repository for team information. Our corporate news and applications are all linked through the intranet and it also hosts electronic forms and workflows.
- Collaboration
- Electronic forms
- Document warehousing
- Easier migrations to new versions
- Clear communication about outages
- Clear communication about changes
March 27, 2019
MS Sharepoint review
MS SharePoint is being used by our department and many other departments. It is an excellent portal to share and save documents. It acts as a single platform to manage projects and keep all data live with the offshore teams. Data can also be made secure and can be integrated with a lot of other software to get more analytics.
- SharePoint helps users store data for the long term and view it offline.
- It can integrate with QC and other software to get more data.
- SharePoint can be used for project management, reporting, and document storage.
- Integration with other software is not very creative. It can be improved greatly so that reports and data could be more crisp.
- The portal is not very smooth. It can be hosted over the intranet, but the speed and intuitiveness can be improved.
- Mobile support is lacking -- pages are not responsive.
March 05, 2019
Excellent collaboration tool
Simplifies collaboration. All files can be added to the document library through drag-and-drop, copying files into a synced folder on your desktop, or by using various Office apps on desktop or mobile devices. Keeping a log of who made edits and letting you download previous editions of your document to review changes or return to a previous revision. This allows collaborators to share information, save time and resources from your computer or mobile.
- Save multiples versions of files, change controls performed by each person.
- Protection for the relevant documents allows us to export them to present them by other means.
- By using Flow, you can send approval requests when documents are loaded to a library, integrate with forms to route information to the appropriate person.
- Pricing is dependent on the deployment model chosen: on-premise, subscription, and hybrid.
- Unfortunately, due to the high cost of introducing a SharePoint based solution, deployment often takes many months or years.
- It requires advanced technical skills to develop and manage.
January 31, 2019
SharePoint - the intranet that you already have.
MS SharePoint is currently used as our intranet as a way to collaborate within and across units. It's available to everyone, but only power users are really using it. It has been used successfully as a document repository, and in a small way as a workflow management system with form routing. It's currently seen something we have, but don't really know how to use to its full potential.
- Coming bundled with other office products is really nice. Most people are going to need Outlook, Word, Excel - having access to SharePoint is nice to get with our site license.
- SharePoint is powerful. It can do a lot of things, and we haven't really even started to understand how it can be used.
- They've redesigned recently to make it easier to get started. You can make pages and add parts to the pages really easily. Going deeper takes a lot of trial and error.
- It's hard to know what all SharePoint does, or what it really excels at. People still use e-mail as their primary communication tool. They share OneDrive folders for document repositories. They keep notes in OneNote. SharePoint facilitates these tools but doesn't really add much direct value. Teams and Planner offer scaled-down versions that will probably see greater use because they are more focused.
- SharePoint is intimidating to get started with. There are a lot of settings and no clear entry point. Creating a new page and linking to that page is frustratingly difficult. Integration with other tools requires certain licenses and this isn't obvious. Permissions are confusing.
- SharePoint looks better now, but design is still lacking especially when you start getting behind the scenes.
Sharepoint is being used by the organization as a central repository for company news and files. It is a center for HR to keep employee paperwork, and also setup with sub directories for project and client specific engagements.
- Provide a central location to store company files
- Provide a framework of organization for what would otherwise be localized, chaotic
- Provide an easy to use solution that employees can adapt to quickly
- The UI is becoming a bit dated; an overhaul would be welcome.
- Some of the functionality and features are clunkier than others.
- The product is very dynamic and has many functions. To learn the true extent of what SP can do, you should take the time to read and watch tutorials and videos. This is not a con per say, but it does require some deliberate learning efforts to do more than scratch the surface.
November 26, 2018
How we use SharePoint
MS SharePoint is being used in our organization as our Intranet. It is used in nearly every department. MS SharePoint addresses business problems in many different departments. It allows multiple users from different departments to collaborate on the same document. We also have had success using it for training documentation, internal calendars, and some document management.
- It is a very strong intranet
- Calendar is robust and can be configured
- Ability to store and navigate to shared documents.
- Configuration is costly
- Configuration is expensive
September 12, 2018
MS Sharepoint is great if you use MS office
We host our intranet on MS SharePoint. Each department has their own site and is managed by the department. It's useful for new users to see what each department is about. We also use SharePoint for file sharing and storage.
- Microsoft standard features were adequate setting up the intranet.
- Cross department collaboration and file sharing/editing.
- Online editing for Microsoft Office documents
- MS Office online editing isn't as spontaneous as Google Drive.
- MS SharePoint online refreshing time isn't the fastest
- SharePoint site loading isn't smooth. Modules aren't loaded at once. Some menus load at a different pace, makes the site loading transition rough.