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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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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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August 31, 2021
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One of the most intuitive apps you'll find, it will let you fully customize the boards you create. It's a solid tool for managing work and workflows; however, it's not a project management tool, as you may think.
- SharePoint farms on-prem
- KM Portal on SharePoint 2010 Farm 1
- KSL/KSM/KSS Portals on SharePoint 2010 Farm 2
- Larger total size of data which should be migrated from SharePoint on-premise to SharePoint online environment.
August 14, 2021
MS SharePoint for file editing and storage
MS SharePoint is being used by the whole organization. It is a great way to store and organize documents across departments and have permission-based access. This allows fewer emails to be sent as everything is being stored in the cloud. Now we don't have to use file servers or third-party companies to send and receive large files.
- Organization
- Access from any device with an internet connection
- Permissions
- Advanced features seem to be lacking
- More integration with non-microsoft products
- Easier access via file explorer
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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 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 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
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
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).
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 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
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.
June 26, 2019
Modern world SharePoint
We are using SharePoint as a repository to store all the documents, emails, presentations, project data, and financial documents. Also for scheduling calendar events. We have also designed a dashboard in SharePoint which connects to other applications like New Relic to pull the graphs and stats of the application. It helped us to solve the problem of maintaining a document centrally and also helped with applying security levela as required.
- Centralized
- Easy to use
- Can be accessed from anywhere
- No need to maintain physical copies of document
- Only classic templates are available for subsites
- Customization costs time
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 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.
January 04, 2019
Sharepoint as an enterprise document management system
SharePoint is used as the core repository for both business and project documentation. This includes high volumes of documentation as well as electronic forms and workflows. We automate the creation of projects and the taxonomy associated with those projects to provide a common platform that is largely consistent across the company.
- A strong user interface that is easy to use and learn. This reduces the learning curve and alleviates support load.
- Provides flexibility for us to configure custom pages and forms without the need for development.
- Has a great ecosystem of skilled resources which are available to us when we need specific expertise or talents.
- SharePoint's handling of large files is poor and presents challenges in our Project environment
- Handling of large volumes of files associated to a single project is very poor and there are limited options to improve this.
- Performance when accessing and downloading files can be poor and there are limited options for caching and other methods to improve this.
December 12, 2018
"Share"point
SharePoint is used to house company documents and policies. Departmental pages are used for documents pertaining to that department. Users within departments are responsible for the management of the content within their pages. Common links are also on the page for easy access to outside vendors/references for our users. Departmental calendars are also maintained in SharePoint.
- Departmental calendars are great. We post individual events as well as product upgrades/outages. Nice to be able to see it all in a glance.
- Managing departmental documents is easy and keeps everything in one place for organizational purposes.
- Shared documents such as HR policies works well so all employees have easy access to them.
- Security and management can sometimes be cumbersome.
- Requires training for configuration upkeep.
- Expensive solution.
December 11, 2018
SharePoint - An Enterprise Perspective
We use SharePoint for the repository of legal, admin and operations data, files, processes, graphs and charts. It is a system of record for our business and is vital to the running of a data center. We run in a cluster environment, vmed in our corporate web cluster. We have specific groups, sites and calendars based upon the business unit.
- Document storage
- PTO Calendars
- Sites with sub sites with specific requirements
- Multi user edits
- Check in and out process
- Versioning of documents
- User integration with Hybrid 365 environments
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
August 20, 2018
Improving the organization with MS Share Point
In these moments, we find a pilot test in a department of the production area. We are automating several processes that are key in the company. Up to now, we have made significant changes, improving product review time, reducing project delays. It is an excellent tool, but you must have people trained in the implementation to ensure that the change in the company is simple and taken without much rejection by end users.
- It is a versatile tool, it allows creating workflows that support and streamline project management. It allows you to create documents and carry out your change control. You can establish checkpoints of the revision which makes it more efficient to know who has the document, how long the process lasted and send the client the document with the latest version.
- It is part of the Office platform and integrates with other MS applications, which makes it easy for users.
- From the point of view of performance and security, SharePoint is the best product for any organization.
- To implement it in small companies is expensive because it requires a specialized technical support team to configure to measure, manage and ensure that the tool runs without a problem.
- It is not easy to configure custom forms. There are some lists that are inflexible. To search efficiently, you need a lot of internal customization.
- It takes a lot of time to achieve the personalization of the application, since it requires a lot of configuration and training of the staff, added to the development effort to achieve the correct configuration.