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What is SharePoint?
Microsoft's SharePoint is an Intranet solution that enables users to share and manage content, knowledge, and applications to empower teamwork, quickly find information, and collaborate across the organization.
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What is SharePoint?
MS SharePoint / SQL refers to Microsoft Sharepoint, a web-based collaborative platform, being used in tandem with Microsoft SQL Server to provide business intelligence analytics and reporting. They can provide BI content such as data connections, reports, scorecards, dashboards, and more.
With Sharepoint, users can share files, data, news, and resources. Sites can be customized to streamline teams’ work. Team members can collaborate inside and outside the organization, across PCs, Macs, and mobile devices.
Sharepoint also supports the ability to discover data, expertise, and insights to inform decisions and guide action. SharePoint’s content management features, along with connections and conversations surfaced in Yammer, enable organizations to maximize their velocity of knowledge.
Users can also accelerate productivity by transforming processes—from tasks like notifications and approvals to operational workflows. With SharePoint lists and libraries, Microsoft Flow, and PowerApps, they can create digital experiences with forms, workflows, and custom apps for every device.
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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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| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | No |
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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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We use MS SharePoint in a variety of ways. First, it is an excellent shared file depository. You can collaborate with people across campus by placing the file in SharePoint and allowing the people on the team on which you are working access. Thanks to the capabilities of office you can all edit the document in a single place and don't have to worry about people downloading their own copies and different revisions developing. We also use this feature as a sort of wiki to show changes over time. I also use the calendar feature quite a bit. It is helpful for tracking past events and planning those in the future. The color coding features are nice so you can run parallel calendars over top of one another. The last feature I like is setting up a landing page or home page that you can use to keep people that maybe don't use the SharePoint site as regularly up to date on the project or area that you have developed.
- The calendar features are quite robust.
- Document storage is a breeze.
- Live document editing is simple.
- Organizing information and creating a structure is done in a way even novice users can manage with little assistance.
- It does take some work to get your setup to be as graphical as modern design tends to be.
- Overlapping calendars are great but they do take some time investment to create.
- Depending on how many project or teams you work with it can get a little overwhelming to have so many different groupings.
- It is certainly a time saver.
- You can likely stop paying for other tools if you are willing to move to the SharePoint platform.
- If you are considering a remote office it will help support dispersed users.
I think that MS SharePoint is a more robust and well integrated tool than other products. Because it lives in the Microsoft universe it likely integrates to the other software products you already have very easily. Most users will not have trouble adopting it as the UI is familar.
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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
- SharePoint helps us from an auditing standpoint
- Meta tags help to segment files by customer
- Versioning/Check in/out does not us to do multi user edits/collaboration
- Sub sites have assisted us in formalizing a training program
- Google Docs: Not enterprise ready, but great at multi user edits. Subsites and integration not native. Use of service accounts not a strong suit. Not audit friendly
- Slack: Discontinued due to security features and lack of AD integration (At the time)
- Confluence: Better at automation and workflow management, security is good
- ConnectWise: Better at automation and integration of non MS applications.
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Sales, Operations, Finance and Administration
5
Site operations, MS certifications, IIS understanding, applications benchmarking
- Document management
- Audits
- Calendars
- PTO integration
- Hidden subsites
- ID cards
- Customer experience integration
- Dynamic calendars and apps
No
- Prior Experience with the Product
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Existing MS partnership and existing deployment
More testing on versioning and document checkout.
- Third-party professional services
Confidential
- N/A
No
The amount of money would not be worth the expense vs. the offering.
No
During the migration process and during the renewal process, support was engaged.
- AD integration
- AD security
- meta tags
- Checkout process
- Versioning
February 28, 2018
I can't remember life before SharePoint
We used it across the whole organization. Sharepoint is used mainly for sharing files with teammates, as well as simultaneously editing them. We just tell each other that we have posted it on Sharepoint and that's all. Sharepoint allowed us to be efficient and saved us tons of time versus emailing the files around to each other all the time.
- SharePoint is great for file sharing.
- The ability to create and fill out online forms for business purposes is my favorite feature.
- I enjoy having the ability to grant different levels of access to different members of the team.
- Files saved can be easily tracked using your Office 365 applications.
- Uploading documents, you can simply drag a document onto a site page in any browser.
- It is hard to integrate sharing documents and uploading documents through my Mac.
- Finding a specific file without a proper link can be very challenging.
- Some of the sortings can be confusing when you are first learning the product.
- Some of the set up is not obvious. I watched a lot of youtube to help me connect the dots.
- For example, our server`s power supply failed two days before a grant request was due. SharePoint has given us the ability to safely and securely store our data as well access it from anywhere.
- I think Sharepoint has a very thorough way of organizing documents and makes it easy to edit them (thanks to the various Office Online apps).
- We use SharePoint 2013 for both clients facing and internal processes. We do invoice processing for our clients.
- Alfresco Enterprise Content Management and Liferay Digital Experience Platform (DXP)
SharePoint is easy to use for people familiar with or already using Microsoft Apps. If you are implementing Office365, it will come with most licenses. As a result, free is free. It's definitely a great tool for sharing and submitting files across a large organization and helps control the amount of information shared and keeps projects organized per business line.
Yes
Previously, to store documents in the cloud and their exchanges between employees, we used Dropbox and Microsoft OneDrive. But after our company began to grow, and the possibilities of these programs were not enough for us, we decided to try SharePoint. The program pleased me with its capabilities and I was pleasantly surprised.
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Easy to set up and train employees. It is easy to collaborate with other colleagues when working on team projects. I like Sharepoint's multi-device functionality, as well as its integration with various other Microsoft programs.
I think my opinion about this program and its functionality has not changed yet.
December 18, 2017
SharePoint hits in the priorities.
It was a collaboration tool used throughout my whole team. It was very helpful to share documents and presentations. Helped with version control and updated content and provides a sleek and effective way to share information across the entire organization.
- Version control which will allow for no re-writes or extra effort.
- Integration with Outlook and a simple way to use content management and collaboration.
- A detailed report of different documents and their completion.
- Very intuitive and simple to use.
- Tons of features to choose from that you can customize to fit your business needs.
- You can address multiple service providers.
- Time to load varies and can be a hassle when the entire company is trying to utilize one aspect.
- Can be expensive to add features as well as customization. Each customization feature requires some the back office work to ensure that it won’t interfere with current processes.
- Running more than one project at a time can become very messy. Projects don’t save correctly and sometimes are intertwined.
- End bill can be extremely costly if you don’t pay attention to the customizations and extra scripting being done.
- Time spent on document recollection was a negative impact as it did take some time and resources to make sure we had everything uploaded and ready to use.
- Fewer resources and databases needed however when using it for project management. This allowed only a small team to really understand and collaborate on missing projects, timelines, etc.
- Price is effective for what it’s needed for, just be sure to watch customizations as those can become pricey and usually don’t fulfill all requirements.
Is not a document depository but does allow for sharing of documents and collaboration and is much cheaper.
No
Manual document depository and project management tools. It was becoming too difficult with version control to do it all in excel.
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Features- we were looking for something that could accomplish all of our goals and still be used company wide and this was it. We needed it to be customizable as well and it has done that so far.
If we were to redo the selection process over again I would absolutely focus on price and review more competitors as I don’t believe we dove into that aspect too much because there was a deadline to meet.
July 21, 2016
SharePoint from a non developer
SharePoint is used as a document management portal, as an intranet and extranet platform, as a collaboration platform across the organisation and inside divisions. We use workflows built in SharePoint and we use SharePoint developer for implementing workflows. The problems it addresses are announcements, phone book, master database for bidding and contract management, BDM management platform, extranet site for collaboration with partners outside our company and for document management within divisions.
- Very robust, never crashes
- With minimum investment apart from licensing it can address most business processes
- Good search capabilities (SharePoint 2010)
- Same ergonomics as late office editions
- Referential integrity between lists
- Better no programming application development capabilities
- Simple solution to keep big data outside the database
- Divisions document generation much better coordinated
- It serves us as a CRM without the need to buy one
- Very well adopted so the demands ever increase
- Need to have outside consultant
None. We considered K2 however, too expensive so far. We selected SharePoint because it came years ago with a subscription and we needed a collaboration platform to begin with.
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working as engineers, designers in civil engineering industry
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Microsoft background. Out of the box support is not demanding but developing its capabilities, which are vast, requires engagement of the professional. Experience withVisual Studio, html, css, javascript is mandatory to develop custom capabilities. Good SharePoint environment also requires well versed engineer with "under the bonnet" capabilities of debugging SharePoint problems.
- Extranet collaboration with partners outside our company
- CRM platform, tracking of project pipelines
- Project collaboration
- To facilitate basic CRM functionality
- Bid tracking
- Receivables management
- Connecting with Oracle Database
- Process management
- Approval processes
Yes
SharePoint partly replaced both ViewWise, a document management software and Metastorm e-work, a process management tool.
It was a change in company management and IT management that spurred the change of platform, and since we were under a Microsoft subscription at the time, SharePoint was an obvious choice. Through the word of mouth, the number of users eventually spread through the years.
It was a change in company management and IT management that spurred the change of platform, and since we were under a Microsoft subscription at the time, SharePoint was an obvious choice. Through the word of mouth, the number of users eventually spread through the years.
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It was under an enterprise subscription model, plus we are a Microsoft experienced company. So seemingly, at no extra cost we could implement a platform we could use for a number of different purposes. Many out of the box features can be used very efficiently and with some imagination you could achieve many business goals.
The total cost of ownership (TCO) was not considered at the time. SharePoint is not for companies short on budget. That is a very important fact. However, if you don't lack financial backing, with some extra cash invested in add-ons, you can build very nice applications without the need to hire many Microsoft professionals. We mostly outsource in depth Microsoft knowledge.
- Implemented in-house
- Professional services company
A Microsoft professional performed the implementation. In my opinion, it pays back to really engage a SharePoint professional for implementation, because it is vital to set up things right. It is very painful and time consuming to change setup settings later especially if users start filling up content. Also, it is important to get good tips on resolving issues, technology shortcomings and in essence get a good pitch in order to solve business requirements. SharePoint has a large number of templates and if you are not dedicated just to SharePoint, you are never going to test them all. So a good tip on best practice approaches pays back very soon!
No
Change management was a big part of the implementation and was well-handled
Again, hire a sharepoint professional with a number of sharepoint projects behind him. Since sharepoint will most probably handle many business processes and large quantities of documents, downtime should be minimal and functionality setup as quickly as possible. It is impossible to pilot all new features, lessons learned on other peoples cases hurts the least. So hire a professional to setup your sharepoint.
- Switching authentication from regular to claims based in 2010
- Finding new versions of third party add ons, since sites would break if add ons were not updated
- Takes a while for users to get accustomed to new ergonomics
No
we never actually used microsoft support
No
Never used it.
- Setup of security
- Integrating with active directory
- Integration with other microsoft products
- New Microsoft Project is awesome! It's built upon the SharePoint platform
- House cleaning the platform. It requires period maintenance to operate efficiently
- Some list functionality is lacking for example cascade lookup
- Security is at the item level, not column level
Yes
not sure, we don't use it much since it's an intranet platform. We don't host our external web on SharePoint.