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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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(1-5 of 5)SharePoint - An Enterprise Perspective
- 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
- If your organization needs a document repository, SharePoint is a good fit.
- If your organization needs integrated calendar functionality with active directory, SharePoint is a good fit.
- If your organization needs active sites and subsites with specific security roles, SharePoint is a good fit.
- If your organization needs multi user edits, there are much better applications.
- If your organization does a lot of versioning and dynamic applications, I would not suggest SharePoint.
- 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.
- Document management
- Audits
- Calendars
- PTO integration
- Hidden subsites
- ID cards
- Customer experience integration
- Dynamic calendars and apps
- Prior Experience with the Product
- Existing Relationship with the Vendor
- Third-party professional services
- N/A
- AD integration
- AD security
- meta tags
- Checkout process
- Versioning
SharePoint from a non developer
- 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
Can authorize both against active directory and LDAP for outside partners. Very well developed community.
However, if migrating, if doing some more in depth customization, a professional is very much needed since it's a very complex environment and easy to lose a lot of time on tweaking, debugging and navigating through numerous options.
- 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
- 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
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.
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Vendor Reputation
- Existing Relationship with the Vendor
- Implemented in-house
- Professional services company
- 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
- 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
Why Use SharePoint in a Corporate Environment
Even given the initial capital outlay, it is a far more cost-effective option if you consider a plethora of alternatives that need to be procured to provide the same set of functionality. In our case we have used it for;
- The intranet
- Customer Portals for our partners. that incorporate surfacing data from our other enterprise systems; Oracle, SAP, IBM, Maximo etc.
- Health and Safety System.
- A number of document management sites for various departments, migrating from other expensive products.
- Collaboration to increase security and reduce load on Outlook (constant attachments etc.).
- There are a number of other projects that we're considering that will go on SharePoint.
- The intranet - SharePoint has a mature publishing framework with workflows, content approval, versioning, multi-lingual site and so on.
- Collaboration and Social Features that include complex workflows for documents, multi-user updates, rich metadata association, and much more
- Surfacing line of business data (Business Connectivity Services) and providing ability for rich Dashboards and KPI with integration for Excel graphs (Excel services) and SSRS and a host of other features that provide powerful analysis and reporting capabilities.
- Lists of various types with configurable columns, alerting, and email integration rich taxonomy, secure access - all without writing a single lin eof code.
- Ability to search not only data held within SharePoint, but also on disk shares, outlook and other systems (eDiscovery).
- SharePoint has seen improvements in workflow, but I feel the process for end user can be further simplified.
- I'd like to see LightSwitch somehow integrated to provide building relational applications (similar to force.com in some ways).
- The Client-side Object Model needs to be further developed.
It is not well suited to put relational application on it, although there is some limited relational support.
- It has allowed us to put a number of applications on SharePoint that we had no other place to put them - other than to procure dedicated solutions.
- NONE
- Separate agreements
- Separate infrastructures
- separate Support
- Separate Logons potentially
- Incoherent search across all systems, if one was available
- Separate renewal, upgrade, patching etc.
- Implemented in-house
- Document sharing and management
- Approval process workflows
- Custom lists
- Mobile friendly with default templates
- Implementation can be daunting and somewhat difficult.
- Better tutorials and guides for new users.
- Modifying the layouts, design etc. to match branding is not very intuitive.
- Search services require extensive configuration and management.
- Being a single point repository for all of the company, it provides better efficiency for document management.
- SharePoint has allowed us to consolidate several solutions, which has a positive effect on our overhead.
- Business processes have improved by implementing workflows. This has saved time and offered more efficiency for several key processes within the organization.
- Search functionality is fairly effective which also reduces overhead by allowing our internal stakeholders more expedient access to the resources they are looking for.
- Atlassian Confluence,SAP Portal,IBM Notes
- Implemented in-house
- Planning and Preparation. More time should be dedicated to planning.
- Scalability. Ensure that during your planning, you are thinking about future growth and scalability.
- Resources for implementation. Ascertain you have the right people, doing the right thing, and have the availability to complete the implementation on schedule and correctly.
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- Web Based Team Collaboration Applications - From web based team calendars and issue tracking to social media collaborative apps like Wiki's, SharePoint is a great content management framework for creating content repositories.
- Designing Intranet Portal Landing Pages - For organizations with a variety of different web based tools are used by the business, SharePoint is good at enabling moderately technical user to create portal type pages that centralize important content.
- Personalization - The personalization feature of SharePoint is a powerful plus in a world where custom social media profiles dominate. Empowering end users to design landing pages that contain the content important to them is compelling. Think of Personalization in the same manner you would your custom MSN, Yahoo or Google Home Pages.
- User Experience - I have trained, provided technical support and deployed SharePoint environments since SharePoint Team Services 1.0. From then until the time of this writing, SharePoint's out-of-the-box user experience has tremendous room for improvement. As a long-time developer, it's clear SharePoint's user experience was designed by technical oriented designers, such as myself (clean lines and square boxes). In my opinion, SharePoint would benefit greatly from a total UX redesign with a goal of delivering an intuitive and pleasurable user experience. Positive user experiences translate directly into increased user adoption rates which translate directly into increased market share.
- Document storage - With the dramatic decrease in the cost of storage, SharePoint has an opportunity to improvement it's offering by leveraging existing corporate File Shares as document libraries as opposed to the current paradigm of storing all SharePoint content in SQL Server.
- Social Framework Integration - SharePoint is a best-of-breed Enterprise Content Management platform. However, as the nexus of forces (Social, Mobile, Cloud & Information) continues to converge, it will become increasingly important for content management platforms to intrinsically enable social framework integration. Third party tools offer capabilities in this space, but the total cost of ownership tends to grow as well.
- Single Version of the Truth - By far, the most significant impact is the ability to store and retrieve multiple content types using a common interface. When an executive needs the most recent version of a proposal for the board and there's only one place to get the content, it makes life so much simpler and productive.
- Official Document Repositories - Centralized document management
- Broadcast Workflow Management - Multi-phase, multi-approval broadcast management business process.
- Enterprise Application Portal - Central launching page for various applications
- Business Process Management
- Full team collaboration
- Implemented in-house
- SharePoint Service Account Configuration
- SharePoint Search Configuration
- Third Party SharePoint Warm Up
- Navigating Quick Link Menu Items
- Search
- Installation or Setup
- Service Account Management
- Exporting Documents