Item: Microsoft SharePoint
Rating: 7
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft SharePoint

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Microsoft SharePoint as a tool for organizing sites for groups and for cross-functional collaboration. Additionally, we also use it to track things like OKRs and various information pipelines.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Permissions
Relative flexibility of editing pages
Semantic lists
File storage

Cons

Designing sites isn't that elegant
Not easy to change table columns
Can't duplicate semantic lists

Return on Investment

Increased collaboration
Increased transparency/visibility into files

Alternatives Considered

Notion

We already had a license to Microsoft so it made sense to use SharePoint

Key Insights

Do you think Microsoft SharePoint delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Microsoft SharePoint's feature set?

Yes

Did Microsoft SharePoint live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Microsoft SharePoint go as expected?

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy Microsoft SharePoint again?

It works well for creating a site for a team to organize itself around as well as for more like public-facing internal websites (intranet purposes). It is less well-suited for more complicated applications. Even designing websites, it's not the best at, so I wouldn't necessarily say it is my go-to for designing websites, but it at least has the bare minimum.

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SharePoint gets the job done for general collaboration