Item: Microsoft SharePoint
Rating: 4
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with MS SharePoint

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use SharePoint as our company intranet page, it offers up typical intranet data but primarily is used as a vehicle to share information between our internal departments as well as our sister companies.

Pros and Cons

Pros

It allows us to display dynamic data to our internal staff.
Responsibility for maintenance of data and pages can be delegated to members of the company outside of our IT department.
We are a Microsoft only shop, and its integration with our other internal applications was unmatched.

Cons

It is a beast to maintain, it is definitely suited more for a medium to large organization with the ability to dedicate an employee to its maintenance.
It's a resource hog. We're running a dual server setup, and no matter how much hardware we throw at it, it's never been snappy (as I said above, a dedicated admin could probably fix this).
The major changes between versions, while normally welcome are not well documented and make for a couple of uncomfortable months during an upgrade.

Return on Investment

Our intranet page is much more fluid and stays up to date.
We're spending more time then we ever have maintaining our intranet, the time sink is huge, but it's being utilized much more then it ever was before.
It's allowed us a clear vehicle for passing information between our separate companies, reducing our reliance on email.

Other Software Used

Asana, Toggl

Likelihood to Recommend

For medium to large organizations with the man hours to dedicate to it, SharePoint can be a fantastic solution. For smaller departments, it's a beast to maintain and unless specific feature sets offered by SharePoint are required, I'd suggest looking at some of the newer collaboration solutions on the market.

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Sharepoint, fantastic product!!! (as long as someone else is the Administrator)