Provides the most bang for your buck in terms of business or enterprise content management features!
March 28, 2017
Provides the most bang for your buck in terms of business or enterprise content management features!
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with MS SharePoint
We primarily used SharePoint (starting in 2012) as a file repository. Subsequently, we were able to leverage it as a business intelligence/analytics reporting tool. We likewise maximized the use of document lists and task lists by configuring these as dashboards and deliverables trackers. It addressed our need for real-time collaboration, document management, project knowledge-base and for project reporting.
Also as a KAIZEN initiative, we were able to reduce dependencies on Excel worksheets or macro-enabled worksheets and move these tasks into SharePoint also for faster and more efficient collaboration.
Also as a KAIZEN initiative, we were able to reduce dependencies on Excel worksheets or macro-enabled worksheets and move these tasks into SharePoint also for faster and more efficient collaboration.
- Ease of use - SharePoint is relatively much easier to use (whether end user, admin, or visitor) compared to other ECM products.
- Ease of administration and customization - SharePoint is relatively much easier to administrate and to configure/customize compared to other ECM products, like OpenText which is quite limiting when it comes to customizing or extending features.
- Scalable and flexible in terms of cloud-hosted infrastructure modeling.
- Well, for Sharepoint Online, the add-on features which are free tend to expire within a month or earlier. It would be great if these free add-on features would last longer or last permanently.
- It has saved hours of utilization in manually creating/updating the Excel reports and worksheets.
- It saved us money on costs related to maintenance of network shared folders/repositories.
- It saved hours of utilization in effort of reaching out to project peers, collaborators and stakeholders via the traditional communication models. The online collaboration model using SP tools and features helped make this virtual collaboration a reality.
Ease of use, ease of setup, ease of administration, ease of configuration, ease of customization... what's not to like? SharePoint's got exactly what you need. Just don't expect too many frills, bells, whistles in terms of UI, but even then, it gets the job done.