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MS SharePoint - A Perspective from a Staff Accountant User
September 19, 2019

MS SharePoint - A Perspective from a Staff Accountant User

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Score 1 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with MS SharePoint

Ms SharePoint was used across the organization for submitting purchase orders. It was trying to address the problem of tracking down "paper" purchase orders. Often times, purchase orders would be held up on people's desks for signatures, of whom had gone on vacation or maybe they were out of the office unexpectedly. Also I believe it was trying to solve the problem of printer paper expense. The cost savings of having electronic purchase orders instead of paper purchase orders were attractive.
  • Shows the signature status on a summary page at a bird's eye view - this really helps everyone know who signed it and when at a glance
  • The user interface is awful and could use a LOT of improvement. What I mean is the whole functionality is not basically intuitive. So many places that you click look the same and it gets confusing. For example, you go to the home page and you can't easily identify where is the page I go to to upload my documents for routing? It could be much more simpler like having a button on the right or left side pane that says "create a packet for routing".
  • I would say the positive for something as purchase orders would be positive. Atleast we had cost-savings from not having to use paper.
I didn't choose to buy the MS SharePoint for my agency; it was forced. I also do not know other options that exist.
I greatly disliked the MS SharePoint so I cannot recommend any scenarios it would be well suited. It felt like using an archaic computer system. Improve the layout to be more intuitive and user friendly. Also add some security measures so that the users have the option to limit user access. This latter point was an especially pain to our agency. It is a big reason why for other smaller projects where open sharing on MS SharePoint was considered, it was denied because we wanted to have the project limited to our group and MS SharePoint did not offer security measures.

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