SharePoint Review
October 07, 2019
SharePoint Review
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with MS SharePoint
MS SharePoint is used across our entire company as file storage and sharing. It's used on all devices and across multiple office locations.
- Storage.
- Sharing and rights access. Using it correctly, an organization can create a proper hierarchy of rights and access for folders. Also, sharing allows the ability to share access to files without the need to attach the actual file to an email. This helps when a document is later updated - you do not have to resend an email, as the document updates will be reflected to all shared users.
- Backup and security.
- Ease of use. Some things are just too complicated.
- Setting up rights and shared folders. The setup process is not clear and very difficult to control. It's very hard to see who has access to what and if there's an error or a user should or not being seeing a folder they may not have permissions for.
- Sharing and version control.
- We have moved to a complete cloud storage solution and removed all servers.
- Removed the cost of backups and risk.
We found that Google Docs was basically much more user-friendly that MS SharePoint, but was much more consumer-focused (which was a good thing from a usability point of view). However, its features were not robust enough for full business implementation. We all use Outlook and Exchange Calendars with heavy use of Excel. That's the primary reason for sticking with an MS solution.