MS SharePoint Review
October 05, 2019
MS SharePoint Review
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with MS SharePoint
We are using SharePoint primarily for document library sharing and we have a few workflow processes in place that help with document review and processing. It allows us to have a single source for shared documents, calendar and scheduling of tasks. We are still in the process of migrating our internal file shares to SharePoint, so we don't have full adoption yet.
- Document libraries is one feature we use most. It allow us to easily organize our files into subs and secure and share them as needed.
- Work flows are very useful as well. We have a process for Capital Expense Requests (CER) that go through a series of approvals before finally hitting the CFO for final approval. This is very valuable as it tracks the process and allows us to report on it as well as see progress.
- OneDrive. We use the file sharing feature which allows you to sync files through OneDrive and easily access those files via OneDrive versus going to a browser and navigating to the share.
- As an admin, I find the navigation for managing some area's of the site a bit more complicated that it needs to be.
- Permissions can be done in two ways, by way of SharePoint or integrated with Active Directory. We use this latter and one issue is granular permissions and identifying groups that have access down to the file level. Basically, if there was a way to report on permissions for a hierarchical perspective down to file level for a particular sub it would be helpful.
- We use SharePoint online and my biggest complaint about that, is the amount of service issues that occur on the hosted service. While I appreciated the constant development and improvements that are being made in the environment, impacting the paying end user as a result is hard to swallow.
- We are still determining the impact as we have not fully implemented. But having the document libraries in the cloud allow for broader access to those files than we had with traditional file sharing over VPN.
- Server degradation is an issue with hosted services.
- Work flows are so helpful and a process improvement over email work flows.
- Chatter
Chatter is very limited in comparison to SharePoint. There are so many more features and options available in SharePoint. File sharing for one is so much easier and very integrated into our daily work. Integration with Outlook and other services via APIs and the ability to customize and build your own apps into SharePoint isn't something I know is available tin Chatter.