MS SharePoint, A robust and user friendly product
May 20, 2021
MS SharePoint, A robust and user friendly product

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with MS SharePoint
We use MS SharePoint in a variety of ways. First, it is an excellent shared file depository. You can collaborate with people across campus by placing the file in SharePoint and allowing the people on the team on which you are working access. Thanks to the capabilities of office you can all edit the document in a single place and don't have to worry about people downloading their own copies and different revisions developing. We also use this feature as a sort of wiki to show changes over time. I also use the calendar feature quite a bit. It is helpful for tracking past events and planning those in the future. The color coding features are nice so you can run parallel calendars over top of one another. The last feature I like is setting up a landing page or home page that you can use to keep people that maybe don't use the SharePoint site as regularly up to date on the project or area that you have developed.
- The calendar features are quite robust.
- Document storage is a breeze.
- Live document editing is simple.
- Organizing information and creating a structure is done in a way even novice users can manage with little assistance.
- It does take some work to get your setup to be as graphical as modern design tends to be.
- Overlapping calendars are great but they do take some time investment to create.
- Depending on how many project or teams you work with it can get a little overwhelming to have so many different groupings.
- It is certainly a time saver.
- You can likely stop paying for other tools if you are willing to move to the SharePoint platform.
- If you are considering a remote office it will help support dispersed users.
I think that MS SharePoint is a more robust and well integrated tool than other products. Because it lives in the Microsoft universe it likely integrates to the other software products you already have very easily. Most users will not have trouble adopting it as the UI is familar.
Do you think Microsoft SharePoint delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Microsoft SharePoint's feature set?
Yes
Did Microsoft SharePoint live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of Microsoft SharePoint go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Microsoft SharePoint again?
Yes
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