MS Sharepoint / SQL is a powerful tool for information sharing and collaboration but needs work to customize.
August 08, 2017
MS Sharepoint / SQL is a powerful tool for information sharing and collaboration but needs work to customize.
Score 7 out of 10
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Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with MS SharePoint / SQL
SharePoint is used by every department in our organization. We use it to store documents and create common places for wiki pages, documents, and custom lists to be edited. The rest of it is used as a central intranet for the organization to share information.
- Intranet. SharePoint makes a great intranet to share information from a central place.
- It's easy to easily start up new lists or wiki pages. End users can create new lists or wiki pages and add their information on the fly without having to engage the IT department.
- Search indexing. SharePoint makes a great platform for searching all documents or files in either SharePoint or your directory structure.
- Custom development with SharePoint is difficult. Development with visual studio for web parts is time-consuming and a black box to try to build with.
- Error reporting and diagnostics are hard to find and hard to decipher. It is difficult to know what went wrong when an error happens.
- Image handling is poor. The wiki could be an incredible documentation tool but because images are so difficult to upload and use, we only use it for text.
The only other alternatives to SharePoint we've tested would be regular website content management systems for external websites. These are great for storing information but do not have much in the way of interacting with the data.