Just doesn't live up to its potential.
August 16, 2017
Just doesn't live up to its potential.
Score 4 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with MS SharePoint
It is used primarily as an online document share, where users can view and edit documents collaboratively, both external and internal users. It solves allowing users to share spreadsheets and word documents and edit them collaboratively.
- It has very strong Microsoft Office integration
- It has a good document locking system (checkin/checkout)
- It keeps a revision of all changes to allow rollback.
- The rights management system is broken without a deny functionality. What ends up happening is that rights inheritance can be broken by anyone at any time simply by sharing a document, with no indication that they are doing it.
- The single hierarchy is simply unnecessary. It is a holdover from file systems. There is no reason why a document couldn't exist in two folders with two different rights structures at the same time, allowing cross department and cross concern categorization of documents.
I've looked at clones and alternatives. The Microsoft office integration is what makes Sharepoint stand out.