Maturing solutions for team work
March 01, 2018

Maturing solutions for team work

Viktor Mulac | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with MS SharePoint / SQL

We use MS Sharepoint as a a team collaboration tool, one of the main tools for document sharing within the teams by proposal preparation in international teams, by sharing information and project deliverables with the customers. Also the scheduling and planning functions are very helpful. MS Sharepoint is not the only collaboration and not the best, nevertheless we use it quite frequently, and it is geeting better over time.

Pros

  • Very good content management tool
  • Support for team collaboration
  • It is easy to search for information on the whole sharepoint space
  • Good responsiveness

Cons

  • Workflow support seems complicated to configure
  • Sometimes the system does not allow to edit files in the local MS Office application for no obvious reason
  • Minor issues: Calender displays limited information, by longer entries, it is necessary to click event by event to find the details. A switch for short / full view would be helpful.
  • Handling the files requires sometimes to go one by one, group functions are not available (moving, deleting, compressing and downloading the whole directory or selected files)
  • Google documents
The MS Sharepoint offers a more robust toolset for document storing and searching, using the file metadata. Also, it provides a support for workflow process, it can trigger action when a documents is added, changed etc. Sharepoint seems also better in versioning the documents. It integrates very well with Office and MS mail solutions

Google documents is easy to setup and seems quicker when used. By editing the files by more users in the browser, it provides a better overview of who is doing what, within the documents. It seems also more reliable, on the same internet connection. The Google documetns deployments is also way quicker than MS.
Well suited scenarios:
- use anywhere where there are users with limited IT knowledge, the way for sharing and editing documents is easy to explain
- use anywhere when a realitme access required and the users use heterogeneous devices / formats (PC, MAC, iOS and Android connected via Sharepoint server)

Less appropriate use cases:
- MS SHP / SQL is tricky to configure access rights in a complex organizational environment
- not good for time critical tasks, as an internet based tool its usability depends on connection quality

MS SharePoint / SQL Feature Ratings

BI Platform ()
Not Rated
Supported Data Sources ()
Not Rated
5.0
Pixel Perfect reports
5
Customizable dashboards
Not Rated
Report Formatting Templates
Not Rated
5.0
Drill-down analysis
Not Rated
Formatting capabilities
7
Integration with R or other statistical packages
1
Report sharing and collaboration
7
6.8
Publish to Web
9
Publish to PDF
1
Report Versioning
9
Report Delivery Scheduling
Not Rated
Delivery to Remote Servers
8
Not Rated
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
Not Rated
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
Not Rated
Predictive Analytics
Not Rated
10.0
Multi-User Support (named login)
10
Role-Based Security Model
10
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
10
Single Sign-On (SSO)
10
9.0
Responsive Design for Web Access
10
Mobile Application
8
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
Not Rated
10.0
REST API
10
Javascript API
10
iFrames
Not Rated
Java API
10
Themeable User Interface (UI)
Not Rated
Customizable Platform (Open Source)
Not Rated

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