Item: Microsoft SharePoint
Rating: 8
Author: Michael Haberkern

Overall Satisfaction with MS SharePoint / SQL

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

MS SharePoint was the cornerstone of the business' collaboration. It was used and browsed daily by hundreds of employees, searching anything from new employees, to employee of the month, from days-off calendar to weekly-meetings. This thing was used and used well. Our business had such a demand that we had a dedicated SharePoint Engineer to develop workflows for processing documents and spreadsheets, etc...

Pros and Cons

Pros

Workflows
As a team collaboration tool
As a documentation datastore
A repository of knowledge, like a wiki page

Cons

It can get extremely complex, outside the knowledge of a system admin
Will eventually take a dedicated backend engineer
Can sometimes need too much work

Alternatives Considered

PostgreSQL

MS SharePoint / SQL stack is better suited for enterprise solutions when there is money for licensing costs. The costs can get expensive, especially when dealing with clustering, but since they offer support, that can pay for itself if something catastrophic happens. Whereas with open source, you're kind of at the mercy of googling skills.

Other Software Used

Juniper Ethernet Switches, Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Firewalls - PA Series, Aruba Networks Wireless

Likelihood to Recommend

MS SharePoint works well when a business wants to get rid of their antiquated intranet and upgrade to a robust experience like SharePoint. With so many workflows and options, it can get extremely complex, so be weary that once all the departments know of this product, they are going to want to have it for their department collaboration and workflow service

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MS SharePoint / SQL ... Too much of a good thing?