Item: MS SharePoint / SQL
Rating: 8
Author: Ben Williams

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use SharePoint to share install walkthroughs, configuration files, PMR's, PDR'S, and lots of other department specific files. We use SharePoint to ensure that our team always has the relevant information that they need to do their job, no matter where they are. We use SQL specifically as a reporting tool on the back of our Datacap tool. The error handling, monitoring, and data extracted all gets output to the data tables.

Pros and Cons

Allow users to access documents no matter where they are.
It's secure.
It is end-user friendly. Our team members can use it quickly and efficiently.
It is efficient in managing large amounts of data.
Allows us to monitor and track data from our OCR tool.

It can be a little difficult to get it set up. There are very few walkthroughs in it on how to set up.
The search functionality needs improvement. It's currently nonexistent.
It's difficult to lock down files to ensure that users who can access them don't delete them.

Likelihood to Recommend

It is useful to store and keep track of all our documents that we need access to throughout the day. This means users can access key files, review them, and amend them without concern. And we can access this without using drive space, which is at a premium within the business. The SQL allows us to track and monitor the data that our OCR applications regularly output, which is large amounts of data. It is less appropriate with smaller data samples, when access might suit better.

I'm not sure how we lived without it!

Overall Satisfaction with MS SharePoint / SQL

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Pros and Cons

Likelihood to Recommend

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