SharePoint for your organization
May 19, 2021

SharePoint for your organization

Harish Engolkar | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with MS SharePoint / SQL

SharePoint is basically a collaboration platform for teams to connect, collaborate and work by sharing data pertaining to their work/project. In my case, it is being used across the organization. In most cases, it is used by a group of people for team collaboration. Some of them are using it for storing data, some are using this platform to create applications for business applications. Like, for example, the HR team can use a SharePoint site to store details about the upcoming programs, recruitment, etc; a business team can use it for storing business proposals, meeting contents, souvenirs, etc. So it has multiple uses for hosting content and the supporting tools to make it a solution.
  • Collaboration
  • Security
  • Automation
  • User-friendly
  • Quick enablement platfrom
  • Search
  • Customization
  • Number of items limit
  • No direct integration to other systems
  • It is one central location for our confidential data when stored on-premises for our data privacy.
  • It is our repository for reference data, ...[large] in size with all search and retrieval mechanisms to reduce our data archival efforts.
  • It is a rapid development platform as well. When it is compared with .NET Framework, it is very fast to build and implement.
Box is a content storing portal where you can host and share documents/files to others. But it does not have [Sharepoint's] capabilities like... versions, automation, email approvals, etc. And Microsoft Exchange is a mailing database that can be used for exchanging data using emails, but SharePoint does much more than that in terms of single central level storing and sharing of data.

Do you think MS SharePoint / SQL delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with MS SharePoint / SQL's feature set?

Yes

Did MS SharePoint / SQL live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of MS SharePoint / SQL go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy MS SharePoint / SQL again?

Yes

Most of the time it is user-friendly, but if you want[ed] to customize it was difficult in the past. Now it is emerging and evolving. From the point of customization, I feel it needs more focus and hard work! Again from the integration view it does not have... [the best] connectivity but [it] needs proper guidance.
It's been fantastic in terms of Premier Support so far. If there is an issue and if you report if the product has an issue, they will act upon it immediately. In some cases, if you design/develop something using the platform, Microsoft appreciates it and... publishes it on their public website. But you have to wait for some time if it is a non-Premier Support issue as you may experience delays.
It can be used by human resources for managing onboarding and recruitment-related information. It can be used by project managers to maintain project-related information, invoices, contracts, etc. It can be used by a portal admin to store portal-specific data like images, videos, and other data. It can be used to create applications that can solve business [problems]. The only thing is it is a bit of a hassle when you try to connect it to other systems like SAP/Salesforce and other SQL subsystems. There is not much we can do with it.

MS SharePoint / SQL Feature Ratings

Pixel Perfect reports
5
Customizable dashboards
8
Report Formatting Templates
8
Drill-down analysis
8
Formatting capabilities
8
Integration with R or other statistical packages
8
Report sharing and collaboration
10
Publish to Web
8
Publish to PDF
8
Report Versioning
10
Report Delivery Scheduling
10
Delivery to Remote Servers
10
Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)
7
Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization
9
Predictive Analytics
9
Multi-User Support (named login)
10
Role-Based Security Model
10
Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)
10
Single Sign-On (SSO)
10
Responsive Design for Web Access
10
Mobile Application
10
Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile
10
REST API
10
Javascript API
10
iFrames
10
Java API
10
Themeable User Interface (UI)
10
Customizable Platform (Open Source)
10