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SharePoint

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2,522 Reviews and Ratings

What is SharePoint?

Microsoft's SharePoint is an Intranet solution that enables users to share and manage content, knowledge, and applications to empower teamwork, quickly find information, and collaborate across the organization.

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SharePoint Reviews

What users are saying about SharePoint.
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Pros

  • Centralized document storage and sharing
  • Facilitates collaboration across projects and departments
  • Supports remote work and cross-departmental communication

Cons

  • Complicated and not intuitive to use for some users
  • Mixed sentiment towards integrated Microsoft and Google products
  • Potential challenges with user adoption due to complexity

Great tool to add to your Toolbox

Incentivized
Verified User
Manager (1001-5000 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use SharePoint as a "Home Screen" for internal staff. When you open your browser, it defaults to this screen. It is used to navigate most departmental functions and link you to your software that you need to use as well. This helps with making everything an employee may need centrally localized in one spot.

Pros

  • Building of the Site is Easy
  • Linking softwares/sites/procedures in one spot
  • easy navigation

Cons

  • Things can get lost in folders
  • Can be a little glitchy at times

Return on Investment

  • Positive impact on spreading of information
  • One database for all information

Other Software Used

FMX, Cityworks from Trimble

Store and share documents (plus more)

Incentivized
Christopher SawyerView profile
Web Developer in Information Technology at TCDRS (51-200 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it to organize, share, and distribute information. It is a good way to publish information to different departments so they can find general information about our team and what we do. It fulfills multiple needs as a landing page for team info, a wiki, and document storage while keeping it all fairly organized.

Pros

  • Document storage
  • Collaboration
  • Team sites for general info

Cons

  • Pages can be hard to hard
  • Permissions can be confusing
  • The Different types of sites can get confusing

Return on Investment

  • Better organization
  • Easier to share info
  • Easier to share documents

Alternatives Considered

Atlassian Confluence

Other Software Used

Microsoft Teams, Notepad++, OneNote

Sharepoint easy.

Incentivized
Kayla Jane McLaughlinView profile
DIRECTOR at ANCHORA GROUP LLC (11-50 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Easy access online so we can get our files anywhere.

Pros

  • Organizes files within the website.
  • Easy to copy links and paste into other locations.
  • Easy to access from Desktop or Browser.

Cons

  • Setting restrictions/permissions/access.
  • Logging in with 2FA is frustrating as it's required every time.
  • Syncing can take a minute.

Return on Investment

  • Included with existing products so we don't pay for dropbox.
  • Accessible from anywhere on internet.
  • No need for paper files.

Alternatives Considered

Dropbox

Other Software Used

Google Drive, Google Calendar, Google Ads

Definitely Fit for Purpose.

Incentivized
Verified User
Manager in Quality Assurance (51-200 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use this as our Intranet. All documents are stored in Sharepoint so that everyone has access to it. And since it is in the cloud, it is accessible at any time. We can also easily ensure a particular document, folder or library can have restricted access. The use of metadata is also useful when filtering or searching for a particular document. The fact that multiple users can edit and collaborate on the document at the same time is also really useful. It also keeps previous version(s) which can be rolled back at any time.

Pros

  • Easy collaboration.
  • Able to specify specific access.
  • Notifications from workflows.
  • Metadata

Cons

  • It is not easy to identify "archived" documents. When searching for documents, all documents show. The only way to do this is to put "archive" in the document name before setting the metadata to "archived" (eg [ARCHIVED] Document Name).

Return on Investment

  • SharePoint has delivered measurable ROI at our organisation through improved compliance, reduced manual effort, and better collaboration.

Other Software Used

KnowBe4 Security Awareness Training, Aircall, HubSpot CRM

Great online file storage management and collaboration product

Incentivized
Verified User
Program Manager in Manufacturing (1001-5000 employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Microsoft SharePoint is used for storing files of all types and collaborating with users . The list functionality in Microsoft SharePoint is utilized for a more standardized storage of tabular data .Also Microsoft SharePoint allows integration into teams which is useful for easy access within teams

Pros

  • Allows integration into Teams the entire Microsoft SharePoint site can be viewed in teams
  • Easy collaboration with team by sharing links to files
  • The site access can be restricted to only selected users and also modified for read-only /edit type of access as per use case

Cons

  • The teams integration has some glitches at times .The Microsoft SharePoint site doesn't load into teams and teams needs to be restarted to view the site

Return on Investment

  • Users have a more organised way of storing files and keep it access controlled to only their relevant team

Other Software Used

Snowflake, Microsoft SQL Server

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