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Rating: 8.5 out of 10
Score
8.5 out of 10

Reviews

86 Reviews

Excellent to implement solutions quickly

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

How we use: In different line of businesses with CBRE, we use MS SharePoint / SQL as a central repository to hold datafiles, or structured data in the form of MS SharePoint / SQL Lists. Business problem: Datafiles collaboration among users, Low code No Code Automation usecases developement. Scope of use cases: Most of the time they are financial processes.

Pros

  • Scalable: I like MS SharePoint / SQL as it comes with builtin scalability when concurrent users are reading or writing even a single file
  • Quick app development: Using MS SharePoint / SQL lists we can quickly spin up a web applications for general purpose specifically the ones that require users to collaborate
  • Integration: We have well documented API that provide us a way to quickly integrate them with any applications

Cons

  • Missing functionality: We dont any native options to deal with big data
  • Limited scope for customisation: We have very limited scope to customise the MS SharePoint / SQL as a whole, and that too requires you to be a full fledged developer
  • User exprience: There is a lot of room for ui/ux, such as there is no full list search option

Likelihood to Recommend

Well Suited: 1. if you already have the team of developers with the background of UIUX and server side, then adding MS SharePoint / SQL to your text type would be a great choice. 2. if the use cases you have do not require ACID Compliance 3. if the use cases that you have Do not do anything with big data. Less Suited: Vice versa of above mentioned points

SharePoint is a good tool!

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

we use it for internal comminucation tool on to store data such as pdf's, excel and other documents for user access as we have good amount of people who relies on this platform.

Pros

  • document sharing
  • easy to use templates for quick and easy documentation
  • can embed external links for information sharing
  • adaptive to a lot of other technology integration

Cons

  • missing tenant wide visibility in single pane
  • more advanced tools are missing

Likelihood to Recommend

suited for storing high volumes of data easily and seemlessly

has nosql capablities for other application support

centralized hub for sharing comapny wide news

Easy to configure and use

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

we use it for our document repository and internal corporate website. it helps to organise the data and is easy to setup

Pros

  • easy to configure
  • easy to use

Cons

  • cheaper licenses

Likelihood to Recommend

it is well suited for internal corporate website and internal document repository use

Vetted Review

It works and affordable but I would consider other options

Rating: 4 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use SharePoint Online. We use it primarily as a file storage system. We migrated our network shares located on-prem to SharePoint Online, so therefore, that is why we use SharePoint Online primarily as a file storage system. Also, we use OneDrive, which relies on SharePoint in the backend.

SharePoint Online gave us more storage space and was cheaper than expanding on-prem storage.

Pros

  • Easy to share with people internally
  • Easy to share with people externally
  • Integrates with Microsoft Teams
  • Allows end users to determine permissions to files instead of being centralized in IT

Cons

  • Hard to understand security controls sometimes
  • Hard to onboard and train end users
  • Not as easy to use files with existing applications as compared to having on-prem file shares

Likelihood to Recommend

If you have legacy applications or applications that are not created within the last decade, SharePoint Online may not be an appropriate solution. If you primarily use modern applications or SaaS products, then SharePoint Online could be an appropriate solution. If you use other Microsoft solutions already, then SharePoint Online can be an appropriate solution.

MS Sharepoint

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Sharepoint as the ‘shell’ for the frontend of our software, so we can use some functionalities of SharePoint which means we don’t have to provide these ourselves (authentication, tasks, sometimes storing documents) We use SQL for everything related to data.

Pros

  • Quickly useable frontend with functionalities
  • Easy ad authentication
  • Basic DMS functionalities

Cons

  • Learning curve, can be time consuming
  • Sharepoint expertise is becoming rarer
  • CMS is basic

Likelihood to Recommend

It really depends on the use case. As a CMS to provide an external website: not so much, there are better alternatives. for an internal site or intranet, it does this well. it can become costly quickly especially with a farm, i recommend researching which functionalities can be used and then see if this justifies the cost (SharePoint but also sql, the needed infra for a decent farm)

Vetted Review
MS SharePoint / SQL
15 years of experience

MS SharePoint for Ease of Use, Reliability and Efficiency

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We utilize MS SharePoint in many ways across our organization. The main items we use it for are communication, training/onboarding and file retrieval from on premise network shares. Having everything available within MS SharePoint, regardless where it's stored at, is quite efficient in our case. We also use it to house conference room reservations, surveys and many other utilities that employees can interact with.

Pros

  • organization
  • ease of use
  • efficiency

Cons

  • permissions/user groups/sharing
  • documentation
  • search

Likelihood to Recommend

Document Library - great Search - no so great (although with the new MS Graph connectors it's much better)

Vetted Review
MS SharePoint / SQL
12 years of experience

We LOVE MS SharePoint!!

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I work in the construction industry and MS SharePoint is very easy to access. Anyone from our employees in the field, to employees in the office can view, edit, create and share multiple types of documents to ease our coordination. It makes it very easy to send large files via links.

Pros

  • File share.
  • Coordination.
  • Easy communication outlet.

Cons

  • Difficult user face for people lacking technological skills.
  • One click share links.
  • Excel is very laggy.

Likelihood to Recommend

We love SharePoint here, where I work. We use it for every aspect of construction documentation and contracts. It is very easy to share large files with a few mouse clicks. I feel SharePoint is very beneficial in a business setting because it allows sharing, storing, and organizing documents in and out of the network.

Vetted Review
MS SharePoint / SQL
4 years of experience

MS SharePoint is one of the best purchases we had.

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are currently using MS Sharepoint in our organization. We use SharePoint for ShareDrive to store multiple files, such as company documents, technical procedure documents, employee performance evaluations, company reports, etc. It helps us quickly access files and manage permissions for files or folders. The best part is we can create a link that can be shared with any person in our organization, and the file will be accessible via the link. We can access SharePoint folders via the MS Teams app instead of opening it on the browser.

Pros

  • We track employees' performance sheets, which are accessible to the employee, his manager, and HR, and this helps with transparency.
  • We maintain technical process documents and SOPs, which help us quickly provide relevant documents during audits.
  • We maintain incident documents change request forms in SharePoint, which helps us in tracking the changes.

Cons

  • Share link should have more features like link should be valid only for 30 mins or 1 day.
  • UI should be more user friendly specially in sites module.
  • Teams integration should have been better.

Likelihood to Recommend

As I mentioned in my previous answers, MS SharePoint is very useful as a shared drive for the organization and is very easy to manage. It also helps us import data from SharePoint directly into PowerBI for creating reports. According to my understanding, only share link features should be improved.

Vetted Review
MS SharePoint / SQL
6 years of experience

MS SharePoint / SQL

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use the MS SharePoint / SQL to maintain Organization related information. Using this product, we are able to easily share the file information with our stakeholders within our organization and also collaborate with them on developing the material

Pros

  • Easy to share files maintained on MS SharePoint / SQL
  • Ease of collaboration using this tool
  • Different access levels to share the files with stakeholders
  • Versioning the files

Cons

  • Sometimes, even after sharing the file,there are access issues

Likelihood to Recommend

Its useful in cases of storing and maintaining Organization related information , sharing and real -time collaboration on this information. Stored information can be versioned and also shared selectively based on the different access levels- like read-only, edit, etc.,

Vetted Review
MS SharePoint / SQL
4 years of experience

Reliable product to help build reliable solutions

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use MS Sharepoint to store and exchange documents between our Canadian office and our European office. We use SQL Server Entreprise for our intranet development needs. We have an intranet system that covers most of all of our business processes. The extranet has been developed in C# and all of our data is stored in our SQL Server Enterprise database.

Pros

  • Share document
  • Store data
  • Give access to data quickly
  • Easy to program with
  • Reliable

Cons

  • Improve CMS functionnality for Sharepoint Sites to exchange information on projects
  • Lower licence cost of SQL Server
  • Make if more transparent to upgrade from version to version

Likelihood to Recommend

Really great to exchange information and documents inside the organisation. Not so great to exchange outside the organisation with all the fake and untrusted requests out there. SQL server is really reliable and great for in house development. It integrate perfectly with the Visual Studio suite and is a very powerful database. The cost for the enterprise license is very high. Yes it's a quality product but very expensive.

Vetted Review
MS SharePoint / SQL
20 years of experience