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Microsoft SharePoint
What Is Microsoft SharePoint?
Content management solution that helps businesses with desktop sharing and viewing, text annotations, instant messaging, and whiteboard editing.
Who Uses Microsoft SharePoint?
Knowledge management application that keeps work moving forward by providing quick access to team sites, organization portals and resources and the team members for all types of companies.
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Microsoft SharePoint Reviews for Indian Users
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Comments: SharePoint is a powerful collaboration platform which helps out teams to work together more efficiently. It is available as an on-premised solution and as a cloud-based service through Microsoft 365 which is very effective for our site teams.
Pros:
SharePoint allows us to store, organize, and share documents securely. Version control allows to track changes and revert to previous versions if needed. Team sires for different departments provides a centralized space for collaboration.
Cons:
SharePoint is difficult to navigate sometimes for new users. Extensive customization leads to errors and maintenance challenges. Manual content organization needs to performed often which can be time consuming and prone to errors.
Microsoft SharePoint helps get and keep you organized.
Comments: We switched from Google Docs to Microsoft SharePoint and haven't looked back. It is has been a much better choice for our company. It feels more seamless and organized.
Pros:
I like that Microsoft SharePoint allows the company to view, share and edit documents.
Cons:
I find that most of the things that were difficult for us in Microsoft SharePoint is user error more than the product itself.
Works well for the right environment
Comments: I know some larger companies rely heavily on Sharepoint, but they can afford to have high-level IT programmers and developers to manage a Sharepoint farm. Our migration from 2007-2010 cost us 5 years ago and in spite of getting some hands-on guidance to redesign some of the data entry forms/types to suit our needs, I wasn't able to pick this application up and run with it like I can with others. Infopath was supposed to help w/the forms, but then I saw MS was dropping it in more recent editions. We got Sharepoint as part of our O365 upgrade, but in trying to set it up as just a collaboration repository/staff intranet site, I realized I was going to have to make a significant investment of time and found support from our O365 provider and our IT managed services provider VERY lacking. We already moved on to another application for managing work orders and projects, so I think there's a much simpler "Intranet" tool out there that will be much easier, cost-effective, and flexible for us to manage for the limited needs we have for it now.
Pros:
Part of the Office platform and integrates with other MS apps. Offers somewhat simple setup to build a collaborative space.
Cons:
Requires a specialized and expensive vendor to truly manage and ensure security of the environment. We used it for work orders between departments, but alerting was not ideal -- duplicate alerts triggered by setting alerts to fire under different circumstances. We've used SP since about 2007 and I've built lists and integrated it with a database and a couple of 3rd party applications built to work with it. I'm pretty much self-taught in all network and user applications (Windows server/AD, Exchange, and MS power user), but I struggled with trying to set up custom forms and found some of the lists inflexible. For example, my HR "portal" had to be set up as separate lists based on what Sharepoint would allow -- one that allowed me to upload documents, another to manage URL/links to external sites.
Working experience of 4+ years on microsoft sharepoint
Comments: I have been using this in all the organisations I have been. This is for collaboration mostly as we have to track the work we are actually doing, what percentage is completed, in progress and in ToDo state. Also we have a role based hierarchy that is defined which is also helpful for us, we create groups and collaborate on the work
Pros:
Its real time synchronous behaviour among multiple users accessing the file at a time. Also the encryption is another important factor for this tool
Cons:
Initial setup is complex for somebody who is naive. Its maintenance requires professionals, slightly costly you can say
A Great Collaboration Tool!
Comments: I think Microsoft Sharepoint is a a great collaborative tool for teams to use in our organization and I have found it to great way to upload photos, forms, and documents to share with colleagues. I also like that you can store documents, excel sheets, and powerpoint presentations and edit in real time.
Pros:
I like that Microsoft Sharepoint is easy to navigate, and it's easy to create folders and new file destinations. I also like how you can move files and upload them easily, and generate links to share inside and outside of your organization. With our organization being almost completely remote, Sharepoint makes collaboration easy with all of its collaboration tools.
Cons:
I don't like that sometimes Sharepoint can experience unexpected outages, and Sharepoint forms can be clunky and slow to load.
