SharePoint Reviews

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I have used SharePoint for 10 years.

We did not have stability issues.

We did not have scalability issues.

Technical support rates a 3.5/5.

We did not have a previous solution.

Setup was complex. As an IT techie, it is setting up a farm that includes five servers.

It is a good solution for the enterprise level.

• Ability to be used from a .NET programming environment

We were able to introduce a CMS, which had never been implemented before.

For sure, it should offer customisation of data grids, which is not possible, as it seems to use some proprietary OCX control.

I have used it for three years.

I have not encountered that many stability issues.

I have not encountered any scalability issues so far.

I did not previously use a different solution.

As with any other product, initial setup is a bit complex to understand how/what is happening, but with a good background and understanding, how it works it is very easy.

For simple solutions, I recommend this solution. But going large scale, you might consider going with an open-source solution.

Before choosing this product, I did not evaluate other options.

Look at alternatives, and understand your goals and possible future implementations.

Alerts and co-authoring

So far our HR department has seen the benefits in terms of having a central calendar where everybody in the department can be updated regarding meetings and appointments, creating discussion forums regarding important topics affecting the agency or the department. Having a central repository for documents (rather than at different locations creating storage issues)

Co-authoring needs to be real time.

2 months

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Customer Service: okTechnical Support: ok

In-house

I would recommend it. Good software to help:

• Centralized management and editing of documents
• Team brainstorming and exchange through discussion forums
• Synchronization and centralization of appointments and meetings
• The provision of one portal or web site to access documents, calendars, forums etc.

We are a middle-sized company with around 200 users. 

We use SharePoint for some basic business processes: CRM, ECM, etc. Our maturity reached a certain level and it allowed for some further improvement.

Company portal was finally set up. The CRM system for the commercial department went into production and opened the door for further improvements, KPIs, and metrics.

• Its functionality is enormous. 
• It looks nice. 
• It has good integration with other MS products. 
• It is well supported by Microsoft.

It is too heavy. MS should not have paid foreign coders dollars per each row of code. They wasted the stability and reliability in the end.

Still implementing.

Our primary use of SharePoint is document management and collaboration from our team. It is very important for us.

We can arrange all our documents on one platform and see the document's changes and edits. We can arrange all the document archives.

Office 365 integration is most valuable thing in SharePoint. It is so much easier to create documents. 

Using SharePoint is difficult. It will fully use your system resources. 

Less than one year.

It is very expensive.

Compared to other products, SharePoint is not only a content manager, but a wider product, like enterprise content management. You can use multiple components in SharePoint. Moreover, SharePoint is already moving to cloud, if you are using SharePoint online, which is cloud-based technology, it is more accessible. 

• Data classification
• Search

These two elements are cheap.

We would like more security features, like automating. 

More than five years.

There are some limitations on storage. 

The product and technical support teams are really good.

The initial setup is straightforward.

The replacement costs for it are cheaper if you use only SharePoint.

Small process tracking for in-house requirements investigations, which are shared across several departments.

• Combined reports and data with timeline tracking.
• Better than looking into three systems to find the full picture.

• Metadata store
• Cascade dropdowns for selection of data sets.  

• Links to Outlook and native storage of emails. 
• Emails stored now do not display metadata in native format.
• No good process to import emails from several users into a single comprehensive SP repository.
• The linkages to external record stores could be beefed up.

One to three years.

The features which are most valuable to us are its powerful search, edit in browser, social features.

It’s a single entry point to all internal systems with integrated security: no password management issues as with disparate products. All functionality is available from anywhere in the world with a web browser, so everyone is always connected.

I have been using the solution for 2 years.

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Customer Service: Customer service is very good.Technical Support: Technical support is very good.

Straightforward but user profiles take some time to set up.

We implemented in-house.

Being able to drop all the cloud service subscriptions saves a lot: the amount depends on how many of those services can be replaced.

If you’re on corporate Active Directory then there are no real competitors.

Read the planning documentation: running the installer without planning has some disadvantages for auditing, for example.