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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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MY CANDID EXPERIENCE USING MICROSOFT SHAREPOINT
Comments: It's been effective so far. Although, the time we encountered an issue, the customer service rep was able to get it solved in due time.
Pros:
- Very easy to customize - It manages documents without error
Cons:
- It's a little bit expensive to set up. - It's also sometimes unresponsive when searching
Robust foundations
Comments: Very good and easy to use platform to develop many workflows, co-working spaces and to store documents
Pros:
A great platform for collaboration, presentation, intranet, automation / digitalization of business processes, which is basically "free" as part of the preset of the vast majority of companies using MS 365
Cons:
The simplicity of use and deployment has its price in not too much flexibility to customize the final look, which is simply ... standard
Daily team collaboration in a shared approach using Microsoft’s SharePoint
Comments: I have been using for 4+ years . This tool is very much a part of the daily routine at all the organisations I have worked for. Mostly I use it to track the progress of the tasks, the automation test cases written. I share my progress along with my team members, Product manager, technical manager. This helps in tracking my goals and tasks done. Overall a positive experience
Pros:
I really like the real time collaboration idea, Microsoft sharepoint introduces. We can actually share links of same document and collaborate. This helps in tracking team information may be related to tasks, leaves, etc. I also like the Single sign on it has, prevents me from logging in again and again. It is simple, easy to learn and very comprehensive
Cons:
The mobile experience of this platform has scope of improvement. The costing is slightly on the higher side. Customisation of the UI is limited, can be improved.
A good product for medium companies
Comments: its 7 out of 10, mainly because of the cost
Pros:
the integration with Microsoft and the Document management aggregated with workflow automations
Cons:
complex to learn and performance issues, that I faced already, due to the large volume of data
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SharePoint, does so much, but forgot a couple things.
Comments: It's just incredibly easy to use, but the drawbacks it has are silly and makes it feel like it's 90% baked.
Pros:
It's honestly currently the easiest way to share files on the Internet while having very strong customization options. The fact that I can share a file, prevent it's download and give an expiration timer in the same tool I use to host my data is huge.
Cons:
The over-reliance on SharePoint as a solution by Microsoft. Share files on teams? Thats SharePoint. Save to OneDrive? That's also SharePoint. Share a file link with a friend from excel or other Microsoft suite tools? Yep, SharePoint. There's also a severe lack of tools on power automate for SharePoint integration. Why can't I rename a file while moving it on SharePoint?
