Setting Up a Sharepoint Site to Review Documents
What are Microsoft SharePoint users saying about the software?
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"I like the ability to exist to access shared documents and edit them with ease. The learning curve is tuff, merely well worth the effort."
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"The simplicity and ease of access makes SharePoint a bright tool to collaborate from anywhere around the earth."
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"SharePoint is good for storage, has some benefits for collaboration, and even some benefits for sharing files."
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"The problem's solutions are commonly on the cyberspace. But it can not exist detected problems led to the crisis in the company."
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"Flaws: Very irksome response time, lags, ofttimes freezes. The site is downward about one time a month which is very frustrating."
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"Information technology'due south non at all intuitive and users accept too many options to create their own organization. This just ends up in a mess that is difficult to manage or takes a lot of effort to do so."
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Visitor size: ten,001+ employees
Fourth dimension used: More than 2 years
Syed Amir
Verified reviewer
Company size: 10,000+ employees
Manufacture: It and Services
Fourth dimension used: More than two years
It has been fabulous. I use it virtually on a daily basis and use it to store multiple data, be information technology files or lists in full general.
Ease of creating listing (tables) and create access controlled records with multiple views
When there are records more than 5000 in one view, it creates problem.
Information technology is completely online and ease of use is superb
Nick
Verified reviewer
Company size: 201-500 employees
Manufacture: Industrial Automation
Time used: More than 2 years
Being able to share and collaborate with anyone internally to our visitor plus the ability to send files outside of the organization is extremely useful.
Share functions tin can be a bit cumbersome, especially when sending outside of the arrangement and old security settings cake common sense capabilities
Moving to the Microsoft world information technology just fabricated sense to likewise migrate to Sharepoint
Company size: 501-1,000 employees
Manufacture: Homo Resources
Time used: Less than ii years
Amazing. Very glad we choose this as it is amazing in every point.
Like shooting fish in a barrel to employ and easy to operate. Nosotros all bask it.
Nothing it piece of work as expected and makes work menses so much easier.
The reviews was amazing and we searched and our enquiry was a go
Reviews were better and they met our standards and needs.
Andrea
Verified reviewer
Company size: 5,001-ten,000 employees
Manufacture: Telecommunications
Time used: More than than two years
Sharepoint has allowed me to be more efficient in different ways, with many of its functionalities, I generally promise that ane of them will permit me to make a process more collaborative, controlled and at the same time automated. Currently the unabridged organization has access to use the software, in the same manner the introduction and migration to Sharepoint from local servers has been gradual, by and large due to people'southward resistance to something new and unknown. In my department specifically, has been a greater acceptance, integration and discovery by abiding learning past some team members who are non exploiting all the advantages of the software yet.
Permission management: This is super relevant and wonderful for controlling what your audience can meet and do, for example, when you demand someone to constantly see changes to a "living document" simply not have the ability to intervene in the process. Contact groups: I discover it super good since not necessarily the site administrators are the only ones who tin can manage the group, you can make any member of the group can manage the rest of the members without this being involved in other site settings . Besides when granting permissions, distributing documents, announcements, tasks, it is very piece of cake to do it by grouping of contacts than one by one. Version history: We know that we are exposed to errors and accidents, so having the previous versions of a document, being able to meet who has modified and having the possibility of restoring whatsoever of those versions can save the day. I always experience that I am protected and that is why I always promote working in the deject.
Please provide some detailed examples of areas where MS SharePoint has room for comeback. These could be features that are difficult to apply, missing functionality, or merely things that you'd like to encounter done differently. Modernistic view / archetype view: I really capeesh the minimalist alter that has been made with many of the menus in the latest versions of sharepoint, but most of the time it complicates me and generates many more clicks (much more fourth dimension) wanting to exercise i This action can exist done by changing to the archetype view from the ribbon, for example, managing permissions for a site, existence able to manage sharepoint groups. A little more advanced configurations, without becoming complex that depend a lot on the Information technology department. Descriptions of some options or settings can become disruptive, complicated and you simply are non able to know if information technology is what yous are looking for or non, the language to the user is sometimes understood only through trial and error.
Onedrive focuses mainly on being a repository in the deject, but where the administrator of this data is usually the person who owns the site or the business relationship where the information is stored. Dissimilar Sharepoint that allows generating groups of administrators, users and owners who can manage the documents, permissions, visualization and customization of this repository in the cloud. In addition Sharepoint is more than a repository, it allows you to customize sites co-ordinate to the specific use that you want to requite it, additionally information technology allows you to generate and assign tasks, create workflows that can be connected to other external applications. Without a doubt, Onedrive is a modest and limited role of everything that Sharepoint tin can offer.
Company size: 201-500 employees
Industry: Regime Administration
Time used: More two years
For what we pay for Part 365, it makes sense to use Sharepoint equally the cost is included with our licensing. However, I highly recommend grooming before using Sharepoint as it tin exist a bit catchy and can be problematic if you lot accept a lot of users non knowing what they are doing. Like the Version Limits, it's great that every time whatever alter is fabricated to a document, information technology gets saved. However, when it hits it version limit, learning the procedure of publishing a Major Version takes some practice to get used to.
Information technology integrates well with other software and set upward is adequately easy.
Can exist a flake clunky and the search office is about useless.
Included in the price of our licensing, so no outside toll.
Company size: two-ten employees
Manufacture: Real Manor
Time used: Less than 2 years
This is the second business where I've deployed Microsoft SharePoint. I find condolement in knowing that the features, while sometimes complicated, are robust enough to grow and adapt with the changing business environment. Overall, I take more faith in the program than I do with other programs that looks similar on the surface. Despite frustration in trying to learn well-nigh new features and encouraging employee "buy in" for the plan, I am overall satisfied with the product.
The cost is relatively low for SharePoint when combined with Teams and other Microsoft applications. The integration across users, platforms, and programs is extremely useful in a mod-day business environment. I know that in that location are more features than I can imagine, and that I've barely scratched the surface of the programme. This ways I can count on it to always have features that will expand with my business's needs.
Features I like the least: difficult to learn how to deploy its robust features without seeking professional person consultation. Difficult to share and incorporate our system with users outside of the arrangement; this occasionally causes confusion.
The alternative products only provided one or ii features that I wanted, and SharePoint provided extensively more than I could imagine.
Dropbox was not equally price effective or feature-rich as I knew SharePoint could be
Company size: 1,001-5,000 employees
Industry: Chemicals
Time used: Less than 2 years
I accept personally had mix results. We ultimately made the determination because of the blended Function 365 costs, reducing our FSS-specific contract with a 3rd party vendor, who happened to exist a leader in the infinite and had a far richer UX.
I like the integration with the microsoft cloud and the ability to share and concurrently edit from shared, sharepoint websites we use to share with internal and external stakeholders.
It seems like security is a big business organization and user feel is not up to par with other FSS solutions like Box/Dropbox.
total cost of buying (vs. using multiple providers).
The switch was made predominately due to budget. The Microsoft 365 Enterprise bundle was able to hide the actual toll of FSS, which was an additional line item for the Box platform. It made it almost impossible to stay with Box.
Visitor size: two-10 employees
Time used: Less than ii years
Shareoint is easy to apply and works eamlessly with the Microsoft Office environment. All files created with MS365 tin can be saved and shared with users at a single click.
If you oasis't taken the fourth dimension to keep your Sharepoint organised and users upskilled, it tin can become messy but the same is truthful for any content direction.
Equally to a higher place it was easier to switch to Sharepoint as information technology was already function of the existing ecosystem.
We were already using the MS365 environs so Sharepoint being included made it an like shooting fish in a barrel selection, for the aforementioned or better features.
Company size: 11-fifty employees
Manufacture: Non-Profit System Management
Time used: More than 2 years
Sharepoint's accescibility and file direction system has helped us to support our staff with reliable quick information, The deject based storage and information security and integrity have helped u.s.a. to build a trustworthy information sharing strategy for our system.
Occasionally we have had sync issues when 2 or more people are accessing the same file.
One Annotation became to heavy and overloaded for our needs
Visitor size: two-10 employees
Industry: Data Services
Time used: More 2 years
It has been a stiff evolution from its on premises product to its now cloud based available everywhere and anywhere version.
toll, its expensive for small businesses and information technology would exist great if a subscription were to exist that targeted pocket-size businesses. The reality is Microsoft are a hands down leader in this infinite just because they are expensive per user alot of businesses will cull other products.
Feature rich and congenital from alot of experience over the years and allows yous to work with files from the full MS office suite.
Robert
Verified reviewer
Company size: 51-200 employees
Industry: Retail
Time used: Less than 2 years
Since Sharepoint online is being provided with my O365 licensing the toll is irrelevant making information technology an piece of cake start choice simply in addition the O365 integration ways AD user management is equally highly-seasoned.
Transitioning users to leverage sharepoint is probably my biggest difficulty right now. I feel that users are unfamiliar with Sharepoint enough that a video demonstrating the transition from traditional / non-microsoft platforms to the utilize of Sharepoint would be helpful. I accept notwithstanding to discover a video that satisfies that.
Low cost licensing, product integration, piece of cake user direction.
Company size: 1 employee
Industry: Education Direction
Fourth dimension used: More than 2 years
The Microsoft production portfolio is notwithstanding bachelor through the apply of sharepoint on the web and desktop based versions.
Because the desktop and web-based versions are slightly different, it tin a little confusing to rail downwards the correct folders or shared documents.
The commune made the switch because they received the Microsoft Office suite for students at the loftier school level.
Visitor size: ane employee
Industry: Civic & Social Organization
Time used: More than than 2 years
Biblical and school base presentation
Uploading integrated files from creative media like Correl draw and Photoshop
ane. Number of creative template are limited 2. Creative tools should exist improved on
Power point functionality and ease of navigation, more than Inkscape
Company size: 1 employee
Manufacture: Graphic Blueprint
Time used: Less than ii years
Syncing beyond devices is ordinarily speedy and reliable.
Information technology being a shared storage space for all your due east-mail service attachments sounds like a good feature until you have iterations of files with the same proper noun going to different clients, managers, etc; then it becomes a headache. Too, the user interface is a bit dated compared to similar cloud solutions. Calculation to OneDrive would have been a amend use of Microsoft's efforts.
It was included with 365, otherwise we might not take.
Ahmed
Verified reviewer
Company size: 11-50 employees
Industry: Data Applied science and Services
Time used: More than 2 years
Microsoft SharePoint is first-class collaboration software. The platform is customizable and highly organized. The one major plus point is that y'all tin edit the Microsoft Discussion/Excel/Powerpoint files online without downloading an offline copy, and the collaborators can come across changes in real-time. It integrates nicely with the entire Microsoft Suite - providing users a adept experience.
While the simplified layout makes SharePoint user-friendly, at that place are non many bells and whistles to make the aesthetics annihilation of note. From my own personal utilise, there are some limitations with organizing resulting from this too.
Rostislav
Verified reviewer
Company size: 1,001-5,000 employees
Manufacture: Mechanical or Industrial Technology
Time used: More than two years
It contains a lot of features and has ability to assistance your team in collaboration
It often happens to exist tiresome, have technical problems or to non work at all. Information technology is often real pain to utilize.
Visitor size: 1 employee
Industry: Defence force & Infinite
Fourth dimension used: Less than 12 months
Pocket-sized, medium-sized, and big enterprises with multiple teams and collaboration programs can all benefit from SharePoint. Furthermore, setting up a SharePoint is rather elementary for an enterprise with an IT section. Sharepoint has helped me get more efficient in a multifariousness of areas, and I'm hoping that one of its functions volition let me to make a process more collaborative, controlled, and automatic. Currently, the unabridged organization has access to the software, and the transition from local servers to Sharepoint has been gradual, owing to people'south apprehension of something new and unknown.
SharePoint is particularly user-friendly when information technology comes to co-authoring. Simply open the online version of the document you want to edit, and you'll be able to brand changes to the content while others in your team do the same. This feature makes it simple to manage shared documents and provides visibility into who is making changes and when. The capacity to communicate and work with anyone within our firm, likewise as the option to transfer information outside of it, is tremendously benign. SharePoint crams a lot of functionality onto a single platform, making it a powerful tool for teams that can integrate it with their existing processes. It may take some time to learn everything there is to know.
Fifty-fifty though your Office 365 subscription includes a gratis SharePoint online license, you'll have to pay for further customization, deployment, training, and administration. You should recollect about integration concerns ahead of time considering they may add together time and cost to your project, and in that location's a potential that if it fails, it will reduce employee productivity. SharePoint may be overkill if you lot're searching for a simple document management system. It is, however, a terrific alternative if you're searching for a dynamic platform that gives excellent flexibility and simultaneous collaboration, as well as the ability to scale up with your growing system.
Because it made information technology easier for employees to access their content, I transferred my files to SharePoint. Nosotros can admission our files from anywhere, on any device, whether we're at dwelling, at work, or on our fashion to a meeting. This is something that ordinary file shares struggle to friction match.
Visitor size: 1 employee
Industry: Computer Software
Time used: Less than 2 years
Assuming you need something that will contain flawlessly with all of the Microsoft programs, certainly get with sharepoint. I recently had utilized distributed storage that was an alternate phase, so opening reports that were Microsoft Office were troublesome now and once again. I beloved the wonderful way finer this coordinates into our Microsoft Outlook, and I desire to go along involving it long into the futurity. The offer selection to the assembly inside the association and reflecting the organizers with OneDrive is helpful. We are investigating the site choices to share more information and accomplish more. It is so intriguing to see a few insights for explicit documents and encounter the movement of different clients also.
Having the option to permit the client to arrive at their athenaeum from whatsoever gadget. They presently tin share out remotely simply equally inside. So making it simpler to communicate with exterior customers and merchants. You can likewise now hinder undesirable records from going upward. Which is something worth being thankful for now and again? You additionally have great reinforcements maintenance. Uncomplicated connection can exist arrangement. Swell method for working from a distance at no additional expense. SharePoint has its own device for transferring documents. Capacity for a considerable length of fourth dimension to deal with alter and share reports. Capacity to accept a focal expanse for everybody, in a gathering, to become to for updates, information, and reference. Whenever utilized appropriately, never over again demand to ponder internally, where is that record/data. Sharepoint is an electronic archive the lath apparatus, withal the best matter I like with regards to share signal is that information technology upholds distributing your sites. It isn't similar to you have a whole fledge site. In any case, for your little or even huge group, for example, an system, it holds up sites that the inner individuals of your unit use, so for my purposes, from the identify of documentation coordinator devices to do that, I similar this highlight definitely.
It can be costly as most organizations that don't take a devoted SharePoint group should manage the execution phase and continuous upkeep with external service providers. This tin can be expensive, tedious, and can adversely affect worker efficiency. Transferring documents has serious room for improvement. Not something simple to move large number of documents. Now and once more you lot should utilize an outsider programming. You should rename documents so they are legitimate to transfer. Whatever other way you volition run into problems. Cease clients volition become a piece furious with you. So you should give preparing. It is absolutely impossible to get around it.
Visitor size: i,001-5,000 employees
Industry: Telecommunications
Time used: Less than two years
Overall, I am very pleased with what I have been able to learn from and create with SharePoint. At that place are ups and downs, simply many of the cons are more preference than necessity.
Being someone who has not gone to school or had much formal grooming in web design, Sharepoint started as a learning experience. Nosotros switched from using a WordPress-fabricated site and attempted to recreate the content within SharePoint. At offset, this seemed daunting, simply I found that I quickly institute answers to nigh every question I had through the amazing back up articles and forums. Through trial and fault, I have prepare upwardly a functioning and organized site for our company that has consolidated our internal content. I am very pleased with the ease of use from both a user and admin perspective. The consistent communication and updates from Microsoft are great.
With a electric current accent on branding initiatives, our visitor sees a growing demand to have consistency across all of the platforms we employ. Though at that place are many customization options within SharePoint, in that location is room for more than. Being able to add our ain fonts natively on the site or adding more advanced spider web parts would bring the program upward another level. With the out-of-the-box web parts, we tin accomplish what is needed to set up up the site, but having more options would permit for a much better user experience and a more than modernistic expect to the site.
Security. Moving to a 365 ecosystem.
Company size: 2-ten employees
Time used: More than ii years
Very, very satisfied as our customers are. Some things could be smoothed out, but overall the experience is positive.
Very fine admission command and permissions, great interoperability and integration with everything and invitee users. Solid cloud platform.
The sharing logic sometimes implies less than intuitive rules "a guest user cannot delete the files he uploaded" and so on, upon which you lot can stumble a chip. Then equally with every Microsoft product, the strong capabilities are there, just finding a good online reference or manual to really leaverage them isn't always easy.
Stability, ease of utilize, consistency, number and depth of features, integration capabilities.
We switched because our customers grew and so their online collaboration needs, and Google couldn't deliver enough flexibility and reliability.
Company size: 10,000+ employees
Time used: More than 2 years
Our project is using Microsoft SharePoint for long years (and my previous project in earlier organisation too!) and felt comfortable using this product which includes file versioning, sharing across teams, calendar/task sharing, review documents online, integration with multiple Microsoft products like Microsoft 365, Microsoft teams, Microsoft PowerBI, Microsoft Project for projection management, Microsoft Visio for designers, Microsoft OneNote that enhances the data security with protected encryption via two-factor authentication methods. Also our team made dissimilar customization on share indicate server which comprises visual furnishings of colors, fonts, graphic modes, Ability automate workflow modes (that saved major cost to our project). Nosotros used Microsoft One drive, Microsoft Teams to share project documents in constructive way.
Flexible to use across any user or large group in the organization, specially in company intranet environment. It allows social networking also to interact across different user groups like developers, designers, business organisation analysts. According to business organisation needs, it can be customized to view the specific content in the design. In terms of project management, it allows to share user calendars, multiple task notes and projection trackers. Consolidation of internet and intranet collaboration of sites brand the business users easy to use. SharePoint server allows programmers to develop API jobs to automate the twenty-four hours to day business functionalities that reduces the cost to entire system. Centralized assistants allows hassle free system settings, piece of cake work flow navigation settings, effective back up and restoration of data incase of data corruption or transmission deletion of data past mistake. The user productivity will get increased through real time collaboration that includes document versioning that avoids duplicate files, cloud support, document notification for managing different file system types.
The ROI is pretty average compared with other document management products in the market. Not bachelor to preview the document files. The URL keeps with binder names so it annoys when user has long file binder/file names on information technology. Grooming aid is mandatorily needed to practice more administration settings.
Company size: five,001-10,000 employees
Time used: Less than 12 months
My overall experience with SharePoint has been corking, as I have been able to realize numerous benefits including, merely not express to, the ability to work with teammates on numerous assignments in real-time, the ability to store files of various formats on the platform, and the ability to share the same files directly from the platform via e-mail with ease. Overall, I offer high praise for this service and would undoubtedly recommend others to give it a effort besides as it is well worth information technology.
What I like most about this software is the fact that information technology allows for real-time collaboration on a number of Microsoft Part products on whatsoever web browser as long as yous are connected to the internet. I find the corporeality of tools and resources offered by SharePoint to be very vast, even more and so than some of its competitors, which on some occasions charge more for their services than does SharePoint. I likewise similar the fact that documents tin can be worked on and accessed on virtually whatever device, whether it be a smartphone, tablet, laptop, or desktop. This allows for everyone on a team to participate on projects or assignments regardless of their device or operating arrangement preferences.
What I like least well-nigh this software has nothing to practise with the features or functionalities associated with SharePoint, which I observe to be swell, but rather has to do with its relatively lackluster entreatment to the general public, which seems to exist somewhat attracted more to its competitors. Equally a upshot, when new members join SharePoint, I have noticed that it takes them a decent amount of time to become acquainted with the service, which might have time away from focusing all attention towards the actual assignments that demand to be worked on and completed. Depending on the workload of a visitor, this may or may not exist a bit bargain, but in the case that it is, some compromises might need to be made on deadlines for certain projects/assignments to brand some actress time for getting used to SharePoint.
Visitor size: x,000+ employees
Time used: Less than 2 years
The fact that everything is a list (from files, calendars, listing items, todo...etc.) allows you to basically create lightweight applications with custom fields in a matter of hours. Y'all tin can replace microsoft project with a elementary listing with custom fields and on height of that you volition have fashion more avant-garde functions such as customizing the forms and making information technology feel similar a real app.
The UI feels like a half-baked solution. Many of the interfaces are stuck in the old sharepoint experience while many others are taking advantage of the new UI (which sometimes lacks functionality from the old one). On elevation of that the Graph API for list is not complete, new connectors for PowerBI for instance cannot read items that are under folders and only explore the meridian level. There are workarounds simply volition involve launching in parallel calorie-free tech to cover for these gaps, in my case Azure pipelines and logic apps.
Visitor size: 11-l employees
Time used: More than 2 years
Upload speeds can be ho-hum, but we've managed to apply Sharepoint folders equally helpful places to store, transfer, and interact on files. Some squad members miss the simplicity of dropbox or google bulldoze, but we're managing with Sharepoint.
The 365 suite is the standard for many organization with cloud based team piece of work, and it does allow for this in some ways that weren't around a decade ago. Information technology works - y'all can share files between squad members, and that's the primal thing.
Information technology'southward not as intuitive as it should exist. Maybe I'm too used to other ecosystems, but I detect that Microsoft products have too many means to get to the same common places, and and then convoluted means to go to specific places. In my utilise and rollout of it, almost every meeting has a few minutes of "where is that file once more?" or "Oh, I idea I put it in the main folder, but it must exist over here somewhere...". We can usually go it to work, but it'south not a seamless experience, and it's Sharepoint feels less similar a great tool to use and more like a necessary evil if you're in the 365 globe.
Moving to the 365 ecosystem and trying to go along consistent.
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