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Data Engineer at a outsourcing company with 201-500 employees
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Mar 10, 2026
Centralized document workflows have improved collaboration and streamlined knowledge sharing
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  • "Using Sharepoint 2016 Standard enables me to share my thought process and knowledge bases easily across teams as well as within teams."

    What is our primary use case?

    I use Sharepoint 2016 Standard in my day-to-day work as part of a team in an organization where I rely on it for document management and internal file sharing.

    I use Sharepoint 2016 Standard for knowledge management as a central repository. In projects where I work with around two to three people, each team member prepares design documents, requirement gathering documents, and other documents including SOPs, manuals, and policies. Every document needs to be visible to all other members in that project, and we use Sharepoint 2016 Standard as a centralized place for this purpose. We also use it for workflow automation including approvals and other document review processes where we submit and upload documents. It primarily functions as a team collaboration site.

    What is most valuable?

    Sharepoint 2016 Standard stands out to me for its integration with Microsoft tools including Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Outlook.

    When I need to send a document through Outlook or share it with other team members, and when I need files in different formats such as Word or Excel, the integration with Sharepoint 2016 Standard helps me tremendously and makes the process very easy. This integration is helping my team collaborate extensively.

    Sharepoint 2016 Standard has role-based access control, which secures our enterprise data effectively. The user interface is also very intuitive, allowing me to access documents with ease.

    Using Sharepoint 2016 Standard enables me to share my thought process and knowledge bases easily across teams as well as within teams. It has improved my productivity significantly. For the HR team, onboarding new team members has become easier because all documents are stored in one location. For the knowledge transfer process, Sharepoint 2016 Standard is very useful.

    For how long have I used the solution?

    I have been working with this solution for two years.

    How was the initial setup?

    For technical members, using Sharepoint 2016 Standard will be easy. For non-IT persons, once they refer to the documentation, setup and navigation will be very easy for them.

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    What other advice do I have?

    Sharepoint 2016 Standard is currently working well for my needs. I would suggest reducing the number of questions in review processes because it takes a long time to complete, and the same questions are repeated multiple times. Overall, the experience has been good. I gave this product a rating of ten out of ten.

    Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
    Last updated: Mar 10, 2026
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    Electrical Engineer at a construction company with 11-50 employees
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    Jun 27, 2025
    Designing and streamlining internal workflows effectively
    Pros and Cons
    • "With Sharepoint 2016 Standard, you do not have to be a specialist; you just need some training, and after this, you are able to design solutions to make your daily job easier."

      What is our primary use case?

      The experience with Sharepoint 2016 Standard involves using it to adjust and design some applications to create tools for controlling our production line and processes.

      We use Sharepoint 2016 Standard as an internal engine to control and make workflows. We designed a specific workflow to monitor the current daily processes in our company.

      I used Sharepoint 2016 Standard to design internal processes for endo marketing and to control the internal processes of my company.

      What is most valuable?

      Sharepoint 2016 Standard is great software where we can configure applications inside the environment that are very useful for my company and other companies. In the recent past, I worked for a German company that had wide application for Sharepoint 2016 Standard. They used a similar application that I worked with, and I brought some applications to my company. They are really very useful.

      It is great software. It is expensive. This is really an expensive product, but it is very effective. I know there are other tools we could use, but Sharepoint 2016 Standard is really the best one in my point of view. However, it should be less expensive per user.

      What needs improvement?

      This is something that people who have deeper knowledge about the tool should contribute to regarding what should be improved. I am just an end-user of some tools created and designed using Sharepoint 2016 Standard.

      Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?

      When I worked at Siemens, I qualified a new workflow tooling called TIBCO solution. At that time, we paid a lot of money. We should have gone directly to Sharepoint 2016 Standard at that time, but TIBCO was considered the more up-to-date solution. Operating with TIBCO was more difficult than Sharepoint 2016 Standard. I had to maintain software engineers to create the workflows or solutions. With Sharepoint 2016 Standard, you do not have to be a specialist. You just need some training, and after this, you are able to design solutions to make your daily job easier.

      What was our ROI?

      We use Sharepoint 2016 Standard to design applications that create tools to control our production line and processes. We use it as an internal engine to control and make workflows. We designed a workflow to monitor the current daily processes in our company.

      Which other solutions did I evaluate?

      I considered alternative solutions.

      What other advice do I have?

      I am the owner of the company and suggest contacting IT people for detailed technical information. On a scale of 1-10, I rate Sharepoint 2016 Standard an 8.

      Which deployment model are you using for this solution?

      Public Cloud

      If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?

      Disclosure: My company does not have a business relationship with this vendor other than being a customer.
      Last updated: Jun 27, 2025
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