SharePoint Reviews

SharePoint is a backend for Microsoft Teams. We predominantly use Teams and OneDrive. We use them to manage all our systems integration and documents. We collaborate with documents and design. The product is the central repository for our business. We also use it for document control.

The product provides flexibility in collaboration. It is a simple tool. We use it across the board for scheduling and resource management. I use a lot of the add-ons. It is a very valuable product.

The solution doesn’t support PDF signatures on Android. My staff has tablets and phones. We couldn’t sign the documents on Android. It was quite problematic.

I have been using the solution for five to six years.

We haven't had any issues with the tool’s stability.

I never had an issue with the tool’s scalability. I rate the scalability a ten out of ten. We have 120 users.

I have deployed the tool for two businesses. It is not easy to navigate. The initial setup process is not intuitive. Other platforms are intuitive with the setup. Once it's set up, it's good. It is a cloud-based solution.

The pricing is competitive.

Overall, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.

We use SharePoint for intranet purposes.

The most valuable feature is the ability to easily build intranet sites for communicating within teams, storing documentation, product information, pricing policies, updates on product infrastructure, and other related news.

Perhaps it would be possible to add more design tools to improve the platform. While the current design is good, other similar platforms, such as Wix.com, offer better design tools. Wix.com is a website-building site that specializes in this area. Microsoft could take inspiration from them and incorporate similar tools.

The initial setup is complex and has room for improvement.

The documentation is poor and has room for improvement.

I have been using SharePoint for a few years.

I give SharePoint's stability an eight out of ten because of the mobile app integration issues.

I give SharePoint's scalability a ten out of ten.

The technical support is inadequate, and this appears to be a common experience shared by many online.

The initial setup process is complicated, and unfortunately, the available documentation and guidance are inadequate. As a result, we have to resort to watching online tutorials, reading forums, and even asking friends for help. The most challenging aspect of the setup is integrating the website with the mobile app.

I give the initial setup a six out of ten.

My team took two weeks to complete the deployment. We began by collecting the necessary documentation to include on the intranet site. Then, we created four design templates for the pages and utilized them to develop product information, pricing policies, news postings, and the most effective communication menu for our team.

The implementation was completed in-house.

SharePoint is included with our Microsoft license.

SharePoint is more complex and less intuitive than Wix.com, making it harder to design and create templates.

I give SharePoint an eight out of ten.

We have 30 technical people that use SharePoint within our organization.

I recommend that prospective users watch the instructional videos before searching extensively, as this will save them time. While the accompanying documentation may be lacking, many helpful videos can be found on YouTube and other platforms. I believe that investing time in these videos will ultimately result in time saved.

We are a company that provides Microsoft cloud services and data sourcing. Our business involves reselling licenses and equipment.

I use the solution as a document repository to back up personal data.

The solution is easy to use. It worked well for collaboration. People could easily access it. The integration was okay.

I am not a big fan of the user interface. The navigation is confusing. The UI should be more user-friendly.

I have been using the solution for four years.

The tool is stable enough. I rate the stability a nine out of ten.

The tool is scalable. I have never seen anything go down because of the load. I rate the scalability a ten out of ten. I have never seen the product break down. We have 4800 to 5000 users. We use the product regularly.

The setup is straightforward. It is a website. I had a link to it. I did not have to set up anything. It is all in the cloud.

The solution enables me to access my documents from anywhere.

I will not discourage people from using the product. Overall, I rate the product a six out of ten.

We use SharePoint for information sharing.

The most valuable feature of the solution is file sharing or information sharing.

The solution should be made more user-friendly for technical and business people.

I have been using SharePoint for six months.

SharePoint is a stable solution.

SharePoint is a scalable solution that supports more than 1,000 users.

The solution’s initial setup is easy.

The solution has good integration capabilities. I would not recommend the solution to other users because it is not easily compatible or operable by everyone. More than 20 engineers and managers are needed for the solution's deployment. SharePoint is a good solution for IT collaboration.

Overall, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.

I use SharePoint for collaboration, storage, file sharing, and content management.

The most valuable feature of SharePoint is its ease of use. It's quite easy to navigate through the tool.

The most useful feature of SharePoint is the collaboration part. At any point in time, you know who was working on a document, and you can know which version is actually the latest document in case you want to share it with external parties. If we want to make decisions or talk about information on a document, we know which is the latest and most updated.

When you are trying to migrate from a different platform to SharePoint for file storage, the upload utility should be more flexible, taking more files and then updating you on the upload status of the files you are trying to transfer into SharePoint. This part is quite clunky and could be improved.

I have been using SharePoint for five years.

I rate the solution an eight out of ten for stability.

Around 50 users are using the solution in our organization.

I rate the solution’s scalability a seven out of ten.

The solution’s technical support is fine.

Positive

On a scale from one to ten, where one is difficult and ten is easy, I rate the solution's initial setup an eight out of ten.

The solution's full deployment was done by three people in less than ten days.

The solution's pricing is relatively expensive because it's bundled with other products.

On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing a six or seven out of ten.

The solution's integration with Power Automate and many other Microsoft solutions has been very seamless. SharePoint is deployed on the cloud in our organization. The solution requires a bit of maintenance, but it's very minimal. Since most Microsoft solutions are now bundled with AI, the turnaround time for searching and indexing has improved. I would recommend the solution to other users.

Overall, I rate the solution an eight out of ten.

It is an eDMS. We use it for electronic document management.

The security feature is valuable. We have control over who has access to what and when. We also have the audit trails to review who accessed what at what time. The document versioning is also a valuable feature. We can have multiple versions of the same document. If there is an issue or if there's something that we missed on a document, we can easily roll back to the previous version and get our data the way it was.

The product must provide more automation. We must be able to automate tasks instead of doing them manually. The product must enable customization of features. It must allow integration with other systems. Integrating the tool into databases like Oracle or Microsoft SQL and pulling data from SharePoint would be helpful.

I have been using the solution for close to five years.

I am satisfied with the tool’s stability. I rate the stability a ten out of ten.

The tool is scalable. I rate the scalability a ten out of ten. We have eight users in our organization.

The initial setup is easy. I rate the ease of setup an eight out of ten. It is a cloud solution. A person with some knowledge about the solution can deploy it in four to five hours. One person can do the deployment.

The product is reasonably priced.

I will recommend the solution to others because of its security features. Security is key for any organization. The tool is very scalable and stable. Overall, I rate the product a nine out of ten.

We use SharePoint to save client-specific and internal documents.

SharePoint has an option where you can open files on the browser, whereby more than five people can make amendments to one Excel online file. The best option on SharePoint is that it can be opened from your desktop. If I map the URL of SharePoint to my desktop, I can see the files on my desktop. That is a fantastic feature I don't see in many other service providers. SharePoint's interface is very good.

SharePoint’s scalability could be improved. I don't know how much an organization pays to scale SharePoint, but I have seen quite a few organizations opting out of SharePoint. The reason may be its scalability or because it is less cost-effective.

I have been using SharePoint for six to eight years.

SharePoint is a stable solution.

My organization is an enterprise business, and half of my organization is using SharePoint.

SharePoint's initial setup is not complex. It's good for any new customer to adapt and understand.

I advise users to think about SharePoint's scalability if they have a huge use case. Otherwise, SharePoint is a good option to save internal and external files.

Overall, I rate SharePoint a seven out of ten.

We internally use SharePoint for all of our document management, and we integrate that with D365. We use CRM and SharePoint to manage our sales pipeline and all documentation related to Sales and subsequent projects are stored on SharePoint. We use the Power platform for certain workflows, for example, approvals of Business Proposals. 

We have created our own custom modules within D365 for our project billing. 

SharePoint allows us to manage the full lifecycle of documents within our organization. 

I do like the collaboration around documents. The versioning history has proven useful in some instances as well. 

It's also very easy to use. I like the fact that we can integrate with various other applications.

For my role, it personally covers all my requirements. 

I've been using this solution for about twenty years. we have always used the latest version of SharePoint, as well as CRM, which is now D365.

I haven't had any issues around that. It's all very stable once it's deployed.

Based on things I've heard, I'd rate it a six out of ten. Just from the feedback I've had from developers working with SharePoint Designer, they do feel that there are some limitations. For SharePoint, most of our clients are medium-sized organizations.

We do most of the support for our clients, but I do know that on very odd occasions, which was a few years ago and doesn't happen as much nowadays because it is more stable, when we have logged support calls with Microsoft, they have always been great. Over the last few years, their support has certainly improved from 14 years ago when support was difficult. I'd rate them a nine out of ten.

Positive

I wasn't involved in its deployment, but I can think back to projects that we have done with SharePoint with customers. Obviously, the project itself will be dependent on how many customizations they need, but they are generally not very long projects. We have had some that are done in two to three weeks including customization and deploying everything. It isn't a difficult deployment process from my experience.

It's a good buy for small to medium businesses that are looking for a basic document management solution. If you have a Microsoft environment, you obviously got the benefit of it natively integrating with the whole Office suite. It's quite easy to integrate with other applications as well, but if you're looking for something more scalable and robust, you may want to investigate other products before making that choice.

I'd rate it an eight out of ten.

I have been using SharePoint 2019 and SharePoint Online.

We use SharePoint Online for document management.

The most valuable features of SharePoint Online are content management, document management, and approval processes. Additionally, there are a number of features that provide integration with multiple Office services and external services.

SharePoint Online could improve the user interface and when modifying any of the user interfaces can be challenging. Additionally, there are challenges with the detail in the analytics user interface and the overall customization could improve. 

In the next release of the solution, they need to fix the user interface. It is not user-friendly for a generic user. It should be easier because in some of the applications it's quite easy to assign the permission, you only need to use the right click of the mouse and select the permission that we need to assign. However, in SharePoint, it's a bit complex.

I have been using SharePoint Online for approximately six years.

SharePoint Online is stable. We are using the out-of-box options only, and it has been stable.

The scalability of SharePoint Online is good.

We have opened Microsoft support tickets. The learning materials are good for all the solutions from Microsoft, they have multiple videos and documentation available.

The initial setup of SharePoint Online was straightforward.

For a general user, the documentation could improve. The assigning of unique permissions can be difficult for a beginner.

We have joint support for the applications and the SharePoint Online version, Microsoft is managing everything from the cloud and we are supporting it at the application level. There are not many resources that are required for their support and maintenance.

The licensing model for SharePoint Online is based on per user, and it is monthly. The price of the solution overall is good.

There can be additional costs depending on the features that we are going to use. If we are using any third-party integration or third-party connector, then in this scenario we need premium licensing.

My advice is SharePoint Online is good, but Microsoft does not recommend doing a lot of customization management. It is a good document manager, and content management system if they are using the out-of-the-box approach only. The out-of-the-box options are very good, but if we try to customize it a lot, then it's not recommended.

I rate SharePoint Online seven out of ten.

SharePoint allows us to access and to search for what we have in our repositories.

What I like about SharePoint is that they keep up with a lot of updates, and they bring out new features. I also like that the system is integrated with the Microsoft 365 suite of apps.

Document management and the ability to easily integrate single sign-on (SSO) are areas for improvement in SharePoint.

Integrating SharePoint with other software is what I'd like to see in its next release.

I've used SharePoint in the last 12 months. We use it internally in our organization.

The stability of SharePoint needs improvement, because once you start to get a large amount of data, it becomes very unwieldy, and it takes a long time to index. There are much better products for content management and knowledge management, when compared to SharePoint.

SharePoint is not as scalable, particularly when implementing larger projects. It's good for small-scale implementation.

I haven't personally contacted the technical support for SharePoint. It's our support team who contacts them.

I used HPE Content Manager, formerly TRIM software, which used to be owned by TRIM here in Australia. We used TRIM a lot, then it was bought out by HPE, HPE has now been bought out by Microsoft.

Our organization chose SharePoint because they wanted to become accredited with Microsoft. They saw that Microsoft was the industry leader, so everyone wanted Microsoft. They saw Microsoft as the way forward, at the time.

The initial setup for SharePoint was complex. Anything from Microsoft is complex.

We implemented SharePoint in-house. We had a team that had experience with SharePoint when we decided to use it as our content management system. We had the skills from implementation and from attending numerous Microsoft training courses.

SharePoint is probably cheaper than dedicated, larger, and more useful content management systems, so you could get a return on investment from it, as long as you keep your infrastructure and everything up to date, and move to the new version when you have to.

You have to pay for a license to use SharePoint, and any extended support from Microsoft is expensive. For example: if you have SharePoint 2013 and it reaches its end of life and goes out of support, you can migrate to SharePoint online, and that's a benefit, but you'll have to pay for extended support.

I evaluated Lotus Notes and HPE Content Manager.

In terms of what features I found valuable in SharePoint, I haven't found many. I had come from IBM and was very entrenched with Lotus Notes and the Lotus Notes environment. I love Lotus Notes. When IBM sold Lotus, we started to move away from Notes, and I didn't like it, and then I was made redundant. Now I've been outside of IBM, having to use Microsoft, and I hate it.

My advice to people looking into using SharePoint for the first time is for them to 
look at how much data they have, and also look at the volume their data and data holdings are going to grow to. They should look at how long it would take to get to that point, then look at their ROI, and whether they would need to upgrade to another product in the near future. I'd say "Yes. Go for it.", but they should also look at the future, and how it would be long term.

I'm rating SharePoint a seven. Yes, it's good for organizations to start on knowledge management, but you'd have to look at how quickly you think your data will grow, and how soon it would take to get to that point, because it can become unwieldy.

Our company is a consulting partner of Microsoft. We're a service integrator that works in both the private and Australian Federal Government sectors.