We have fairly extensively used Sharepoint in a couple of different, large-scale organizations during my career.
We truly gave Sharepoint a good college try over many years, but always found it to be just too cumbersome for users/not intuitive enough. Generally, buy-in for Sharepoint from stakeholders was sparse/insufficient and management was always non-plussed with Sharepoint as a solution as a result.
We are now using a combination of MangoApps for the social enterprise networking/intranet aspects, Sharefile for the document management/shared drive side of the business, and minimal in-house resources for our website.
In fact, we drive whatever website improvements we need through ideas generated by both internal and external users in our social enterprise networking system, MangoApps.
We find that specific combination of tools and performance results to be best for our needs, as well as much more cost effective in the end than Sharepoint, which for us was always a tremendous resource drain and a much less than stellar performing solution in the end.
Another great side benefit of forgoing the use of Sharepoint is that we don't need to dedicate ongoing IT and business unit manpower to design and manage any of the other tools/approaches chosen as we had to with Sharepoint.
SharePoint is a Microsoft-based platform for building web applications. It covers a widerange of capabilities and while it is appropriate for experienced webdevelopers, even non-technical minded users can easily navigate through thesystem and execute functions such as collaborating data, managing documents andfiles, creating websites, managing social networking solutions, and automatingworkflow. Major areas that SharePoint deals with are websites,communities, content, search, insights, and...
We have fairly extensively used Sharepoint in a couple of different, large-scale organizations during my career.
We truly gave Sharepoint a good college try over many years, but always found it to be just too cumbersome for users/not intuitive enough. Generally, buy-in for Sharepoint from stakeholders was sparse/insufficient and management was always non-plussed with Sharepoint as a solution as a result.
We are now using a combination of MangoApps for the social enterprise networking/intranet aspects, Sharefile for the document management/shared drive side of the business, and minimal in-house resources for our website.
In fact, we drive whatever website improvements we need through ideas generated by both internal and external users in our social enterprise networking system, MangoApps.
We find that specific combination of tools and performance results to be best for our needs, as well as much more cost effective in the end than Sharepoint, which for us was always a tremendous resource drain and a much less than stellar performing solution in the end.
Another great side benefit of forgoing the use of Sharepoint is that we don't need to dedicate ongoing IT and business unit manpower to design and manage any of the other tools/approaches chosen as we had to with Sharepoint.
John Becker