SharePoint Benefits
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VINCENTWU
Project Manager at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
We can now share to team members by MS Teams and assign planners to follow and update statuses in a single platform. If anyone is missing the deadline, the tracking progress can be displayed as well as the review status. The ongoing process is easy to record and keep evidence online for verification. If we did not have such a platform that combined email, instant message, file management, security permission, and OS authorization, the incorporation efforts would lead to paperwork and time consumption.
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Sam Scott
IT Manager at The Ventoulis Institute for Local Journalism
It allowed us to be more productive in terms of being more organized. Everyone seems to think the organizational thing is the best part of it.
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Wendy Neilan
Microsoft Channel Manager at nVisionIT
SharePoint allows us to manage the full lifecycle of documents within our organization.
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Andy Sworan
VP, CRS Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Replace paper file cabinets with electronic images which can be duplicated for disaster recovery purposes. Workflow can be used to notify or obtain approval covering the document.
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it_user204777
Manager, IT Communications at AbbVie
It's providing a social collaboration experience to a culture of heavy email users. They are not used to interacting on our intranet or other internal environments, having a profile to provide others more info about themselves, or searching for experts, information, etc. This is a helpful step to evolve the culture to be more digitally collaborative.
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ITIL Process Manager at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We use the list functionality within SharePoint to create integrated test scripts. This has allowed us to have a Web solution for running integrated test scripts across multiple applications, along with multiple testing resources in numerous physical locations.
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Chaan Beard
Senior Data Center Solutions Architect at ChaanBeard.com
Our pre-sales, technical and sales folks use SharePoint to archive files, share configurations and presentations, etc.
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Project Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
It's been a process-improvement catalyst in the sense that it enabled and empowered real-time collaboration and dashboard tracking of business intelligence reports and performance analytics. It's certainly reduced the number of hours needed to create, update and maintain worksheets and forms hosted on legacy systems, databases and it also reduced overhead on obsolete file repositories.
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Assistant Manager, Operations Automation at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
It has allowed my team to seamlessly share requirements with one another and provide feedback while working off one version. It is a one-stop shop for all our project documents.
We are currently working with two different vendors (one from Europe and one from India). We used SharePoint as a central workspace where the different groups can upload their files respectively without restriction. They can also have a central folder where RBC and vendors can edit simultaneously.
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Cesar Danecke
IT Supervisor at HORSCH BRASIL
We had all the group files registered in SharePoint, including all local files. It was possible to share the information more securely.
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Ram Chenna
Enterprise Architect at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
The organization where the sharepoint solutions are deployed have benefited immensely in terms of the document managment system requirements. Storing all their digital assets in document format. Scanned documents and later use it for reference and legal and regulatory requirements.
Other features being the collaboration, web content management, workflows, analytics available within the product has helped the organization in not going in for separate products. Cost is a big factor when it comes to IT implementations and products usage.
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Cecil Rupp
Works at Command Results, LLC.
This solution has helped us with the categorization, organization, management, discovery, and delivery of program and project related information.
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HRIS Consultant at Express Scripts Holding
It is a good tool that makes managing projects and teams much easier. All documents and calendars are in one central location.
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Lewin Wanzer
SharePoint Architect at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
The use of the document management features such as versioning, check in and check out, search, managed metadata and other out-of-the-box features help you organize and manage documents easily. Finding documents and being able to track documents wherever they are in your site makes this tool easy to use and cuts down on an employee’s time looking for documents, using email to manage documents and knowing they have the right version of the document because it’s in a centralized location.
There are training aspects in using the tool effectively, but do not take long to grasp and understand. Workflow is also improved in this version of SharePoint. Workflow lets you create a business solution using the combination of functionality within lists and workflow actions to create a business process that flows through an easy or more complex process. SharePoint Designer 2013 allows you to create these flows within the tool once the SharePoint farm is configured to host the integration of the tool.
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Lead Enterprise Architect at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
- Team sites and collaboration.
- Main entry point for all applications.
- Utilizing as a sign-on.
it_user350169
Sr. Business Systems Analyst at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees
In my previous job, I built a site to support the PMO. It consisted of a top level site that gave a view of all projects undertaken by the organization and then individual project sites that were used to manage issues, risks, changes, action items, key milestones.
The top level site also contained links out to our scheduling software (SmartSheets). The individual project sites were based on a site template, making it very easy to instantiate a new one whenever a new project was introduced. All project information was contained within a single site collection and allowed both broad and deep searches and visibility of key project metrics.
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Business Architect at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
The fact that our operational process improvement initiatives continue to be assigned on a lower priority in our portfolio management, it has given rise to the use of SharePoint as a platform to run its day-to-day operational processes. Specifically, we moved away from using MS OneNote.
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Anthony M
Business Technology Analyst at Deloitte
- Improved transparency around work products.
- Ease of access to documents.
- Increased employee collaboration across our organization.
it_user265281
Network Manager / Senior Network Engineer at Warnock, Tanner & Associates
SharePoint has streamlined many processes and has provided additional organization for our company. It has become a central location for both documents and productivity.
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Senior Business Analyst at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Collaboration became a lot easier. Meetings happened more frequently between colleagues across different locations sitting at their desks and not in special video conference rooms.
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CTO with 501-1,000 employees
- Produced workflows down to user / product level
- Easy KPI integration
- Use of standard reporting tools
it_user360681
Technology Manager - Applications at a local government with 501-1,000 employees
We mainly use this product for our intranet and capital projects team. It has allowed each business unit the ability to “own” their portion of the intranet, and allowed our capital projects team the ability to effectively manage projects that require a multitude records request requirements and archival tasks. It is very customizable, and it possesses a very logical architecture.
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Sr. DevOps at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I personally don't use this product. However, my clients find it useful for locating documents in a format, that is easy to navigate.
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Database / SharePoint Administrator at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees
We used to use project folders to manage new product development. With SharePoint, it allowed us to store all of the related documentation in a single project folder. Another example would be when we have a product quality issue, a single form is filled out and routed to the various people in the organization for review and resolution to ensure the issue does not repeat itself. Several locations use the calendar feature to schedule PTO and at one plant, they use the calendars to schedule the dock doors for freight delivery and shipping.
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Data Research Analyst at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
When implemented correctly, SharePoint and Office 365 can provide knowledge workers with the information they need quickly and it can provide for team collaboration. I have used it to transform relationships between business units and to break down silos.
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Rigard De Wet
CIO at MMI Holdings
- Document management and sharing with user-controlled security
- Ability to use lists, document management, and workflow to manage the hand-off of work efforts internal to the organisation.
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MichaelSoliman
Owner at Alopex ONE UG
So if you want to have something like a business, or if you want to have something like a product catalog and you are selling something like Amazon, you want to uniquely identify your product like Amazon does it with its ASIM numbers and these to be identified with a name. So the service identifying these unique ASIM in numbers with their names which might be localized in English, German, Dutch or other languages. These are being identified by a managed Metadata service. Amazon does something very similar to Metadata and SharePoint. So, that's the basic technology everyone needs for this web service experience and order to identify the same object with different names.
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Syed Fahad Anwar
Principal System Developer at HHRC
SharePoint provides enterprise content management, which includes the enterprise document management tools. Also collaboration tools such as workspaces and team sites improve the productivity and increase collaboration. My Site provides rich personalization features.
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Chief Information Security Officer at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
Currently, it is used as the default website for Intranet. Sites are available for each department. News and announcements are available on the main page, as well as the company directory. A custom HR portal has also been developed to be the method for onboarding and offboarding employees.
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director194919
Director, Systems Management & MIS Operations at a university with 201-500 employees
It provides a common place to communicate and collaborate, common repository of documents, etc.
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Eric Wyatt
IT Director / CIO at Matanuska-Sustina Borough
This solution has given us better access, coordination, collaboration, and visibility. It is an enterprise system for many functions instead of multiple systems to support. Interactive intranet instead of static web pages, integration of other systems to include GIS. We also have better search capability.
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James Lewis
PCV Engineering & Bus Driving Recruitment Consultant at Likewise Consulting
- Helps with document collaboration and workflow.
- Provides us with a records center.
it_user347112
Senior Consultant/Project Manager at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I have updated my project sites with views that apply to specific business uses, such as a project manager looking for a document assigned to a phase in the project (i.e., planning, design, execution) or an engineer looking for a document type (i.e., vendor contract, design build diagram, user acceptance testing worksheet).
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European Business Architect - B2B Marketing & Sales with 1,001-5,000 employees
There is much more collaboration and sharing across SharePoint.
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Senior Consultant | Architect at DHL
SharePoint has benefitted us a lot regarding optimization. We can automate document management, project management, and basic service desk functions.
The biggest value is that you are able to integrate systems using workflow management middleware. You can also use business intelligence to integrate data and display output on a SharePoint page with predefined restrictions applied for separate security groups.
There is occasionally a problem when an organization has several in-house developed systems without any integration connectors, etc. But this is only an issue in some really specific cases.
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ManagerIT306285
Manager, IT Automation and Technical Services at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
Prior to implementing SharePoint, we accessed our network just via the internet. However in 2013, we implemented it. With accessibility from a DMZ, SharePoint is a good solution for outside access.
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SysMan2876
System Manager at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees
It manages processes. I personally think a very strong point is that we use it in combination with OneDrive. Now that we have been handed the GDPR law enforcement, in combination with OneDrive, we can synchronize documents or part of a customer's information to a laptop. If they make changes it will automatically be synchronized back. In the case of a lost or defective device, you always have the information. I think this is a very strong point.
it_user339057
Sr. Manager - IT Security, Compliance and Administration at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Building workflow systems within SharePoint that allow for corporate tracking of work issues and work items. The intranet was an instant hit with everyone and wikis have been very popular.
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Senior Manager, Business Intelligence at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Each year, managers have to take important decisions about the future based on voluminous reports which took several weeks to produce. Now, these reports have been replaced by a dashboard which is maintained on a daily basis.
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IT Manager at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
We created a hang management system with a simple list including views and reports, instead of purchasing a bloated application. We created inventory tracking in the same way.
Instead of switching, this has kept all the information in one place and within one application. It allows easy data exports into other applications.
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Business Development Director at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees
We have a variety of use cases internally, but an easy one for everyone to understand is the creation of the “company meeting” slide show. Every two weeks, everyone in our company gets together to hear from each other about the “goings on” in the company. Each area of the business gets the opportunity to present a few slides. In the past, these slides were emailed to a central point and some poor person had to collate it before all staff arrived. Now, with SharePoint and Office 365, all the business areas are able to edit their part of the PowerPoint file at any time, from anywhere. This saves plenty of time, removes embarrassing copy and paste errors, and also gives staff a central reference point after the meeting to catch up on what was presented.
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President and Founder with 51-200 employees
It's allowed automatic distribution of technical updates to shop floor technicians in the FABs.
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Project Manager with 501-1,000 employees
When I took over SharePoint 2007, it was fairly basic in its execution. It had sections for the various departments, but it wasn't common for users to actually use it. I ended up creating various lists and libraries to begin pulling processes into the system. It was fairly shoe horned, but it did the job.
In addition to this, without the use of an extension, I began using SharePoint to do more collaborative tasks and projects. There are extensions for SharePoint to increase its functionality, but using task management, was able to create sites and manage projects in that way.
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Mordhi Alenazi
Business Application Development Manager at NWC
It has improved my organization in the following ways:
- Gave us the ability to integrate with other systems that need a lot of customization.
- Offers alignment between user permissions in SharePoint and other systems is not exist.
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Alfonso Alvarez
CIO at GDELS
It has allowed documentation control and distribution through the organization, managed easily from the AD.
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Monica Deshazo
Owner at CTC
SharePoint is a big product with many features including customization flexibilities. We have deployed it in many government agencies which were in much need of process and automation improvements.
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Garett Patria
OTA Manager, VRA at HQ USMEPCOM
It is better than static repositories via shared drives, and better than having to use software that is not mainstream (i.e. Microsoft is very mainstream).
it_user87039
Manager of Operations at a hospitality company with 501-1,000 employees
We use a document library with custom attributes and simple approval workflow. Some program enhancements with .NET enables the Quality Control department to distribute files to an extranet portal after senior Quality Control staff approval. Thousands of documents have been distributed in this way in the past years. This approval flow replaces ordinary emails with much clearer tracking of the workflow process.
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Director of Development with 501-1,000 employees
It has:
- Improved the exchange of knowledge from team to team.
- Provided better product support through the centralized documentation of procedures.
- Assisted in how-to to fix production issues.
it_user540288
Project Manager at a tech company with 51-200 employees
Automatic synchronization with our file server library: Once all the data is uploaded to SharePoint, changes made by any user (regardless the access location) who has access to given files are automatically downloaded to our file server.
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Consultant - Business Intelligence at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
The product has made document sharing with customers easier instead of emailing.
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IT Services Manager at a educational organization with 501-1,000 employees
SharePoint provides a simple way to store documents and we created lots of subsites to contain the courses and materials for our students.
We found that applying permissions were very easy, due to the integration with the Active Directory.
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Business Analyst at a tech company with 10,001+ employees
Automating the basic approval processes is an easy win. You are no longer required to do the work in emails, but instead using the email as a conduit, you can facilitate the work in the work flow.
The rock solid central document storage makes it very easy for all business departments to have a standard location for their documents.
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IT Manager at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Improved collaboration through multi-user document editing capabilities. Improved governance through process workflows.
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Wissam H
Change Management Consultant at a analyst firm with self employed
It improved communication, collaboration and content/record sharing in the organizations I worked for. It helped us manage our documents and records effectively and at a reasonable cost. The TAT for process/document review, approval and publication cycles have significantly improved from maximum of three months for each document down to two weeks.
Everyone, from the board level down to the most junior staff, was able to utilize SharePoint for their own needs. I even used it to build a simple tactical solution to fulfill the needs of various units within the organization. Eventually, these solutions became instrumental in building strong business cases that convinced management to adopt fully fledged comprehensive solutions. Examples:
- - Routing of documents to be checked within Trade Finance.
- - Document control management system for the Policy and Procedure Department.
- - Case tracker for Legal Counsel.
- - Specialized workspaces for minutes of executive committees and business cases presented there.
- - Online approval workflow for executive committee.
- - Project tracker workspace.
- - ISO surveillance tracker.
- - Knowledge management center.
- - Etc.
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Adreana Gani
Senior Systems Analyst at KWSP
To share information and latest news. We can monitor when the content is being updated, and we can see who the person is.
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IT Business Analyst for Sales Enablement with 1,001-5,000 employees
It has completely replaced our Intranet and provides a great central storage area that is far more accessible than traditional shared folders on file and print servers.
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Yatin Dalvi
Senior Industry Expert with 1,001-5,000 employees
The solution has helped host our intranet and thereby helped in content publishing and distribution.
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Office 365 Consultant at a hospitality company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Using the workflow as an example, it has helped to transform the conventional paperwork processes into digitized and faster processes.
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Business Process Coordinator at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
We are only using it as a documentation storage system for around 500+ people, so we can find the right document at the right moment, as required. With metadata tags and acronyms, we were able to manage the company terms and create a common basis.
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Systems Analyst at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
We use SharePoint largely as an internal intranet; users are organized through AD and into their respective teams. Each team is responsible for their own websites and areas (including document repositories). Through this form of user organization, we can share resources with one another and in other areas, we can also set up public access so that everybody has access to everything.
On top of that, we can set up applications such as Power BI and web parts to handle data processing, telemetry/analytics, and even document processing. We have web forms that collect all manner of data, with workflows, to help with internal processes.
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Database Senior Manager at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
An example of how we use the lists is what we call our parking portal. We have a list of pin numbers that parking has given to us to use in our underground parking lot. We have several different departments that use these numbers and they get charged when they use them. We have a separate list for reservations that we tie to the pin numbers. This is used to make sure that:
- The pins are only used once.
- The appropriate department gets charged for the parking pin used.
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Seniop9887
Director at a consultancy with 51-200 employees
Now that this system has been put in place, we have email integration and a lot of work which we were doing manually is now done by Teamcentral, thanks to SharePoint, thanks to Microsoft.
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Prabhat Mittra
Founder & CEO at Solution Enablers
Single window information sharing.
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Practice Manager and Solutions Architect at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
Our Intranet is built using SocialXtend, a SharePoint based product.
It has transformed the way we do our daily tasks and the way the departments collaborate over projects, opportunities, and other operational activities.
Knowledge sharing and access to information has been highly simplified.
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Collaboration Service Manager at a consumer goods company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We haven't rolled out Sharepoint online to the entire organization. However, we have been using it on a small scale within our IT function.
It has brought on improvements due to:
- Ability to easily share documents which reduces the instances of documents being emailed around.
- Accessibility from mobile devices which complements the file sharing capability very well.
it_user139293
VP/Treasurer/Asst Secretary at a construction company with 1,001-5,000 employees
As the employees are spread around the country and the world, this allows us to communicate more effectively by providing an easier interface with the information (files, calendars, links and news) all in one spot. It allows us to collaborate more effectively as people can access this information according to their time availability. The one-stop shopping is critical, as everyone is looking at one version of the truth and therefore are on the same page.
This product has allowed us to coordinate the efforts of individual groups, as well as different groups that need to interact for specific projects/processes. Before this, there was a lot of emails being exchanged and certainly there were times that some of the people that needed to know where inadvertently left off of an email or two.
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ChristopherGallagher
Delivery Director at Ciber, Inc
A central repository for artifacts, and planning for corporate projects.
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Senior Technology Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
It has improved our productivity to a great extent with its great collaboration features. Previously, business users were sharing documents through emails while different people contributed to the same document. This created a lot of confusion, such as:
- Issues with merging changes from some users
- No tracking of changes
- Version management
The business users had to spend a lot of time to get this to closure. SharePoint has helped a great deal in this space.
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IT & PMO Manager at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
We use it for all intensive document sharing business units and especially for document versioning control (quality control area in manufacturing). We also use the online forms (Infopath) to automate simple procedures in conjunction with Microsoft Flow..
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Sunny Rajpal
Senior SharePoint Architect at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Global accessibility over O365 increased the collaboration within the organization.
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SharePoint Architect at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
By creating a platform for collaboration, it empowers users to collaborate and work together on documents, tasks and calendars.
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IT admin at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
It helped us particularly with document digitalization, both from a repository standpoint and from a project documentation sharing and co-authoring perspective, with great integration with the MS Office suite.
It also helped us manage simple processes that used to be carried out through email and now are centralized in a single spot.
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System Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
All attachments are put under SharePoint. So, no more of network sharing is required to store documents. Document versioning is also a useful feature for our organization.
No need to worry any more about emails with attachments and obsolete versions with those attachments. People can edit an online version at the same time. You don’t have to save and send anything anymore.
Though Office 365 Groups is only partly based on SharePoint Online, it gives a great option to share team information with inside and outside users.
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VeyselOzdemir
Managing Director at Ictnet Limited
Yes, especially reducing the print paper and having a very quick response, and reducing the time between department and people.
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informat1007124
Information Technology Manager at a transportation company with 501-1,000 employees
While there were plenty of out-of-the-box solutions for records management projects, this probably under-utilized aspect of SharePoint can help better track documents and retention.
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Technical Project Manager with 501-1,000 employees
It has allowed improved auditing and opened up the cloud. Considerable in-house savings. We are able to add IRM and DLP to company information. This has made the auditors happy.
We have given users a common platform and increased reporting. Information is now available instantly to managers on all devices.
it_user312111
Test Lead at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees
SharePoint has streamlined many processes and provided additional organization for our company. It has become a central location for both documents and productivity.
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Client Relations Coordinator at a tech consulting company
All employees can view necessary interactions/documents, great task management and contact management functions.
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Escalation Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
With the use of “My Site”, we were able to minimize our data center shared drive footprint and roll most user data into a searchable database. SharePoint provides file level,content security, and shifting data management to the customer.
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Director Cloud Solution Consulting at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Microsoft Office 365 has provided us many ways to share documents across a diversity of platforms with a diversity of people (both inside and outside our company).
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EntrprsA3456
Enterprise Architect Channels at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
It has helped us with storing all the documents, which means that people are not going to intervene. There is a way of extracting knowledge within documentation and tracking it. There are knowledge assets for where documentation is stored, indexed, and searchable through SharePoint. I think this represents the collective knowledge, which is highly valuable.
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Sr DevOps Manager at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees
For the past few years, we've been mapping some of our manual procedures into SharePoint, through the use of lists, workflows, centralized documents, etc. This has allowed our organization to start moving away from manual and non-standard practices, to more repeatable procedures.
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Technical Writer and Developer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
SharePoint has allowed our organization to effectively share important information across lines of business globally. I am able to deliver effective information to all of our internal orgs immediately and can receive feedback for updates in real time.
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Web Developer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
With the cleaner and friendlier user interface, we have managed to assign access requests back to the users. While our support desk dealt with these requests previously, we have now managed to easily train managers in each team/department to provide access requests easily, thus reducing the load on our support desk.
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Kamaruddin Yusop
Senior Consultant at Mesiniaga
Ease of access to shared documents.
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Salvador Sibrian
IT Solutions Architect at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees
It's the look and feel and maybe the integration with the Office platform.
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Kumar_Rajesh
Vice President & Head Technology Transition at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
- Information is much more readily available.
- There is more functionality available.
- It allows for simultaneous users to be on it.
it_user799479
Assistant Manager at Li & Fung
It has improve our organization by speeding up document sharing.
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Caressa Naidoo
Technical Writer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
We are now able to organize and control our documentation easily. Versioning, check in, check out and setting permissions for pages and sites enable us to manage our document and picture libraries without a fuss. We can now easily find documents within sites and pages, as long as documents are named and tagged appropriately. We can now create more complex workflows using SharePoint Designer, which is easy to use. However some improvements to SharePoint's workflow functionality could prove useful.
Approved and updated templates and documentation are now available on SharePoint. This ensures consistency and standardization across the organization. Documents and templates are centralized in this one repository, and only selected individuals are permitted to edit documents within the organization’s main documentation library.
There is transparency to the organization; whereas, previously there was none. Knowledge sharing and collaboration is more prevalent; therefore, communication has increased. We use the SharePoint home page to make company announcements, such as employee birthdays, anniversaries ,and upcoming events. We have also recently started using SharePoint to automate some of our manual processes.
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SI with 1,001-5,000 employees
SharePoint Search improved document searchability from different sources like file systems and Office 365.
SharePoint Reporting and PowerPivot make it much easier to create a company report portal.
The SharePoint 2016 on-premises version, Office 365 and ADFS integration allow a good intranet/extranet architecture scenario.
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Project Manager at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We created a uniform portal for multiple subsidiaries of the company; a single place where employees can find all related documents, references and can raise requests to another application via this portal.
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Managing Director & Chief Technology Officer at a tech company with 51-200 employees
It simplifies development of portal and document management. Also, by using Office 365, we got good integration with office tools.
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Change Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
It has helped us collapse all our versions into a single file. It has also improved our meetings.
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reviewer896343
Works at a recruiting/HR firm with 1-10 employees
SharePoint enabled the staff to share documents and work on a document simultaneously. Our staff found it simpler, as they did not have to work within a classification system (it was all done in the background).
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Consultant with 1,001-5,000 employees
SharePoint integrates well with the Team Foundation Server and provides collaboration features for team members on a TFS Team Project. This has helped developers and project stakeholders in the organization to collaborate better and share information in the form of documents/updates.
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Deputy General Manager at a engineering company with 501-1,000 employees
We use this solution as central repository for all the corporate information systems. It is a point of reference in our organization.
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Senior Technology Architect at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We automated task workflows for document review and gathering feedback.
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Product Manager with 1,001-5,000 employees
We implemented custom approval workflows (for approving Opex items) using Windows Workflow Foundation which simplified and helped in speeding up the process of approving HW and SW licenses.
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Jan Coley
Director, Business Development at Armedia
SharePoint has made it easier to collaborate across the company during the process of developing proposals.
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Manager at cavok
It keeps our company organized and everything is in one place. It integrates well with the whole Microsoft production. It is flexible, but still structured.
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Consultant
- Moved from papers to digital.
- Removed the need of paper storage and people flow into the office.
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analyst, programmer
It has made us faster and more efficient. Users just like working in this environment, as an MS Office desktop.
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Project Manager at a consultancy with 501-1,000 employees
We used to keep all of our documentation on SharePoint. SharePoint's version control worked really well with our large range of documents.
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Head of Business Intelligence at a engineering company with 501-1,000 employees
Knowledge management has improved a lot.
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Director at a tech company with 501-1,000 employees
We are a service provider of SharePoint and SCOM to our clients. And we can see the change, how efficiently they are able to carry out their regular productivity works through SP, while the IT team is able to have control and adapt quickly with SCOM.
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JulioYzaguirre
Information Technology Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Everyone knows SharePoint. It is very common.
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Technical Writer at a tech company with 501-1,000 employees
SharePoint has streamlined our documentation management process by allowing us to automate several functions. The version control function has been particularly useful, helping us keep detailed records of changes to documentation. This has removed the risk of human error and streamlined the process. The ability to review the notes for each version has and to easily revert to a previous version has proven useful.
SharePoint has also helped us improve the accessibility of official company documentation across our different teams.
In conjunction with SharePoint Designer, we’ve also been able to create a social hub on our SharePoint homepage where we can share news, photos, and company announcements.
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Software Architect at a retailer with 501-1,000 employees
We were able to introduce a CMS, which had never been implemented before.
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Founder at ARICAN Proje Merkezi
We can arrange all our documents on one platform and see the document's changes and edits. We can arrange all the document archives.
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Tech Support Staff at a government with 501-1,000 employees
So far our HR department has seen the benefits in terms of having a central calendar where everybody in the department can be updated regarding meetings and appointments, creating discussion forums regarding important topics affecting the agency or the department. Having a central repository for documents (rather than at different locations creating storage issues)
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Lead Engineer at AVENCOM
Company portal was finally set up. The CRM system for the commercial department went into production and opened the door for further improvements, KPIs, and metrics.
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Business Analyst, Global IT with 5,001-10,000 employees
- Combined reports and data with timeline tracking.
- Better than looking into three systems to find the full picture.
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Consultant with 201-500 employees
It’s a single entry point to all internal systems with integrated security: no password management issues as with disparate products. All functionality is available from anywhere in the world with a web browser, so everyone is always connected.
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