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VINCENTWU
Project Manager at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
I used the old version SharePoint and it had a lack of integration with MS Teams, Instant Message, and the web portable for file sharing. This new version is better than the old version as you can do file sharing without a corporate mechanism.
Most of all, I liked that I did not even need to install MS Office and am now using MS Office Cloud within the web office format. It is truly a well-integrated application.
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Sam Scott
IT Manager at The Ventoulis Institute for Local Journalism
We've always used Microsoft here, so we didn't use any other solution.
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Andy Sworan
VP, CRS Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
You can deploy a web/database solution but it will take a lot of development time. SharePoint is a Rapid Application Development platform where a simple library, indexed, can be deployed in minutes.
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it_user204777
Manager, IT Communications at AbbVie
This is the first time using it at this company.
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Chaan Beard
Senior Data Center Solutions Architect at ChaanBeard.com
We used NetMax. The OpenStack Linux stuff is hacked like no other.
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BillWatterson
CEO l Founder at a manufacturing company with 11-50 employees
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.
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Project Manager at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
We used an open-source CMS (Joomla-based) and due to the limitations, we switched to SharePoint.
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Assistant Manager, Operations Automation at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
I have always used Microsoft SharePoint for my projects.
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Cesar Danecke
IT Supervisor at HORSCH BRASIL
What motivated us to switch solutions was the easy solution management, space scalability, additional features, easy synchronization, data security, and sharing control.
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Ram Chenna
Enterprise Architect at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
Some of our client were first time users of SharePoint so going from no prior system for document storage, collaboration, content management, workflows, application development platform was a boon.
For all of our client who have moved from one version to another version of the product, they always found the product improved in terms of features and functionality and performance.
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Cecil Rupp
Works at Command Results, LLC.
NO, client requires use of SharePoint for content management on IT programs and projects.
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Lewin Wanzer
SharePoint Architect at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
I was a FileNet administrator but switched to SharePoint because of the integration of the Office products. I know that FileNet is a great product as well, but Microsoft has done a great job of integrating SharePoint with the Office suite. This drove my decision to move to SharePoint as a support engineer.
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Lead Enterprise Architect at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We used to employ Oracle UCM, but we replaced it because of the features provided in SharePoint along with the customizations, flexibility and ease of creating websites, workflows, pages and applications.
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Sr. Business Systems Analyst at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees
There's nothing truly like SharePoint in the marketplace that I'm aware of. You can use wiki's of various sorts and cobble together any number of open source or paid solutions that address a component of what SharePoint does. But that approach doesn't have the current product's level of integration and the maturity of its feature set.
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Business Architect at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
Initially, we were MS OneNote.
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Network Manager / Senior Network Engineer at Warnock, Tanner & Associates
Initially, we were using simple file shares and emails for this purpose.
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Senior Business Analyst at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
We used several single purpose software tools for each area of our need. We switched to MS SharePoint/Office 365 for a number of reasons, including: the seamless integration between the many apps in the suite; colleagues (users) are familiar with the MS office interface from Excel, Outlook, Word and PowerPoint and that shortens the learning curve considerably.
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CTO with 501-1,000 employees
We previously used a solution called Hornbill (Supportworks); it was out of date and had less flexibility in customization and no access to the source code level.
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Technology Manager - Applications at a local government with 501-1,000 employees
We did not have a similar solution in place. Our intranet was previously an added product to our hosted CMS. And for Capital Projects, we were using a mixture of standalone Microsoft Project install and file shares.
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Sr. DevOps at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Previously, I have used HP document solutions. I made the switch to SharePoint as it was what the client was using.
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Database / SharePoint Administrator at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees
I did not previously use a different solution.
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Data Research Analyst at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
I have used Google and still do today. It is less expensive as a personal solution to document management, archiving and collaboration. It also integrates with my personal Google e-mail solution.
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Syed Fahad Anwar
Principal System Developer at HHRC
We have always used the SharePoint content management system.
For document management, we use IBM FileNet, which is great for managing document but poor with collaboration tools.
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Chief Information Security Officer at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
I’ve not used any other tools.
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director194919
Director, Systems Management & MIS Operations at a university with 201-500 employees
I previously used a different solution; switched because of ease of use and deployment.
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Senior Consultant/Project Manager at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I always used Sharepoint.
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European Business Architect - B2B Marketing & Sales with 1,001-5,000 employees
Previously, we used enQuira to store questions.
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Senior Consultant | Architect at DHL
I previously used SharePoint Services 3, SharePoint Server 2007/2010/2013. Now, I am using SharePoint Online 2016 in a hybrid model that has new features and some new innovations. There are many reasons to switch.
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SysMan2876
System Manager at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees
The switch was handed to our default supplier of software, in this case, Microsoft. The whole platform we used was based on Microsoft.
It's not a vendor we select, we select a product. After that, we look at the vendor. If the product looks good, promising, and it looks stable - and of course we test it before we go any further with it - then we look at the vendor, especially the support. Then we find other cases, where they have implemented a similar product or feature and ask for their feedback.
it_user339057
Sr. Manager - IT Security, Compliance and Administration at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
We had no other solutions before this one.
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Senior Manager, Business Intelligence at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
I am not aware of any previous solutions. I always use Cognos solutions for my BI needs.
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IT Manager at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
Prior to this product, I have not used any other solution.
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Business Development Director at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees
We never tried to implement a solution other than SharePoint.
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President and Founder with 51-200 employees
We used various methods to achieve the same results shared folders and third party document management solutions, e.g. Documentum.
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Project Manager with 501-1,000 employees
N/A. SharePoint was the original solution.
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Manager of Operations at a hospitality company with 501-1,000 employees
We did not have a previous solution.
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Director of Development with 501-1,000 employees
We did not have anything before.
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Project Manager at a tech company with 51-200 employees
I did not previously use a different solution.
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IT Services Manager at a educational organization with 501-1,000 employees
Before SharePoint, we used internally designed websites, WordPress and Drupal. We found that they did not provide the collaboration features and integration that we would have liked.
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Business Analyst at a tech company with 10,001+ employees
We were not using any other solution previously.
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IT Manager at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
We did not have a previous solution.
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Wissam H
Change Management Consultant at a analyst firm with self employed
I did not previously use a different solution.
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IT Business Analyst for Sales Enablement with 1,001-5,000 employees
Our previous system was shared folders and file and print servers.
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Yatin Dalvi
Senior Industry Expert with 1,001-5,000 employees
We did not use a previous solution. We did upgrade from SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013.
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Office 365 Consultant at a hospitality company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We did not have a previous solution.
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Business Process Coordinator at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
We tried ShareDrive and Confluence. We stay with SharePoint because of the indexed content and corporate licenses.
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Systems Analyst at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
To my knowledge, we have always used SharePoint. We have not switched away from SharePoint because of its AD integration; it makes automatic permissions that much easier.
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Database Senior Manager at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
We didn't have anything that did this before.
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Seniop9887
Director at a consultancy with 51-200 employees
We did not have a previous solution, other than mail-messaging and Excel.
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Practice Manager and Solutions Architect at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
We used solutions from the Java world. Those, as well as this one, are based on the customers' needs.
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Collaboration Service Manager at a consumer goods company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We are using a different on-premise platform. The plan is to migrate to Sharepoint online for our document management and business process applications.
We are switching in order to:
- Migrate to a cloud platform
- Maximize our investment in the Office 365 platform
- Consolidate platforms
- Provide a more accessible, standardized, and integrated platform for our users.
it_user139293
VP/Treasurer/Asst Secretary at a construction company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We did not previously use a different solution.
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Senior Technology Architect at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
I have seen customers using other tools and switching to SharePoint. Technology upgrades and feature upgrades are the key reasons for this.
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IT & PMO Manager at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees
We used SharePoint 2010 on premise. We switched due to the license cost and to give access to all our company users. Also, because SPO was included in the Office 365 plans. As a SaaS, it is always up to date.
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Sunny Rajpal
Senior SharePoint Architect at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees
We were previously using a custom solution that was hard to maintain and there was also lack of user adoption. With SP, we were able to see great improvement in those areas.
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IT admin at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
I did not use a previous solution.
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System Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
I did not use any other solutions prior to SharePoint and I would not change to another product either.
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VeyselOzdemir
Managing Director at Ictnet Limited
FileNet and Documentum.
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Test Lead at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees
We used to use simple file shares and emails.
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Client Relations Coordinator at a tech consulting company
We did not have any previous solutions.
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Escalation Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
We upgraded from SharePoint 2007 and 2010. Data migration was the biggest culprit. The main reason for an upgrade was to provide easier platform management.
it_user118134
Director Cloud Solution Consulting at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
We had a Small Business Server environment which has a cap in the user environment. Since we grew out of the number of users, we had to change. Microsoft Office 365 was the fastest and most powerful way for both short and long term vision.
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it_user689550
Sr DevOps Manager at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees
We did not have a previous solution.
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Technical Writer and Developer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
Our company has used other solutions to meet various needs. We are still in the process of converting into using SharePoint for our knowledge base, etc.
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Web Developer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We used the older version, Microsoft SharePoint 2010.
Our reason to upgrade was Microsoft decided to stop its support for SharePoint 2010 aand also because our license was soon going to expire.
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Kumar_Rajesh
Vice President & Head Technology Transition at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Previously, we were using file share. We switched because SharePoint made things easier with the increased functionality for building the portals, microsites, and total integration with Microsoft categories.
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Caressa Naidoo
Technical Writer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
We were previously using a network drive that we accessed directly from our laptops and desktops. There was simply no control of information and documentation; and loss of information occurred. There were inadequate, non-existent, or deep folder structures, messy content structures, and a lack of document management and control. Versioning was done manually. Important documentation with sensitive information was being stored on local drives. Updated templates and documentation were not being used.
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SI with 1,001-5,000 employees
Our intranet portal was based on in-house development. We moved from legacy to a standard product.
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Managing Director & Chief Technology Officer at a tech company with 51-200 employees
We did not use a previous solution.
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Consultant with 1,001-5,000 employees
We were not using any other solution.
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Deputy General Manager at a engineering company with 501-1,000 employees
Prior to this solution, we used shared files provided by the operating system.
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Senior Technology Architect at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees
We were using SharePoint 2007. We changed due to the product lifecycle.
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Product Manager with 1,001-5,000 employees
Previously, we used custom ASP.NET application. We wanted to use SharePoint because it is easy to deploy in a new environment and has out-of-the box functionalities like AD authentication, file versioning, wiki pages, .NET extensible, etc.
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Project Manager at a consultancy with 501-1,000 employees
We did not have a previous solution.
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Head of Business Intelligence at a engineering company with 501-1,000 employees
We have used no other tool prior to SharePoint.
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Technical Writer at a tech company with 501-1,000 employees
As already mentioned, our previous documentation solution was manual, using a folder structure accessible through Windows Explorer.
The switch to SharePoint was motivated by the desire to improve availability of our documentation and to streamline our document management processes.
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Consultant (SharePoint Specialist) at a consultancy with 51-200 employees
We did not have a previous solution.
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Software Architect at a retailer with 501-1,000 employees
I did not previously use a different solution.
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