SharePoint Valuable Features
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VINCENTWU
Project Manager at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
We're able to assign tasks instantly and coordinate online. It is very convenient and easy for team members to access and cooperate. From application collections to employee onboarding, SharePoint can help you save time and increase productivity. We can see the top-line application so your team always knows what to work on first in their email or to-do list integration platform. By tracking all of our work in one place, we never lose sight of what’s most important for data collection.
View full review »The access control is definitely a good feature. We also appreciate the improvements they've made to the online applications, where multiple users can work on the same documents simultaneously. Everything syncs automatically.
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Sam Scott
IT Manager at The Ventoulis Institute for Local Journalism
For SharePoint, I believe the most valuable feature is the customization and allowing you to share and edit files and documents. Being able to share externally and the precise administration of the files in terms of giving permissions and controlling who has access to what is a very good feature.
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SharePoint's most valuable feature is the permission. It allows users to add and edit the data but can't delete anything. Some users prefer deleting the files when they leave an organization. Here, the product helps us save the data.
View full review »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.
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reviewer1527261
Lead Consultant at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees
The search feature is valuable. The solution is useful for document management and collaboration.
View full review »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.
View full review »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.
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Andy Sworan
VP, CRS Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
It offers an easy way to store unstructured content (.pdf, .doc, .xls, images) and to tag them with metadata. More complex solutions may involve workflow up receipt of the content.
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- My Sites
- News-feed
- Discussions
- Communities
The Office 365 version shows real promise, although the mobile use of Discussions does not work as expected. Newsfeed does though. Not sure about Communities.
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.
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Sammy Githinji
Technical Manager at Rigor Systems Limited
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.
View full review »The key features in this product are:
- Use of list functionality
- The ability to easily modify the default screen on a new Web site
- The ability to quickly create and modify subsites
- The ability to create unique access rights to the subsites
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PrashanThilakawardena
Global consultant at LankaClear
The tool’s performance is good. It is also user-friendly, allowing you to download and upload files easily.
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Chaan Beard
Senior Data Center Solutions Architect at ChaanBeard.com
- Team site sharing
- Internal collaboration
- Intranet websites
- Document archive storage
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BillWatterson
CEO l Founder at a manufacturing company with 11-50 employees
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.
View full review »Among the most useful features I like are: the site permissions (distributed governance model), the social enterprise features (micro blogs, activity feeds, community sites, Following, Likes and Reputations), app store, search and query, external data access, security, site management and site customizations.
View full review »- Flexibility to create customized lists and folders
- Ability to assign permissions
- Ability to create user groups and automated workflows
- Easy to use
- Provides flexibility to create separate user groups with specific read, write, and access for certain folders
- Ability to restrict access: Prevents the vendors from touching our master files
The online editing capabilities, file sharing, auditing, information security, ease of solution management, and the easy user adaptation to the platform are the most valuable features.
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Ram Chenna
Enterprise Architect at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
SharePoint has many good features. You can store files of any type, whether office-related documents, videos or MP4 recordings. Metadata can also be stored which makes searching, categorizing and grouping of documents easier. At the same time, the database doesn't take a huge amount of space because documents are on a storage device, unlike other solutions. You can also create forms, have workflows, approvals, scan and upload documents. The solution also has OCR capabilities which are key for the banking and insurance industries. It also has a good forms feature and approval. The DocuWare archive fits very well with that. The solution is cost-effective and has a perpetual license per environment. The product fits neatly within small and medium enterprise banks. It's very cost-effective.
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Cecil Rupp
Works at Command Results, LLC.
The most valuable feature of this solution is the integration with MS Project.
View full review »- SharePoint lists
- Calendar
- Subsites
- Security
- Survey
- It is easy to administer as a business user.
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Lewin Wanzer
SharePoint Architect at a computer software company with 51-200 employees
The collaboration features of SharePoint 2013 are probably the best I have seen in an enterprise product out of the box. Along with the integration of Office and other enterprise solutions, this product cannot be beat in the market currently for what it brings to the table.
There are times you may want to alter how SharePoint works using custom code. This is very important as I have seen developers who are here one day and gone the next with bad code that was based on .NET, recreating what SharePoint does naturally, no acceptable documentation left behind to work from and will not accept calls accept for a fee.
So think before implementing customizations using code, you leave room for error in the code and a gaps in business processes that may need to be updated later. If the code is not using best practices for development on the SharePoint platform Microsoft updates to the server could also effect the successful implementation of these updates as well. If you can bare with using out-of-the-box tools this gives you a stable environment, where Microsoft updates these features and the foundation of the product for you.
There are third party solutions that would be a better fit for the platform that are tested and vetted by Microsoft for a price and maintenance fee. These are better suited for a SharePoint platform than custom code because you know what you are getting and you have someone to call on when things go wrong. I am not saying these are going to fit your every need but most of the time they do help get you a lot closer then where you are out-of-the-box.
- Enterprise Content Management.
- eServices Platform for developing applications on top off it.
- Organization Portals.
- Collaboration, Team working and sharing.
- Document Management.
- Simple workflows.
- Enterprise Search.
In general, I find SharePoint to be a very useful tool when it's configured to allow end users a certain amount of flexibility. (In one of my previous assignments, all options were completely locked down. In that kind of configuration, the usefulness of the tool is highly dependent upon whoever configured the product. In this case, they weren't particularly good.) The latest versions of SharePoint are highly useful for configuring pages for managing and conveying large amounts of information, while giving users the ability to pinpoint the specific things they need with speed and accuracy.
Libraries and lists have a feature set that enables capturing large amounts of information and organizing that information in ways that enable multiple audiences/roles to use it effectively.
Lists, documents, wiki pages and being able to create sites/subsites are valuable features.
View full review »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.
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Anthony M
Business Technology Analyst at Deloitte
The ability to easily upload and modify documents has been a huge help. In addition, the ability to quickly and easily create team sites has been great.
View full review »I have found SharePoint team sites to produce much more value to our organization. As a consulting company, it allows multiple consultants to collaborate on a team project for a customer.
We use SharePoint for company-wide document management.
Although the workflow is limited in SharePoint, we have used it for many boarding processes, PTO requests etc.
View full review »Synergy with other applications in the MS Office suite. For example, with a single click from the MS Lync client, you can create an email in the Outlook client and vice-versa, amongst many other similar integrations between applications that previously did not speak to one another.
View full review »The most valuable features are its ease of integration and customization.
View full review »It has an easy to distribute administration capability, and can also scale to meet a large number of future needs. It also has the ability to produce very simple web application development products, freeing up my team’s development activities for more advanced needs.
View full review »The document library feature in this product is most valuable.
This product does a good job of maintaining an easy, searchable knowledge base, which is the key for supporting applications and business teams.
View full review »The most valuable features to our organization are the ability to store and share documents across the entire corporation, and the ability to use workflows. Our organization has multiple locations and even multiple companies that need to share information both intra-company and within the corporation. The ability to create workflows that can assign tasks and route documents for review and approval allows for documentation automation and project management.
View full review »When an organization is using Microsoft products already, the integration with the Microsoft Office products and the ability to leverage web-based Office products can transform business processes. I think there is a great benefit in integrating collaboration, e-mail, document management, workflow, and content management in one product. When I have been in the role of Information Architect, I took advantage of site content, metadata, advanced searches (FAST), web parts and the free applications.
There are a large number of solid third-party vendors that develop web apps that are easy to integrate and configure.
In smaller organizations or organizations with limited budgets, I was able to leverage SharePoint to provide a lot of functionality around workflows, content and document management with very limited customized development.
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Rigard De Wet
CIO at MMI Holdings
- Document libraries (tagging and search)
- Lists
- Workflow (added)
- Security
- Alerts
- Publishing features and co-authoring.
It is functionalities that improve the efficiency of the employee workforce.
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MichaelSoliman
Owner at Alopex ONE UG
The metadata services, the WCF service integration and the Voxel feature are three most valuable elements of this solution. The Voxel feature, for obvious reasons, because you want to implement business processes and you do not want them to stop if the machine stops so they have to be automatically started. This is What the Voxel feature in SharePoint does. The managed Metadata allows you to define your own notions or terms denoting notions within your companies. And I if I want to disarm them, or disarm power supplies of different types, I need something to denote the names pointing to entities, any program can identify.
Perceptively it does what people used to do with the pens and pencils, on paper. For Millennials, by taking a note of what to do on the paper or stone or whatever they have been using and let anyone else read it and execute with it. So what any back flow or business process you have did legal one for King Nebuchadnezzar 2,700 years ago or for any business where you are taking a phone call, we two are doing right now and writing down something or I have to remind myself to do whatever and sent that over to pop and be while having receipts from department A and have to digitally sign it and send out the paper. It streamlines everything for us.
All of this business processes, people have been performing solely within their minds. Maybe automatized with the structural feature, but it depends on all the metadata that has been stored within the managed metadata, service, user profile data or whatever. So you can not just say, "Oh, I want to send a car" to whom do you want to send it to. Which car do you want to send? So, all of these parameters have to be stored somewhere else. This is what drives the business process and SharePoint solution allowing you to automatize them.
View full review »- Enterprise content management: It is one of the biggest features of SharePoint, which includes the use of enterprise columns for keyword searching and content organization.
- Collaboration tool: It provides seamless integration with other Microsoft Office tools like Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel.
- Enterprise search
- Other vital features are check in, check out and in-built approval workflows for documents/lists.
When properly configured and understood, SharePoint can be an extremely valuable company portal for all manner of office-related functions, including document management, file sharing with versioning, forms, workflows, etc. The platform is also capable of custom applications with database connectors.
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director194919
Director, Systems Management & MIS Operations at a university with 201-500 employees
There are a lot of valuable features (e.g., ease of use, collaboration, integration with LDAP, security, accessibility, stability, etc.).
Integration with LDAP is valuable because:
- Access to all files is secured and controlled via the roles & permissions that are sitting in LDAP for each user. This saves time and effort in determining who should have access to what, how and where.
- Access level in terms of editing capabilities can be controlled easily, too.
- Advanced reporting: Tracking who accessed what, how and when, recording the details, including all successful access and all denied attempts.
- Made multiple-factor authentication possible· Password synchronization, password recovery, SSO (single sign-on)
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Eric Wyatt
IT Director / CIO at Matanuska-Sustina Borough
The most valuable features are the Integrations, web site, and search.
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James Lewis
PCV Engineering & Bus Driving Recruitment Consultant at Likewise Consulting
The ability to assign an attribute to a library artifact allows the site owner to create the appropriate views based on artifact attributes (category, owner, etc.).
View full review »The cross-site search is great for finding knowledge stored or used somewhere in the organization. Most documents are created in MS Office. Each MS Office Document can be stored directly on SharePoint. The threshold for people sharing their documents online has gone down. The cross-site search enables browsing all that knowledge with ease.
The ability to edit MS documents directly from SharePoint makes it easy to collaborate on documents with other people.
The strength of Microsoft has never been in its OS, but in its MS Office suite. MS Office 365 in combination with SharePoint, as a total collaboration tool, brings collaboration to another level.
View full review »What makes SharePoint special is that it applies to a wide range of company scenarios; document management, knowledge management, project management, and records management.
When you want to save information, collaborate, or discover information, SharePoint is the first point-of-contact. You can search, use metadata, or access content via business intelligence created as Excel reports or dashboards. You can also access data from PowerPoint presentations, PowerBI, JavaScript. or jQuery.
Since the core structure is based on ASP.NET technology, you can manage simple development projects using standard .NET developers who have no specialization. You are also able to brand the product using HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
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ManagerIT306285
Manager, IT Automation and Technical Services at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
- We can access SharePoint from a DMZ.
- Vendors and other outside parties can work with it easily.
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SysMan2876
System Manager at a financial services firm with 11-50 employees
It's stable. It's very widely used by companies. Also, the knowledge of the product has improved over the years, and by other companies that support it or are Microsoft SharePoint partners. So if there are problems, there's always a user or company that knows the information or can help you; even with very uncommon problems.
Another strong feature is the search engine. It can search all documents. It can find everything.
We also have our own developers. What we want with SharePoint, we can program it and create many reports, every kind of information needed. Developers can easily create an application for it and display this information.
View full review »- Intranet and extranet: We set up a robust and easily maintained intranet and extranet.
- Ticketing and documentation management: We use the content management features and workflows to create ticketing and document management systems. We also make good use of the wikis.
- HR Requests: We built a system within SharePoint that allows you to create a ticket in HR. For example, terminations, job status changes, pay change, and name change. The user opens the form in SharePoint. Depending on what type of action is necessary, the user is given the exact items that need to be completed for the HR action to proceed. After the user completes and sends the form, it copies the department manager for approval. An email is then sent to the various departments to work on it. With terminations, for example, an email is sent to payroll for final pay, to benefits to get the separation paperwork activated, to IT for equipment pick-up, and to others who have a role when someone leaves the company. I know that we can purchase software to do this, but it would have been expensive. Building this within SharePoint took a few weeks and has received many kudos for helping HR actions.
- Moving from folders to storage: We are moving items from the thousands of Windows folders on storage servers to SharePoint for easy management and retrieval using a SharePoint search. All policies are now on SharePoint and are easy to find and view, even with a smartphone.
- Wikis: We are turning department standard operating procedures into wikis for easy management and documentation. We use security so that only those who need to see these documents can access and update them as needed on the fly.
From my perspective as a developer I would say that the most valuable features are :
- the wide variety of data source connections
- completeness of features
- strong query possibilities (customisation, SQL, MDX, macros)
The most valuable features are:
- MS Office Web Apps allow anywhere/anytime access to the apps used, most often for documents.
- The collaboration feature allows multiple people to read and edit documents simultaneously.
- The list feature makes it easy to integrate database information into the same place as documents. It allows exposing of that data to create reports and views within the site for real-time reporting as well as point-in-time views. This is extremely useful.
SharePoint’s most valuable feature is its use for community building. It turns large scores of people into a more cohesive group by creating a central working environment for documents, conversations, knowledge sharing, processes, tasks and content.
View full review »- Office integration
- Collaboration
- Discussions
- Shared documents
- MS Dynamics integration
- Tasks
- Schedule project integration
- Subscriptions
The best feature that I found for SharePoint was having a main point of contact for everyone involved. Whether it be for the entire company or it for a specific department, this has made it easy to create a common place.
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Mordhi Alenazi
Business Application Development Manager at NWC
The most valuable features are collaboration and sharing.
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MichaelSoliman
Owner at Alopex ONE UG
This solution is a workflow operating system with many metadata services. Information is taken and automatically triggers actions. The specific action is based on the information itself, which is used to calculate a complex answer that results in the action.
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Alfonso Alvarez
CIO at GDELS
- The lists handling is perfect, and any kind of content linked to them very easy to publish.
- Creation of communities is very straightforward.
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Monica Deshazo
Owner at CTC
The product makes it easy to manage lists, forms, searching, and security. One of the most valuable features is its integration with Active Directory.
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Garett Patria
OTA Manager, VRA at HQ USMEPCOM
- Its configuration management ability is critical for document-based systems.
- It offers ease of use, which is crucial.
Easy management of content and portal and the document repository features are a distinguishing point compared to a file server.
View full review »The collaborative features, the central repository for project documents and the know-how for standard/best practices are valuable.
View full review »The two-way synchronization is very valuable.
View full review »I especially value document sharing.
View full review »I find that SharePoint when used for the right purpose, lends itself to be a fantastic collaboration and workflow service.
It is very easy to store documents, collaborate and archive documents with versioning and custom workflows.
View full review »It has a lot of flexibility to store various document and lists. There are integrated workflows and it helps to improve the end user's ability to be more efficient.
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Team sites
Workflow engine
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Wissam H
Change Management Consultant at a analyst firm with self employed
- Libraries
- Lists
- The workflow module
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Adreana Gani
Senior Systems Analyst at KWSP
The list library. And also the document libraries. And also other apps like survey which is heavily used in the company.
View full review »- Document management and permissions: For the document management functionality, I really like the way that we can create the views of documents and very easily create column metadata.
- The flexibility of document sets and being able to manage access with permissions
- The permissions functionality is outstanding. There is the ability to have group or individual permissions. The complete granularity of being able to apply permissions at collection, site, library, list, folder, and doc set levels give ultimate flexibility.
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Yatin Dalvi
Senior Industry Expert with 1,001-5,000 employees
- Site templates
- Document management
- Permissions
- Publishing features
The ability to create workflows.
View full review »We are using metadata tags on documentation, indexed research, linked calendar to outlook, and controlled navigation.
We are not using libraries to classify information, but columns linked to metadata (customer, services, processes, and so on). We have generated a true document ID card, and metadata is easy to index in the research engine. We have a “Google-like” page dedicated to research, which includes refinement fields available to help in research.
View full review »- User permissions and document libraries
- Basic CMS capabilities with user-based permissions
- Ability to tie into other products to extend and scale the platform
We have taken advantage of the list features extensively and the ability to clone subsites.
The creation of lists and the ability to tie lists together is valuable. This has made my job and other different department’s jobs easier. We have many different lists defined on our server. We can use one of the list items on another list so that we have data integrity. That way everyone spells IBM the same, etc.
The ability to make templates of sites means thatt they can be easily recreated over and over.
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Seniop9887
Director at a consultancy with 51-200 employees
The workflow feature is valuable because it enables us to cascade responsibilities. It cyclically keeps tabs on work and to what extent it has progressed, where it is stuck. That feature is really very helpful.
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Prabhat Mittra
Founder & CEO at Solution Enablers
Workflow.
View full review »Depending on the customer’s needs, one or more features become more relevant and important. If I were to generalize and extract the most common features that the customers have used, I would say:
- Web\document content management
- Integration with the Office suite
- Collaboration over the content, sites, BI, search, and workflows
- One or two-way integration with other enterprise applications
I see the strength of SharePoint working as an extendable framework/platform for customers of various sizes, on premise as well as on the cloud, but not as an independent niche product/solution around a specific feature.
View full review »The valuable features are its integration with:
- The Office 365 ecosystem
- Other Office 365 services
- The Office application suite
- Enhanced communications
- The ability to set up sites to share data/information in a one-stop shopping method. Including:
- User-friendly interface to share files
- Ability to have calendaring specific to the function/department addressed by the site
- The important links facility, which provides easy access to frequently used items
- Workflow, which allows us to define processes and make it easier for the user to perform a task. The workflow provides a consistent framework for performing the task, as well as providing behind-the-scenes flow, thus removing the manual process of determining where the flow goes next. This also removes the human error portion of that flow.
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ChristopherGallagher
Delivery Director at Ciber, Inc
Libraries, lists, and reporting.
View full review »Collaboration, DLP, and the search capability are some of the features I like the most.
View full review »Integration with Office 365 and Active Directory, and access from all our company users as part of the Office 365 licenses. Also, hassle free access from mobile devices to sites, forms, and lists, with powerful content search and preview.
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Sunny Rajpal
Senior SharePoint Architect at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees
- DMS
- ECM
- Collaboration
- Portals
- Search
- BI
- Mobile support
- Business process management
- LOB integration
- Document management supports a wide range of capabilities including cross-folder views, custom views, group-by views, versioning, alerts, MS Office integration, workflows, and very flexible permissioning.
- Collaboration in general is quite capable, including calendars, tasks, custom lists, and the ability to easily view data from within MS Office, as well as the built-in apps support found in both cloud and on premises versions.
- Search is exceptionally powerful, supporting a range of hybrid on-premises and cloud configurations, with customizable display templates and refiners.
- The ability to leverage multi-level Taxonomy is useful for hierarchies, views, filters and navigation.
- The out-of-the-box Workflow capabilities are good, and easily extensible with excellent third-party applications.
- We found SharePoint makes an excellent framework for developing an intranet, with built-in support for multi-language versions that adapt to the user's preferred language.
- SharePoint has several excellent available APIs for extension, customization and integration with LOB applications.
SharePoint is the ideal platform in the collaboration scenario where is quite easy to set up document repositories with appropriate permissions with just few mouse clicks.
In a publishing/internet scenario, it has a powerful publishing infrastructure that allows editors to publish contents with predefined layouts in a quick and easy way, with features like scheduled publish and unpublish, caching for page load performance and multilingual site support.
The search capabilities empower the company to create new kinds of applications that in the past used to be implemented with a web/database application and now can be realized using SharePoint lists and libraries as a backend.
View full review »Collaboration with other Microsoft products has made SharePoint a real tool for us. You can use a personal OneDrive storage to share your own documents with others, but also use SharePoint sites to manage projects with external users.
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VeyselOzdemir
Managing Director at Ictnet Limited
Sharing and workflow.
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informat1007124
Information Technology Manager at a transportation company with 501-1,000 employees
Ease of implementation. Certainly, IT needs to give appropriate access to a sandbox, but learning is easy and quick.
View full review »The ability to take Excel files and make them dynamic SharePoint lists with instant reporting capabilities has been a major benefit. Teams are now heavily used in how all our departments work.
Skype/Teams are now the main way our company communicates internally. OneDrive and SharePoint provide a secure, fully auditable way of storing information.
I have found team sites offer much value to our organization. As a consulting company, it allows multiple consultants to collaborate on a team project for a customer.
We use SharePoint for companywide document management.
Although workflow is limited in SharePoint, we have used it for many onboarding processes, PTO requests, etc.
View full review »- Ability to collaborate with others in organization
- Ease of use
- Customization
The features that I find most valuable are:
- Indexing
- Search
- BI
- Custom apps model
- Team sites
- My Site
- Integration with Yammer
SharePoint provides out-of-the-box data indexing and caching. BI is optional and driven by content population as well as external sources import. Custom App model is a platform allowing for a variety of home-grown or enterprise based solutions. We have a local team developing proprietary applications available via an in-house App store that is rolled out either globally across all pages, or individually per team site.
The feature that it works on any device, any place and anywhere for everyone.
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reviewer1451235
IT business analysis, development and governance at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
What I like most about SharePoint would depend on what the task is, e.g. if it's just simple document sharing then the document library is fine. The most exciting feature of the platform is that it's a no code or low code development platform. There's also Power Apps and Power Automate.
View full review »- Documents storage
- Collaboration features (lists, discussion boards)
- Surveys
- .NET extensibility
- Workflows
Mostly, because it facilitates collaboration and the ability to create custom workflows.
Documentation management is the most valuable feature for me. As a technical writer, the ability to add, edit, manage and move documents is a daily task and SharePoint allows me to do that effectively.
The search function is imperative in this product and used frequently to locate and update information for our global and diverse teams.
View full review »Some valuable features are:
- The SharePoint document management is second to none. This was one of our main reasons to upgrade from SharePoint 2010 to 2013.
- SharePoint 2013 had a better and cleaner user interface that has appealed to more users.
- The improved out-of-the-box Search functionality, was also a driving factor in migrating to SharePoint 2013.
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Kamaruddin Yusop
Senior Consultant at Mesiniaga
Co-editing of documents. This enables teams to work on the same document and the work gets done faster.
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Salvador Sibrian
IT Solutions Architect at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Basically, it's just for internet and communication. It's not a busy implementation.
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Kumar_Rajesh
Vice President & Head Technology Transition at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
A combination of:
- Auditing
- Logging
- Collaboration.
It has been very useful and easy to use.
View full review »Its most valuable feature is the document library.
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Caressa Naidoo
Technical Writer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
- Mostly the documentation management features.
- Managing information such as events and announcements, document libraries, picture libraries, using calendars, lists and custom lists.
- Sharing files, document storage and retrieval, the check-in and check-out functionality, version history, custom properties, customized views, customizable workflows.
- Collaborative team sites for sharing and managing information.
- Search features, including advanced content processing, managed metadata, and continuous crawls.
- Security features, including permissions and document/page/site control.
SharePoint Search. The combination of a central search portal and search-based navigation (search based on predefined metadata) returns faster search results.
SharePoint business intelligence. The data portability between SharePoint Excel reporting and Power BI allows power users to quickly create beautiful company reports.
Hybrid in SharePoint 2016
View full review »The most valuable features of this product are: multiple site collections, list libraries, the content and document library, and custom development & integration.
Multiple site and subsites are created for around 10 subsidiaries of the main company which has a uniform portal along with subsidiary specific contents and documents.
Discussion forum, content library, document library, task calendar, job postings, integration with ticketing tool, etc. are features which are general as well as specific to each subsidiary and built by using SharePoint 2013.
View full review »- Visual web parts
- Document libraries
- FBA
- Document templates
Meeting workspaces, version history, bulk tagging.
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MJ
reviewer896343
Works at a recruiting/HR firm with 1-10 employees
Sharing of information is much easier within an organisation and staff training is reduced because learning basic SharePoint is not as complicated as an EDRMS.
View full review »I have used SharePoint as an integrated solution with Team Foundation Server.
The most valuable features are the SharePoint lists and the documents feature.
View full review »The valuable features are:
- MS-Office integration
- Workflow and approval process
- Security
Feedback workflows ensure we don't miss someone when documents need reviewing and approval workflows make sure the right people are approving it, especially when there are new or temporary staff involved. They don't have to ask who is next in line. They just pick the appropriate workflow and it's all sorted.
View full review »Valuable features in this product are:
- Easy customization with MS .NET and related tools
- Stability
- Performance in a medium size environment (100-200 users)
- Full support by MS
JC
Jan Coley
Director, Business Development at Armedia
- The collaboration is incredibly helpful.
- The ability to have version control and co-editing is vital to our workflows.
There is not just one valuable feature; it is all of them working together:
- Document libraries
- Lists
- Workflows
- Sites
- Integration.
Document flows, storage, and numbering take off the actions for checking and assigning the numbering and running around with approvals and pre-approvals.
View full review »- Team collaboration
- Unique permissions
- MS Office web access
- Quantity and variety of partners with solution development ability on the platform.
In our scenario, Team Portal was a really useful feature.
View full review »The most valuable features are the high number of ready-made snippets, easy basic process automation functionality, security model, and good integration with other Microsoft products.
View full review »Collaboration & DMS are the most valuable features of the product, to me.
It is also easy to use and provides valuable integration options.
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JulioYzaguirre
Information Technology Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
The most valuable facet of SharePoint is the content, the ideas, all the information, all in one content management system. But I don't think we have explored or used 100 percent of the capabilities of SharePoint.
View full review »SharePoint's document management and workflow features have proven to be the valuable. We have been able to implement a reliable, easily accessible document library with version control (previously managed manually) and an announcements workflow that allows us to communicate site specific news easily.
View full review »- Team sites
- Reporting services
- Power pivot
- Excel services
- Search services.
- Ability to be used from a .NET programming environment
Office 365 integration is most valuable thing in SharePoint. It is so much easier to create documents.
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Alerts and co-authoring
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- Its functionality is enormous.
- It looks nice.
- It has good integration with other MS products.
- It is well supported by Microsoft.
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reviewer907167
Cloud Solution Architect at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
- Metadata store
- Cascade dropdowns for selection of data sets.
The features which are most valuable to us are its powerful search, edit in browser, social features.
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