Microsoft Sharepoint

What differentiates Microsoft Sharepoint from other similar products?

We were able to eliminate business shared storage and license-based document imaging software thanks to SharePoint. The immediate cost reductions were significant, but the long-term cost savings will be significant when the cost of monitoring and maintaining the hardware for shared drive services is included. Multiple copies of the same document can be stressful, resulting in data loss and modifications. That difficulty is eliminated if everyone uses the same layout and views and changes the same document.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

You may assign several degrees of access to people, such as see only or edit. SharePoint is a fantastic tool for working across various offices or locations. One of the nicest benefits is the ability to avoid having numerous copies of a single document floating about and for everyone to view and change it as required. We completely replace costly cloud reporting software with SharePoint at a tenth of the cost of the reporting application subscription. The elimination of shared drives alone made the move to SharePoint a breath of fresh air.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Some of the Office 365 apps have some overlap. It's difficult for someone who is just getting started to know which app to utilize for which occasion. If you're starting from scratch, SharePoint provides for so much flexibility that it's easy to get lost in the weeds. Because of its numerous applications and extensive capabilities, SharePoint has a wealth of information. So much so that learning about the product might be overwhelming at first.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

The gadget is really simple to use; I recommend giving it a go. There are several useful features, such as process creation and document signature requests. I can't think of all the possibilities in my brain; it's a program that you can tweak and utilize in a variety of ways.

What differentiates Microsoft Sharepoint from other similar products?

The flexibility provided by Sharepoint is simply amazing and unparalleled by other products developed by its competitors. People can work simultaneously, the changes are seen in real-time, and share documents with others with reading or read/write access, and most importantly provides the flexibility to revert to a previous version if required, with just a couple of clicks.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

There are many great things about Microsoft Sharepoint, but the best thing about it is that the Microsoft documents - Word, Powerpoint, and Excel, when opened by multiple people simultaneously, can be edited simultaneously as well. As a member of the Product team at ZS, my colleagues and I collaboratively edit the pitch decks and budget estimates on Powerpoint and Excel simultaneously, and this makes document management hassle-free since the updates by all are saved in real-time and are visible to all.

What do you dislike most about this product?

As a user, Microsoft Sharepoint has almost all the features one can desire. One of the features which I find missing is the lock for edit feature for a particular user at a particular time. If the document creator wishes, he should be able to lock the document even for those with edit access at a particular time, so that the document can be edited only by the creator. This is helpful especially when focus work is required where the interference of other editors would be undesirable.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

I would recommend everyone to use Microsoft Sharepoint if Office 365 formats such as MS Word, MS Powerpoint, and MS Excel are used frequently. I had a great experience with Microsoft Sharepoint. Before using Sharepoint, I was not aware that even such a powerful collaboration tool exists in the first place. With the help of Sharepoint, I can store a large amount of data, share it with the required team members with Reading/Edit access as required, and work collaboratively with them in real-time to create or edit documents. Overall, it is the best collaborative working platform I have seen.

What differentiates Microsoft Sharepoint from other similar products?

Easy to Implement Easy to Customize Lot of Documentation available for Training and Customization Easy for Business User to use

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Approvals Automation is Easy. Lot of Custom Tools pre built for collaboration

What do you dislike most about this product?

Document Management User Experience is not intuitive Mobile App needs improvement for Communication Portals. No on demand user syncing to user profile service

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Its easy to implement but avoid using in built user profile services as ideally as an admin you need to have control over user synching schedule as per your organization needs which is currently missing.