SharePoint from a non developer
- Very robust, never crashes
- With minimum investment apart from licensing it can address most business processes
- Good search capabilities (SharePoint 2010)
- Same ergonomics as late office editions
Cons
- Referential integrity between lists
- Better no programming application development capabilities
- Simple solution to keep big data outside the database
- Divisions document generation much better coordinated
- It serves us as a CRM without the need to buy one
- Very well adopted so the demands ever increase
- Need to have outside consultant
- Extranet collaboration with partners outside our company
- CRM platform, tracking of project pipelines
- Project collaboration
- To facilitate basic CRM functionality
- Bid tracking
- Receivables management
- Connecting with Oracle Database
- Process management
- Approval processes
It was a change in company management and IT management that spurred the change of platform, and since we were under a Microsoft subscription at the time, SharePoint was an obvious choice. Through the word of mouth, the number of users eventually spread through the years.
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Vendor Reputation
- Existing Relationship with the Vendor
- Implemented in-house
- Professional services company
- Switching authentication from regular to claims based in 2010
- Finding new versions of third party add ons, since sites would break if add ons were not updated
- Takes a while for users to get accustomed to new ergonomics
- Setup of security
- Integrating with active directory
- Integration with other microsoft products
- New Microsoft Project is awesome! It's built upon the SharePoint platform
- House cleaning the platform. It requires period maintenance to operate efficiently
- Some list functionality is lacking for example cascade lookup
- Security is at the item level, not column level