Microsoft SharePoint Pricing Overview

I have used Sharepoint in almost every position I have held. What I like best about Sharepoint is that it is mature with vast partner ecosystem for specialized add-ons. Greatly improved usability. Best-in-class security and compliance features. Workflow flexibility with SharePoint Apps and Microsoft Flow. Available standalone or as part of several Microsoft Office 365 subscription tiers. Microsoft SharePoint Online is the gold standard for document management and its usability has improved dramatically over the last few years. Couple that with a very impressive set of compliance tools and Microsoft SharePoint Online is an easy pick for multiple companies to utilize. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What I dislike about Sharepoint is that multiple aspects of installation require IT-level expertise it is also more expensive than the competition. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Since it is in the Microsoft environment, it naturally works with other tools. It follows teams and groups from your M365 environment. Lists are a nice feature to keep track and sort live data with multiple users. If you have very simple data needs and minimal folders, SharePoint might work for you. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It has odd navigation and is overall not intuitive or easy to use. The spread out, web page style layout makes conceptualizing folder structure almost impossible. It is not an organized folder system, more like a spiderweb of individual sites and pages. It is expensive to administer and set up because you need a highly trained tech admin to maintain it. Setting up permissions is confusing, and it is easy to overshare data because so many factors can share the site. For example, we stripped out a lot of permissions, but users were still able to access the sites if they had them synced to OneDrive. Therefore, I do not have confidence that SharePoint is secure enough. When viewing files on a site, SharePoint only shows 30 items at a time in a list, which leads to confusion on the site contents. You have to scroll down and wait for more items to reload. There it is slow to use. SharePoint has an identity crisis of whether it is a web page, a collaborative site, or a data server, so it is not great at any of them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.