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SharePoint

byMicrosoft
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4.4
Market Presence: Enterprise AI Search, Document Management

Overview

Product Information on SharePoint

Updated 13th October 2025

What is SharePoint?

SharePoint is a software developed by Microsoft designed to enable organizations to create, manage, and share content, knowledge, and applications for seamless collaboration. The software offers tools for document management, workflow automation, secure information storage, and custom site creation. It allows users to organize and find information efficiently, facilitate team collaboration across departments, and integrate with other enterprise applications. SharePoint addresses business needs around centralizing resources, ensuring controlled access to sensitive data, maintaining document versioning, and supporting business process workflows to enhance productivity and reduce administrative overhead.

SharePoint Pricing

SharePoint software is available through subscription-based pricing as part of Microsoft 365 plans, with varying tiers offering different features and storage capacities. Pricing is structured per user per month and may differ based on the level of functionality required or the inclusion of additional Microsoft software.

Overall experience with SharePoint

Staff Engineer
1B - 3B USD, Software
FAVORABLE

“Solid Enterprise Search with Strong M365 Integration, Room for AI Improvement”

4.0
Jun 16, 2026
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IT Manager
<50M USD, IT Services
CRITICAL

“Powerful integration and security, but permission management remains complex”

3.0
Jun 6, 2026
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About Company

Company Description

Updated 11th August 2023

Microsoft enables digital transformation for the era of an intelligent cloud and an intelligent edge. Its mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Microsoft is dedicated to advancing human and organizational achievement. Microsoft Security helps protect people and data against cyberthreats to give peace of mind.

Company Details

Updated 25th March 2024
Company type
Public
Year Founded
1975
Head office location
Redmond, Washington, United States
Number of employees
10000+
Annual Revenue
30B+ USD
Website
https://microsoft.com

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Peer Discussions

SharePoint Reviews and Ratings

4.4

(330 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star
46%
4 Star
47%
3 Star
7%
2 Star
0%
1 Star
0%
Why ratings and reviews count differ?
  • IT Manager
    <50M USD
    IT Services
    Review Source

    Powerful integration and security, but permission management remains complex

    3.0
    Jun 6, 2026
    Enterprise collaboration is the main focus of Microsoft's Sharepoint, which also acts as a unified data hub for creating, storing, and archiving enterprise data. The platform provides and ensures seamless application integration of other business apps into the platform of some which are native and also 3rd party. Within the data repositories, SharePoint offers fast content processing and indexing features. The inbuilt search engine is well optimised and offers powerful search features for recalling and searching existing data which is fast and also reliable. In our experience of using the platform as the core data repository for BAU and project work, we rely a lot on the platform's resilience and speed for deliveries which is well offered by the platform.
  • IT Manager
    <50M USD
    IT Services
    Review Source

    Powerful integration and security, but permission management remains complex

    3.0
    Jun 6, 2026
    Enterprise collaboration is the main focus of Microsoft's Sharepoint, which also acts as a unified data hub for creating, storing, and archiving enterprise data. The platform provides and ensures seamless application integration of other business apps into the platform of some which are native and also 3rd party. Within the data repositories, SharePoint offers fast content processing and indexing features. The inbuilt search engine is well optimised and offers powerful search features for recalling and searching existing data which is fast and also reliable. In our experience of using the platform as the core data repository for BAU and project work, we rely a lot on the platform's resilience and speed for deliveries which is well offered by the platform.
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User Sentiment About SharePoint
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Performance of SharePoint Across Market Features

SharePoint Likes & Dislikes

Like

1. Deep integration with Microsoft 365 ecosystem (Teams, OneDrive, Outlook, CoPilot) makes content discovery seamless across platforms. 2. Robust permissions and security model allows granular control over who can access what content. 3. Out-of-the-box connectors for indexing content from multiple data sources including SharePoint libraries, Teams channels, and external repositories. 4. Modern search experience with people search, expertise finding, and verticals customization. 5. Copilot integration for AI-assisted search and content summarization.

Like

1. Deep integration with Microsoft 365 ecosystem (Teams, OneDrive, Outlook, CoPilot) makes content discovery seamless across platforms. 2. Robust permissions and security model allows granular control over who can access what content. 3. Out-of-the-box connectors for indexing content from multiple data sources including SharePoint libraries, Teams channels, and external repositories. 4. Modern search experience with people search, expertise finding, and verticals customization. 5. Copilot integration for AI-assisted search and content summarization.

Like

1. Deep integration with Microsoft 365 ecosystem (Teams, OneDrive, Outlook, CoPilot) makes content discovery seamless across platforms. 2. Robust permissions and security model allows granular control over who can access what content. 3. Out-of-the-box connectors for indexing content from multiple data sources including SharePoint libraries, Teams channels, and external repositories. 4. Modern search experience with people search, expertise finding, and verticals customization. 5. Copilot integration for AI-assisted search and content summarization.

Dislike

1)Standard out of the box search engine: While the platform offers strong search features with the backend, the front end search feels broken where some organizations may adopt a traditional data folder structure without meta data 2)Complex permission management: While the file and folder security feels and provides strict security, configuring the permissions requires more knowledge than the usual IT Tech person. Configurations such as inherited and nested permissions make it so you can accidentally share irrelevant content 3) Steep learning curve: Due to the fact that the principle offers and pushes many constant updates, the modern sharepoint UI changes frequently, Due to this fact some technical staff find it taking more time to understand deep site hierarchies and settings to get things done fast.

Dislike

1)Standard out of the box search engine: While the platform offers strong search features with the backend, the front end search feels broken where some organizations may adopt a traditional data folder structure without meta data 2)Complex permission management: While the file and folder security feels and provides strict security, configuring the permissions requires more knowledge than the usual IT Tech person. Configurations such as inherited and nested permissions make it so you can accidentally share irrelevant content 3) Steep learning curve: Due to the fact that the principle offers and pushes many constant updates, the modern sharepoint UI changes frequently, Due to this fact some technical staff find it taking more time to understand deep site hierarchies and settings to get things done fast.

Dislike

1)Standard out of the box search engine: While the platform offers strong search features with the backend, the front end search feels broken where some organizations may adopt a traditional data folder structure without meta data 2)Complex permission management: While the file and folder security feels and provides strict security, configuring the permissions requires more knowledge than the usual IT Tech person. Configurations such as inherited and nested permissions make it so you can accidentally share irrelevant content 3) Steep learning curve: Due to the fact that the principle offers and pushes many constant updates, the modern sharepoint UI changes frequently, Due to this fact some technical staff find it taking more time to understand deep site hierarchies and settings to get things done fast.