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11 SharePoint Reporting Tool Reviews
SharePoint reporting has a lot of cool features but the best thing about it is that anyone with basic SharePoint knowledge can start building amazing reports. It provides a great low code interface and the intuitive UI makes building reports even more simpler. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
With all the great features offered by SharePoint it is difficult to find something to dislike, but, one thing that I have noticed is that when we have too much data and the SharePoint Lists are having a lot of Lookup columns overall performance of the reports downgrades a little and becomes difficult to manage with time. Although, this is not a show stopper and can be overcome by adding a few tweaks to the implementation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The best thing about SharePoint is it's ability to store large files securely and enable us to share to other people easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
There is nothing as such, The file gets deleted in some time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
SharePoint is a low code platform that is used as a document repository by organizations for their day-to-day work. It comes with an access control feature which gives you security internally.
You can use the SharePoint as your internal team site with team memebers for document/content sharing. There is much more than just document sharing. You can create webpages lists and automated workflows with help of external tools.
With O365 new Power platform tools consists of Powerapps, power automate flow, and Power BI it'll give you an edge and extra productivity. You can use them in SharePoint and create forms, flows, reporting and analytic tools, and reporting dashboard.
With access control, you can manage who can see what which is a great feature. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The SharePoint platform comes with less customization. You have to use asp.net and react to make good-looking UI and web parts. Custom code is less supported is your goal is to make high end designs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
It is effortless to use and provides excellent documentation for any beginners to start with. there are also a lot of the box features which make the overall experience very good Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Even though the tool is very good to use but its inability to provide more platforms to customize it makes it really annoying for eg. the removal of the content editor web part in online. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Sharepoint offers a wide variety of tools for reporting needs. My personal favorite is MS Power BI. I like the free version where I can connect just about any data source and simply start creating reports! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
It has a great number of features and so many visualization options. The only issue you face is when you want to share a report with others. Then you have to upgrade to pro version which sometimes can be costly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
This a very powerful reporting tool according to me. We have the option to enable a lot of features in one tool. Merging of multiple applications in this tool is easily possible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
I dislike the fact that in spite of giving a option to edit all files , we cannot edit the pdf files whilst using it for reporting. If this feature would have been included it would be very helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Makes it easy to work on Microsoft documents collaboratively with others Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The hardest part is actually figuring out how to log-in, or share documents from there. Several times friends shared documents but I couldn't even log-in to see them even when I tried switching mail accounts Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The ability to sort reports in a library format. This allows you to section off different reports by which department that uses them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Depending on how the data extraction is set up at your firm , SOME but not all reports can take a long time to load. This also is dependent on the reporting format and the size and type of data the reports are extracting. For example, a report that works off of time stamps for devices on the shop floor takes 5-10 minutes to load, where as reports that have customer demographic information or finance information load very quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
SharePoint Reporting Tool is fairly intuitive and easy to train others to use. As someone who needed to use it frequently, it was a software I did not mind using. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
The interface didn't feel very modern, and it would be nice if it looked more so. Additionally, it is sometimes a bit slow to get through all the screens. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
It is easy to access and navigation is very intuitive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
In the short time I have been using SharePoint Reporting Tool, I have not found anything that I dislike at this time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
