Sharepoint Features in 2019

When you’re exploring software products —specially cloud-based apps— you expect a free tier or trial. After all, a primary value proposition of SaaS vendors is self-service; you want to be able to explore the product yourself and see if it matches your needs.
Not quite with Microsoft SharePoint. Besides the fact you must add your credit card number to access a free trial, it gives you access to the whole Microsoft Office 365 suite — but you will struggle to find the module you care about: SharePoint.
Of course, you could also download the on-premise version on your PC. In other words, you’re occupying your computer resources just to give SharePoint a spin.
This was my experience when I was trying to sign up for SharePoint to get a sense of its feature set. Just to save others who are going down the same route some trouble I decided to create a checklist and description of SharePoint features, so that you can quickly decide if it’s the collaboration tool your company should go with.

SharePoint homepage


At the highest level SharePoint allows you to create multiple intranet sites, hub sites, websites etc. Sites allow you to create customized views to manage and distribute your content. SharePoint Homepage is the central hub of Sharepoint from where you can aggregate information from across Sites. You can visualize news, updates, and notifications from each Site, besides creating new Sites in the same view.

Sites

SharePoint offers a Page builder to cover common internal communication needs. The templates available are Hub sites, Wikis, Blogs, and Discussion Forums. Hub sites are intranets or internal websites for each topic or department; Wikis are sites that any user can modify and add content to; Blogs are an internal facing blogging platform.

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