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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    MS SharePoint / SQL

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AMS SharePoint / SQL refers to Microsoft Sharepoint, a web-based collaborative platform, being used in tandem with Microsoft SQL Server to provide business intelligence analytics and reporting. They can provide BI content such as data connections, reports, scorecards, dashboards, and more.N/A

    Snowflake

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/AThe Snowflake Cloud Data Platform is the eponymous data warehouse with, from the company in San Mateo, a cloud and SQL based DW that aims to allow users to unify, integrate, analyze, and share previously siloed data in secure, governed, and compliant ways. With it, users can securely access the Data Cloud to share live data with customers and business partners, and connect with other organizations doing business as data consumers, data providers, and data service providers.N/A
    Pricing
    MS SharePoint / SQLSnowflake
    Editions & Modules
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    MS SharePoint / SQLSnowflake
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    MS SharePoint / SQLSnowflake
    Considered Both Products
    Microsoft
    No answer on this topic
    Snowflake Computing
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    81%
    Would buy again
    13 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    29 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    87%
    Delivers good value for the price
    13 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    27 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    88%
    Happy with the feature set
    14 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    29 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    83%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    10 Answers
    96%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    22 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    92%
    Implementation went as expected
    12 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    24 Answers
    Features
    MS SharePoint / SQLSnowflake
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of MS SharePoint / SQL and Snowflake
    Feature
    MS SharePoint / SQL
    7.6
    58 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Snowflake
    -
    Ratings
    Pixel Perfect reports8.639 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards7.055 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates7.348 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of MS SharePoint / SQL and Snowflake
    Feature
    MS SharePoint / SQL
    8.1
    53 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Snowflake
    -
    Ratings
    Drill-down analysis7.742 Ratings00 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities8.253 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages8.030 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration8.550 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of MS SharePoint / SQL and Snowflake
    Feature
    MS SharePoint / SQL
    8.9
    58 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Snowflake
    -
    Ratings
    Publish to Web8.852 Ratings00 Ratings
    Publish to PDF9.449 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Versioning8.348 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling9.039 Ratings00 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers9.032 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of MS SharePoint / SQL and Snowflake
    Feature
    MS SharePoint / SQL
    8.6
    36 Ratings
    8% above category average
    Snowflake
    -
    Ratings
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)8.834 Ratings00 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization8.032 Ratings00 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics9.330 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pattern Recognition and Data Mining8.53 Ratings00 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of MS SharePoint / SQL and Snowflake
    Feature
    MS SharePoint / SQL
    8.1
    69 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Snowflake
    -
    Ratings
    Multi-User Support (named login)7.860 Ratings00 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model8.064 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)8.268 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report-Level Access Control7.84 Ratings00 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)8.854 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of MS SharePoint / SQL and Snowflake
    Feature
    MS SharePoint / SQL
    9.4
    59 Ratings
    18% above category average
    Snowflake
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    Ratings
    Responsive Design for Web Access9.457 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Application9.436 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile8.739 Ratings00 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of MS SharePoint / SQL and Snowflake
    Feature
    MS SharePoint / SQL
    8.8
    38 Ratings
    12% above category average
    Snowflake
    -
    Ratings
    REST API9.229 Ratings00 Ratings
    Javascript API9.228 Ratings00 Ratings
    iFrames9.027 Ratings00 Ratings
    Java API9.025 Ratings00 Ratings
    Themeable User Interface (UI)8.033 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable Platform (Open Source)8.024 Ratings00 Ratings
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    MS SharePoint / SQLSnowflake
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    Cyfe
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    Enterprises
    Jaspersoft Community Edition
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    User Ratings
    MS SharePoint / SQLSnowflake
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.9
    (77 ratings)
    9.2
    (43 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.8
    (7 ratings)
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    8.9
    (12 ratings)
    9.3
    (19 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.8
    (7 ratings)
    9.9
    (8 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    9.4
    (64 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Data Sources
    8.3
    (63 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    MS SharePoint / SQLSnowflake
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Microsoft
    As I mentioned in my previous answers, MS SharePoint is very useful as a shared drive for the organization and is very easy to manage. It also helps us import data from SharePoint directly into PowerBI for creating reports. According to my understanding, only share link features should be improved.
    Incentivized
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    Snowflake Computing
    Snowflake is well suited when you have to store your data and you want easy scalability and increase or decrease the storage per your requirement. You can also control the computing cost, and if your computing cost is less than or equal to 10% of your storage cost, then you don't have to pay for computing, which makes it cost-effective as well.
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    Pros
    Microsoft
    • Flexible - able to make any changes we would like vs traditional service desk system.
    • ROI - We were already using SharePoint for internal intranet, so we are simply getting more use out of licensing we had already committed to.
    • Easy to use for end users.
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    Snowflake Computing
    • Snowflake scales appropriately allowing you to manage expense for peak and off peak times for pulling and data retrieval and data centric processing jobs
    • Snowflake offers a marketplace solution that allows you to sell and subscribe to different data sources
    • Snowflake manages concurrency better in our trials than other premium competitors
    • Snowflake has little to no setup and ramp up time
    • Snowflake offers online training for various employee types
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Microsoft
    • It is hard to setup and nightmare
    • It requires a of infrastructure, thus it could be costly because of requirement and licensing required for everything to run smoothly
    • If it is not setup and organized properly from the beginning it could be maintenance nightmare
    • It is hard to have "test" environment to do patches or similar
    Incentivized
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    Snowflake Computing
    • Add constraints for views and not just for tables
    • Do not force customers to renew for same or higher amount to avoid loosing unused credits. Already paid credits should not expire (at least within a reasonable time frame), independent of renewal deal size.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Microsoft
    This was a long-term buy-in from a corporate perspective, to remain in the SharePoint space. Migration is certainly possible, which is good for planning and having options further out. At this point, the only planned migration is to eventually move the architecture up to SharePoint/SQL 2013. At that point, we will be able to leverage some greater efficiencies, some enhanced content design and management features, and some more current social features. It is well worth a full consideration in any shop looking at a new implementation of or migration to SharePoint (although you will probably be considering 2013 versions or beyond in those discussions), but the platform should be a strong competitor to any alternatives. Realizing the capability of a fully-branded and customized website was not part of the original choice for the architecture at Lincoln, but seeing it implemented and functioning now with this capacity far beyond original expectations has certainly cemented plans to continue using it.
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    Snowflake Computing
    SnowFlake is very cost effective and we also like the fact we can stop, start and spin up additional processing engines as we need to. We also like the fact that it's easy to connect our SQL IDEs to Snowflake and write our queries in the environment that we are used to
    Incentivized
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    Usability
    Microsoft
    I gave this rating due to MS SharePoint being a big help with our userbase. We have a lot of users that are just old enough to not have much technical skills or they have been in this industry long enough to where they haven't really needed to utilize much technology. MS SharePoint helped us move beyond that barrier without too many bumps and bruises.
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    Snowflake Computing
    Because the fact that you can query tons of data in a few seconds is incredible, it also gives you a lot of functions to format and transform data right in your query, which is ideal when building data models in BI tools like Power BI, it is available as a connector in the most used BI tools worldwide.
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    Support Rating
    Microsoft
    I've only had to call in to support on one occasion but they were able to work though our issue and find a solution that did fully resolve the issue in a timely manner. I can't always say the same about support from other companies so it was a refreshing change to have support that did help.
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    Snowflake Computing
    We have had terrific experiences with Snowflake support. They have drilled into queries and given us tremendous detail and helpful answers. In one case they even figured out how a particular product was interacting with Snowflake, via its queries, and gave us detail to go back to that product's vendor because the Snowflake support team identified a fault in its operation. We got it solved without lots of back-and-forth or finger-pointing because the Snowflake team gave such detailed information.
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    Implementation Rating
    Microsoft
    Not implemented in best practice way, there are many customizations
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    Snowflake Computing
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Microsoft
    At the time of the two large projects, SharePoint was the enterprise solution so we were required to use that. We have since lobbied the enterprise teams to review and consider Atlassian Confluence and were successful. Confluence is cheaper than Sharepoint which is why we wanted to bring that in. The enterprise has now made Confluence an enterprise solution as an alternative to SharePoint. After using both I think SharePoint has many more add-ins than Confluence. It has much more customization ability than Confluence. SharePoint is not good for mobile readiness. Confluence is so there is a difference that might lead you to Confluence over SharePoint. I would also say that SharePoint is very document-centric and that Confluence has better KM than SharePoint does. even with the use of SQL Server. We were told that we could not use Google Drive even though it had features we liked.
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    Snowflake Computing
    I have had the experience of using one more database management system at my previous workplace. What Snowflake provides is better user-friendly consoles, suggestions while writing a query, ease of access to connect to various BI platforms to analyze, [and a] more robust system to store a large amount of data. All these functionalities give the better edge to Snowflake.
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    Return on Investment
    Microsoft
    • ROI for ms SharePoint/SQL considering that is the best database engine with excellent features that help you to have all information in your hand.
    • Something negative could be license format.
    • These are the best relational databases in the market with powerful features that complement your system.
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    Snowflake Computing
    • With separate compute and storage feature, the queries get executed quickly and it improves our overall productivity.
    • Earlier we were using a different product for analytical purposes, but with Snowflake's in-built analytical feature we are now able to save money.
    • Snowflake is cost efficient, features like auto suspend for compute resources helped to control the costs.
    Incentivized
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