TrustRadius Insights for ShareGate are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.
Pros
User-Friendly Application: Users have consistently found ShareGate to be a straightforward and user-friendly application with a clean and simple user interface. Many reviewers have appreciated that ShareGate explains migration problems in plain English and provides solutions. The ease of performing migrations with ShareGate has been praised by multiple users, who find the permissions matrix reports to be invaluable.
Continuous Improvement: ShareGate has continuously improved and expanded its capabilities according to user feedback. It now supports other Microsoft Cloud apps like OneDrive and Teams, which has been well-received by users. This commitment to enhancing the software's functionality demonstrates ShareGate's dedication to meeting evolving needs.
Efficient SharePoint Management: Users have found ShareGate helpful in migrating complex SharePoint structures smoothly and managing their overall SharePoint farm. They highlight ShareGate's ability to preserve metadata during document migration, making it an excellent tool for running reports on site collections and for migrating forms and workflows. With its simplicity, flexibility, and comprehensive features, ShareGate simplifies day-to-day management tasks for many users.
We use it for content migration between SP farms and reporting. Also used for larger SP 2013 to SP online migration. Also a great tool for running SharePoint administration tasks i.e., checking user's access on SP farm level, or creating permission matrix reports. Also, creating queries based on custom requirements. ShareGate is a very versatile, valuable tool.
Pros
Reporting
Content migration
Job Logs
Cons
Error messaging unclear
Preserving list item IDs difficult
Migrating content types and site columns is difficult with same name
Licensing should be less restrictive
Likelihood to Recommend
Large SP13 to SP online migration with several custom apps and web parts. ShareGate could migrate 1Gb data in about 2hrs which is pretty good. Relatively error-free operation and great logs. Easy to work with ShareGate due to its simple interface. Great reporting tool and query tool as well.