The SharePoint Struggle: High Costs, Low Engagement, and Search Frustrations

SharePoint is a powerful tool, but let’s be honest—most companies struggle to get real value from it. Employees often find it difficult to locate the right files, leading to lost productivity. Adoption rates are low because SharePoint can feel clunky and unintuitive. Meanwhile, businesses continue to pour significant investments into the platform, hoping for better results.

One of the biggest challenges? Search. Employees spend too much time looking for documents buried in SharePoint, leading to frustration and inefficiency. AI could be the game-changer here, but choosing the right AI solution is crucial.

Two Options: Microsoft Copilot or Unleash

When it comes to adding AI to SharePoint, companies typically consider two options:

1. Microsoft Copilot – An AI tool built into Microsoft 365, designed to enhance productivity across Microsoft apps, including SharePoint.
2. Unleash – A dedicated AI-powered search and knowledge unification platform that integrates deeply with SharePoint and other business tools.

Both promise to improve the way employees find and use information, but which one is the smarter investment? Let’s compare.

Enhancing SharePoint with Unleash

SharePoint users often face challenges with high costs, low engagement, and inefficient search capabilities. Unleash offers a solution by integrating AI capabilities that enhance the SharePoint experience significantly.

Unleash's Integration with SharePoint

• Connection and Indexing: Unleash connects to SharePoint using Microsoft Graph and SharePoint REST APIs. This allows it to index content such as sites, pages, files, and lists across the Microsoft tenant, ensuring comprehensive access to information.
• Security and Permissions: Unleash respects SharePoint's security settings by using OAuth2 protocol for secure connections. It offers two security modes: Discovery Mode, where all users see the same resources, and Permission-Based Mode, where users only access documents they have permissions for.
• Efficient Search: Unleash transforms the search experience by understanding context and connecting related knowledge, providing precise answers instantly. This is a significant improvement over SharePoint's built-in search capabilities.
• Integration with Other Tools: Unlike Microsoft Copilot, which is limited to the Microsoft ecosystem, Unleash integrates with over 70 other tools, including Slack, Confluence, and Google Drive, ensuring a unified knowledge base.
• Cost-Effectiveness: Unleash offers a more cost-efficient solution compared to Microsoft Copilot, which has a high per-user fee. Unleash provides AI-powered search without inflated pricing, making it a smarter investment for organizations.
• Easy Deployment: Unleash is designed for quick deployment without IT headaches. It is plug-and-play, allowing companies to roll it out in minutes without disrupting existing workflows.

In summary, Unleash enhances SharePoint by providing a more effective search experience, integrating with a wide range of tools, and offering a cost-effective, easy-to-deploy solution. This makes it a compelling choice for organizations looking to maximize their SharePoint investment.

Why Unleash is the Better AI Investment for SharePoint

1. Better Search, Not Just a Chatbot

Copilot mainly acts as a generative AI assistant, summarizing and generating content. However, when it comes to search, it relies on SharePoint’s built-in capabilities, which remain inefficient.

Unleash, on the other hand, transforms SharePoint’s search experience entirely. It doesn’t just retrieve files—it understands context, connects related knowledge, and delivers precise answers instantly.

2. Works Beyond SharePoint

Copilot is confined within the Microsoft ecosystem. If your knowledge base extends beyond SharePoint—say, in Slack, Confluence, Google Drive, or Zendesk—Copilot won’t help.

Unleash unifies knowledge from 70+ integrations, ensuring employees can access all relevant information from one place, no matter where it lives.

3. More Cost-Effective

Copilot comes with a hefty per-user fee, meaning costs can quickly add up for large organizations. Worse, since it doesn’t solve SharePoint’s fundamental search issues, companies end up paying for AI that doesn’t fully deliver.

Unleash, however, offers a more cost-efficient approach—giving you AI-powered search that actually works, without the inflated per-user pricing.

4. Instant Deployment with No IT Headaches

While Copilot requires IT configuration and administrative setup, Unleash is plug-and-play. Companies can roll it out in minutes, with no disruption to workflows.

Final Verdict: Unleash Makes SharePoint Smarter—Affordably

If your goal is to make SharePoint actually useful, Microsoft Copilot falls short. It’s expensive, limited to Microsoft apps, and doesn’t solve SharePoint’s search inefficiencies.

Unleash provides AI-powered search that actually works, across all your tools, at a fraction of the cost. Instead of pouring more money into SharePoint without seeing real improvements, it’s time to supercharge it with Unleash.

Ready to transform SharePoint search? Try Unleash today.

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