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SharePoint Thing a Day – 052 – Building Intranets – The Six Pillars of Great Intranets – Pillar 4.

January 22, 2018 by Joel Jeffery

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Pillar 4: Integrate

From CRM systems to HR systems. From accounts packages to payroll to employee benefits.

An enterprise has many disparate systems.

An Intranet provides an opportunity to polish off rough edges between them. An opportunity to banish, or at least reduce, copy/paste integration.

Better still, identify sources of truth.

Rather than expensive and error-prone rekeying of information between systems, consider automating the process.

Many Intranet platforms come with a work flow engine.

Some are inward facing, whereas others promote integration with external systems.

Others have a flourishing add-in environment that encourages third party customisation and development.

Maximise Return on Investment with commensurate integration between the many systems on your estate.

Filed Under: SharePoint, SharePoint 2007, SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 2013, SharePoint 2016, Training Tagged With: intranets, Office 365, SharePoint, SharePoint Online, SharePoint Videos, SPThingADay

SharePoint Thing a Day – 051 – Building Intranets – The Six Pillars of Great Intranets – Pillar 3.

January 20, 2018 by Joel Jeffery

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Pillar 3 : In Focus

Context is important to users.

Focus on user context.

What are their daily tasks?

Apply Occam’s razor to strip away the irrelevant, without making things hard to find.

Your Intranet should adapt their experience depending upon what your users want to achieve.

User experience should be relevant to the audience.

Relevant to what they want to achieve, when they want to achieve it.

Use dashboards and search portals to help users get at the information they need, fast.

Filed Under: SharePoint, SharePoint 2007, SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 2013, SharePoint 2016, Training Tagged With: intranets, office365, SharePoint, SharePoint Online, SharePoint Videos, SPThingADay

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Joel is a full-stack cloud architect who codes. He is a Microsoft Certified SharePoint Online, SharePoint Server and Azure specialist and Microsoft Certified Trainer.
He has over 20 years' experience with SharePoint and the Microsoft .NET Framework.
He's also co-founder of Microsoft Gold Partner JFDI Consulting Ltd. Read More…

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