SharePoint and Office 365 | Full-Scale Collaboration
SharePoint and Office 365: the Gist
For the fourth year running, Microsoft has been named a Leader in the Gartner 2020 Content Services Platforms Magic Quadrant. The company’s most popular collaboration platforms are Office 365 and SharePoint Online. They are used to build feature-rich and cost-effective solutions for document, contract, and knowledge management and internal and external collaboration for businesses of different sizes and industries.
SharePoint
200 million users |
200,000 organizations |
+20,000 new users every day |
Famous brands using SharePoint: UPS, Nestle, Procter & Gamble, Viacom.
Office 365
20 million users worldwide |
20% of corporate employees in the world use this collaboration suite |
85% of Fortune 500 companies use Office 365 |
Document management
- Document lifecycle automation.
- Templates.
- Co-authoring.
- Full text and metadata search (search results filtering and ranking, search across integrated systems).
- Versioning.
- Audit trail.
- E-signature software integration.
- Compliance management.
Collaboration (intranets, portals)
- Knowledge base for a company’s policies, guides, and other content.
- Organization chart and employee profiles.
- Communication tools (instant messaging, blogs, discussion boards).
- Quick links to other corporate systems and information
- Employee self-service.
- Calendar.
Human resources management
- Employee information management.
- Recruitment, hiring and onboarding management.
- Time and attendance management.
- Employee performance tracking.
- Payroll management.
- Employee request management.
- Learning materials creation and storage.
- Assigning and scheduling trainings.
- Learning assessment.
- Certification management.
- Competency management.
- Gamification features (badges, points, leaderboards).
Office 365
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SharePoint Online + Office apps
To enable fast and easy document creation in SharePoint Online.
SharePoint Online + Teams
To facilitate employee communication, collaboration, and sharing SharePoint Online files.
SharePoint Online + Planner
To easily create plans, assign tasks to a team, discuss tasks, and see the team's progress.
SharePoint Online + Power Automate
To automate business workflows in SharePoint Online like document approval, sending reminders about events, and more.
SharePoint Online + Delve
To enable convenient search for employee profiles and easy tracking of colleagues’ activities and recent documents in SharePoint Online.
SharePoint Online + Power BI
To deliver immersive reports and visuals on diverse corporate data (e.g., HR, financial, customer-related) right in SharePoint Online.
Design
Logos, styles, colors, master pages, and page layouts.
To create a unique look and feel and promote corporate culture across the company.
Workflows
E.g., tax calculation workflow.
To create complex and non-linear custom workflows. They can be created using tools like Power Automate and Visual Studio.
Page content
Custom web page layouts, custom web parts.
To make pages user-friendly and add new functionality like multilingual support, advanced analytics and reports, smart search, chatbots, and content personalization. For example, our team created custom add-ins to show employees’ workplaces on an office plan and provide weather snapshots for up to 10 chosen locations.
Navigation
Left-hand menu, top menu or footer menu.
To help users quickly access relevant information. For example, during employee portal development for a telecom company, ScienceSoft’s team built three-level navigation – two panels for SharePoint/Office 365 and the employee portal and a tile for quick links.
Forms
Forms for surveys, quizzes and polls.
To collect employee feedback, measure employee satisfaction, organize corporate events, can be created using PowerApps or Microsoft Forms.
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With 700 employees on board, 15 years in SharePoint and 11 years in Office 365 development, ScienceSoft delivers robust and cost-effective solutions to help organizations get the most of the collaboration, communication and content management capabilities of these platforms. |
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Need Help with Your SharePoint or Office 365 Solution?
ScienceSoft’s team is ready to customize your solution to bring your employees an effective productivity and collaboration toolset tailored to your business needs.
HR Intranet
Business-Oriented Intranet
Social Intranet
- Employee information management.
- Recruitment, hiring and onboarding management.
- Employee benefits management.
- Payroll management.
- Time and attendance management.
- Professional development.
- Employee request management.
- Document management.
- Project and task management.
- Employee communication and collaboration.
- Business analytics and reporting.
- Knowledge management.
- Learning management.
- Policy and compliance management.
- Informal employee communication.
- Social media integration.
- News and announcements.
- Employee feedback collection forms.
- Employee recognition.
- Gamification of employee training.
- Corporate activities management.
Document management
Document Management System
Contract Management System
Legal Case Management System
- Document templates.
- Multistep and non-linear approval workflows.
- Real-time collaboration on documents.
- Enterprise search.
- Permission-based access to documents.
- Document versioning and audit trail.
- Regulatory compliance support.
- Contract templates.
- Guided contract creation.
- Contract co-authoring.
- Full-text and metadata search.
- Hierarchical approval workflows.
- Parent-child contract hierarchies.
- Contract versioning.
- Compliance check.
- Client and matter management.
- Tracking key dates and deadlines.
- Time recording and billing.
- Client accounting and invoicing.
- Business and financial reporting.
Other specific SharePoint Online solutions
SharePoint Solutions: Live Demos

SharePoint Intranet Demo
Explore rich collaboration, communication and content management capabilities and an intuitive and eye-catching design of a SharePoint intranet.

SharePoint Document Management System Demo
Our interactive demo displays how SharePoint DMS facilitates creating, storing, approving and sharing your company's documentation.

SharePoint Learning Portal Demo
Explore opportunities that a SharePoint LMS provides to facilitate planning, implementing and assessing a specific learning process.

SharePoint HR Portal Demo
See how a SharePoint-based HR portal can help streamline HR processes from onboarding to handling employee requests and increase an HR team’s productivity.
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+50-75%
employee performance due to learning management capabilities and productivity tools
+10%
business productivity due to workflow automation
100%
compliance due to strong security features
Plan 1
Plan 2
Office applications
Services
Storage
Price
Office 365 Enterprise
E1 - Basic
E3 - Standard
E5 - Premium
Office applications
Services
Storage
Price
Not included
File storage and sharing with 1 TB OneDrive storage
$8 user/month (annual commitment)
Microsoft 365 Business
Business Basic
Apps for business
Business Standard
Business Premium
Services
Storage
Price (annual commitment)
1 TB of OneDrive storage
1-month FREE trial
$5 user/month
1 TB of OneDrive storage
1-month FREE trial
$8.25 user/month
1 TB of OneDrive storage
1-month FREE trial
$12.5 user/month
1 TB of OneDrive storage
1-month FREE trial
$20 user/month
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Cost-effective SharePoint Online/Office 365 implementation
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Flawless SharePoint Online/Office 365 migration
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