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, 14 years in SharePoint and 10 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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Document management
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.
Office 365 Enterprise
Microsoft 365 Business
Cost-effective SharePoint Online/Office 365 implementation
Don’t overpay with in-house SharePoint/Office 365 implementation – entrust it to ScienceSoft. Our experts will help you reduce implementation costs due to making the most of the out-of-the-box capabilities of the platforms.
Flawless SharePoint Online/Office 365 migration
Contact our experts for quick and smooth migration of your SharePoint On-premises or third-party solution to SharePoint Online/Office 365 to leverage cloud benefits.