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SharePoint and Office 365 | Full-Scale Collaboration

Solutions for SharePoint Online, Office 365 and SharePoint On-premises

SharePoint and Office 365: the Gist

For the fifth time in a row, Microsoft was named a Leader in the 2023 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Low-Code Application Platforms. 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

Famous brands using Office 365: NASA, Air France, Carpool.

SharePoint and Office 365 Functionality

SharePoint

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

  • Office applications: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote.
  • File storage: OneDrive.
  • Enterprise-wide and team collaboration: SharePoint Online, Microsoft Teams, Yammer.
  • Videos and presentations: Stream, Sway.
  • Emailing and calendaring: Exchange, Outlook, Calendar.
  • Task and project management: Planner, Project Online.
  • Business Application Platform: Microsoft PowerApps, Microsoft Power Automate, Microsoft Forms.
  • Search for people and information: Delve.
  • Business data analytics: Power BI.

SharePoint Online + Office 365: Key Integrations

SharePoint Online and Office 365 integrations - ScienceSoft

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.

SharePoint and Office 365 Customization Capabilities

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.

With 750+ employees on board, 17 years in SharePoint and 13 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.

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.

SharePoint and Office 365 Use Cases

Intranet

SharePoint Intranet

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

SharePoint Intranet

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

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

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

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

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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ScienceSoft’s team is ready to provide a FREE demo of the SharePoint environment tailored to your business needs.

Benefits of Using SharePoint and Office 365

  • +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

SharePoint Online and Office 365 Plans and Pricing

SharePoint Online

SharePoint (Plan 1)

Microsoft 365 Business Standard

Office applications

Services

Storage

Price

Office 365 Enterprise

Office 365 E1 (no Teams)

Office 365 E3 (no Teams)

Office 365 E5 (no Teams) without Audio Conferencing

Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise

Office applications and services

Price (annual commitment)

Microsoft 365 Business

Business Basic

Apps for business

Business Standard

Business Premium

Services

Storage

Price (annual commitment)

Choose Your Way to Get SharePoint Online/Office 365

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.

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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.

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