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6 reasons why your organisation needs a SharePoint Intranet

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At Attollo, we know the benefits of an intranet. SharePoint Intranet

We know that they are an indispensable business tool

We know the huge benefits that they can bring to an organisation.

But do you?

We’ve done the hard work for you and rounded up the top six reasons that every organisation needs a SharePoint intranet.

Central document management

We all know the frustration of looking for a document on the server to find that it has been deleted by someone who left the company. Two months ago. It stands to reason that the easier it is to find information, the more efficiently your employees will be able to work.

It’s not rocket science.

When a team can easily locate customer information including the correct slides to use in that big presentation, there will be a huge reduction in wasted hours. And the old adage that time is money has never been truer.

Go paper-free

A place for everything, and everything in its place.

It all sounds so simple – yet we know office life doesn’t work like that. Meeting minutes get inadvertently recycled.  Diaries go walkabout. And woe betide anyone who leaves papers on their desk when the over-zealous cleaners are due in.

An intranet provides a central filing system which keeps everything in one easy to access hub, making it easy for staff to access documents when they need them.

Eliminate your paper-based processes to reduce paper waste, printing costs and clunky filing cabinets. For those companies who are keen to reduce their carbon footprint, there’s the added benefit of the reduced reliance on photocopiers which will reduce your company’s ecological footprint.

Increase staff engagement

An engaged team is a happy team. A huge benefit of having an intranet is that it offers a sense of belonging amongst staff. A key issue for many employees is the lack of communication within their organisation. An intranet connects employees and provides collaboration tools including:

News centre – read all about it! Don’t leave employees in the dark. Our news centre is a powerful tool for internal communications to make sure everyone is in the loop with big company news

Blog – from charity events to industry insights, a blog is an excellent way to engage staff, company-wide.

Training & events– knowledge is power, and this feature lets staff see up and coming training opportunities, with space for an introductory video, overview and related documents.

This is particularly useful for multi-site organisations, to keep the entire company right up to date with what is going on. And let’s face it – everyone wants to be one of the gang.

Keep things moving in holiday periods

Nothing gets done in July and August, right? People are away, no one can find anything, and so the team may as well chill out for a few months.

Wrong.

With everything nicely stored in one place, there are no excuses. We have already looked at central document management – and this can increase to workflows and timesheets. The team simply pick up where their colleague left off, in other words, no excuses.

And while we are on the subject – holidays forms and calendars can be made accessible for all to reduce bouncing back and forth.

Audits & data management

Attollo intranet provides an option for most companies to better manage reports and data management. Administrators can instigate user permissions to protect sensitive data. Reporting automation sends updated daily, weekly, or monthly reports for analysis.

With companies being subject of regular audits, easily accessible data will help support the process an intranet allows for a smoother process requiring less staff spending time and effort finding and preparing documentation.

Automated business processes

A signature for a sick note. Authorising an advertising campaign. Requesting a shift change. These are all things that take both time and effort. With the power of the Office356, Attollo has the ability to build workflows to enable sign-offs on documents, passing data and information. Think how easy it would be to obtain a sign off without actually having to go and find the relevant managers!

So, now you know the top six benefits of installing a SharePoint intranet at your business. So, are you waiting for? Let us give you a demo of Attollo Intranet today!

Reference from Dynamic Signal.

By Sam Dolan

Sam Dolan is a consultant for Attollo specialising in Intranets, SharePoint & Microsoft 365.

Attollo helps organisations get more out of their SharePoint Intranet, making them more efficient