Is your organization using Microsoft 365? If so, SharePoint is a great choice for your intranet. Because SharePoint is part of Microsoft 365, it works seamlessly with applications such as Teams and Outlook. SharePoint is constantly evolving and has more and more options for creating your own intranet. Still, SharePoint may not meet your needs. In that case, you can choose Fresh, an intranet on top of SharePoint. So you get all the benefits that SharePoint has to offer, but you also get additional functionality such as expanded styling options, a facebook and AI integration.
For this blog, we asked our customers which Fresh Features they find most valuable, and we’re happy to tell you which ones!
Fresh lets you fully customize the look of your SharePoint intranet to match your organization’s corporate identity. You can easily upload your company logo and apply your organization’s colors to the entire intranet, including the navigation bar and notifications. You can also choose your own site themes and color settings for buttons and notifications.
“It makes employees feel more quickly connected to the intranet because it is recognizable and consistent with the identity of the organization.”
Fresh offers various navigation options such as mega menus, cascading menus and horizontal menus. This allows you to choose a structure that best suits your organization’s needs. The navigation is not only functional, but can also be visually customized with colors or gradients to reflect the look and feel of your business.
“It makes it easier for employees to quickly find the information they need, saving time, especially for large organizations.”
Fresh lets you add a wide range of webparts and widgets to your intranet. Fresh offers more than 70 components and SharePoint webparts, including a facebook, social media links, an employee search function, quick links, analytics and Viva Connections cards. The choice is vast. Plus, you can customize the style of webparts to perfectly match your organizational branding.
“The wide selection of webparts and styling options allows you to completely tailor the intranet to the specific needs of your employees. You are not limited to the standard options, but can, for example, add fun elements such as a face book, making the intranet more personal and relevant to the user.”
Fresh offers standard page templates that automatically adopt your organization’s branding. These templates are designed for dynamic content such as news and events. In addition, you can centrally manage and easily edit footers to keep them consistent and up-to-date throughout the intranet.
“It saves time because content teams don’t have to redefine what a page should look like every time. Everything is automatically aligned with the corporate identity.”
Fresh offers comprehensive analytics and search analysis, giving you insight into the performance of your intranet. You can see which pages are frequently visited and which search terms are popular. This helps you refine search functionality and improve content.
“You can make quick adjustments by understanding what information is missing or difficult for employees to find.”
Fresh’s Editorial Calendar helps you plan and manage content effectively. You can see the status of your content; draft, awaiting approval, scheduled or published. This prevents duplicate posts, and makes it easier to post important announcements on time.
“It provides oversight because communications teams have one central place for all content planning.”
Fresh’s newsletter feature allows you to easily create and send internal newsletters from within your intranet, without the need for additional tools. The newsletter can be created directly within the intranet, and the colors and fonts are fully customizable to your corporate identity.
“It’s mainly saving time, you don’t have to use separate systems and you already have all the content at your fingertips.”
It has recently become possible to send announcements directly via push notifications in Microsoft Teams. This ensures that employees are quickly informed of important updates, both office and frontline employees.
“Employees are better and faster informed. The push notifications in Teams ensure that important info is not overlooked.”
FreshMind is the AI functionality within Fresh Intranet that helps employees find the right information faster. It uses smart search options to make it easier to search documents and content. FreshMind also helps ease daily tasks, such as content creation and answering questions from HR or IT. You can read more about Fresh Mind in our latest blog.
“With FreshMind, employees can leverage AI to take routine tasks off their hands, without expensive licensing fees. It makes searching for information easier, finding things faster and reducing frustration.”
Are you looking for a SharePoint Intranet and wondering if Fresh Intranet is right for your organization? Contact us for more information or a live demo or read our blog “Which Intranet is right for your organization?
