SharePoint Intranet

An Intranet site designed by aento upon Microsoft SharePoint allows your business to communicate effectively and securely with your employees.  Improve collaboration and share knowledge.  Make sure that your employees always have access to the latest news and latest versions of Company policies and documents.  Content can be targeted to specific users and/or user groups and rich dashboards can be created to allow users to see at a glance the key information important to their roles and responsibilities.

aento enhances SharePoint built in features to provide you with an Intranet solution that is a perfect match for your requirements.  From providing simple information portals through to complex, self service, line of business applications, we can provide you with an Intranet that allows you to transform your business efficiency and achieve a rapid return on investment.  We can also integrate SharePoint Intranets with legacy and other systems and assist you migrate your content, data and business processes to your new Intranet.

Our branding team can make your Intranet look the part and accelerate user adoption by designing and implementing a site theme that provides an optimised user experience whilst conforming fully to your Corporate design guidelines.

This page contains just a few screen shots of an Intranet site created by aento using Microsoft SharePoint.

Rich Business Intelligence Dashboards

Dashboards can be created to show the user only information pertinent to their role, projects, etc.  The simple example below shows a portal to corporate announcements, shared documents, tasks and links to other important resources.

A SharePoint based Intranet is ideal as a repository for corporate policies and documents.  SharePoint provides a wide range of features to support Document Management and Corporate Compliance Policies.  Documents can be uploaded to repositories via the browser or directly from within compatible Microsoft Office applications.  Workflows can be created to automatically route documents for review and approval.  Document retention policies can be set and access to viewing and editing individual documents can be configured for individual users and/or user groups.

Catalogue Multimedia Assets

It's easy to maintain lists and databases of just about every type of information you can think of.  Data lists can be configured to hold text, documents, pictures and photographs, audio and video.  Columns/fields can be added to data lists easily allowing rich meta-data to be stored and used for indexing and searching.  Data lists can be configured for individual list items to require check out before editing and can also be set to require approval before changes are published.  Version history allows all changes made to data list items to be recorded automatically when data is edited.  The great thing about data lists is that whatever type of data is stored, you can easily ensure that users have centralised access to current versions of key data, documents and policies.

Rich In-Browser Page and Content Editing

You can easily edit the content of your Intranet pages by using SharePoint Editing Tools. Building WIKIs or adding static pages to your Intranet is easy using the built in "in-browser" editing tools.  Pages can be added, edited deleted etc based upon permissions assigned to individual users or user groups.  In other words an outstanding Content Management System.  Using custom Cascaded Style Sheets (CSS) implemented by aento means that anything created or edited by your users will conform to your Corporate design guidelines.