Turnkey intranet solutions for SharePoint and Office 365 Vendor Directory

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Turnkey intranet solutions for

SharePoint and Office 365

Vendor Directory

April 2016

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SharePoint is a sophisticated platform that is a popular choice for hosting

intranets, but can be resource intensive and time-consuming to implement. This

directory profiles vendors from the Microsoft ecosystem who offer solutions to

help accelerate development, deliver common features and reduce maintenance

effort.

Who is included

Twenty-six different SharePoint and Office 365 “turnkey” intranet vendors from

around the world were contacted to participate in this solution directory. Ten

agreed to participate in this edition, fifteen did not respond in time to meet the

publishing deadline and one declined.

Vendors were not charged for inclusion.

Notes

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Where available, vendors provided indicative pricing for or close to 500 users

per month for comparison purposes.

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Each profile lists the primary country locations where the vendor is based,

however many also work with channel partners in other countries.

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Features, services offered and pricing are subject to change.

Introduction

Vendors included:

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Bonzai

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Hadron 8020 by Cloud2

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IntraActive

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OneWindow Workplace

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ROOT

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SP Intranet 365

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The Hub

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Unily

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Valo Intranet

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Wizdom

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Vendor Summary

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Vendor Bonzai Hadron 8020 by Cloud2 IntraActive OneWindow Workplace ROOT SP Intranet 365 Wizdom Valo Intranet Unily The Hub Website http://bonzai-intranet.com/ https://www.cloud2.co.uk/solutions/hadron/ http://intraactive.net/intranet http://www.onewindowapp.com/ http://www.messageops.com/sharepoint-intranet-portal/ http://www.spmarketplace.com/sp-business-suite-365.html http://wizdom-intranet.com http://www.valointranet.com https://www.unily.com/ http://www.amtevolve.com/Pages/Services/Office%20365/TheHub.aspx Deployment Options

O365, Cloud, On Premise O365, Cloud, On Premise O365, Cloud, On Premise O365

O365

O365, On Premise O365, On Premise

O365, Cloud, On Premise O365, Cloud, On Premise O365, Cloud, On Premise

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Indicative Pricing: Price on application

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Bonzai accelerates employee productivity and draws business value out of your

Microsoft SharePoint investment by providing the core functionality needed by

organizations with 200 – 40,000 employees, without the complexity, cost and risk

associated with a custom-built solution. The beautiful, intuitive digital workspace

invites user participation, plus it’s feature rich, easy to use, fast to turn on, and comes

with the flexibility to make it your own. Welcome to the new way to light up employee

engagement.

Bonzai is based on a "Intranet Lego" approach that allows organizations to configure

Bonzai to their needs making it much more flexible than other alternatives. It offers a

stunningly beautiful and easy to use solution for both content authors and consumers.

Unlike other solutions Bonzai can be installed in a client environment within 24 hours

without the need for any additional consulting. The solution was developed by world

renowned SharePoint experts, including 3 Microsoft SharePoint MVP's.

Product video:

http://webinars.bonzai-intranet.com/webinars/rethinking-sharepoint-intranets (registration required)

Bonzai

Office 365 Cloud On Premise

http://bonzai-intranet.com/ Locations: Canada

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Indicative Pricing:

£625 / 500 users / month (ex. VAT)

Hadron 8020 by Cloud2

https://www.cloud2.co.uk/solutions/hadron/ Locations: UK

Hadron 8020 intranet improves employee engagement, communication and collaboration. And it’s cost effective and easy to use.

‒ Fast - 80% pre-configured so it’s ready to go in 8 weeks ‒ Specific - 20% personalised so it’s right for your business ‒ Capable - the great SharePoint package, and more

‒ Great value - you’re not paying to reinvent the wheel

With market-leading Hadron 8020, you get an individual intranet, but faster and less expensively than building it from scratch. You save on in-house resources too. There’s everything you’d expect from SharePoint – plus much more in the deep information architecture we’ve spent years

developing: Highly scalable, feature-rich broad SharePoint platform; Delivers: content;

collaboration; communication; business processes; people; Full document creation, approval, publication and management; Better communications than standard SharePoint – eg.

own-branding, touch-optimising and responsive; More search and better compliance, saving time and supporting governance teams; and In the cloud, on premise or hybrid.

We like to be with you all the way to make sure your intranet succeeds. So we offer Hadron Prime to plan for success, and Hadron Embed to make everything stick.

Product videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntDGWJ9Otxk and https://www.cloud2.co. uk/clients/case-studies/case-study-kings-college-university-hospital-nhs-foundation-trust/

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IntraActive

http://intraactive.net/intranet Locations: Denmark

IntraActive Intranet assembles the most common intranet components in one

solution that can be easily customized to fit your business needs. IntraActive

Intranet provides modules to create and maintain a modern intranet with smart

features in the fields of communication, navigation, personalization and content

management.

The combination of IntraActive Intranet and our efficient process allows your

company to get a ready-for-use intranet within a fixed budget.

IntraActive Intranet is continuously extended with new functionality and new

modules. IntraActive Intranet is part of the IntraActive product suite including also

IntraActive Workspaces for efficient team and project collaboration and IntraActive

QMS for business process and quality management.

Product video: https://vimeo.com/142369026

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On Premise

Cloud Indicative Pricing:

USD$2,500 / 500 users / month

OneWindow Workplace

Office 365

http://www.onewindowapp.com/ Locations: USA

OneWindow Workplace is an Intranet-as-a-Service turnkey solution and is the first ready-to-go intranet built solely on Microsoft Office 365. The powerful solution integrates the

components of Office 365 into a single window, where organizations can rapidly improve user productivity and fully experience a mobile and cloud-first digital workplace

environment. The implementation time for OneWindow is six to seven times faster than a custom SharePoint Online solution, with deployment in 30 to 60 days. Even better, the cost is 50 to 80 percent less than a custom intranet solution.

Being built from the ground up for Office 365, OneWindow integrates natively with the Office Graph/Delve and other workloads such as Skype, OneDrive for Business, Office Videos and Office Groups.

Integrating with Microsoft Office 365 right out of the box, OneWindow creates a powerful, easy-to-implement digital workplace that can be tailored to specific industries. By bringing together people, content and conversations in a centralized workplace experience,

OneWindow Workplace streamlines information access and communication across an entire organization. Unique features include: drag and tag document upload, topics targeted

activity feeds, native yammer and office groups integration, native easy to use rich text editing for publishing articles allowing to easily embed rich multimedia content.

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On Premise

See note below*

ROOT

Office 365

http://www.messageops.com/sharepoint-intranet-portal/ Locations: USA

ROOT is a pre-built, feature-rich SharePoint intranet portal on Office 365 that centralizes access to important company info and apps. Ready-built, packed with features, and easily configurable, your company’s ROOT intranet will engage employees, facilitate

communication, foster collaboration, streamline processes, and organize your knowledge-base for quick, lasting productivity gains.

No matter where they are or what devices they work on, ROOT lets your team communicate and collaborate thanks to its responsive, modern widget design. Serving as a daily dashboard that shows upcoming events and meetings, outstanding tasks, relevant news, email, critical documents and more, ROOT makes it easy to get to work on your business’s biggest

priorities. ROOT brings immediate benefits to your organization by streamlining and

automating workflow efficiency between departments. ROOT's enhanced people finder also makes it easy for your team to find the people and skill sets they need to get answers quickly. Easily deployed and administered, ROOT intranet eliminates the complexity, cost and risk of a custom-built solution to bring immediate business value to your organization. ROOT

enables your company to think with one mind and speak with one voice regarding corporate and departmental goals, marketing and industry events, and social messaging.

*US$3,950 + one-time setup US$950 + annual maintenance US$500 Product video: https://youtu.be/KPIja6lqBL0

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See note below*

SP Intranet 365

Office 365 On Premise

http://www.spmarketplace.com/sp-business-suite-365.html Locations: USA

SP Intranet 365 by SP Marketplace turns Office 365 and SharePoint into a vibrant, dynamic and flexible portal that serves as the hub for your organization’s communication,

collaboration and internal services. SP Intranet 365 is a next generation Intranet portal constructed from inception to provide active and relevant content out of the box on Office 365. It can uniquely provide this content because it’s not just an Intranet. SP Intranet 365 is a complete Intranet structure that includes operational department portals and employee self-service features. It is an "Active Intranet" design that automatically monitors and reviews content to detect, capture and push important operational events and announcements to the Intranet home page. It also can be customized so that back office systems are monitored for new content.

SP Intranet 365 offers a full intranet structure including home page, employee self-service portal, department portals, blog, communities, and much more. Active content pushes news, announcements and events up from departments. The full tool set adds over 70 additional functions to SharePoint.

*Starting at USD$5,995 (1st year) then USD$1,499 per year for 301-1,000 users.

Additional screenshots: http://www.spmarketplace.com/sp-intranet-screen-tour.html Product videos: http://www.spmarketplace.com/product-videos.html

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See note below*

The Hub

Office 365 On Premise

http://www.amtevolve.com/Pages/Services/Office%20365/TheHub.aspx Locations: UK

The Hub gives companies everything they need to get up and running quickly with SharePoint. Drawing on many years' experience of building SharePoint systems, AMT have created a solution that gives companies the building blocks of a successful intranet. Sold as a complete service, clients work with AMT’s consultants to build a properly structured SharePoint system that is moulded around their particular business.

It includes a wide range of corporate intranet features such as news, policy management and holiday booking, as well as a series of stylish layouts. It gives the structure to begin migrating files and processes, and AMT train key staff to manage and develop the intranet. The aim is to quickly put a Best practice

SharePoint system in place for clients, whilst simultaneously training staff to give the skills needed to continue its development. Modules supplied are built using core SharePoint functionality. SharePoint Lists, Views and Workflows are used, and a small amount of CSS and JavaScript are used to enhance the user

experience. When the project is finished, the client is left with site structures, security policy and governance documents all in place, and the knowledge needed to manage them into the future.

*Implemented for a one-off project cost. Software assurance is also available.

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Unily

https://www.unily.com/

Locations: Argentina, Australia, UK, & USA

Unily is an intranet as-a-service offering that utilizes the very best of Microsoft

technology, including Office 365, SharePoint, Yammer and Azure to deliver a seamless,

single intranet experience. With a strong focus on design, user experience, usability

and a unique content management system, no SharePoint knowledge is needed to get

the most out of Unily. The combination of Unily's comprehensive platform features and

continued customer success model ensures that you are empowering your staff and

achieving maximum return on investment.

In comparison to the majority of out-of-the-box intranet products, Unily is an entirely

custom built solution that utilizes the best of SharePoint and Office 365 in an intuitive,

user friendly way. It’s not made from SharePoint templates as a lot of competitors

products are – these still require inherent SharePoint knowledge to be able to

customize. This enables quick and easy content management with no prior SharePoint

knowledge needed no support from IT teams. Unily also comes with a complete

Customer Success package including consulting sessions to customize the product to

exacting needs, ongoing support and an evergreen, custom driven roadmap – this

ensures that Unily is a long-term intranet solution that won’t decline in value.

Product video: https://vimeo.com/140925104

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Indicative Pricing: See note below*

Valo Intranet

http://www.valointranet.com Locations: Finland

Valo Intranet is a ready-to-go modern intranet on Office 365 and SharePoint Server. Valo Intranet is a 100% Office 365 compatible intranet solution with a beautiful mobile-friendly user experience. Valo Intranet includes all the most popular intranet features out-of-the-box and much more! Three modern user interface alternatives and the possibility to brand the look-and-feel according to the company brand guidelines makes every Valo Intranet unique. Using Valo Intranet is easy, intuitive and fun!

Valo Fresh subscription keeps your intranet evergreen. Office 365 and SharePoint platforms are evolving all the time and so is Valo Intranet. Product team is publishing new Valo Intranet releases every 2 months.

Microsoft promotes Valo Intranet as a solution that has been "technically done right" and has featured it in a customer stories case study. Valo Intranet is sold through a global Valo Intranet channel partner network. Local Valo Intranet partners help you in defining the intranet information architecture, governance model and launch activities as well as in installations, branding, migrations and possible customer-specific customizations.

Over 100 organisations are already using Valo Intranet in their daily life. Valo Intranet clientele includes customers from all industries and from small and midsize organizations to large

enterprises.

*Perpetual license for 500 users price starts from 10,000€ plus Valo Fresh subscription (25% of the licence investments and includes usage rights to the Valo Intranet iPhone/Android App).

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Indicative Pricing: 2,000€ / 500 users / month

Wizdom

http://wizdom-intranet.com Locations: Denmark

Wizdom is a ready-to-run intranet solution for Office 365 and SharePoint that’s easy to customize and use. Taking best practices from hundreds of companies, Wizdom offers you the most

comprehensive selection of pre-existing apps, page designs, web parts and features. This enable clients to effectively build the intranet that matches their needs.

Released in 2010, Wizdom is a very mature intranet product that includes more features than competing solutions. Features encompass, among others, a revolutionizing news engine that offers a range of options for news management and broadcasting; and automatically applied metadata that makes the intranet easy to navigate.

Wizdom’s responsive design not only applies to the product itself, but, also, adds a responsive

design to SharePoint’s features. An innovative design engine allows admins and developers to easily change the intranet’s visual design.

Wizdom is used in a broad variety of organizations – ranging from 25 to 125000 users. Customer industries includes, among others, agriculture, pharmacy, finance, manufacturing, consultancy, NGO, public sector and education.

Wizdom is Europe’s most widespread and fastest growing intranet product for SharePoint. More than 400000 daily users in more than 200 organizations are already using Wizdom intranet as the digital workplace where they get things done.

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