SP Marketplace Releases Next Generation "Active" Intranet Portal on Office 365

PENN VALLEY, Calif. - June 23, 2015 - PRLog -- SP Marketplace (www.spmarketplace.com), the leader in Office 365 business portals and applications, announced SP Intranet 365, the next generation of Intranet portal design that takes organization portals to new levels of personalization, content and automation.

SP Marketplace calls the new design "Active" because the solution automatically generates news, announcements and events from an organization's daily operational activity.

Built on Office 365 SharePoint Online, the Portal solution leverages the Microsoft Office 365 platform and turns it into a full Intranet structure supporting the entire organization from home page to department portals.

Traditional Intranets serve as repositories for company announcements, news, events, and documents that must be manually updated to keep content current and interesting. SP Intranet 365’s next generation design provides a more active, personalized approach by generating content from operational activities and allows the user to choose the content displayed or linked to in the MyContent section of the portal.

Unlike other Intranet offerings built with their own user interface layer, SP Intranet 365 delivers a rich, intuitive user experience using native Office 365 branding as recommended by Microsoft guidelines. The result is an integrated interface that is a natural part of Office 365. Additionally, SP Intranet 365 features a highly responsible design that supports all mobile devices.

SP Intranet 365 is an out-of-the-box next generation package that includes:

·         Content Component Catalogs designed to be plugged into the Intranet Portal layout

·         Intranet Portal Layouts

·         Office 365 Native Branding

·         Auto Content Generation whereby operational systems are monitored for events that are pushed to the Intranet portal for Company News items

·         MyContent area on the Intranet Portal for employees to personalize content

Using this component based approach, customers can easily assemble their own Intranet in days and maintain it using business power user skills. “With this new generation of Intranet Portal, organizations can deliver more active and personalized content,” said SP Marketplace CEO Darrell Trimble. “Over 500 organizations worldwide use our solutions, and now with SP Intranet 365 we are able to deliver a new way to drive user adoption on Office 365 with out-of-box solution templates.”

The release of SP Intranet 365 coincides with Microsoft’s drive toward a more unified Office 365, which blurs the boundaries of individual components - Outlook, Word, Excel, Skype, Delve, NextGen Portals - and brings it together as an integrated platform. “Office 365 is a powerful platform of collaboration services and technologies,” Trimble said. “Now is the time for a portal that brings it together at an organizational portal solution level.”

SP Intranet 365 is the core module for SP Business Suite on Office 365, which uniquely provides an integrated set of modules that deliver a full portal structure extending Office 365 to support communication, collaboration and business process automation across departments such as HR, IT, Operations, Finance and Sales. It is the backbone that drives content capture from operational activities to the Intranet Home page.

SP Business Suite enables organizations to go from using Office 365 for just email and document sharing to a fully operational internal services structure in weeks. "SP Business Suite allows our clients to quickly take Office 365 to a new level," states William Ryan, partner at Sync(d) Technologies. "Now with SP Intranet 365, it becomes an active, engaging, and personalized center of organization communication and collaboration."

SP Intranet 365 is available today, is tier-priced by organization size starting under $5000 for fewer than 300 employees.

About SP Marketplace

Founded in 2012, SP Marketplace is the leader in Office 365 business solutions, providing Office 365 applications and services designed specifically for small- to medium-size businesses. SP Marketplace applications and templates run on Office 365 SharePoint Online or On Premise and are used by hundreds of organizations worldwide to drive collaboration and automate core business services, such as Intranet, IT Help Desk, HR, Projects, Sales, Marketing and Facilities. To learn more, contact Ashley Johnson at ashleyj@spmarketplace.com or visit www.spmarketplace.com.