Need advice on cloud intranet solutions
My company of around 15,000 employees is currently using Sharepoint 2016, with the prospect of possibly moving to Sharepoint online in 2-3 years. The problem with SP2016 is that we are growing the Emp Comm aspect of our intranet to increase employee engagement, and SP2016 is kind of a dud for power user Emp Comms. Our company moves slow, so it takes a while to get anything done. For example, I engaged Unily for a cloud intranet solution back in late 2018, and my company is now finally considering implementing it. The problem is that Unily looked great 2 years ago, but I am worried about us making a 5 year commitment without hearing some solid feedback from the tech community on your expierence with modern cloud intranets.
Here is what we need our intranet to facilitate:
- Modern and easy to update and customize page templates, styles, and widgets
- A news feed
- Built in system for emailer blasts
- Low-tech stakeholders being able to easily update content on their own pages
- Regionalizing content for our various region branches
- Customizable MyAccount-type pages for each user to customize
- The ability to easily add JS libraries, such as REACTJS or AngularJS, and code SPAs.
- A decent and customizable search page
- User ability to LIKE content
- User blogs or micro blogs that people can follow
- Content approval flows based on user groups (for approving user blog content)
- Integrate with Sharepoint, Teams, Outlook, and other industry standard apps like Slack
- Ability to set perms for individuals and ADs
- Mobile access and ability to set specific pages to be accessed from outside of the intranet for things like Emergency announcement pages
Nice to haves:
- Live streaming
- Text blasts
- Built-in analytics for page visits, clicks, and search terms
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