Nowadays businesses are becoming more strategic than ever before. Despite many reasons, getting rid of obsolete systems is making the difference is what SMEs and business analysts say. Needless to say that the Office 365 box and SharePoint Online have reinvented the workplace with new skill sets and competencies to be successful in the growing market place. Going forward I’m sure that SharePoint will become a mandatory productivity tool in almost all the companies. However, there are a few things that enterprises should consider while choosing their intranet solution.
Ensure you have the latest version
Often times I see people making customizations to their existing intranet portals (could be older versions of SharePoint or a different solution altogether) without realizing the power of the latest SharePoint version. The recent online version of SharePoint is fully packed with components that can ease your day-to-day business activities. For example, PowerApps, MS workflows, SPFx based web parts are great value-additions that play a pivotal role in creating a differentiated workplace and empowered teams. Moreover, modern sites, rich look, and feel, simple user interfaces, mobile-readiness, etc. make it an inevitable choice for an intranet.
Benefits of type.js over other scripts (knockout, react, angular)
The latest SharePoint Online is a scalable architecture since it embraces TypeScript and makes enterprise applications perform better compared to its fellow counterparts. Developers productivity, application maintenance, code consistency, handling change requests, the longevity of the framework, catch errors early, etc. are some of the promising benefits offered by TypeScript that make it a lot better than other scripts like a knockout, react, and angular.
Effective use of CDN
In order to improve the performance of your SharePoint Online pages, you can use the built-in Office 365 Content Delivery Network (CDN) to host static assets. It improves performance by caching the static assets on the browsers on which they were requested thereby reducing latency and increases download speed. Moreover, Office 365 CDN uses the HTTP/2 protocol for HTTP pipelining and to improve compression.
Minifying images without affecting quality and performance
A web page comprises of various sizes of images, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript that influence the page load time. Especially images make a page look appealing but their size can affect performance. So, it’s highly recommended to compress and resize images and use sprites to offset the effects of large images. An image sprite is nothing but making a small part of the image visible through a small window and displaying the required part of the image to the end user. Additionally, image rendition in SharePoint can serve different versions of images and display sections of the image allowing it to be reused.
Use the existing components of Microsoft toolkit to build applications
Microsoft toolkit is made with the combination of Auto KMS and EZ Activator Modules to provide you with better performance. It comprises of an array of applications that can be leveraged to streamline everyday business processes and transform the way how businesses are done. All the applications are available in a single package and are very futuristic that can be used to address/solve business problems at the same time unlock employee’s productivity and team collaboration. It consists of both productivity (PowerApps, flows, Teams, etc.) and analytics (Power BI, MyAnalytics, etc.) tools making it a cost-effective solution to achieve this.
Our Online SharePoint intranet portal solution encapsulates all the 5 essential considerations that are critical to building enterprise applications. We have delivered more than 45 portals to customers across different business verticals based on their needs and demands. Out intranet portals can be a “find all in one-place” solution that can address dynamic business problems and take your organization through a forward-looking path.
