InfinCE - A Simpler SharePoint Alternative For Your Organization
At first glance, SharePoint intranet may look appropriate for organizations using Office 365. But its functionalities only go so far, making HR managers, IT leaders, and internal comms teams look for a SharePoint alternative. A study by AIIM found that two-thirds of the organizations using SharePoint face low adoption rates due to inadequate training (67%), complexity in navigating the platform (66%), and lack of technical expertise (51%).
If going with SharePoint is not viable, how can you find an alternative intranet solution to fill the gaps and meet the demands of your workplace? Look no further than InfinCE, the all-in-one internal communications and intranet packaged platform designed for the modern workplace.
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By giving everybody across your diverse workforce a voice, InfinCE helps boost employee engagement and also fosters a sense of belonging, community, and connection.
InfinCE is a scalable, user-friendly cloud platform that can be configured in less time. There is no need to rebuild the intranet every time you add more users. SharePoint users need to pay more to integrate additional features, such as custom branding, analytics, mobile access, etc. SharePoint intranet gives the best results only when it’s used along with the Microsoft 365 products suite, which can incur additional costs.
Encouraging employees to post their updates, wins, stories, and achievements on company or team dashboards and social channels can create a positive brand image that, in turn, will enhance your talent hiring and retention processes.
By surfacing success stories and updates from across your organization, InfinCE helps build a positive workplace culture and inspire employees to actively connect with the work they do.
InfinCE mobile app offers a highly interactive and engaging experience that fulfills the needs of distributed teams. Employees can download the InfinCE mobile app on their iOS or Android device and stay connected with their colleagues and perform their duties from anywhere, at any time, using any device. Companies can also customize the mobile app’s interface to reflect their branding and deliver a highly engaging experience to their workforce.
While SharePoint demands users have a certain level of technical knowledge, InfinCE is the right choice for teams that lack the bandwidth and technical prowess for setting up and scaling an intranet. InfinCE offers a social media kind of interactive experience that modern employees are familiar with.
InfinCE is a modern social intranet platform for improving internal communication and collaboration within an organization. Offering a range of modern workplace management tools, from collaboration and productivity applications to essential IT setup, InfinCE becomes the one-stop platform for managing your entire business.
Feed allows you to keep your team informed on the latest company updates and achievements. It’s a collaborative space for employees to stay informed and engaged by sharing their ideas, feedback, team updates, and more.
InfinCE communication boards allow sharing crucial organizational updates, company announcements, team building activities, and more using the resizable, drag-and-drop tiles. This feature provides an effective way to communicate key business information in real-time, simplifying team collaboration.
Create, store and collaborate on files, policy and compliance documents, contracts, etc. in one location, and even collaborate with third-parties, in a more secure way.
Using the InfinCE mobile app, employees can view dashboard updates related to their teams or organization, access work files, find contacts, join video meetings, and always stay on top of their work from anywhere.
Set up individual channels to meet your team’s specific needs, engaging members through text messages or video meetings for more productive discussions.
Collaboration apps for employees to coordinate at work more efficiently, such as an employee directory, live chat, video conferencing, and private email. Productivity Tools for managing your day-to-day organizational activities like calendar, document creation and sharing, and Online Office Tools.
Better cross-functional collaboration among employees.
Enhanced workforce productivity and engagement.
Complete mobile access to the intranet, including data and tools.
Effortless and secure file sharing, both within and outside the organization.
Quick assimilation of company culture and values by new employees.
Whatever your use case may be - team communication, document creation and sharing, managing information assets, video meeting, or virtual collaboration, InfinCE has everything you need to handle all aspects of your business - in one place.
Microsoft SharePoint is a web-based document management and collaboration platform for organizations to store, manage, and share documents and data within their network.
Despite having a multitude of features like document management, collaboration spaces for teams, mobile access, and integration with various MS Office products, SharePoint is primarily used as a standalone document repository rather than a dynamic intranet site.
Investing the time, money, and effort into building and maintaining a SharePoint company intranet isn’t for everyone. SharePoint has several drawbacks from a modern social intranet perspective.
Users may require rigorous training to use SharePoint effectively. Due to its complex document management features, teams often report issues organizing files and retrieving content.
It takes quite a bit of time and effort to set up the software, create custom functionality, and integrate with other systems. Companies may also experience downtime when the platform needs updates or optimizations.
Remote and hybrid teams require stronger tools for effective virtual collaboration. Several competitors of SharePoint come with intuitive and more useful features for team collaboration, such as live chats, video conferencing, feed, customized dashboards, and more.
SharePoint’s out-of-the-box intranet is typically hard and expensive to restructure. Social features and tools as well as news and publishing features are not built-in. These can be incorporated into a SharePoint intranet only through an integrated Yammer feed.
SharePoint doesn’t offer all the external collaboration tools you may need to monitor and manage file sharing, communication, and partner projects.
While SharePoint is effective for top-down communication, other modern intranet tools are better suited for companies that want to promote dynamic, open communication across all levels, and let all employees have their voices heard.
With SharePoint, it is not feasible to give frontline workers access to a streamlined intranet entry point that makes sense for their roles.
The sheer cost of configuring SharePoint for your organization - from provisioning, to upgrades, to servers and more - can be a nonstarter. Moreover, SharePoint can be a good fit for companies that already have a Microsoft 365 license. Additionally, if you don’t have solid SharePoint expertise in-house, you may have to hire external help, which costs more.
Due to the limited corporate branding features, SharePoint may look more like a Microsoft intranet than a customized company intranet.
SharePoint doesn’t provide the kind of native mobile-first experience that modern employees expect from their employers. It fails to provide a user-friendly interface on both mobile and desktop platforms for both frontline employees and desk workers alike.
The ultimate employee experience is built on a company-branded intranet that powers multiple use cases across your workforce. While SharePoint fails to deliver a modern social intranet experience for employees, InfinCE comes packed with all the essential intranet features that your organization needs to achieve engagement, productivity and collaboration, fast.
InfinCE is a cost-effective, easy-to-use employee intranet platform that offers a single work hub for your teams to communicate, collaborate, thrive, and align themselves to your organization’s goals. By eliminating inefficiencies and reducing context switching, we help you create a positive employee experience that will contribute to every facet of your company’s bottom line.
