ACCELERATE YOUR SHAREPOINT INTRANET WITH RISE

Business and IT leaders have long recognized SharePoint as an outstanding tool for creating Intranet experiences. Many organizations have invested significant money in highly customized solutions running on expensive equipment and requiring large teams to maintain. Yet even with these investments, many companies struggle to keep up with the pace of innovation and deliver true value to the key business users.

Users demand solutions, and in today’s cloud-driven economy they can find them everywhere. This often results in rogue IT procurement that can create a disjointed and unmanageable scenario. Users get solutions, but at what expense? Potentially:

• Integration issues: Creating silos of applications that don’t work well together or with corporate data sources

• Compatibility: Ensuring compatibility with existing applications and security guidelines ensures users can be supported

• Compliance: An organization’s compliance department often needs to monitor what data and services are available via the cloud

What if you could deliver intranet solutions to the end user quickly and get more out of your existing platform investments without the need for a lengthy custom development project?

THE 80/20 RULEIn Perficient’s nearly 20-year history, our project teams have delivered countless intranet solutions. In our experience, most contain up to 80% common functionality, with the remaining 20% being unique to that business. So why do so many companies struggle to provide an intranet solution that is both compelling and provides a great user experience? Because while the intranet is not your core business, it is core to your business.

That is why we have built Rise, an Intranet-as-a-Service offering that enables you to accelerate your intranet and get more from your investment in Office 365.

WHAT IS RISE?Rise is an Intranet-as-a-Service, a new breed of solution that can deliver on the most common functionality needed for your intranet, out of the box. This allows your intranet to be and up running quickly – helping to engage your end users immediately.

Rise puts your employees at the center of an integrated Office 365 intranet experience, giving them the intranet they deserve. With improved usability thanks to Rise’s consumer-style interface and enterprise-grade features, Rise allows you to surface the highest-value features of Office 365 and make them easy to use.

AN EVERGREEN APPROACH TO THE INTRANETRise is a IaaS solution that continues to deliver value over time. This means that Rise is always up to date and delivers new value with each release. A customer-driven roadmap assures you will see continuous value from your investment.

THE RISE VISIONWe built Rise with the vision to connect people to each other and to their company through outstanding intranet experiences.

Our focus is on:

ContentRise enables beautiful content, delivered through an engaging, mobile-optimized experience that is produced with simplified content management and branded according to your corporate standards.

ContextRise delivers contextual experience to all users by leveraging their context and behavior to facilitate relevant user experiences.

ConnectionsRise facilitates connections to people and content through integrated social experiences and personalized content discovery. Users are more engaged and easier to reach.

IntelligenceRise provides a consistent experience across the intranet through powerful tools to manage navigation, branding, and deployment across Office 365, allowing administrators and content authors to work more intelligently and get more done.

RISE CONNECTS PEOPLE TO EACH OTHER AND THEIR COMPANY THROUGH OUTSTANDING INTRANET EXPERIENCES.

Imagine a marketing team that is empowered because it can quickly create and publish the content needed to get the right message to the right audience. Think of an HR department that is enabled to communicate the most up-to-date and relevant information with ease. Picture an IT department that is focused on projects with strategic value rather than mundane maintenance.

With Rise, processes that previously required custom effort – including publishing, social feed integration, professional branding, and mobile-readiness – are now available out of the box. Your team will appreciate and use the intranet as a powerful instrument for getting work accomplished, and no longer view it as a barrier to collaboration.

REDUCED PROJECT DURATIONThe top intranets for 2016 as rated by the Nielsen Norman Group took an average of 1.3 years to build. Leveraging a product approach enables the lead time for your intranet launch to be shortened and lets your team focus their efforts on content, configuration, and user enablement, rather than development and testing. With Rise you can measure your intranet timeline in weeks, not months or years!

DECREASED PROJECT RISKEvery custom development project carries risk. By leveraging an IaaS solution you can start with pre-tested components allowing you to focus on configuration, not customization. Best practices are designed into Rise from the start and backed up with world-class support.

INCREASED VALUEThe average lifespan for an intranet is 3-5 years. Within most organizations the value of the intranet will significantly degrade over time unless the company has continuously invested in maintenance and new features. Rise provides a dedicated product team which is continually enhancing the product and keeping pace with the latest trends in intranet technology. Over the same 3-5 year period, your Rise intranet will increase in value with the release of new and innovative features.

SUPPORT ASSURANCERise is product from Perficient, one of the top Microsoft partners in the industry. Our dedicated Rise product and support team is committed to your continued success. Our ongoing investment in Rise ensures that your intranet will remain up to date with the latest innovative features for years to come.

HOW DOES RISE BENEFIT YOUR BUSINESS?

IN 2016, THE TOP INTRANETS TOOK AN AVERAGE OF 1.3 YEARS TO BUILD.

– Nielson Norman Group

USING RISE, YOU CAN REDUCE YOUR BUILD TIMELINE TO WEEKS, WHILE INCREASING YOUR INTRANET’S ADOPTABILITY, LONGEVITY, AND VALUE.

KEY RISE FEATURESNEWSRise enables you to effectively communicate with every employee. Content authors are enabled through easy-to-use templates so that they can focus on creating beautiful content without the need for technical assistance. Users are able to access content that is relevant and timely regardless of the device they are on.

MOBILITYRise was designed with a mobile-first philosophy that shines through. Rise’s consumer-style user interface is optimized for desktop, tablet, and mobile viewing. So whether you are in the office or on the go, your content is accessible and user friendly.

DEPARTMENTAL SITESContent authors are enabled to communicate effectively through intuitive templates and controls, allowing users to access important information such as departmental news, important documents, key contacts, and more.

INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE AND NAVIGATIONEach company has a unique structure and way of doing things. Rise is built to be flexible and adjust to your unique requirements. Rise allows you to maintain centralized control over your intranet’s information architecture and navigation so that all users enjoy a consistent experience. Rise allows you to surface the right information at the right time, ensuring an up-to-date and relevant experience.

SOCIALThe modern intranet is a conversation and a way of connecting. Rise facilitates the conversation by providing integrated social capabilities such as feeds, comments, and sharing. Your users can engage with content and with each other.

BRANDINGYour brand is not just the external face of your company, it is something that your employees recognize and identify with. Rise recognizes the importance of maintaining consistent branding for both your external and internal audiences. Rise provides a robust theming engine allowing you to provide a consistent experience for all users.

ADMINISTRATIONRise provides wizard-based administration tools that enable your admin team to keep Rise current and provide the latest and greatest features to your users.

PROVIDING SUPPORT EVERY STEP OF THE WAYWe understand that the rollout of a new technology can be challenging and that gaining long-term adoption is key to your success. Our dedicated Rise team will help guide you and provide support throughout the entire process. We will walk you through the installation process and make sure that your content authors are fully enabled to create beautiful content on your Rise intranet. Our dedicated team will be there to respond to any issues and answer any questions.

GET OUT OF THE BUSINESS OF CREATING INTRANETS AND FOCUS ON YOUR CORE BUSINESS.

Client Success Story

NATIONAL LIGHTING SOLUTIONS MANUFACTURERRISE IMPROVES COMMUNICATIONS AND REDUCES COSTSOne of the world’s leading providers of LED lighting, lighting controls, and related products and services needed to improve communication and collaboration in its HR and corporate communications departments.

The company had various older versions of SharePoint that were no longer meeting the company’s growing needs and needed a new system that is both easy to use and maintainable by the business without IT assistance.

We implemented Rise to create a single cohesive platform for the business to communicate and collaborate internally. Rise provided both a stable and familiar environment and the lighting manufacturer was up and running in just two weeks – saving the company both time and money and providing collaboration, corporate communications, and other resources to 4,000 employees.

Client Success Story

RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATION BENEFITS PROVIDERA well-known religious organization benefits provider helps caring congregations, schools, and other special ministry organizations provide comprehensive employee benefits including health, retirement, disability, survivor, and specific resources for ministry.

The company did not have an intranet solution and made the decision to go with an Office 365-based solution due to its familiarity and comfort with Microsoft technologies. It recognized the need to augment SharePoint’s native functionality and chose Rise as the platform for its intranet.

We implemented Rise in the company’s Office 365 tenant, enabling it to meet its three primary goals for the intranet:

• Improving communications between the executive team and staff

• Coordinating a company-wide calendar of events

• Moving important documents online and making them easily accessible

The company now enjoys a mobile-friendly and easy to-use experience, enabling them to focus on their main mission of serving the needs of congregation organizations and church workers.

RISE IN YOUR ORGANIZATIONIf your company has been challenged with intranet, Rise can help. The best way to understand how effective Rise can be is through a hands-on demonstration. To see all that Rise can offer your organization, please contact us at sales@perficient.com.

ABOUT PERFICIENT Perficient is the leading digital transformation consulting firm serving Global 2000® and enterprise customers throughout North America. With unparalleled information technology, management consulting and creative capabilities, Perficient and its Perficient Digital agency deliver vision, execution and value with outstanding digital experience, business optimization and industry solutions.

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