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CONNECT COMMUNICATION HUB

OutstandingInternal Communications

Built seamlessly upon SharePoint, the Connect Communications Hub harnesses the power of Office 365 to deliver intelligent self-service communication throughout the enterprise.

Delivered as a suite of integrated apps, Connect helps break down departmental barriers by providing always-on self-service access to commonly requested HR content, key business contacts, interactive news, targeted announcements, rich discussion groups and more.

Organisations deploy Connect to help align staff with business goals, create a shared vision and convey a strong sense of ownership.

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CONNECT COMMUNICATION HUB

Rapid Deployment Why Choose Connect

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01Connect Home app

A single common location from where everything can be reached. Visually clean, brandable, easy to manage, and intelligently tailored for each user.

Target news articles and alerts to specific roles and groups. Relevant items will surface to the right people on their Home App, on any device.

Highlight announcements, and importantly, don’t let them slip from the front page, keep it highlighted as long as required with simple communications management settings.

02Connect News app

Publish organisation-wide news articles and announcements, or target articles to specific roles and departments.

Engaged users can ‘comment on’, ‘like’ and ‘follow’ news articles, building collaborative relationships, generating positive dialogue across your organisation using familiar social tools.

Everyone and anyone can contribute. Your Communications team can easily manage what’s finally published and who it will target, with approval workflows built in.

Accessibility features from SharePoint ensure high levels of accessibility out-the-box. This includes compatibility with screen readers.

03Connect Self Service app

The Self Service app brings together the most useful links, Human Resources content and discussion in one intuitive screen. FAQ’s, commonly requested documents, contact info, and a forum, all contribute to increased self-reliance of staff, effectively reducing the backlog for your support teams.

Build up a searchable knowledge base with the Self Service Forum to mitigate against loss of “unique knowledge”; providing added confidence for teams, colleagues and collaborators from the outset.

04Connect Profile app

Search multiple fields such as role, location and past experience in user profiles to quickly find new team members, stakeholders and experts.

Link users from your existing Active Directory, and automate the migration of users up to office 365.

Protect privacy at a granular level with SharePoint controls to comply with your organisational policy.

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Sword Connect is built for rapid automated deployment. Long gone are those complex and expensive 3 to 6 month implementations. Just pick your Connect components, help us understand your information architecture, your information governance structures (we can help with these too) and it can be up and running on your Office 365 tenancy in a matter of days.

Sword IT Solutions is a Microsoft Gold Partner with long-standing, proven expertise in building enterprise intranet solutions for both public and private organisations using SharePoint and Office365. The Connect framework has evolvedfrom our years of experience of talking with customers about what they want from SharePoint, working with them to develop their information architecture and governance practice, and deploying and supporting solutions. The Connect app suite encapsulates our well-developed understanding of the keys to intranet adoption and engagement.