A solution with a solid foundation
The client wanted their intranet to have a solid foundation. So they went to market and got in touch with multiple vendors, before ultimately choosing LiveTiles.
“We were happy with that, especially since we went through a really lengthy due diligence process. We went out to our staff, finding out what their needs were, and what they wanted their intranet to be,” our client said.
“I think we made the right decision. The really easy drag and drop thing at the top of SharePoint was one of the main drivers.
“We don’t have any in-house web developers per se, which is where I’ve sort of fallen into building and creating our intranet with a bit of a UX UI lens,” our contact explained.
“That drag and drop has really enabled us to be able to just run with it.”
Cost efficiencies with LiveTiles compared to others in the market also impacted the client’s decision.
Our digitally-savvy client was also a big fan of old-fashioned pen and paper wireframing. They wireframed the whole site, mapping out what they wanted and how it should look, keeping in mind the modular style and build that is easily leveraged through the LiveTiles product.
One of the best things about an easy-to-use intranet product? Making mistakes that you can fix yourself in no time.
“This was really easy just to get my hands on and start just creating from the get-go. I like to learn by just jumping in and doing it and making mistakes.
“It took us eight weeks from start to finish to get to our soft launch. Prior to that we were months in making the decision. And it is an important decision to make because you everyone in the company is a stakeholder, so everyone should have a say in what they want from it.
“We’ve got six power users. They each own their own subsite and they’re coming to me pretty much every day asking, ‘can we do this? Can we do that?’ So that’s where it is at the moment,” he said.
“I’m trying to take a step back from the nitty gritty, and let those super-users collate a list of what they want to see as the next level of pages after their main subsite.”