Is Your Business Ready for Microsoft SharePoint?

While many SME businesses all over the world use SharePoint many are using it in a way that is barely scratching the surface of what it can do for business.

Sound like you?

We help you to turn SharePoint into your highest performing resource,  to share and manage your organisations knowledge, help your team to not only find information and collaborate but with our training programmes to master the use of it. All whilst ensuring you have a future proof solution that allows you to grow and adapt for the long term.

Do These SharePoint Challenges Sound Familiar?

Disorganised and Outdated

Your SharePoint is a dumping ground for documents with no clear structure.
Outdated customisations make it hard to manage and improve.

Poor User Experience

Hard-to-navigate site with no governance or search capabilities.
Users struggle to find key documents or deal with version control issues.

Integration and Performance Struggles

Your site doesn’t integrate well with Power Platform, AI, or future tools.
Performance issues grow with increasing content and users.

How We Can Help You

Appetite for Business is a trusted partner to build a SharePoint environment that’s logical, integrated, secure, and easy to maintain—empowering your team while ensuring compliance and scalability for the future…

A clear framework and foundation 

Plan and architect your content using proven best practice approaches, ensuring your structure is logical, efficient, governed and future-proofed.

We provide proper planning to help you leverage tools such as Microsoft Power Automate, Power Apps, or other third-party connectors to  streamline integration and make your data accessible across multiple systems.

We focus on the ease of maintenance using out of the box components as much as possible to avoid complexity and costly customisation updates.

We will help you to Implement a clear security model to ensure the right access to the right people is in place and avoid any costly reputational or business risk.

We will help you to implement a clear security model to ensure the right access to the right people is in place and avoid any costly reputational or business risk.

We will help you to implement clear governance policies to avoid mitigate costly compliance risks and comply with your industry’s legislation.

Our knowledge of common issues and pitfalls means we can design a migration roadmap that reduces downtime, data loss and avoids significant cost, from files shares, legacy SharePoint sites or other third party systems.

How We Work With You

1. Readiness Assessment

We conduct a readiness assessment and interactive workshops to evaluate your current SharePoint environment or workflows, helping you set clear goals for transitioning to SharePoint.

What’s working? What’s not?  What's missing?

2. Art of The Possible

If you are new to SharePoint, we share use cases of how SharePoint can be used to help you start to imagine how it can work for your business.

3. Agile Design and Development

We will create a strategy to make your SharePoint site user-friendly, intuitive, and seamlessly integrated with business applications to streamline workflows and enhance collaboration.

4. Proof of Concept

With your goals in mind, we can develop a small proof of concept to help you visualise and gain buy in. This also helps you to manage your budget.

5. adoption & change management

Once the site is ready to go, we’ll start training your team through tailored sessions ensuring your people are equipped to incorporate into their daily work and guide champion users in making incremental changes.

6. Support & Optimise

We integrate SharePoint with other business applications to streamline workflows and maximise collaboration across your organisation.

7. SharePoint Premium

Unlock advanced features with SharePoint Premium to improve collaboration, secure sensitive information, and ensure compliance with your business standards.

You can expect benefits and outcomes such as:

Self-Sufficiency & Cost Savings

By working with a provider who understands your needs, implements a solution to address them and providing training to your talent in-house…

Adoption Across the the business

We’ll work with your users to ensure that they can properly translate their existing day-to-day processes into a new approach that best utilises SharePoint, and actually saves time, energy, and effort across the board.

Better Communication and Collaboration

When your team is using SharePoint correctly (with complete and accurate data) you can feel confident in the information you have available to you.

Better Data, Better Decisions

With complete and accurate information at your fingertips, you - as a business owner or leader - can make data-driven decisions from up-to-date dashboards to manage operations, and identify areas for further improvement.

Sustainability and the Demands of your Customers

SharePoint Online offers a scalable, cost-effective solution for collaboration, document management, and real-time sharing, helping you respond swiftly to tenders and customer needs while reducing the costs and complexities of on-premises servers.

FAQ

SharePoint is a Microsoft platform designed for content management, collaboration, and information sharing. It helps streamline workflows, enhance team collaboration, and centralise document storage, allowing your organisation to work more efficiently and securely.

SharePoint integrates seamlessly with other Microsoft 365 tools like Teams, Outlook, and OneDrive, providing a unified experience for file sharing, document management, and collaboration. It enhances productivity by connecting your workspaces and data across different applications.

Yes, SharePoint is highly customisable. You can create tailored workflows, automate routine tasks, and build custom sites to match your organisation’s structure and business processes.

SharePoint offers many security features, including encryption, access controls, data loss prevention, and compliance tools. These features help you protect sensitive information and ensure that your organisation’s data stays secure.

A successful SharePoint implementation requires careful planning, proper configuration, and user adoption strategies. Our team of experts will guide you through every step, from initial setup to ongoing support.

We provide comprehensive ongoing support for SharePoint, including troubleshooting, updates, and optimisation services. Our team ensures that SharePoint continues to meet your business needs as your organisation grows and evolves.

SharePoint enhances collaboration by centralising document storage, allowing for real-time co-authoring, and simplifying communication through integration with tools like Teams. This makes it easier for teams to work together, share information, and track projects efficiently.

The time required to set up SharePoint depends on the complexity of your organisation’s needs and the level of customisation required. We work with you to create a tailored implementation plan that ensures a smooth and timely deployment.

Customer Story

How QHSE Aberdeen Transformed Their Operations with SharePoint

“Appetite for Business for Business covers everything—from training to large implementation – I always recommend them whenever I can”.

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