SharePoint intranet features
Lightspeed365 is available as both a one-time perpetual license and a subscription model, giving you the flexibility to choose what works best for your organization. The perpetual license allows companies to make a one-time investment, avoiding ongoing costs while still benefiting from a robust SharePoint intranet solution. Alternatively, the subscription model is ideal for organizations looking for an evergreen solution, ensuring continuous access to new features, updates, and ongoing support. No matter which option you choose, Lightspeed365 helps you maximize the value of your intranet on Microsoft 365.
Core
Improve employee self-service by organising content like guides and policies into searchable handbooks.
Boost engagement with a user-friendly and attractive news carousel, including lots of display options.
Improve findability by creating dynamic menus at the top of long content pages like ‘how to’ guides.
Table of contents provides a simple in page navigation. It allows users to quickly see the full scope of information on a page. It works dynamically and picks up what is on the page so your users will be able to jump to the various sections with ease.
Personalise your intranet with a welcome message and locally relevant information like weather reports.
Welcome bar adds a personal touch to your intranet. It shows a variety of local information associated to a specific user including weather and local time while also being a platform to re-trigger page tour. It can contain share price information also.
Reduce information overload by organising your content into tiles that expand when clicked.
Crete better on-page navigation experiences with an advanced alternative to the Quick Links webpart.
Card links are a navigational tool that allow you to present links to key areas of the intranet. You can configure them in various ways with iconography and images providing a visually appealing way to find content for users.
Target important messages at different employee groups with a high visibility alert at the top of the page.
Improve the usefulness of your intranet by capturing quick employee feedback on content pages.
Quickly launch your organisational apps and services from a personalised menu on the homepage.
App launcher provides an interface for users and the organisation to have quick access to commonly used tools, apps and links. Users can personalise their feed and the organisation can mandate apps, ensuring that day-to-day tasks can be completed efficiently.
Keep employees informed about the share price of your organisation or industry competitors.
Share price enables you to display your own, or other businesses share prices on an intranet page. It is a great way to easily be aware of changes in the markets that may affect your business or projects.
Create a more tailored search experience with visually prominent overlays and configuration options.
Floating search is a powerful search tool that enables users to have a prominent and obvious place to begin a search from. Configure specific verticals so that users find specific content quickly and easily from any page you place the floating search on.
Introduce the intranet features and key content to first-time visitors or inform people about updates.
Page tour enhances user engagement and onboarding on a SharePoint intranet site. It allows intranet teams to create interactive, guided tours of different parts of the site, showcasing key features and functionalities.
Browse or search across all your people, with many filters. Great for meet-the-team sections too.
People directory provides a centralised place for users to go to find colleagues contact information and initiate communication with them. With a variety of configuration options available and the ability to filter by department or team People directory is a powerful tool in the intranet arsenal.
Make finding people easy – by name, department, skill and more – straight from the homepage.
People search provides an interface to quickly find colleagues information. Start typing to be given suggestions or click through to the People directory. Ideal for use on intranet home pages. People search plugs a gap in the suite of tools available out of the box with SharePoint.
Keep your intranet on-brand and engaging with improved styling options, including sub-brands.
Branding customiser enhances your SharePoint intranet’s look and feel. It allows intranet teams to apply custom brand elements, such as colors and fonts, to different page elements. Use the web part properties pane to define your options and specify where they should be applied.
Gather opinions from your employees on a range of topics with polls that are attractive and easy to use.
Poll lets you gather collective opinions from the organisation. Whether on a specific business topic or something more fun, Poll is a great way to get the lay of the land. Add it to a page associated to a specific topic and see if people agree with you or each other about the topic in question.
Quickly access your intranet from Microsoft Teams with a branded app that sits in the toolbar.
The Lightspeed365 Teams app integrates your intranet into Microsoft Teams, offering easy employee access. Deployment options include auto-add for all users or self-selection, configured by your admin.
Enhance inclusivity and usability with personal display options like text-size, colour, contrast and more.
Accessibility web part enhances inclusivity and usability on your SharePoint intranet. It allows intranet teams to provide tools and features that improve accessibility, ensuring content is easily navigable and usable for employees with diverse abilities.
Effortlessly manage your Lightspeed365 features from a dashboard embedded within your intranet.
Admin dashboard makes configuring and provisioning all the elements required for Lightspeed365 to function correctly easy. Use simple forms and one click updating to get the best from your Lightspeed 365 features and components.
Keep employees updated on your organisation’s activities in the external space with social media feeds.
External social feed is the perfect tool to show intranet users what your organisation is sharing with people outside of your employee base. Underpinned by Juicer show one or multiple sources from a single place within the intranet. A great way to ensure users have regularly updated fresh content they can interact with.
Premium
Premium apps are a paid upgrade, available for purchase with Core or as a standalone option, unlocking advanced features and functionality.
Improve findability with a searchable index of collaboration spaces including Teams, Viva Engage & more.
Site index allows you to display a searchable list of different communities that exist within your organisation. These could be SharePoint sites, Teams or Engage communities. Great for allowing users quick access to a variety of knowledge sources.
Improve governance by triaging requests for new SharePoint sites, MS Teams and Viva Engage communities.
Site provisioning gives you the power to create and provision sites and groups from any page on the intranet. With a simple interface Site provisioning does the hard work for you. Define what you want to create and it will be automatically created and published for you.
Engage employees with a crowd-curated noticeboard. Great for social communities, classifieds and more.
Noticeboard puts content creation into the hands of the userbase. A simple wizard style interface ensures consistency of presentation. Great for organisation wide sharing of achievements, social functions or buy and sell boards.
Make the intranet the focal point of your digital workplace by aggregating updates and tasks from other apps.
Lightspeed365 comes with Viva integrations and corresponding cards (that can be deployed in the Viva Connections dashboard) with enterprise systems such as HR.
Ensure your key messages reach specific groups of employee with push notifications via MS Teams.
Easily communicate with all employees using Teams for mobile. Send push notifications, promote critical announcements, and stay connected with field workers who are away from their desks.
Personalise the news flow within your organisation by allowing employees to subscribe to channels.
Subscriptions allows users to subscribe to different news topics so that they can control the news and related information sources they see on the homepage. This is a great tactic to help deliver news to users which is more relevant and also to increase the relative engagement with news.
