SharePoint intranets in-a-box report V5.2

The buyers’ guide to intranet products for SharePoint and Office 365

Our independent assessments of intranet solutions for SharePoint and Office 365 will show you how SharePoint (on-premises and online) can be transformed into a fully-featured intranet and collaboration environment.

Covering 55 intranet products (33 in-depth reviews and cataloguing 22 more), our assessments are independent, balanced, and honest, allowing you to see the functionality and strengths that meet your requirements.

Each review highlights the features and benefits of the product, assessed against eight common business scenarios, so you can find the most suitable product from a local or international vendor.

Our comprehensive guide to intranet solutions for SharePoint will show you the many benefits of transforming SharePoint into a fully-featured intranet by deploying the best-suited product for your needs.

Buy today, for a one-off up-front payment to instantly download the current report and updated issues within a year of your purchase date (which will include 5.3 and 5.4).

“What a helpful resource, timely and thorough, and prefaced with insights and fair criteria.”

— Mark Kashman, senior product manager, SharePoint team, Microsoft

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Current version is 5.2 published late May 2020.

Purchase now to receive the current report and receive updated issues within a year of your purchase date (which will include 5.3 and 5.4).

The buyers’ guide to intranet products for SharePoint and Office 365

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Each review highlights the features and benefits of the product, assessed against eight common business scenarios, so you can find the most suitable product from a local or international vendor.

Buy today, for a one-off up-front payment to instantly download the report and receive updated issues within a year of your purchase date (which will include 5.3 and 5.4).

“What a helpful resource, timely and thorough, and prefaced with insights and fair criteria.”

— Mark Kashman, senior product manager, SharePoint team, Microsoft

Buy for instant download and regular updates

Current version is 5.2 published late May 2020.

Purchase now to receive the current report and updated issues within a year of your purchase date (which will definitely include 5.3 and 5.4).

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ClearBox is a UK-based company.

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Planning a #SharePoint intranet and wondering about the "in a box" solutions? The SharePoint Intranets-in-a-Box report is a must read!

“Are you looking to quickly get an intranet deployed? If so, the first thing you should do is invest in the SharePoint intranets in-a-box report.”

— Susan Hanley consultant, and Microsoft MVP

What’s in the intranet in a box report

This is a buyers’ guide to ready-made intranets and ‘intranet accelerators’ for SharePoint and Office 365. The market for turnkey intranet products that transform SharePoint is maturing but continues to grow, and we’ve covered every major offering. This collection of 33 independent, critical reviews, and summary details of 22 additional products, will help you shortlist the best-suited products. Every product review includes:

A quick-view summary of pros and cons

Price band

Numerous screenshots

Vendor background information

Plus valuable star-ratings on key features:

News publishing

User experience

Collaboration, knowledge management, and social

Search and navigation

Analytics and governance

Employee services

Digital workplace integration

A vendor ‘wild card’

We have published our report since 2015, so we’ve come to understand vendors’ roadmaps and individual products’ standout strengths. As ClearBox Consulting focuses on the business side of the digital workplace and does not sell any products, we are able to give you genuinely independent evaluations.

As a comprehensive buyers’ guide, our 678-page report will reduce your research time and accelerate your decision process, assuring stakeholders that you’ve evaluated the market.

“After purchasing the report I found a vendor I hadn’t heard of and I’m now in conversation with them. Thank you!”

— Betsy Wallace, Amy’s Kitchen

Once you’ve compared the scores, and read our assessments, you’ll be able to put together the ideal shortlist of potential solutions, matched to your organisation’s size, budget, and priorities. Downloading our report will give you critical, in-depth knowledge of the market and kick-start your intranet replacement project.

jedpc @jedpc Replying to @ClearBox I have found previous versions of the report to be extremely useful, and it just keeps getting better!

“Fantastically useful if you’re looking to develop a new intranet, or redevelop your existing one; and you’re thinking of going down a Microsoft technologies route.”

— Jed Cawthorne of TD Bank Group

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“The ClearBox SharePoint in-a-box report [2018] was exactly what we needed for the evaluation of our new intranet. It helped us get a good overview over the products on the market and saved us a lot of time creating a shortlist.”

— Lukas Kocherhans of BKW

New for 2020

33 products reviewed in depth, several completely new products
Our independent assessment of how SharePoint alone stacks up as an intranet tool
New scoring system that shows how products use and extend core SharePoint and Office 365 capabilities
An expanded listings section with a further 22 products
Eight revised scenarios with new criteria, considering Microsoft’s communication sites, hub sites, home sites and more
Updates through the year included in the price where we add new reviews and revised assessments when products undergo a major release.

As always, our reviews are entirely vendor-neutral (nobody pays to be in the report; we don’t sell any products or accept referral fees). Evaluations are based on in-depth live demonstrations against the criteria we set and go through rigorous fact-checking.

Current report version: 5.2 released late May 2020. Next update scheduled for August 2020.

“It’s a great resource; we hope to save a bundle in fees due to the ClearBox team doing a large amount of the heavy lifting, allowing us to focus on strategic benefits and user discovery prior to vendor discussions.”

— Martin Stubbs-Partridge of Scottish Natural Heritage

Exec summary

The exec summary

You can download the 60-page executive summary today to get an overview of our report.

“An important benefit of this report is to challenge the assumptions made by an organisation considering using a SharePoint intranet product rather than creating one from Microsoft components.”

— Martin White, Intranet Focus

Executive summary: SharePoint intranets in-a-box report.

Why buy the report?

It will save you time. We spent well over 700 hours doing the research, so the cost of the report will be quickly recovered by saving you weeks of effort.
Our comprehensive list means you can be certain that you’ve done due diligence on the options, and can be confident in your choice.
You’ll make a better decision – we know what to ask vendors as we bring world-class intranet and internal comms experience to the process. Most of the reviewers have worked as intranet managers, and between them have over 87 years in the industry, working with AstraZeneca, Diageo, GSK, Marie Curie, Ofgem, Rio Tinto, Royal British Legion, Sony, TUI Travel, Unilever, Vodafone and Wessex Water, and many others.
Our opinions are genuinely independent. We accept no fees for inclusion from vendors, have no re-seller relationships, or sponsorship, and we don’t sell any software products ourselves.
We tell you the bad as well as the good. We base our scores on business scenarios rather than a list of features so we aren’t easily impressed or swayed by a vendor’s claim to be unique. Each review was checked by three people, and the scores were balanced as necessary.
It’s the only report of its kind and covers vendors from USA, UK, Australia, Denmark, Finland, Netherlands, Canada, Sweden, Switzerland, Germany, Spain, India, Poland, and Vietnam. Did we mention there are 33 product reviews and 22 additional summaries in all? So many!

“I have personally found this report to be an absolute gold mine of pertinent information. Let me say it is highly recommended if you’re looking to revamp your intranet, or even start from scratch with a new one.”

— Jed Cawthorne of TD Bank Group

“I just downloaded it. We recently initiated the first phase of our RFP so the timing is quite good for me to get up-to-date info.

“I’ve found the first report to bring tangible value in our process. I’m glad we ended up purchasing it.”

— Frederick Leonard of Ecosystem.

Buy it now

Approx. £485+VAT / €540 in EU.
ClearBox is a UK-based company.

Buying help and further information

Easily pay a one-off up-front amount with your card online now, and get a receipt via email.

Or request an invoice and receive the report and receipt upon payment.

Report published late May 2020 as V5.2

#SharePoint intranets in-a-box report v5 @ClearBox: buyers’ guide to #intranet products for @SharePoint & @Office365 Reviews 30+ products w/ ratings on UX, search, news & more + pros & cons. http://clearbox.co.uk/sp-report

“What a helpful resource, timely and thorough, and prefaced with insights and fair criteria.”

— Mark Kashman, senior product manager, SharePoint team, Microsoft

Payment help

For help purchasing the report or to discuss choosing a product, email us on sharepoint@clearbox.co.uk and we’ll reply as soon as we can.

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It was a very helpful report for us in choosing a vendor.

Products reviewed

SharePoint Online from Microsoft
Akumina from Akumina
BaseDrum from Tahoe Solutions
Beezy from Beezy
BONZAI from Dynamic Owl
Core from Sigma Worklife
EasyShare from EasySharePoint
ElevatePoint Intranet from ElevatePoint
Fresh from Content and Code
Go Intranet from Habanero
Injio from WebVine
IntraActive from ProActive
Involv from Cognit
Kasama from Circle T Industries
Kira from CompanyNet
MatchPoint from CYCL
Mercury from Intelligent Decisioning
Mesh Intranet from Acuvate Software
Mozzaik365 from Infeeny
Omnia from Precio Fishbone
OneSource from Micro Focus
OneWindow from Withum
Origami from Origami Software
Powell 365 from Powell Software
Ripple from Ripple Intranet
Saketa from Saketa
SP Self-Service from SP Marketplace
Sproket from Sope Web Technologies
Swisscom Sharespace from Swisscom
The Hub from AMT Evolve
Valo Intranet from Blue Meteorite
Wizdom from LiveTiles
Workai from Elastic Cloud Solutions

Short product summaries

365appz from NGenious Solutions
365Connect from PeopleNet
Ahead from isolutions
Atlas from ClearPeople
Attollo from The Attollo Group
Debble from Debble
Entree from Meetroo
Everis TOGO from everis
Exalt from Query Now
Hoozin from Hoozin
Intranet Kit from Covenant Technology
Juno from Ogoo Digital
LS Intranet from Lizard Soft
Moliri from Bleau
Rise from Perficient
ROOT from MessageOps
Seamless from AskMeWhy
ShortPoint from ShortPoint
Sparrow from DevFacto Technologies
TITAN from Adapt Software India
Unily from Unily
Workspace 365 from Workspace 365

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We use Stripe to process credit and debit cards (including ‘company cards’). We also accept PayPal.

You will get a simple receipt via email.

Price and VAT

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Outside the UK, VAT is not charged for EU customers where a VAT Number is given (B2B). Otherwise VAT is charged as a supply to consumers at the UK rate of 20%

Usage licence and privacy

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News and updates

Report published November 2019 as V5.0 and 5.0.1. Update 5.1 published February 2020. Update 5.2 published May 2020. Next update scheduled for August 2020.

How we did it – the launch article.
The new report – by report co-author, Michael Sampson.
SharePoint solutions – Valo was quick to blog about the report!
First review, from Martin White – “many very helpful changes”.
Independent reviews – EasyShare is glad to be in the book!
A ‘must have’ report – Andrew Wright agrees our report is vendor agnostic.
The only global intranet report – 365appz’ announcement.U
ThreeWill’s Work Together Better podcast – Sam with Tommy and Ryan discuss the market
Choosing the right SharePoint communication product – Suzie Robinson, report producer.