Office 365 portal: What it is and what it includes

What are office 365 portals?

Office 365, now called Microsoft 365, is in fact the most used digital work platform in the world, with a wide range of work tools.
Basically, the 365 suite provides all standard Microsoft apps like email, calendar, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and OneDrive in a cloud environment. This means that you can access your data on your personal and work activities from anywhere and at any time, having all your daily work tools.

Microsoft 365 isn't just that. The platform also offers strong possibilities for company collaboration, communication and sharing information. Office 365 portals offer all of these.

SharePoint: the communication portal

First of all, let's start with the collaboration and communication platform par excellence, the Microsoft 365 intranet, SharePoint Online.

Created to connect people and enhance business collaboration processes, the software can be installed on your network or used in software-as-service mode, in Microsoft 365.
 Its service helps companies create corporate websites that are accessible to employees in the same company.

• Company users can share and find documents
• The company can create internal communication content
• Manage and catalogue data
• Create and share information
• Create new pages
• Manage sick leave, holidays, remote working and more

Through using the intranet, corporate culture is strengthened and employee involvement grows with it.

Sharing: the strong point

The strength of this tool lies in its ability to share documents and store them in a central location. In short, SharePoint has a "container" that allows you to replace the traditional file system.

In addition to the standard features of the file server, the office portal can better classify files by making company information easily accessible by using metadata.
No worries, the company decides who has access to files, data lists and each record by managing and customising permissions.

Microsoft Teams for collaboration

Microsoft Teams is the chat-based application that allows you to manage all aspects of business collaboration in one workspace.
Perfectly integrated into the office portal or with the general Microsoft 365 suite, this tool allows full management of projects, sharing of content or archiving of information.

All documents, spreadsheets, presentations shared within a team are stored in specific cloud storage where each team member always has access to the latest version of the document.
Each user change is recorded real-time to ensure synchronised work processes.

Yammer: the corporate social network

Yammer is the corporate social network office application. A Facebook for corporate life.

It allows information sharing between colleagues. It allows you to share company information, ask questions about common procedures or company life and share current and future projects with colleagues.
The result is a company bulletin board where you can interact with all your company employees.

This way, you guarantee the necessary involvement to keep up with the evolutionary dynamics of the company without having to resort to an infinite flow of emails.