Powell 365 is the intranet-in-a-box solution of your dreams. This presentation will walk you through the detailed functional features available when you deploy your own Powell 365 Digital Workplace and take advantage of Office 365 and SharePoint.
For more information visit our website: www.powell-365.com
Powell 365 - The Best Collaboration Software for your Digital Workplace
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DESIGN, DEPLOY, COLLABORATE.
itâs simple.
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Agenda
1. Powell Software Introduction
2. Powell 365 Features
3. Technical Overview and Security
4. Powell 365 ROI
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Powell Software
Leading Digital Workplace designer
500.000+ users
150 customers in Europe and United-States
90+ partners trained and certified in France, Europe, America and Middle Est
Offices in North America, Asia and Europe
www.powell-365.com
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From the Intranet to the Digital Experience Platform
Traditional
Intranet
Corporate Information
Directories
Search
Document
Management
Advanced Intranet
Project Workspace
Workflow
RSS
Enterprise Social Network
Internal Tools
Analytics
Video
Digital Experience
Platform
App and Service Architecture
AI / Machine Learning
Continuous Experience
Personalized/One Access
Ever evolving features
Virtual collaboration
Multi-device
Employee
Engagement
Business
Outcome
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In a few words: The digital workplace
Communicate Collaborate
â News
â Videos
â Policies
â References documents
Connect
Team sites
Social network
Coauthoring
Instant Messaging
Internal apps
External apps
CRM
BI
Search
Multi device / Multi experience / Personalized
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Discover a new way to work with Office 365.
Itâs simple.
POWELL 365POWELL MANAGER
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DESIGN DEPLOY COLLABORATE
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Powell Manager
Powell Manager enables IT departments
to design and deploy SharePoint templates
and structures without coding. Use Powell
Manager to build any kind of
communication and collaborative
workplace solution.
Powell Manager enables to manage,
maintain and update your SharePoint and
Groups environments in a streamlined and
automated way.
Powell 365
Powell 365 is a ready-made and
configurable digital workplace that is built
on top of the Microsoft Office 365
collaborative suite. Powell 365 delivers all
the information and features users need to
work more efficiently.
Powell 365 offers a compelling and
personalized user experience along with a
full set of features that increases user
engagement and Office 365 adoption.
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Responsive Design
Natively multi-device and compatible
with last generations of browsers: IE11,
Edge, Safari, Firefox and Chrome.
Powell 365 App
Native app for Android and iPhone with
company specific branding and quick
access to main portal functionalities and
notifications.
Multi-device
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Branding
Implement your brand by configuring styles
Manage your own themes
⢠Apply global styles and logos
⢠Implement unique headers and footers
⢠Decline you themes by brands,
categoriesâŚ.with unique colors
Define your approach
⢠Keep it simple and configure with NO CODE
configurations
⢠Advanced look and feel options for those
unique requirements
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Personalization
Personalize the Digital Experience
⢠Based on personas and authorization rights
Enable each employee to define:
⢠Their personal links,
⢠Search preferences,
⢠Favorite apps
⢠EtcâŚ
Bring Employeeâs personal data upfront
⢠Employee profile
⢠My projects/teams
⢠My Outlook emails
⢠My social posts
⢠EtcâŚ
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Notifications &
Favorites
Activity Notification
Stay up to date and view
recent activity
Email Notifications
Subscribe to email
notifications when content is
created or changed
Push Notification
Push notifications to mobile
phones
Follow & Favorites
Track, bookmark and favorite
content, users and sites
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Navigation
Implement the best of SharePoint Online and
Powell 365 to provide an intuitive and
powerful Navigation story.
⢠Configure our enhanced Global Mega Menu
⢠Manage Left/Current Navigation
⢠Use SharePoint Breadcrumbs
⢠Manage custom footer navigation
Share the same navigation across your
SharePoint architecture
⢠On-line
⢠On-Premises
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Company News
Comprehensive set of functionalities to
communicate company news
⢠Create articles to communicate news within the
organization.
⢠Use tags to categorize news
⢠Feature News on target areas
⢠Easily share your News
⢠Implement rich content styles, images, and videos
⢠Personalize by setting preferences
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Company News
Leverage the best of SharePoint Online or
SharePoint On-Premise to collaborate, manage
and govern.
Activate SharePoint features to:
⢠Check in/out, create drafts to preview content
⢠Office Ribbon for advanced styles
⢠Track Versions and history
⢠Publish & Content Approval
⢠Content Scheduling
⢠Modern Experience Editing
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Content Management
Simplify content creation and management
with the Powell 365 Gear
⢠Govern content creation by enabling what content can
be created and where.
⢠Implement SharePoint Online Modern User
Experience!
⢠Take the guesswork out, make it simple for content
authors to create content
Benefits from the best SharePoint features
⢠Check in/out, Create drafts to preview content
⢠Office Ribbon for advanced styles
⢠Track versions and history
⢠Publish & content approval
⢠Content scheduling
⢠Modern experience editing
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Easily structure and manage your portal
⢠Create new departments, teams, pages, lists in a couple of clicks through the Powell Gear
⢠Choose among pre-defined templates
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Media
Communicate and publicize videos and play them
directly from the intranet
⢠Play Videos directly from the intranet
⢠Comment and share via the power of Yammer!
⢠Connect to Office Stream, Office 365 Video,
YouTube and Vimeo
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Events
Powell 365 enables to share events and visualize
them in various formats
Leverage SharePoint calendars to store events
⢠Create events in SharePoint calendars
⢠Connect SharePoint calendars to Outlook
⢠Connect multiple calendars and color code events
⢠Display and create Outlook events
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Search Features
Search Center
⢠Based on SharePoint Search
⢠Integrated with Delve
⢠Advanced search and filter to refine results
⢠Customizable design
Content Targeting
⢠Search by User information
⢠Search only what you have access
⢠Search by Keywords, Geo, Departments, Content Type
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Employee Directory
Powell 365 Employee Directory will help you find
expertise or colleague information
Find others by searching by name, refining results by
expertise, job title, etc.
⢠Explore the Employee profile stored in Microsoft
Active Directory, SharePoint or Delve
⢠Refine by Department, Job Title, etc.
⢠View Org Chart
⢠Explore latest documents
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Discussion & Social
Powell 365 Integrates Enterprise social Networks
like Yammer into a seamless experience.
Comment on news, blogs, communities & support
⢠News, Video Comments
⢠Department Social Collaboration
⢠Community Social Collaboration
⢠IT Support
⢠Team Discussions
Connect also to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and
LinkedIn
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Surveys & Reporting
Powell 365 enables Polling and Dashboard
capabilities
⢠Leverage Excel Services to build reports easily and
quickly
⢠Connect to Microsoft Power BI to build powerful
dashboards
⢠Use Polling Widget to collect and communicate
feedback, ideas, etc.
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Workflows
Microsoft Flow
Because Powell 365 is a fully native
SharePoint solution for the content
management, you can leverage the
standard SharePoint Workflow with
Microsoft flow to build complex
validation scenarios
SharePoint Workflow
Powell 365 is compatible with the
standard workflow provided out-of-
the-box by SharePoint
Third-party solutions
You can also extend Microsoft
workflows with any kind of 3rd party
solutions compatible with Microsoft
SharePoint like K2, Nintex and more...
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Analytics
Office 365 Adoption Pack
Global usage analysis on all Office 365
workloads and for each workload
separately.
No detail per site.
Relevant for IT Departments and Intranet
project teams.
SharePoint Site Usage
Site activity analysis for site owners.
Limited analytics features especially in
terms of display.
Highlights number of site visits, new
posted items and most viewed files.
Google Analytics
Global activity on the intranet with
detailed information based on user
profiles, devices, locations, etc. and
with global evolution history: years,
months, days.
Relevant for Intranet project teams
and site owners
Can be extended with other analytic
tools like Webtrends, AT Internet, etc.
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Analytics
Google Analytics & Power BI
Complete integration with Google Analytics
Delivers a complete dashboard into Power BI and leverages the data
with additional user profile properties (Office, Job title, unique
identifierâŚ.)
- Page views
- Location
- Departments
- Jobs Title
- Navigation in the portal
- Browsers & Operating systemâŚ
Extend the analysis
Compatible with the usage report within SharePoint and the
Office 365 adoption pack
You can also use a 3rd part solution available for SharePoint
like Cardiolog, Web Trends or TryaneâŚ
Follow the activities of your employees and
track the success & usage of your intranet
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Multilingual
Management
3 possibilities:
⢠SharePoint MUI, only the interface is translated in the user
language. The content stay in the native language. Available in
Modern & classic experience.
⢠Automatic translation of the page, managed by Bing Translator.
Content of the page is translated. Available in Modern & Classic
experience
⢠Powell Variation, interface & content is managed for each
language. The contribution is simple thanks to the Powell gear
where you can contribute for each language in the same form.
Available in Classic Experience
Automatic translation
After creating your news, you can
easily duplicate it in the others
languages
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Chat Bots support
Complete integration with any Chat Bot solution
compliant with the SharePoint development
standard
Close partnership with Jepeddo ( www.jepeddo.com ) and
meet Jeeo, the worldâs finest Corporate Concierge
⢠Jeeo and Microsoft AI (LUIS) interpret common
user requests (intents) of a Corporate Intranet (eg. Where
do I find job postings? How many vacation days do I have
left?).
⢠Jeeo quickly guides users to the right content, anywhere
across a Powell-365 environment.
⢠Business users can easily âtrainâ Jeeo from within Powell-
365.
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One Single Pane of Glass
Yammer
Follow the latest Company
discussions with a complete
Yammer experience (add files,
praises, announcementsâŚ)
Planner
Follow and manage your
tasks in Planner
Groups & Teams
Instant access to the latest
content in your Microsoft
Groups
Delve
Access your latest documents
and discover popular
documents based on the
Graph API
Outlook
Last emails and next events
from Outlook Online
And moreâŚ
Stream, Office Video,
Facebook, Twitter, Youtube,
Instagramm, weather, share
price, quick poll, âŚ
Extend the SharePoint functionalities with our
30+ web parts
Follow your activities within the portal and in all
Office 365 solutions in a single place.
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Departments
Capture your business units and departmental
communication using our ready-to-use Templates
More than 30 site templates and 30 web parts are
ready to be configured to best fit your business
needs
IT
Communicate technical
knowledge
Marketing
Capture media, images,
social collaboration and
create campaigns
Communications
Publicize company events,
news, videos , images and
social media
HR
Welcome Employees,
manage policies, organize
procedures, capture business
process
And much more!
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Knowledge Centers
Discover all the information you need
to thrive in your work!
FAQ
Record and manage
Frequently Asked Questions
Glossary
Define & Organize your
terms and definitions
Reference
Documents
Sort and publish all key
documents in a single hub
Policies
Promote and communicate
policies
Employee Onboarding
Communicate onboarding
information and capture
processes
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Engage & Communicate
Classifieds
In-house marketplace to sell,
buy and donate items
Employee Highlight
Highlight & acknowledge
employees
Job Postings
Record and manage
Frequently Asked Questions
Tools
Communicate common and
helpful tools
Campaigns
Organize, plan and mobilize
users to build campaigns
Communities
Connect users with common
interests
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#1 Manage
Your Templates
Create your templates simply with no-code or
use a pre-built Powell template
⢠Sites
⢠Pages
⢠Lists
⢠Powell 365 widgets, SharePoint standard
widgets or custom widgets
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#2 Manage
Your Design
Use one of our existing designs with your
brand colors and logo or create your own.
⢠Header templates
⢠Footer templates
⢠Display templates for the widgets
⢠Global theme
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#3 Manage
Your Information
Architecture
Create your portal / site structure
⢠Specific configuration
⢠Dedicated design
⢠Hierarchical structure of the portal based on
your site templates.
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#4 Deploy your portal
& update it over time
Deploy your configuration in a simple click
⢠Three available environments:
⢠Development
⢠Testing
⢠Production
⢠To three possible targets:
⢠SharePoint
⢠Microsoft Teams
⢠Powell Hub (desktop & mobile)
When new requirements come up, update your
intranet portal, again in a few simple clicks!
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#5 Extend Powell 365
features with your own
custom development
We support âplug & playâ deployment of all
custom development and integration
⢠Office Dev PnP schemas within a Powell Manager
site template
⢠Site script for Site Design
⢠SPFx package for
⢠Web parts
⢠Header
⢠Footer
⢠Custom extensions
⢠JavaScript and CSS custom development
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With Powell Manager, design and deploy:
⢠List templates
⢠Modern Page Layouts
⢠Modern Themes
⢠Modern Microsoft web parts
⢠Custom SPFx web parts and extensions
⢠Modern Team, Communication and Hub site
templates
⢠Microsoft Groups and Teams team site
templates
⢠Modern sites templates with SharePoint Site
Design: self service provisioning on the
SharePoint homepage
Full Support of the SharePoint Modern Experience
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Theme for Modern Sites
We support the theming feature for Modern
Experience
1. Configure your modern theme in:
https://developer.microsoft.com/en-
us/fabric#/styles/themegenerator
2. Copy / paste the Json result in the modern colors
section We support custom page configuration for
your Modern theme
Header
⢠Hide: Always: hide the default SPFx header
⢠Fluid: Hide: the default SPFx header when you scroll down
Page title
⢠Hide: Hide the default page title
Left navigation
⢠Hide: Hide the default left navigation
Content position
⢠Normal: Default SPFx experience
⢠Center: Center the content within the page
⢠Wide: Content takes all space in the page
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Architecture overview
Customerâs administrators
build their SharePoint portals
in Powell Manager
The SharePoint portal structure
are deployed on the customerâs
Office 365 tenant
Users access the portal
in SharePoint online
on the Office 365 tenant
Settings
Web parts / CSS
WEB JOB
CDN
WEB
SITE
SQL
SERVER
Powell 365 web parts and specific features are consumed from the CDN
for better performance & easy maintenance
Remote
provisioning
CSOM / REST
SharePoint Online
SharePoint 2016
Microsoft Graph
or productâs
APIs
Worldwide
CDN
Azure
Premium
The Powell 365 Digital
Workplace is a native
SharePoint Portal
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Platform Environment
HOSTING
The Powell Manager suite is hosted in the
Amsterdam Azure data center.
The Powell CDN uses Azure CDN Premium and is
replicated worldwide for redundancy and high
availability.
SLA
Powell Manager & job : 98,5% uptime
⢠Maintenance is announced one week before
⢠Standard downtime is 30min.
Powell CDN : 99,9% uptime
⢠If the CDN is unavailable, SharePoint Online is
still running with empty web parts for Powell
features.
⢠Powell Manager maintenance has no incidence
on the CDN availability.
Amsterdam
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If you stop using Powell
365, you keep all
your content, security
settings, SharePoint site
structure and design
You stop benefiting
from Powell web parts
and specific features
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Data, security, updates
& reversibility
All your data stays
in SharePoint
and Office 365
You can benefit from
all features provided
by the Microsoft
Compliance
and Security Center
Powell 365
uses Office 365
authentication for
maximum security
Powell Manager
benefits from all
security features
provided by Azure
Powell Software
provides regular
updates (twice per
month) to follow
SharePoint and Office
365 evolutions
You donât need to
re-deploy your portal
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Security
Authentication: Leverage Office 365 Identity
Management
⢠User Accounts
⢠Licensed Office 365 Users
⢠Active Directory Users and Groups
⢠External Sharing
⢠Securely share through Microsoft Accounts
⢠Send Invitations & manage duration of access
Authorization: leverage Office 365 and
SharePoint Groups
⢠SharePoint Access Rights
⢠Contributors â Content Authors
⢠Approvers â Review and approve content
⢠Owners â Manage content
⢠Visitors â content consumers
⢠Tailored permissions
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Drive your projects SIMPLY
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GET THE
REQUIREMENTS
BUILD
YOUR PORTAL
RUN YOUR
WORKSHOPS
AND ADJUST
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GO LIVE
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EVOLVE
OVER TIME
No wireframe, no detailed specifications, no tunnel effect.
Users have always the portal live with the latest changes
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POWELL SITES key functional benefits
Key features Powell
sites
SharePoint
Publishing
SharePoint
Modern Exp.
Unified navigation across site collections X
Personalized Search center X X
Cross-site content presentation X X
Multi device X X
Advanced branding X
Content notification X
Page translation X
Manage favorites X
Simplified content contribution & contribution dashboard X
Advanced O365 features integration: Delve, Groups, Planner, Outlook, Dynamics, ⌠X
Out-of-the-box site templates 30+ 1 2
Additional business web parts to third-party solutions and services 30+
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POWELL MANAGER functional benefits
Key features Powell Manager Custom development
Site template Drag & drop Office Dev PnP template
Site template classification Configuration Not available
Page template and page layout template Drag & drop Office Dev PnP template
Navigation template Configuration SPFx extensions
List & content type templates Configuration Office Dev PnP template
Office Groups template Configuration Not available
Standard Branding Configuration HTML+CSS
Site Design templates Configuration
Powershell + Office Dev PnP
template
Office 365 updates Automatic Manual reactive maintenance
Portal updates and deployment Configuration PowerShell
Development environments (dev / test / prod) Configuration Not available
Unique platform to manage On-Line and On-Premises Configuration Not available
Let your SHAREPOINT EXPERTS focus on what matters,
not all the repetitive tasks required by SharePoint
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Powell 365 project versus a standard project
*Costs are calculated for a single project
including Powell 365 licenses.
By using Powell 365 across multiple
projects, ROI will further increase as
Powell 365 license costs will be spread
across these different projects
POWELL 365 ROI
Time Cost *
Design Divide by 3 Divide by 2
Build Divide by 10 Divide by 3
Run (evolution + maintenance) Divide by 5 Divide by 2
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Powell Software
Leading Digital Workplace designer
Powell 365: The most powerful Digital Workplace Designer for
Office 365 on the Market
â Reduces time to market and costs significantly
â Flexible and scalable to meet your specific business needs
â Ever evolving and fully aligned with Microsoft technology strategy and best
practices
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More information on: www.powell-365.comâ
Follow us on Twitter: @powell365Newsâ
Antoine Faisandier
CEO
antoinef@powell-software.com
Ryan Orehek
Director of Sales
Ryan.orehek@powell-software.com
Juan Larios
Technical Lead
Juan.larios@powell-software.com
CONTACT US
This document, all media content, the Powell 365 concept are the exclusive property of Powell Software. No copy or distribution without written authorization from Powell Software
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The Evolution of the Intranet
Traditional
Intranet
News
Corporate
information
Phonebook
Policies
Advanced Intranet
Project workspace
Workflows
RSS
Internal tools
Digital Workplace
Multi-device
Personalized
Enterprise social network
Instant messaging
External tools
BI / CRM
Video