Bonzai Intranet [Intranet-in-a-Box] for SharePoint & Office 365

For the past 25 years, Steeves and Associates has been on the cusp of emerging and disruptive technology to deliver the leading technology solutions on the market. Our mission is to provide customers with best-fit technology solutions that add value, won’t become obsolete and fill the gaps that businesses need to succeed in increasingly competitive landscapes, all while lowering overall risk.

Being the first Canadian Microsoft Cloud Partner, we are always searching for new ways to streamline cloud deployments and infrastructure. For this reason, we have chosen to partner with Bonzai Intranet.

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Equally enthused about the recent partnership, the Director of Partner Channel at Bonzai Intranet, Jaap Mantel, sums up the organization’s decision by sharing, “With over 25 years of experience, Steeves and Associates is consistently at the forefront of emerging business technology and are very respected within the IT community. We’re extremely enthusiastic about our partnership because together, we can provide world-class digital workplace and intranet solutions to organizations in Western Canada.”

Bonzai Intranet – Enterprise Intranet-in-a-Box Platform

Bonzai Intranet is a complete intranet-in-a-box solution built on the SharePoint platform that is delivered in half the time and at a fraction of the cost of custom SharePoint intranets. We at Steeves and Associates call that disruptive technology at its finest.

Recognizing the power, efficiency, and scalability that Bonzai Intranet offers enterprises who use SharePoint or Office 365 as an intranet, Steeves and Associates is elated to be offering North America’s highest rated enterprise intranet solution.

 Source: Bonzai Intranet - SharePoint OOTB vs. SharePoint with Bonzai Intranet

Bonzai Intranet Increases Adoption and Usage

Bonzai Intranet has been embraced by Fortune 500 companies around the world with its award-winning user experience and intuitive interface that makes it easy for those with limited SharePoint knowledge to use the SharePoint platform as an intranet. Microsoft data showcases that Bonzai increases SharePoint usage by no less than 75%. Microsoft data also shows that Bonzai increases user consumption rate for Skype for Business by an average of 41% and Yammer by 22%.

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With 86% of executives and employees citing lack of collaboration or ineffective communication for workplace failures, as noted in Clear Company study. We at Steeves and Associates agree that it is time to harness a more comprehensive solution for your internal communications as your workforce becomes more virtual and work becomes more mobile.  Partnering with Bonzai Intranet, we can now offer our clients an Enterprise-level, intranet-in-a-box platform that can be setup at a fraction of the time and cost of traditional custom SharePoint intranets.

Intranet-in-a-Box to Eliminate Custom Development

Beginning as a SharePoint consultancy, Dynamic Owl re-envisioned SharePoint intranets with Bonzai as a ready-to-go, out-of-the-box intranet to provide enterprise organizations the communication, collaboration and engagement tools they need to maximize their investment in Microsoft SharePoint.

Deploy Bonzai On-Premise, Online (Cloud) or Hybrid

We deploy Bonzai Intranet for our clients using SharePoint On-Premise 2013, SharePoint On-Premise 2016 and Microsoft Office 365 Online.  The flexibility of On-Premise or Online deployments allow Steeves and Associates to deliver the comprehensive intranet-in-a-box platform however our clients operate.

Could a hybrid SharePoint deployment be right for you? Watch our on-demand webinar “Building a Case for SharePoint Hybrid” to learn more.

Why Bonzai Intranet-in-a-Box?

Steeves and Associates became a Bonzai Intranet Partner to offer our SharePoint and Office 365 clients a complete intranet-in-a-box platform to drive communication, collaboration and engagement. Complex custom development is not required for a complete intranet solution.

That being said, Bonzai’s framework makes it easy to build line of business applications in SharePoint and Office 365 which many IT teams enjoy. Bonzai Intranet for SharePoint and Office 365 includes pre-built applications that build upon SharePoint’s native functionality, including:

• News: sharethe latest company news with employees companywide or by department with dynamic publishing, content targeting and employee engagement features.
• Events: create and manage company events and seminars easily with invites, attendee lists, calendar scheduling and social engagement features.
• Document Portal: store and manage important forms, policies and procedures with native version control and document approval. Bonzai’s document portal makes it easy to find what you need on the intranet fast.
• Directories: find the resource you need faster with people directory, location directory and site directory, all available to accurately uncover the best resource quickly.
• Social Engagement: share, comment and like intranet content. See how employees get engaged as they provide feedback on company news, initiatives, and events.
• Marketplace: increase intranet adoption with a company marketplace for your employees to interact within a trusted employee community.
• Multi-lingual Compatibility: speak the same languages your employees do by offering multiple languages for better communication, collaboration and engagement.
• Branding: brand your intranet with the same look and feel employees experience in the physical office by adding your own logo, color scheme, fonts, backgrounds, etc.
• Advanced Search: configure search that works just the way employees want so it’s easy to find items, resources, documents and people with auto-complete searching suggestions and more.
• Mobile: access the intranet across all devices anytime and anywhere. Unrestricted mobile access to all areas of the intranet equates to greater productivity.

To get the comprehensive view of Bonazi Intranet-in-a-box, please give us a call at 1 888 952 8800 or sales@steeves.net for a FREE 1-on-1 Bonzai Intranet demo!

Collaborative Bonzai Intranet Partnership to Innovate & Deliver

At Steeves and Associates, we are excited to partner with Bonzai Intranet to offer this comprehensive SharePoint and Office 365 intranet-in-a-box solution to our clients. We strongly believe that the coupling of our infrastructure expertise and the Bonzai product will help our customers quickly engage their employees with a robust intranet solution to drive efficiency and productivity.

We are happy to provide a cost-effective solution that leverages the best of SharePoint and Office 365 in a simple, easy-to-use interface that eliminates IT bottlenecks and empowers all employees with the digital workplace they need to remain productive in today’s business world.

If you’d like to see a LIVE demo of the Bonzai Intranet platform full-integrated with SharePoint or Office 365 we’d love to share one! Give us a call at 1 888 952 8800 or sales@steeves.net.

Still have questions about the Bonzai Intranet solution? Please comment below or send us an email to info@steeves.net.

Author Bio: Dave Steeves

Dave Steeves, CEO and Founder of Steeves and Associates, has been on the cutting edge of technology throughout his career with the past 25 years running his own company as Microsoft 1st Canadian Cloud Partner and one of the first Microsoft Certified Partners. Steeves has always been an early adopter and visionary, helping his clients adopt disruptive emerging technologies managing risk with careful selection of viable use cases to create value. When not tinkering in tech Dave enjoys hockey, skiing, and spending time with his family.