If you’re looking for a way to get on the same page with your team while offering flexibility, freedom, and the chance to stay connected no matter the distance between you, there’s a way forward with SharePoint technology. Introducing Silicon Reef – the SharePoint Migration Consultants making a huge difference to the transitional period many businesses experience when migrating from legacy platforms to SharePoint.

If you’ve thought about it, migrating to SharePoint may seem like a daunting task. You may even be wondering if it’s going to benefit you in the way you need. However, even if you’ve not thought about making the change until now, we’d like to explore the pros and cons of taking the leap.

Core Benefits:

Tailored to Your Needs: As SharePoint can be entirely tailored to fit your needs, from designing and maintaining brand elements to workflow automation for tasks such as data entry, making the change may be exactly what your business needs to streamline your brand’s appearance while also streamlining your processes to become as efficient as possible. As automated processes save us time they also save us money, making this an all-round favourable option for helping teams to stay on top of workloads and businesses keeping the cash flowing.

Makes Collaboration Easy: SharePoint ensures that your team members are able to interact via a company intranet portal where they can share news, productivity tools, and resources. Working together on projects has never been so easy, especially as SharePoint documents can be edited together, in real time, from anywhere in the world.

Enhanced Data Security: As SharePoint is highly protected with state-of-the-art encryption, it guarantees that your data is in safe hands. With document management, you are easily able to store, organise, and share documents with improved accessibility and a reduced risk of data duplication or losses.

Potential Drawbacks:

Needing Training: As you can customise almost everything, it’s important to remember that your internal staff will need as much training as it takes to become proficient with the tool. SharePoint offers a new way of operating, but you will need your team on board for this.

Costs: Although migrating to SharePoint may free up your time and resources so that you can achieve more in less time, all while saving money, making the switch can be costly. This all depends on the package you choose and how you implement all the hardware needed to utilise the software. The outcome will depend on how your business needs to change and how much of this you can feasibly do without SharePoint’s automated workflows as mentioned above.

Complex Migration: Considering the seamless integration with Microsoft 365 products above, it’s still possible that this migration could be a more complex process than initially perceived. This simply means that you need to have the best team for the job, whether that’s internally or externally via a consulting firm.

Your SharePoint Specialists:

Established in 2016, Silicon Reef is a forward-thinking team of Microsoft 365 experts with a passion for helping people with their information technology infrastructure – so that everyone can work happy. From SharePoint intranets and portals to design, document management systems to development and migration, Silicon Reef has all the knowledge and experience needed to make it happen.

Working tirelessly to aid internal communications, IT, and digital transformation teams in their endeavours, Silicon Reef’s expertise is a guiding light for businesses of all sizes. It is dedicated to optimising workplaces for seamless operations not simply under one roof, but for everyone connected within your team – even if they’re working from a distant location.

Intranet migration through Silicon Reef helps enterprises of all sizes to get the most out of SharePoint, with each step made easier and more straightforward than initially imagined. Silicon Reef’s prowess lies in its ability to make your SharePoint journey more smooth – whether that’s within elevating your communications portals and intranets, creating complex document management systems, or by providing seamless data migration.

As Silicon Reef is a Microsoft Solutions Partner for Modern Work, the company is trusted by a household provider of cloud solutions that can elevate everyone’s experience of working in a fast-paced digital environment. Helping others to migrate from legacy platforms to the cloud via SharePoint, Silicon Reef ensures that your journey feels smooth.

If you’re weighing up your options when it comes to migrating to SharePoint and want some expert advice, reach out to Silicon Reef today.