An engineer needs a technical document to move a project forward. Someone in the company already has it. But finding that person, locating the file, and getting access takes time.
Elsewhere, another team purchases information the business has already paid for, simply because they do not know it exists.
These everyday problems become significant when an organization has approximately 5,000 engineers. Knowledge may be available somewhere in the business, yet remain out of reach when employees need it.
Uno Minda faced this challenge. Important documents were stored on individual desktops, purchased resources lacked visibility, and information was difficult to share across business units.
SharePoint Designs developed a SharePoint-based knowledge management system to bring shared documents into a centralized, searchable, and secure environment. The goal was straightforward: help employees find and use the knowledge the company already owned.
Uno Minda is a global Tier-1 supplier of automotive components and systems to original equipment manufacturers. Its product portfolio includes switching systems, lighting systems, acoustics, seating systems, and alloy wheels.
With operations spanning multiple markets and approximately 5,000 engineers across the company, Uno Minda relies on access to technical and business information to support its work.
For a company of this scale, knowledge sharing has practical consequences. A resource available to one team could help another solve a problem, inform a decision, or avoid an unnecessary purchase.
Making those connections easier was central to the project.
Uno Minda needed to address five connected problems.
Important information was held locally rather than in a shared repository. Access often depended on knowing who had a particular document and asking them to provide it.
This made information harder to discover and created a dependency on individual employees.
Employees sometimes purchased documents or subscribed to information services without knowing that another team had already acquired the same resource.
Limited visibility into existing purchases created avoidable duplication and prevented the business from getting full value from its knowledge investments.
Without a centralized search experience, employees spent time locating documents and checking whether they were relevant.
These interruptions slowed the work that depended on the information, from routine tasks to more involved research and decision-making.
Useful information could remain within the team that acquired or created it. Employees elsewhere in the organization had limited opportunities to discover and reuse those resources.
This made collaboration more difficult and increased the risk of teams repeating work.
Innovation often starts by applying existing knowledge to a new problem. When that knowledge is difficult to find, employees have fewer opportunities to build on insights developed elsewhere.
Uno Minda needed a practical way to make information available beyond its original owner while maintaining appropriate access controls.
SharePoint Designs built a knowledge management portal that brought document discovery, categorization, contribution, and access control into one place.
Employees could search for information, narrow their results, review document details, and access relevant resources according to their permissions.
The solution addressed the full journey from “Does this information exist?” to “Can I use it?”
The portal provided a search bar for locating documents using relevant keywords. In-document search helped employees discover information within document content, extending discovery beyond file names.
Optical character recognition supported making scanned content readable and searchable.
Why it matters: Employees do not always know the exact title of the document they need. Searching its content gives them another route to finding it.
Employees could refine searches by:
These filters helped users focus on relevant information rather than manually reviewing a broad set of results.
Why it matters: A centralized repository becomes more useful when employees can quickly narrow it to their specific needs.
The document details view displayed:
Why it matters: Employees could understand a document’s context before opening it, helping them decide whether it was useful for their work.
A dedicated “What’s New” section highlighted newly available documents and information relevant to business units and the wider Uno Minda Group.
Why it matters: Employees had a way to discover new resources without already knowing what to search for.
An option to include expired documents allowed employees to find historical material when needed for reference.
Why it matters: Earlier information could remain discoverable, with its expired status providing context for its use.
An upload form provided a consistent way to add documents and information to the portal. Power Automate supported email notifications associated with document approval processes.
Why it matters: A knowledge repository needs a practical contribution process to remain useful as new information becomes available.
Permission management restricted access to protected documents and supported authorization where required.
Why it matters: Employees could share knowledge through a common platform while respecting access restrictions.
Together, these capabilities supported a more structured approach to storing, finding, and sharing business knowledge.
The portal addressed the barriers that had made information difficult to access and reuse.
Employees gained a central place to look for contributed documents. This reduced the need to rely on individual colleagues to locate and forward information.
Making purchased information discoverable helped address a key cause of duplicate spending: employees not knowing what the company already owned.
This gave teams a way to check available resources before considering another purchase, subject to access permissions and applicable usage rights.
Keyword search, content search, filters, and document details worked together to help employees locate relevant information with less manual browsing.
A common repository made contributed resources easier to discover across business units. Teams had a stronger foundation for reusing information and building on existing work.
Permission management provided a structured way to protect sensitive documents while making appropriate resources available to employees.
The scale of Uno Minda’s engineering workforce makes even small improvements in information retrieval worth considering.
The following is an illustrative productivity calculation, not a measured Uno Minda project result.
Assume an engineer saves 10 minutes per working day by finding information more easily. Across 220 working days, that represents approximately 36.7 hours per engineer annually.
Even the first scenario illustrates the potential significance: if 1,000 engineers each saved 10 minutes a day, more than 36,000 hours annually could become available for other work.
Actual benefits depend on portal adoption, content coverage, search effectiveness, and how employees use the time released. These figures do not represent confirmed adoption, cash savings, or verified implementation outcomes.
SharePoint Designs helped Uno Minda establish a centralized environment for discovering, contributing, and securely accessing business information.
The portal connected practical capabilities with everyday needs: search to locate information, filters to refine it, document details to assess it, and permissions to control access.
For an organization with approximately 5,000 engineers, making knowledge easier to reuse creates an opportunity to improve how teams work with one another and with the information already available to them.
The value of company knowledge grows when the next person who needs it can find it.
Are employees searching across desktops for essential documents? Are different teams buying the same resources? Does finding information depend on knowing whom to ask?
SharePoint Designs builds knowledge management systems that help organizations centralize documents, simplify discovery, and support secure knowledge sharing.
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Byou is a medical aesthetics brand offering laser facial and Botox treatments. It operates corporate branches and franchises across the United States and Canada. SharePoint Designs built Byou a franchise portal on Microsoft SharePoint. The portal gives every branch and franchise one place to build product and service knowledge. It also delivers company information to the whole network from a single source.
Client: Byou
Industry: Medical aesthetics (laser facial and Botox treatments)
Region: United States and Canada
Solution: SharePoint Franchise Portal
Platform: Microsoft 365, SharePoint Online
Byou runs a mixed network of corporate branches and franchises in two countries. Every location must deliver treatments with the same knowledge and the same standards. Without a central home, product and service information spread across emails and files. Locations risked working from different versions of the same guidance. That inconsistency matters more in medical aesthetics, where clients expect every clinic to perform the same way.
The core problems were:
SharePoint Designs built a branded franchise portal inside Byou's Microsoft 365 environment. The portal brings product and service knowledge into one structured library. It also acts as the information hub for company updates and resources. Corporate branches and franchises use the same portal, so the whole network shares one source of knowledge.
The portal holds what each location needs to know about Byou's products and services. Staff at any branch or franchise can look up a treatment or product in one place. For example, a new team member can review service information before working with clients. Because head office maintains the content, every location reads the same, current version.
The portal also gives Byou one channel to share information with every location. Head office publishes once, and the update reaches branches and franchises in both countries. Locations no longer depend on forwarded emails to stay current.
Byou already used Microsoft 365, so SharePoint kept franchise knowledge inside a platform the network knew. SharePoint provides permissions, document versioning and search as standard. That let Byou control what corporate branches and franchises can each see. SharePoint Designs added a custom, brand-aligned design so the portal reflects Byou's brand rather than a default SharePoint site.
Key reasons for the SharePoint approach:
Byou now has one trusted source of product and service knowledge for its entire network. Branches and franchises in both countries work from the same information. Staff find what they need themselves instead of asking head office. Company updates reach every location at the same time. The result is a more consistent client experience, whichever Byou location a client visits.
Aesthetics brands with mixed branch and franchise networks need one knowledge source, not many. Clients judge the brand on every visit, so every clinic must share the same standards. Putting product and service knowledge in a central portal makes that consistency practical. Building it on Microsoft 365 keeps access secure and avoids another platform.
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Canada MedLaser is a medical aesthetics brand offering laser facial and Botox treatments. It runs corporate branches and franchise clinics across Canada and the United States. SharePoint Designs built Canada MedLaser a franchise portal on Microsoft SharePoint. The portal is where every clinic builds product and service knowledge. It is also the single channel for company information across the network.
Client: Canada MedLaser
Industry: Medical aesthetics (laser facial and Botox treatments)
Region: Canada and United States
Solution: SharePoint Franchise Portal
Platform: Microsoft 365, SharePoint Online
Canada MedLaser grew a network of corporate and franchise-owned clinics. Each clinic needed the same treatment and product knowledge to deliver consistent results. As locations multiplied, information became harder to keep aligned. Guidance travelled by email and shared files, so clinics could drift apart. For a brand built on client confidence, every clinic needed to work from one standard.
The core problems were:
SharePoint Designs built a branded franchise portal inside Canada MedLaser's Microsoft 365 environment. The portal centralises product and service knowledge for every clinic. It also serves as the information hub for company news and resources. Corporate branches and franchise clinics use the same portal, so the network works from one shared knowledge base.
The portal gathers Canada MedLaser's product and service knowledge into a single library. Clinic teams look up treatments and products whenever they need to. For example, staff can refresh their knowledge of a service before a client consultation. Head office keeps the library current, so no clinic works from outdated guidance.
The portal gives head office one place to publish information for every clinic. Updates reach corporate branches and franchises across both countries at once. Clinics stop relying on forwarded emails and scattered files.
Canada MedLaser already worked in Microsoft 365, so SharePoint kept clinic knowledge in a familiar platform. SharePoint provides secure sign-in, permissions, versioning and search as standard. That made it straightforward to manage access for corporate branches and franchise clinics. SharePoint Designs added a custom design aligned to the Canada MedLaser brand. The portal feels part of the clinic experience.
Key reasons for the SharePoint approach:
Canada MedLaser now runs every clinic from one source of product and service knowledge. Corporate branches and franchises share the same information, whichever country they operate in. Clinic teams find answers themselves rather than waiting on head office. Company updates arrive everywhere at once. That consistency supports the same client experience in every Canada MedLaser clinic.
Laser clinic franchises grow fastest when every new clinic starts with the same knowledge. A central franchise portal makes that possible without adding manual work for head office. Mixed corporate and franchise networks benefit most, because one portal serves both. Building on Microsoft 365 keeps the solution secure and familiar for clinic teams. See our custom SharePoint intranet design work and our SharePoint knowledge management portals.
Rolling Suds is a power washing franchisor growing across the United States. SharePoint Designs built two connected portals on Microsoft SharePoint for the brand. The Franchise Onboarding Portal guides each new franchisee from signing to launch. The Franchise Knowledge Portal gives every franchisee one place to find operational answers. Together they replace scattered emails, files and phone calls with a single, structured franchise workspace.
Client: Rolling Suds Franchising
Industry: Home services franchising (power washing)
Region: United States
Solution: SharePoint Franchise Onboarding Portal and Franchise Knowledge Portal
Platform: Microsoft 365, SharePoint Online
Rolling Suds was adding franchisees quickly, and each one needed the same onboarding and the same operational knowledge. That knowledge lived in many places. It sat in email threads, shared folders and the heads of the corporate team. Every new franchisee meant repeating the same explanations. As the network grew, this way of working could not scale without slowing down launches.
The core problems were:
SharePoint Designs built two purpose-built SharePoint portals inside the Rolling Suds Microsoft 365 environment. The Franchise Onboarding Portal handles the journey from new franchisee to operating business. The Franchise Knowledge Portal is the ongoing reference library for day-to-day operations. Both portals carry the Rolling Suds brand. Franchisees experience them as part of the franchise system, not generic software.
The onboarding portal gives every new franchisee the same structured starting point. It brings the onboarding steps, resources and guidance into one branded experience. Franchisees can see what to do next without waiting for an email from head office. The corporate team, in turn, delivers one consistent onboarding to every location.
The knowledge portal is the operational library for the whole network. Franchisees browse company knowledge by the operational need in front of them. For example, a franchisee can look up how a procedure should be done, then return to work. Because the content is maintained centrally, every location reads the same, current version.
Rolling Suds already worked in Microsoft 365, so SharePoint was the natural home for franchise content. Building on SharePoint meant no new platform to license, secure or learn. Franchisees sign in with the accounts they already use. Permissions, document versioning and search come from the Microsoft platform. SharePoint Designs then added a custom, brand-aligned design. The portals feel like Rolling Suds, not a standard SharePoint site.
Key reasons for the SharePoint approach:
The portals gave Rolling Suds a repeatable way to onboard franchisees and support them afterwards. New franchisees follow one clear path instead of piecing together guidance. Existing franchisees find operational answers themselves rather than waiting on head office. The corporate team spends less time repeating the same explanations. Every location now works from the same, current version of company knowledge.
Franchisors growing quickly should separate onboarding from ongoing knowledge, then connect the two. Onboarding is a time-bound journey with a clear end point. Operational knowledge is a reference library franchisees return to every week. Treating them as two linked portals keeps each one simple to use. Building both on Microsoft 365 avoids adding another platform for franchisees to learn. See how we approach custom SharePoint intranet design and SharePoint knowledge management portals.
Jefferson County Health Center (JCHC) had a problem that many healthcare organizations recognize: a marketing materials request process that still ran on manual forms, email chains, and spreadsheets. Every order created friction. Every month-end report costs hours. Nobody requested it, nor did the marketing team have visibility into what was happening.
SharePoint Designs built a custom Shopping Cart solution natively inside SharePoint Online. No external tools. No complex approval workflows. No developer dependency after launch. The result was a fully self-service, e-commerce-style request system that went live organization-wide and immediately eliminated the manual overhead that had slowed the marketing team for years.
Jefferson County Health Center is a public health organization serving the Jefferson County community. Its marketing and communications team manages the supply and distribution of branded materials, including promotional products, uniforms, and patient-facing collateral, to staff and departments across the organization.
With multiple departments submitting requests and a finite inventory of configurable products, the marketing team needed a structured, trackable, and scalable way to manage incoming orders without adopting additional tools or creating IT dependencies.
Before this project, JCHC's marketing materials request process was entirely manual. This created compounding problems at every stage, from submission to fulfillment to reporting.
SharePoint Designs designed and built a fully SharePoint-native Shopping Cart system, with a familiar, e-commerce-style interface embedded directly within JCHC's existing Microsoft 365 environment. The solution required no external software, no third-party licenses, and no ongoing IT involvement after deployment.
The core principle was simplicity: give requestors an experience they already understand (online shopping), give the marketing team the structured data and reporting they need, and give administrators full control, all within the tools JCHC already owns.
The Shopping Cart solution delivered measurable improvements across every dimension of JCHC's marketing materials process.
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Client: Ardena
Industry: Pharmaceutical CDMO / Bioanalytical CRO Life Sciences
Headquarters: Ghent, Belgium
Employees: 500 -1,000 professionals across GMP/GLP facilities in Europe and the US
Project type: Custom SharePoint LMS Design, Development & Integration
Implementation partner: SharePoint Designs
Technology stack: SharePoint Online, SPFx, Power Automate, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Graph
Ardena, operating in multiple countries, faced high annual LMS subscription fees, manual webinar tracking, and poor training visibility. SharePoint Designs built a custom LMS in Ardena’s SharePoint using Microsoft technologies, eliminating third-party licensing costs. The new system cut costs, provided real-time training dashboards, and automated Teams webinar attendance.

Ardena is a specialist pharmaceutical CDMO (Contract Development & Manufacturing Organization) and bioanalytical CRO, dedicated to advancing precision medicines and complex therapeutics.
Operating across GMP/GLP-certified facilities in Belgium, the Netherlands, Spain, Latvia, and the United States, Ardena guides pharmaceutical companies from emerging biotech to tier-one pharma corporations through the full drug development lifecycle.Ardena’s service portfolio covers drug substance development and manufacturing, drug product formulation and manufacturing, nanomedicines, bioanalysis, clinical supply, and CMC regulatory support.
Backed by GHO Capital, Ardena serves a global client base of 500+ customers across Europe, the US, Japan, and South Korea, with revenue exceeding $250M.With a workforce of scientists, analysts, project managers, quality and regulatory professionals, manufacturing operators, and business staff across multiple countries, Ardena’s training and compliance management requirements are substantial. GxP-regulated environments require documented, auditable training completion records, making the reliability and accessibility of the LMS infrastructure a quality assurance matter rather than just an HR convenience.
Ardena’s SharePoint intranet was already the organization’s central digital workplace. Staff accessed news, documents, HR resources, and internal tools through SharePoint, all within the familiar Microsoft 365 environment they used every day for Teams, Outlook, and collaboration.The LMS sat outside all of that.
It was a separate platform, on a separate URL, with a separate login experience. To access training, employees had to leave the intranet, navigate to another system, and authenticate again. For a workforce that was already working across multiple sites and time zones, this friction was a consistent adoption barrier.Beyond the user experience, four specific operational problems drove the decision to find an alternative:
The evaluation was straightforward once the problem was clearly framed. Ardena was not looking for a better LMS vendor. They were looking to eliminate the need for an LMS vendor entirely by building the capability they actually needed directly into the Microsoft 365 environment they already owned.The alternative of purchasing a Microsoft-native LMS product (such as LMS365 or Learn365) was considered.
These products provide a SharePoint-integrated learning experience and eliminate the friction of separate logins. However, they still carry per-user subscription costs ($5–$15 per user per month, depending on the tier), require vendor dependency for product roadmap and pricing, and deliver a templated product rather than a solution designed around Ardena’s specific workflows, intranet architecture, and compliance reporting needs.
SharePoint Designs proposed a custom-built LMS using only native Microsoft 365 technologies, SPFx for the intranet-embedded interface, Power Automate for workflow automation and notifications, Microsoft Graph for Teams webinar attendance integration, and SharePoint lists and libraries for all data storage and reporting. No third-party licensing. No external data storage. No vendor dependency beyond Microsoft.
The decision drivers:
SharePoint Designs designed and delivered a custom Learning Management System fully embedded within Ardena’s existing SharePoint intranet. The solution was built entirely on native Microsoft technologies, with no third-party tools introduced.
The LMS lives within the Ardena intranet as a set of SPFx (SharePoint Framework) web parts deployed on dedicated learning pages. From the perspective of an Ardena employee, the learning platform is simply another section of the intranet they already use, accessible from the intranet navigation with no separate login, no new URL, and no unfamiliar interface.All training data course enrollments, completion records, assessment results, webinar attendance, and certificates are stored in structured SharePoint lists and libraries within Ardena’s own Microsoft 365 tenant. Data never leaves the organization’s environment.
The course catalog is surfaced as an SPFx web part on the Learning section of the Ardena intranet. Employees browse available courses, view descriptions and prerequisites, self-enroll, and track their own progress all without leaving the intranet. Courses are structured as SharePoint pages with embedded Microsoft Stream videos, SharePoint-hosted documents, Microsoft Forms assessments, and completion acknowledgment buttons.
The learner’s personal training homepage shows their enrolled courses, completion status, upcoming deadlines for mandatory training, and earned certificates personalized using Microsoft Entra ID group membership, so each employee sees content relevant to their role and site.
HR administrators and people managers see a different view of the LMS from their role-specific intranet homepage. Power BI reports embedded directly on the management dashboard show:
These dashboards update in real time as completion records are logged. HR no longer requests reports; they open the intranet homepage, and the data is up to date.
This was one of the highest-value deliverables in the engagement. The integration works as follows:When a Teams webinar is created and registered as a training event in the LMS course catalog, a Power Automate flow monitors it via the Microsoft Graph API.
When the webinar concludes, the flow automatically retrieves the full attendance report from Graph, matches attendees against the enrolled learner list using their Microsoft Entra ID, marks completion records for all attendees who meet the configured minimum attendance threshold, and logs the attendance record with a timestamp to the compliance tracking SharePoint list. Partially attending learners receive a Teams notification prompting them to complete any remaining course elements.
The result: a process that previously required 30–60 minutes of manual administrator work after every webinar now completes automatically within minutes of the session ending, with no human intervention.
For a GxP-regulated organization, training records must be traceable, timestamped, and retrievable on demand.
All compliance records are stored as immutable SharePoint list items. Access to modify historical records is restricted to administrators with full audit logging via Microsoft Purview.
Power Automate manages the operational workflows that keep the LMS running without constant administrator attention:
The project was delivered through an iterative methodology with regular stakeholder review points, ensuring alignment with Ardena’s existing intranet architecture and operational expectations at every stage.
Structured workshops with HR, L&D, IT, QA, and departmental managers to map current training workflows, identify mandatory training requirements by role, document compliance reporting obligations, and define the precise data points required in HR and manager dashboards. Microsoft Graph API capabilities and Teams webinar data structures were assessed during this phase to confirm the automation approach before development began.
SharePoint information architecture for the LMS was designed to integrate cleanly with Ardena’s existing hub and site structure. SPFx web part specifications were produced for the learner interface, course catalog, and management dashboard components. Power Automate workflow designs were documented for stakeholder review and sign-off before development started. The Teams webinar attendance automation was prototyped and validated against a live Ardena Teams environment.
Development was phased: learner interface and course catalog first, followed by enrollment and notification workflows, then the management dashboards, and finally the Teams webinar attendance automation. Each component was reviewed by nominated HR and IT stakeholders before the next phase began, enabling incremental feedback and reducing rework at the end.
The compliance reporting module was configured and validated against Ardena’s documented audit requirements. Microsoft Purview audit logging was configured for the LMS data environment. The export formats for audit packages were tested and signed off on by the QA team.
User acceptance testing with a nominated group of learners, managers, and HR administrators across multiple sites. Issues identified and resolved. Controlled rollout to the full employee base with a guided first-login experience and role-specific quick-reference guides.
Every technology listed below was already included in Ardena’s Microsoft 365 licensing.
Additional third-party licensing cost: €0.
“We had an LMS that worked technically. But it sat outside everything else we used. Our HR team couldn’t see training status without pulling a report. Every Teams webinar meant someone had to spend an hour manually updating attendance records. And we were paying for it every year, on top of a Microsoft 365 investment that should have delivered everything we needed. SharePoint Designs built something that actually fits our workflow. The attendance automation alone saved us more time in the first month than I expected. And having training status visible on the management dashboard rather than buried in a separate system changed how our managers engage with L&D compliance.”
- HR Operations Lead, Ardena
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For life sciences organizations, we have specific expertise in GxP-aligned document governance, compliance reporting architecture, and pharmaceutical-grade audit trail configuration within Microsoft 365.
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Kalsec (Kalamazoo Spice Extraction Company) is a privately held, U.S.-based leader in natural food ingredients. They specialize in developing and producing natural spice and herb extracts, colors, and antioxidants for the global food and beverage industry.
Kalsec’s existing SharePoint intranet was built using standard, out-of-the-box (OOTB) web parts, which had several limitations:
At SharePoint Designs, we partnered closely with Kalsec to transform their OOTB SharePoint into a modern, intuitive, and personalized intranet aligned with their business needs and brand identity. Our approach focused on improving usability, simplifying navigation, and enhancing content discoverability.

The existing intranet was built using standard OOTB SharePoint components, resulting in a cluttered and overwhelming user experience.
This made it difficult for employees to quickly find information and complete tasks efficiently.

The newly designed intranet offers:
Client: Compass Group Denmark A/S
HQ: Albertslund, Denmark
Industry: Contract Food Services, Facility Management, Cleanin
Platform: SharePoint Online (Microsoft 365)
Compass Group Denmark A/S is Denmark's leading provider of canteen, catering, facility management, and cleaning services. A subsidiary of Compass Group PLC, one of the world's largest foodservice companies, the Danish operation has built its own identity grounded in Danish quality traditions, sustainability, and service excellence since its founding in 1973.
Operating nationwide, Compass Group Denmark runs approximately 350 canteens and employs around 3,000 people across the country. The company operates under three distinct service brands:
Together, these brands serve over 100,000 guests every day in Denmark. The breadth of operations from university canteens in Aarhus to offshore platforms in the North Sea means that operational knowledge, food safety compliance, and service standards must be consistently communicated to a geographically dispersed, Danish-speaking frontline workforce.
Why this is harder than it looks
Unlike a corporate office workforce that sits at a desk with daily access to a computer, Compass Group Denmark’s operational employees are kitchen staff, cleaning teams, facility managers, offshore service workers are mobile, site-based, and not always online. Communicating SOPs, safety procedures, and compliance policies to this workforce reliably and verifiably is a genuine operational challenge.
Adding complexity: Compass Group Denmark’s workforce is predominantly Danish-speaking. Documentation prepared in English, whether from the global Compass Group PLC or from central Danish management created a real accessibility gap for frontline staff who needed guidance in their own language.
The industry-wide knowledge management problem
The challenge Compass Group Denmark faced reflects a well-documented industry-wide issue:
For a food services organisation operating across 350 sites with strict food safety and compliance obligations, this is not an abstract efficiency problem. Every hour a site manager spends searching for an outdated SOP, every compliance gap caused by inaccessible guidance, every food safety incident traceable to a misunderstood procedure these are direct operational and regulatory risks.
1. Dispersed documentation with no single source of truth
Critical SOPs, food safety procedures, operational policies, and site-specific guides were scattered across multiple folders, email threads, and local storage. There was no guarantee that the document a site manager was reading was the current approved version , a serious risk in an environment where outdated food safety guidance can have direct consequences.
2. No intelligent search or structured categorisation
The existing setup provided basic folder navigation at best. Employees across different departments and operational roles had to know where to look before they could find anything. With staff operating across kitchen, cleaning, facility management, and offshore contexts, this was unworkable.
3. No bilingual capability for Danish-speaking frontline staff
This was the most acute pain point. Compass Group Denmark’s operational workforce is Danish-speaking. English-only documentation left frontline staff without reliable access to localised procedures, and there was no system to keep Danish and English document versions synchronised when updates were made.
4. No formal governance or approval workflow
Documents could be uploaded and effectively published to the entire workforce without any formal review. There was no structured author → approver → publish chain to ensure accuracy and compliance before content reached operational teams.
5. No way to validate that employees had understood critical documents
For food safety SOPs and compliance-critical procedures, there was no mechanism to confirm that staff had not only accessed a document but actually understood it. In a compliance audit context, this gap is significant.
SharePoint Designs designed and implemented a centralised Knowledge Base platform on SharePoint Online, built specifically around Compass Group Denmark’s operational structure, Danish language requirements, and food safety compliance obligations.
The platform supports structured uploads for every document type Compass Group Danmark manages, with predefined metadata enforced at the point of upload:
Each article type carries its own mandatory metadata: article type, department, applicable sites, language version, document status, and approval state. This classification happens at upload not retrospectively so every document enters the system correctly tagged from day one.
A flexible categorisation framework organises all content by department, document type, service brand (Food & Co, Eurest Facility Services, ESS), and operational area. The structure accommodates Compass Group Denmark’s operational diversity without forcing a single taxonomy onto three operationally distinct brands.
The categorisation model is designed to scale new sites, new document categories, and new service areas can be added without restructuring the existing framework. This is foundational: without clean, consistent categorisation, search returns noise. With it, a Food & Co kitchen manager in Copenhagen and an ESS offshore catering supervisor find the right document first time.
This was the defining feature of the solution for Compass Group Denmark. The bilingual architecture was not a translation toggle, it was built as a structural document management principle.
For Compass Group Denmark’s frontline workforce, this means: a kitchen team member searching for a food safety SOP finds the Danish-language version first, without needing to know whether an English original exists. The platform removes the language barrier structurally, not through manual translation management.
Why this matters in a Danish compliance context: Danish food safety regulations and workplace documentation requirements expect that operational guidance is accessible to employees in a language they understand. A bilingual Knowledge Base with Danish-priority search directly supports this obligation.
A dedicated search interface was built with layered filtering:
The Danish-language prioritisation is baked into the search algorithm, not a user-controlled setting. A frontline employee does not need to select a language preference the system defaults to the language that is most relevant for them.
The Knowledge Base homepage dynamically surfaces:
For a company managing 350 sites across diverse operational contexts, role-relevant content surfacing at the homepage level is the difference between a platform employees use and one they ignore.
This is the feature that closes the gap between document publication and verified comprehension, the capability that most directly addresses compliance risk in a food safety environment.
When uploading a compliance-critical document, authors can enable an assessment requirement. The platform automatically generates questions and answers from the document content. Once an employee reads the document, they complete the auto-generated assessment. The result is:
In the Danish food safety context: Compass Group Denmark can now demonstrate, with a full audit trail, that a named employee at a named site has read and understood a specific food safety SOP on a specific date. This is the kind of verifiable compliance record that supports both internal governance and external audit requirements.
Every document goes through a structured governance chain before publication:
This eliminates the previous situation where any user with folder access could effectively publish operational guidance to 3,000 employees without a review gate. Every document in the Knowledge Base now has a named author, a named approver, and a timestamp.
Industry: Healthcare (Fertility & Reproductive Care)
Founded: 1985
Location: Harley Street, London
Coverage: 13 clinics across South East, North East, West of England, and Wales
Established in 1985 on Harley Street, London Women’s Clinic (LWC) has pioneered many of the fertility treatment techniques widely used today. With state-of-the-art laboratories, theatres, and over 35 years of consultant expertise, LWC is a recognized name in UK fertility care.
As the organization expanded geographically, they needed a modern SharePoint intranet that reflected their brand, supported multi-location teams, and improved employee engagement.
LWC initially partnered with SharePoint Designs in early 2022 for a fully custom intranet, which was completed on time. However, due to internal circumstances, the intranet was never launched.
In late 2025, LWC re-engaged with a new requirement:
This required a hybrid approach template efficiency with custom flexibility.
To ensure fast and controlled rollout, we followed a structured SharePoint intranet implementation framework:
This structured methodology ensured a smooth one-month launch timeline.
The final solution combined a ready-to-install SharePoint intranet template with tailored enhancements.
The transformation delivered measurable performance improvements:
The intranet evolved from an information repository into a year-round engagement hub.
This case demonstrates how a ready-to-install SharePoint intranet template can:
For healthcare organizations operating across multiple clinics, the combination of structured deployment + reusable components + interactive features create long-term sustainability.
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When a global enterprise like Daikin operates across continents, connecting people, content, and communication becomes a major challenge.
To bridge the gap between 160+ global offices, Daikin needed a solution that simplified collaboration, enhanced accessibility, and built a shared culture.
The answer was a modern SharePoint intranet a platform that transformed fragmented systems into a unified global digital workplace.
Renewal by Andersen (RBA) is the window replacement subsidiary of Andersen Corporation, a company that has been revolutionizing the window and door industry for more than 110 years. With a commitment to quality, innovation, and customer satisfaction, RBA needed an intranet that reflected its legacy while meeting modern workforce needs.
RBA wanted a custom-designed intranet that felt modern, vibrant, and highly visual. Their existing intranet lacked design appeal, wasn’t mobile-friendly, and failed to engage employees.
Additionally, the team envisioned festive branding themes for Halloween, Christmas, New Year, and Easter. This introduced a new design challenge creating highly visual seasonal experiences without distracting from the main homepage content.
Key challenges included:
We adopted a design-first strategy that prioritized both aesthetics and functionality. Our process included:
The result was a visually rich, interactive SharePoint intranet designed to boost engagement and usability:
The transformation delivered measurable business impact:
This project highlights how a well-designed SharePoint intranet can do more than just share information it can:
Our team specializes in SharePoint intranet design, Power Apps integration, and custom employee engagement solutions.
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AVA Care one of our prestigious clients, is a manufacturer of Ayurvedic and herbal personal care products. The company's flagship brand, Medimix, is renowned as the world's largest-selling Ayurvedic handmade soap. Other brands of this company include Sanjeevanam, Kaytra, and Melam.
AVA Care is a forward-thinking organization with a strong focus on compliance and training, aimed to streamline and digitize their Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) management process. Their goal was to move away from static, attachment-based SOP documents toward a dynamic, user-centric experience that fosters clarity, accountability, and continuous learning.
The legacy SOP management approach relied heavily on document libraries/ folders and template attachments, making version control, user engagement, approvals and training validation difficult to manage at scale. Additionally, the organization wanted to align SOP publication with a structured approval process and automated training assignments based on review frequencies, something that the existing system couldn't support effectively.
At SharePoint Designs, we implemented a custom SOP Manager within Microsoft SharePoint, reimagining the entire SOP lifecycle with a focus on accessibility, governance, and learning enablement. The following key components were delivered:
1. SOP as Interactive Site Pages
Instead of uploading static documents, SOPs were created as structured SharePoint site pages, mirroring the organization’s SOP format. This allowed SOPs to be:
2. Document Management & Approval Workflow
A custom Power Automate workflow was designed to handle:
Giddings MacEachern is one of the leading legal service providers in Canada. They serve customers throughout British Columbia, Smithers, Houston, and Kitimat - providing legal services across Business Law, Family Law, Criminal Law, Real Estate, and Wills.
During the project's exploratory stage, SharePoint Designs identified the common fields in the legal documents. Using MS SharePoint Forms, we designed a simpler form to capture all the fields that were to be filled in the document - thereby reducing repetition of work. Post the form submission - the documents were generated and automatically saved in a unique folder.
By using SharePoint as a legal matter management tool, corporate legal departments can improve their efficiency and effectiveness. SharePoint's document management capabilities allow legal teams to store, organize, and easily access legal documents and information. SharePoint's workflow and automation features enable legal teams to automate processes such as document routing, approvals, and reminders, which in turn helps to reduce errors and increase productivity. Additionally, SharePoint's collaboration tools enable legal teams to communicate and collaborate effectively, which is essential for managing legal matters.
Thanks to our MS SharePoint expertise, the client could quickly retrieve the right document at the right time while easily reviewing the updated fields highlighted.
Damage Prevention Solutions, LLC is a leading manufacturer of damage prevention systems for underground utilities, based in the US. Their state-of-the-art solutions include tracer wire delivery systems, integrated marking tapes, and barricade tapes.
Powered by SharePoint Modern Intranet and custom out-of-box features, SharePoint Designs built a fully equipped intranet portal for the client. It came with quick links that directed users to newsfeeds, announcements, critical business processes, and organizational policies, and photo galleries. We also used the Curator software to meet their unique requirement of displaying live feeds posted by clients in the LinkedIn Professional network community.
With MSGraph API, we integrated shared calendars into the intranet so that it can display the assigned tasks on any particular day/ week/ month. Additionally, we also set custom themes using PowerShell to align the intranet look-and-feel with the client’s branding.
Lebara is a UK-based telecommunications company that helps global customers make calls at affordable rates. Powered by the best-tested 4G network from KPN, they offer extremely affordable pay-as-you-go and contract-based mobile SIM cards.
With deep Microsoft SharePoint expertise, SharePoint Designs harnessed the classic intranet model to design a lively and interactive intranet portal. We helped the client provide basic information such as policies, corporate calendars, and e-learning opportunities based on user needs. We also created sub-pages to view organizational information, newsfeeds, and more. Our customized solutions included announcements, birthdays/anniversaries, photo galleries, employee blogs, quick polls, etc.
The intranet also came equipped with a translation feature to help employees access content in their preferred language. Furthermore, the country-specific pages only showed relevant content based on the employee’s preference

Lebara is a UK-based telecommunications company that helps global customers make calls at affordable rates. Powered by the best-tested 4G network from KPN, they offer extremely affordable pay-as-you-go and contract-based mobile SIM cards.
Lebara is a British telecommunications company providing services in many countries around the world, using the mobile virtual network operator business model. Lebara Mobile provides pay-as-you-go and contract based mobile SIM cards.
Our Client required a simple intranet which will serve as internal communication channel to keep the employees updated with internal announcements, upcoming events, news feeds, employee birthday / anniversaries and many other similar features.
Using Classic Intranet model, we designed a lively and colourful intranet with the below features.
The Intranet will be a one stop search option for employees to get any updates from the organisation.
The site is very interactive and allows the employee to choose the information they want to see.
Damage Prevention Solutions is an innovative manufacturer of excavation damage prevention & location systems for underground utilities.
"Manufacturer of Signaltape Damage Prevention & Marking System. Signaltape® is a simple, inexpensive, damage prevention and marking system for buried utilities and infrastructure. Signaltape® provides a visual warning directly to the excavation equipment operator, where traditional marker tapes shear underground without providing an adequate warning."
Advance Electric is a fast growing Electrical Contractor company serving the Santa Barbara area, including Montecito and Goleta. They provide innovative electrical solutions and application through quality materials and superior craftsmanship.
Client required an end to end application to track, manage and fix the payroll system of the employees. The application should capture the commuting time and the actual work hours by the employee to fix the issue or install an electric item in their respective customers location.
We developed a single page SharePoint application to manage time-sheets and associated costs . The application will capture the number of hours taken to resolve the issue or install an electrical item by the employee in the respective customers workplace. The details are filled by the employee using a tablet provided by the company. The entered information is consolidated in the cloud storage of office 365 which can be accessed by the administration team. The admin team will approve the data and the payroll of the employees.
The solution is developed using SharePoint design manager, Bootstrap, JavaScript Client object model. We have also implemented custom UI, navigation and branding.
Manhattan TechSupport.com provides IT services to businesses in New York City and New York metro area. They specialize in network engineering, technical support, security and most importantly customer service.
MTS required a client management solution, they wanted a way to deal with Clients, their projects, IT Infrastructure and other information relating to a client. Since they multiple clients, they needed a unique way to Create, Update and Manage each client.
We developed a dashboard for creating client specific portals to each client with different components which includes documents management, contacts management, discussion boards and infrastructure management. Each component is protected with access rights to enable privacy within the organization thereby ensuring the right information is available to the right person at the right time.
The solution is developed using SharePoint design manager, Bootstrap, JavaScript Client object model. We have also implemented custom UI, navigation and branding.
One evening we had an interaction with the CEO of Gateway groups Kurus Elavia, who wanted an intranet site for the employees of his company. He wanted it to be fun filled and the employees should enjoy using the internal site.
When we decided to agree for his requirement we explored about Gateway One. They provide a reliable and unparalleled experience in the security and frontline services for their clients. Their formula of superior executive-level client service and expertly trained personnel has been proven in some of the busiest, most challenging cities and travel hubs in the united states.
We at SharePoint Designs, arranged for a few meetings and brainstorming sessions with the Management team to have a detailed understanding about their requirement. We had meetings within our team to discuss about the feasibility and availability of the resources and organized a team to proceed with the project.
We developed a fun-based home page, which includes all the requested features like Quick Links where they can have contacts, lists, search and share options. Our intranet allowed the employees to share their popular stories, resources. News and events can be announced. Employees will also be able to share their achievement, celebrations, testimonials and customer feedback. The site will allow them to update customer stories as well.
They wanted a Task Management board which is a status indicator, which would help them to track the status of all the tasks which is performed under each project and every department with time frame to improve the performance of the employees. They wanted it to be extremely simple and easy to understand.
We created a portal where they can enter the tasks that they are performing under each project and department with time slot. They gave us the description of their process which they followed, using this we divided the process into four divisions that are Finance and Accounting, Human Resource, Legal and security. Under each division they can add the project they are working on with the due date and the owner of the project. We gave colors for every status, like Green Indicates-Completed, Yellow Indicates-In progress and Red Indicates-Delayed. We gave them symbols to tag tasks that needs high importance and high importance with priority.
Gateway one provides services for Aviation industry and Security services in the United States. So, they wanted us to give them a dashboard which will help them to update all the information of operations regarding Aviation and Security. Let us discuss Aviation for more detailed understanding. Aviation dashboard includes ADA Complaints, Air lines, Aviation goal submit form, Aviation report form.
Client followed a goal setting system for their employees, hence we created an Aviation goal setting form where they can enter all the goals set by the company for the employees to achieve. An aviation report dashboard was built for the employees to update all the information like Scheduled hours, Safety incidents, baggage carts, either full time or part time employee, total number of employees under each Airline that they work for. The company will be able to track the performance of the employees based on the details entered in the report form. Employees will also be able to update the difficulties they face like administrative issues etc. We also created a dashboard for ADA complaints, where they can update if have any complaints.
We gave the client a similar dashboard for security services, which includes security complaints, Security Goals submit form, security report form and security sites.
They wanted a solution to deal with the employee enrollment system in the company and mainly wanted to reduce the paper work in the process. They also wanted a database where the information regarding the man power of the employees can be updated. They wanted some automated forms where they can update information on number of positions that are vacant and number of employees to be appointed in every process and department.
We created a form wherein they can enter the details about the job title, department, requirement date, hiring manager and employee’s status. We made it editable as well as viewable. If a manager needs requirement in his project or department he should give detailed information and the reason for the requirement, hence we created a form where he can enter all the information regarding the position, department, either full time or part time employee and the details of the hiring manger as well. This form will help them by saving their time and paper work.
The Trustees of Reservations is a non-profit land conservation and historic preservation organization dedicated to preserving natural and historical places in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
They are a group of more than 100,000 people who love the outdoors, who love the distinctive charms of New England, and who believe in celebrating and protecting them, for everyone, forever.
Together with their neighbours, they protect the distinct character of their communities and inspire a commitment to their special places. Their passion is to share with everyone the irreplaceable natural and cultural treasures we care for.
Client wanted a custom intranet portal to share and connect internally to update important information across the departments. In addition they also wanted to keep track of day to day events, internal communications and rewards & recognition of the employees.
We have developed a custom branded Intranet that provides the employees with sections for Companywide announcements, quick links section, events calendar that consolidates important company events, various department pages that has document management, individual calendar and image galleries.
We have created an announcement list would be useful to keep the workforce informed about the current projects, department news and company announcements.
We have also made sure every staff is able to access the website from their smartphones or tablets. We have integrated Yammer to interact within the organization
We also have a specific link called 'How do I?' which has a dropdown section where we get detailed information steps on the process. Additionally, we have added a page which is 'View All', this page will help to view all the important updates and upcoming events of the company.
The solution is developed using SharePoint design manager, Bootstrap, JavaScript Client object model. We have also implemented custom UI, navigation and branding.
For more than 100 years, Bigge has been one of America’s premier global crane sales, crane rental, and project services companies. Their innovative specialized project teams have also provided heavy lift, heavy rigging, specialized transportation equipment, and innovative engineering solutions for some of the most challenging projects across the US.
Bigge wanted to revamp their existing SharePoint to work with cross-functional team and to be able to manage documents, contact lists, infrastructure management, announcement list and quick lists.
They also wanted to incorporate their custom templates provided by their Marketing and HR teams.
We created a custom intranet portal using SharePoint to develop features like document management, infrastructure management, contact list, event calendar to update various company events, personal calendar for employees, image galleries, quick link sections and announcements. We have also ensured that the employees are able to access intranet from their smartphones and tablets.
Using share point we have also developed a section for market place. It acts as their own market bazaar for buying and selling items and raise funds for good cause such as charity. We have seamlessly integrated Yammer to share, like, comment and post to their intranet contacts.
We have also developed document management section which will help the employees to access important internal documents related to the company. They can also view and manage forms, memos, policies and manuals. We have enabled cloud storage for retrieving documents from different locations.
We have inlcuded a specific link called 'How do I?' which has a dropdown section where we get detailed information and steps on the processes. Additionally, we have added a page which is 'View All', this page will help to view all the important updates and upcoming events of the company.
This solution is developed using SharePoint design manager, Bootstrap, JavaScript Client object model, Custom navigation and branding.
Dell Team in Europe is having vast clients across Europe and Middle East. All these clients rent or loan Dell products for their computing requirements. They are doing it through a Loan/rent requirement hardcopy form.
We understood the requirements from the client through various meeting and brainstorming sessions and clearly understood the pain areas. Coordinated and worked with different departments. What we understood was all the workings are manual and data is maintained using excel. Since, the system cannot be accessible from multiple client locations.
This solution is developed using Infopath form, Java script Client object model, SharePoint designer workflows and other complex webservice lookup to different databases.
InterBarge is a provider of fluvial transportation and logistics services offering safe and efficient operations along South America’s Hidrovia Paraná Paraguay Waterway System. InterBarge owns and operates a modern fleet of inland river equipment primarily focused in moving dry bulk commodities for some of the largest companies in the region. With a strong operational background and personalized customer service, InterBarge is able to deliver integral logistics solutions to its clients.
SEACOR is a global provider of equipment and services primarily supporting the marine transportation and offshore oil and gas industries. It operates approx. 1,500 barges on the U.S. Inland River Waterways, the Gulf Intracoastal Waterways and the Magdalena River in Colombia.
InterBarge had a challenge in understanding the performance of various departments such as fleet management, operations management, procurements and HR. They required a dedicated system developed using the SharePoint and establish coordination between various departments for continuous flow of process and performance of the fleet.
We understood the requirements from the client through various meeting and brainstorming sessions and clearly understood the pain areas. Coordinated and worked with different departments. We understood that there were lot of manual activities and data is maintained using excel, word and other files stored in the hard disk. There were no dedicated tools or softwares available for their use or for reporting.
This solution is developed using SharePoint design manager, Bootstrap, Javascript Client object model. Custom navigation and branding.
Riverstate Tax Office of UK needed a platform to share data, files and other information’s between different departments within the Office. They needed a restricted and need to know information only portal. They also needed this portal to be responsive and working nicely on all devices including Smart phones and tablets.
We understood the requirements from the client through various meeting and brainstorming sessions and clearly understood the pain areas. Coordinated and worked with different departments. What we understood was all the files are kept in common drive and link is sent via email. Prior to sending this link they have to provide access to the required person by way of working with IT Team.
The solution is developed using SharePoint design manager, Bootstrap, JavaScript Client object model. We have also implemented custom UI, navigation and branding.
Scimetric is a global pioneer in data management and assembly line optimization, having developed the world's first cold test application for the automotive industry. Since then, the company's products and technologies have been used by countless industries and leading manufacturers, including Ford and Hewlett Packard.
Scimetric's employees could not save or access vital documents in Salesforce, the world's #1 CRM platform. Negative consequences of this included lost productivity, lack of quick data retrieval, slow and inefficient file management, and diminished customer service.
After crucial planning and research, we developed an innovative solution which merged SharePoint with Salesforce. By linking our intranet to Salesforce's cloud-based platform, Scimetric could now access business-critical data without the need for IT professionals or expensive equipment, thus lowering costs while improving productivity.
This solution is developed using Salesforce Apex with Knowledge of SharePoint Integration REST API
Potential Project is a global leader in Corporate-Based Mindfulness Training (CBMT), combining Western science and Eastern knowledge to create programs that boost employee efficiency, creativity, focus, and performance. With over 70 trainers and 250 clients, Potential Project has successfully brought its CBMT programs to organizations across Europe, Asia, North America, and Australia.
Potential Project had been looking to find a collaborative platform on which to share information, updates, content and multimedia. Furthermore, the platform also needed to link together its 150 global consultants, allowing for easier collaboration and communication.
After thorough planning and analysis, we developed a SharePoint solution that addressed all of our client's unique demands. These included sections for employee and client directories, ongoing projects, company updates, training videos, documents for sales & marketing, and more.