Take a Fresh approach to your Valo Intranet
Facts about Valo Intranet
- Valo Intranet is currently in maintenance mode, which means no new features, enhancements or innovation.
- Valo Intranet ends support on 31st July, 2025.
- After 31st July, 2025, Valo clients will be left with an outdated and unmaintained intranet that can pose security risks and may suddenly stop working.
- As AI intranet opportunities increase, Valo Intranet clients will be left behind
The Fresh team has been key in ensuring a smooth transition from Valo to Fresh Intranet for our clients, providing a clear path to business continuity. Fresh Intranet, with its comprehensive suite of features, is designed to transform SharePoint and seamlessly integrates with Microsoft 365, aligning perfectly with our mission to elevate the digital workplace experience. Their consistent above-and-beyond support has made the transition effortless and highly effective for our Valo clients.
“What makes Fresh Intranet the best choice to replace your Valo Intranet?
- Fresh employs former Valo employees with many years of experience in Valo products, spanning knowledge of Valo’s business, product information architecture and technology.
- Fresh is experienced in delivering successful Valo Intranet replacement projects for clients.
- Fresh is built and designed similarly to Valo which simplifies the transition.
- Fresh has joined forces with experienced Valo partners for a smooth transition from Valo to Fresh.
- The Fresh team have been listening to the requirements of Valo clients and have introduced specific Valo features, such as the Breadcrumb and Tabs web part, to facilitate the transition to Fresh Intranet.
- Fresh offers former Valo Intranet clients a special discount.
A lot of our clients have been working with Valo Intranet yet with its support ending in 2025, they’re looking for a replacement. Fresh is a strong, positive alternative. Fresh has provided our Valo clients with lots of support, helping them to migrate easily from Valo to Fresh.
“Unique benefits of Fresh Intranet
- Fresh Intranet is an enterprise-ready, AI-powered intranet solution, built on Microsoft 365 and SharePoint.
- Fresh has been developed since 2015 by the Advania Group, a large IT consultancy business based in Northern Europe, which uses, sells and implements Fresh for its own clients.
- Designed with intranet use cases in mind, Fresh includes intranet features like analytics, content management, news feed, notifications, integrations with Viva Connections and Viva Engage and much more, including an editorial calendar (coming soon).
- Taking advantage of the power of Microsoft 365, SharePoint, Teams and Viva, Fresh helps you maximise your investment in Microsoft 365. It runs on your Microsoft environment, keeping your data safe.
- Fresh ensures you stay ahead of the AI game by integrating its generative AI tool FreshMind across multiple intranet use cases, from search to content management and editing.
Many of the features that customers often want for their intranet are available in Fresh, so a lot less customization is needed. Automatic content translations, advanced search experience, more stylished news listing and rss feed as examples.
“Tips for a successful Valo Intranet replacement
- Check your next Valo licensing renewal and replace before this date to save costs.
- Don’t wait until the last minute! The decision-making process, including choosing a vendor and getting budget approval, can be a long journey; start looking for a new intranet today. For more details on how to create a business case for a new intranet, see Intranet costs: Budgeting for a new intranet.
- Ensure that your new intranet provider has a clear path for successfully transitioning you from Valo to your new intranet.
- Validate your new intranet provider’s knowledge of Valo Intranet. The better they understand Valo, the more effectively they can support you with a smooth intranet replacement, thereby reducing project risks and minimising intranet downtime.
Valo to Fresh transition FAQs
Will I need to clean up my existing content?
The good news is that there’s no need to clean up your existing content when transitioning from Valo to Fresh. Exceptions may apply depending on the structure of pages, but generally, we’ve made the transition process so smooth that you won’t need to do any major content editing. This allows you to start afresh without extensive cleanup efforts. Keep in mind that replacing an intranet also presents an opportunity to rethink and possibly relaunch it if appropriate. Your Fresh partner can best advise you on the right direction.
Will my links break?
Most probably not. Your Fresh partner will replace your existing content with new content while keeping the same names and URLs, ensuring that your links aren’t broken in the transition process.
What will happen to my existing customisations?
If you’ve got some customisations with your Valo Intranet, it’s not a problem. Your Fresh partner can test them before transitioning them over to Fresh to ensure we can support them without breaking existing functionality. Or if there’s duplication with one of our 70+ standard web parts, we’ll simply move the data on to that web part so, you can wave goodbye to the complications that come with customisations.
How easy is content editing in Fresh?
So simple. There’re very little changes in content editing practices. We’ve designed the transition from Valo to Fresh to go ahead with minimal disruption to you and your team. Better still, clients who move from Valo to Fresh say their content editors are more active, as Fresh is so straightforward to use. Plus, Fresh supports AI-driven features that streamline content creation and editing. It can generate suggestions for your page title, update descriptions, suggest keywords, images, and thumbnails, and even translate content into other languages, making the process a breeze.
Is Fresh Intranet still on SharePoint and Microsoft 365?
Yes. Fresh is proudly aligned with Microsoft 365’s roadmap, surpassing feature parity and seamlessly integrating with its evolving technology trends. We manage the evergreen risk, so you don’t have to.
Is Fresh Intranet secure?
Security is our number one priority here at Fresh. As our intranet is built on SharePoint and Microsoft 365, we take advantage of Microsoft’s robust security features as standard. Plus, we’re compliant with the WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility standard and best security practices. Fresh is ISO certified for the following accreditations, ISO 27001 (Information Security), ISO 22301 (Business Continuity), ISO 9001 (Quality) and ISO 45001 (Health & Safety). Fresh also runs periodic reviews to ensure code quality.
What else can Fresh Intranet do that Valo can't?
While Valo Intranet has been in a low-investment mode since 2022, there has been significant innovation in Fresh during this period. Once you move your intranet over to Fresh, it’s set for a major upgrade—or ‘glow up’—with AI being one of the key enhancements. With FreshMind, we’ve got AI-driven search to help you find and connect with your colleagues faster. You can also use AI to find information within your documents, do bulk updates of metadata and descriptions; it can even help you create snappy headlines and images for your news posts.
If that’s not enough, Fresh has 70+ web parts to choose from, reducing your need for costly customisations. And the personalisation functionality is far more advanced, with personalised dashboards and targeted content, there’s so much more functionality to help you up your internal comms game. Also, you’ll love our editorial calendar that helps you plan the publishing of your content with ease.
Will Fresh Intranet end up being sold like Valo?
It’s a question we’re asked a lot. Unlike other intranet vendors on the market, we’re proud to be part of the mighty Advania Group. With 4,500 colleagues spread across the UK and the Nordics, Fresh was built for and is used by our Microsoft 365 experts to help bring clients’ SharePoint intranets to life. So, while there’s SharePoint, there’ll be Fresh.