What is SharePoint and how does it work?
If you’ve ever worked in an organization where finding the right information seems harder than fin...
Supercharge your Intranet with SharePoint integrations
Did you know that employees spend around 25% of their working hours searching for information? Reports suggest that employees spend an average of 1.8 hours every day – that’s 9.3 hours per week – looking for things they need. What a waste!
But when you have multiple platforms and apps, you can spend a lot of your time toggling between them. With data and resources in various places, it’s hard to know what is the latest and most accurate.
That’s where an intranet comes in. Your intranet’s superpower is connectivity. Its ability to serve as a single hub for people, processes and information. With smart SharePoint integration, you can connect a whole host of tools, apps and platforms all within Microsoft 365. Here, we’ll show how friction-free integration turns your intranet into a productivity engine.
Why integrate SharePoint?
SharePoint’s core strength is its flexibility. Whether you’re embedding business apps, surfacing dashboards or automating workflows, integration ensures your people have the right tools at their fingertips. It helps reduce that constant toggling, it streamlines processes and delivers everything from one branded intranet experience.
But on its own, SharePoint integration can feel complex. It can require custom development, third-party connectors or IT resources to maintain. But Fresh changes the game by making integrations streamlined, people-first and easy to manage.
Integrations made easier with Fresh
Unlike a regular SharePoint setup, Fresh simplifies integrations so intranet owners and employees actually see the benefits right away. For example:
- Plug-and-play connectors – Fresh comes with pre-built integration options for Microsoft 365 apps and leading third-party tools, cutting down time to deploy.
- No coding required – Many integrations can be set up with configuration, not custom code. That makes it accessible to business users, not just IT.
- Enterprise search – Fresh lets employees search across systems like ServiceNow Knowledge Base or Google Drive from one central intranet location, making organisational data easier to find.
- Unified dashboards – Employees see data from multiple systems in one intranet view. No extra logins or toggling required.
- Automated workflows – Pair integrations with Power Automate or Fresh workflows to trigger approvals, notifications or updates instantly.
- Ongoing enhancements – Fresh continuously evolves, meaning integrations are updated, supported and ready for future systems.
Fresh ensures integrations stop being an IT burden and become an everyday productivity boost for your business.
Integration in action
Effective intranet integrations help your teams to get more done, faster and easier. Here’s how integration can enhance everyday work for your teams.
Communications
Keep employees in the loop without sending them on a needless treasure hunt for information.
- Fresh consolidates all comms channels, such as Viva Engage, SharePoint, and Outlook, into a central location.
- Your comms team can deliver consistent messages from a single hub, no switching required.
- Your audience won’t miss a thing, with a streamlined, clear feed of internal messages.
Enterprise search
Find what you need, wherever it lives.
- Fresh’s enterprise search lets employees discover content across platforms like Salesforce, Dropbox, SQL Server, Confluence, and SharePoint – all from one intranet search bar.
- No more jumping between apps or digging through folders. Just one place to search, and one place to find.
HR
Speed up recruitment and improve onboarding with smart automation.
- Sync profile data from HR platforms and publish job vacancies directly into Fresh.
- Integrations with tools like Workday HCM, SAP or HelloSign are a few clicks away.
- Employees have one place to explore new openings without digging through emails.
Finance and Leadership
When data’s easy to access and to read, decision-making gets easier. Give everyone real-time insight without leaving the intranet.
- Display share price updates directly within Fresh using integrations like Investis SharePrices. No need to jump to another app.
- Embed dashboards and reporting tools from Azure or other analytics platforms to bring financial insight where it’s needed most.
- Get real-time news as it happens, with an integrated RSS feed.
IT and Ops
Sync up your software into a single interface.
- Store data in Azure, then surface it through analytics or dashboards for a single, cohesive view of your key systems.
- Build your own custom integrations with apps outside of M365 and tailor them to your needs.
Sales
Put the right people, product updates, pipelines and prospects in the palms of your salespeople’s hands.
- Integrate your CRM, such as Salesforce, and display all your leads, opportunities or tickets directly on your dashboard.
- Show pipeline dashboards and key metrics in Fresh so sales leaders can track progress in real time.
- Connect collaboration tools like Teams with CRM workflows to keep deals moving quickly.
Frequently asked questions about SharePoint integrations
What can SharePoint integrate with?
SharePoint can integrate with a huge variety of business applications. Think CRMs, HR platforms, ticketing systems, project management tools, communication apps, analytics dashboards and more.
Is SharePoint like an intranet?
Yes. SharePoint is often used as the foundation for an intranet, but without customization, it doesn’t fully function as one. While it can centralize communication, collaboration, and content management, Fresh Intranet brings it to life with tailored enhancements that fit your business needs.
Is there an API for SharePoint?
Yes. SharePoint offers REST APIs, the SharePoint Framework (SPFx) and other extensibility models that make custom integrations and add-ins possible.
What can you automate in SharePoint?
You can automate document management, approval workflows, notifications, onboarding checklists, list updates and integrations with external tools for example.
Why Fresh is the best way to integrate SharePoint
Fresh helps you take SharePoint integrations from complex to effortless. You can bring your most important apps, data and workflows together into one unified intranet experience.
Streamline workflows and supercharge productivity with the optimum integrations for your business.
