Is native SharePoint enough for your intranet, or is it time to build on it?
SharePoint is the most widely deployed intranet foundation in the world, used by more than 200,000 organizations. If you're starting from scratch, here's how to create a SharePoint intranet in the first place. But on its own, SharePoint is a toolbox: Microsoft gives you the building blocks and leaves your team to assemble a real internal communications strategy, frontline access, and governance at scale.
This white paper gives you the honest, feature-by-feature answer.
What's inside:
- Why intranets fail before they even launch</strong>: the four recurring causes, from weak sponsorship to features cut back at launch.
- SharePoint as the foundation: what it does well out of the box, and why it's a rational starting point for any Microsoft 365 organization.
- Why SharePoint alone isn't enough: the real limits on communication, frontline access, personalization, oversight and governance at scale, notifications and an internal newsletter included.
- Native SharePoint vs. SharePoint + Jint: a full feature-by-feature comparison across internal communications, employee experience, personalization, AI and translation, search, mobile and frontline, and governance. See the full side-by-side comparison for the short version.
- The impact of Jint in numbers: real adoption, engagement and support metrics from organizations that made the switch.
- A visual before/after: what changes on the homepage and on mobile once SharePoint is extended.
Why download it:
An honest starting point. We're not telling you to replace SharePoint. We're showing you exactly what it covers and what it doesn't, so you can decide what's worth building.
The real cost of custom development. Initial build, recurring maintenance at every Microsoft update, and the hidden cost of low adoption, laid out plainly.
Feature-by-feature, not marketing claims. Every comparison in this white paper maps a native SharePoint capability against what a ready-to-use extension adds.
Real customer voices. Verbatims from IT and communications leaders who tried native SharePoint alone before extending it.
