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4 Reasons for your Business to go ‘All In’ with M365

4 Reasons for your Business to go ‘All In’ with M365

Microsoft Teams adoption over the last two years has been astronomical. With usage reaching 250 million daily active users in mid 2021 (up from 20 million in November ’19) it’s clear that businesses across the globe have realised the benefit of this unique...

Pretty Awesome: 5 Steps to Perfect SharePoint Design

Pretty Awesome: 5 Steps to Perfect SharePoint Design

Microsoft SharePoint Modern allows you to organise your documents, content, media, and so much more, providing a key platform across which your employees can share, communicate, and collaborate. Our SharePoint design services help our clients to define the purpose of...

Silicon Reef Acquires Internal Comms Management Product Ripple

Silicon Reef Acquires Internal Comms Management Product Ripple

Announcing the acquisition of unique internal communications campaign product Ripple, another significant step in the strategic growth plan for the employee-focused Microsoft Solutions agency.    Founded in 2017, Silicon Reef is a leading Microsoft Solutions agency,...

The Microsoft Viva Experience

The Microsoft Viva Experience

Early in February, as a direct result of the global, pandemic-induced move to remote working - Microsoft launched Microsoft Viva, the first employee experience platform. Viva, MS says, brings tools for engagement, learning, wellbeing and knowledge discovery directly...

Top Tech, Clear Comms: The Key to Employee Engagement

Top Tech, Clear Comms: The Key to Employee Engagement

Employee engagement is key – to keeping productivity high, attrition low and, essentially, to attract new talent. We’ve been looking at the positive power of internal communication in driving engagement, particularly with a remote workforce. Results from a major 2019...

The Power Pairing of Teams and SharePoint

The Power Pairing of Teams and SharePoint

For more than 15 years SharePoint has been Microsoft’s core platform for everything from small to enterprise scale intranets. Primarily established as a development platform that provides the building blocks to create an end-to-end document repository for...

Engage Remote Employees With Microsoft 365

Engage Remote Employees With Microsoft 365

Silicon Reef is all about connecting and creating employee engagement with remote and flexible teams. We find they bring distinct advantages: the creation of cost and time efficiencies, increased employee happiness, reduced staff churn and recruitment costs. With the...

How to Tackle Your Intranet Project

How to Tackle Your Intranet Project

Embarking on a new intranet project can be daunting for an organisation no matter how big or small it is, but it doesn’t have to be. These top tips will not only help you to begin your project plan but will also keep you on track to launch and embed your new intranet...