Elevate your Microsoft 365 Experience

Don’t settle for basic and boring. We provide the solutions that give your people the flexibility to design standout SharePoint sites and portals.

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Beacon was born out of our wealth of knowledge and experience delivering complex SharePoint intranets, portals and comms sites to enable more engaging employee experiences by providing what we have discovered are the most valuable solutions for all clients.

Those key challenges Beacon answers for all internal communicators, digital channel managers and SharePoint engineers are to:

Design standout SharePoint sites that look better than normal SharePoint
Simplify news management across global organisations
Offer news personalisation tailored for the individual
Manage business mandated tools while customising favourite links and apps for employees

Beacon offers a comprehensive suite of features designed to enhance the employee experience and increase engagement within an organisation. It serves as the core tool, integrating various functionalities to address multiple challenges.

The best part, it’s all delivered within Teams and SharePoint. No need to go to yet another platform or app outside of M365. Keeping collaboration and communication where your employees already work.

Example of a SharePoint intranet with Beacon, showcasing features like background gradients.

Branding & Design

Make your intranet sites and pages look more like your brand with a wide range of design webparts that provide better employee engagement and simplified user experience.

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News Management & Personalisation

Enable internal comms teams to plan, create and track employee news while giving employees the capability of personalising how they view their newsfeed.

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Example of the favourite feature in MyTools, showing a selection of third party tools like Bright HR, Figma and Workday, and the ability to click to favourite the tools of your choice.

Customised Links & Tools

Provide a clean and simple way of saving quick links and favourite tools within one safe place.

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How Beacon Compares


Custom fonts	SharePoint Brand Centre* can be configured to use custom fonts	Define custom heading styles and use custom paragraph styles like advanced custom pull quote styles
Custom colour palette*	Out-of-the-box SharePoint themes provide 1 x primary colour + tints, 1 x text colour and 1 x background colour as default	Add an unlimited number of colour swatches, to create a colour palette available for use across your site. A built-in accessibility checker helps you to choose accessible colour pairs (text and background)
Coloured section backgrounds	Choose from 4 colours, as defined in your theme (primary colour, primary colour tint, light grey and white as default)	Pick from any colour swatch in your pre-defined custom colour palette (see ‘custom colour palette’ above)
Gradient section backgrounds	❌	✔️ Set colour gradients in your branding configuration to use as section backgrounds
Image section backgrounds	This is possible now – however there are limited options for adding in overlay colours to help show your text (black or white overlay only)	Use your custom colour palette as defined in your branding to provide overlays using the foreground and background colours
Custom section shapes	❌	✔️ Create custom shapes to define sections of the page and break up the white space
Video banner/header backgrounds	❌	✔️
Custom menu bar colour	Choose from 4 colours, as defined in your theme (primary colour, primary colour tint, light grey and white as default)	Pick from any colour swatch in your pre-defined custom colour palette
Custom button colour	Uses the primary colour, as set in your theme. Button hover colour is automatically generated	Pick your button and hover colour form any colour swatch in your pre-defined custom colour palette
Sub-brands	Sites within a Hub share branding as default. Different Hubs can have their own theme/primary colour	Sites within a Hub share branding as default. You can also create separate branding for the associated sites which will overwrite the hub branding

* Microsoft Brand Centre is still in a beta phase. While custom fonts have been introduced, colours are not yet available. Switching to the Brand Centre can cause issues with existing Organisation Asset libraries.

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Our Beacon Clients

Client Success at Silicon Reef

We ensure that after each project comes to an end, clients are not left on their own, nor forgotten. Product clients are onboarded to our client success and support teams to ensure the work we began together sees through to each client’s objectives. Through our Client Success Programme, we offer:

Expert onboarding and solution alignment for rapid time-to-value.
Ongoing training and optimisation to keep systems and teams ahead of the curve.
Proactive support and feedback loops, ensuring issues are resolved swiftly.
Continuous engagement, helping organisations adapt and thrive as business and technology evolve.