Why is seeing SharePoint intranet examples so important when you're building an intranet?
Design trends change—often. And people are visual.
Award-winning intranets from 5 years ago today appear blocky and out-of-date to employees who are accustomed to more contemporary design trends.
Without seeing examples, how do you know that you're not merely lifting and shifting old concepts into a different SharePoint platform? Finally, who doesn't like to see what a refreshed, modern intranet can look like?
The following 12 inspired Office 365 intranet examples can help your team see actual SharePoint Online compatible designs for any possible scenario. These designs can help you brainstorm ideas and prevent surprises or setbacks in your next intranet project.
Why SharePoint intranet?
It's a fair question: What makes SharePoint intranet solution better than other solutions?
According to data, SharePoint is the leading intranet platform in the world.
Key benefits of SharePoint Intranet are:
Scalable and customizable
Integrates well with other Microsoft 365 and third-party apps/platforms
Offers advanced security and protection
Very cost-effective when bundled with other Microsoft 365 products
No coding required
Partners worldwide make support and service incredibly easy
Now that we've summarized what makes SharePoint a leading choice for an intranet, let's look at some of the latest SharePoint intranet site examples for 2024.
SharePoint Intranet Examples
This video has our latest SharePoint intranet examples in action and ideas for a killer intranet in 2024!
SharePoint Intranet Homepage
SharePoint intranet homepage example with personalized video banner, news feed, sharepoint search directory, calendar, feedback webpart and quick links
Modern SharePoint Intranet
What's great about this SharePoint landing page example?
- Eye-catching interface and personalized welcomes make an excellent first impression, enticing employees to use the intranet. This can help with intranet adoption.
- Easy access to forms and templates create a better search experience
- Quick access to frequently used resources and pages
- Social corner makes the intranet more interactive. Employees can welcome new employees or wish their colleagues happy birthday with the reminder from the app on the left.
For more design examples like this, see the blog post below.
SharePoint INTRANET homepage Design Example
Sleek and beautiful SharePoint intranet homepage design example
sharp & professional SharePoint Intranet
These are examples of SharePoint pages with event calendars and bulletin boards, where employees can post announcements, like, or comment on other people’s posts. The social corner can be an excellent substitute for a newsletter and reduce email overload within a company.
A video of how we’ve built this SharePoint intranet example from scratch.
What's great about this design?
- It's familiar and straightforward, like the homepage of a modern website.
- A large news carousel with a video makes important announcements more prominent.
- Having immediate access to the most commonly used corporate applications helps get the work started.
- Social Corner welcomes new colleagues to the team and makes it easy for new hires to meet each other.
SharePoint team site example
modern intranet resource hub
This intranet resource hub benefits from a modern and upbeat look and focuses on metrics and KPIs to motivate employees.
A modern SharePoint intranet portal resource hub example with personalized design, news, color-coded calendar, SharePoint library search, birthdays webpart and KPIs
What's great about this SharePoint intranet example?
- Rich interactive content at the top of the page creates modern and engaging look and feel.
- Quick links in the first part of the page help employees access frequently used applications.
- Quick links can be personalized per group, team, or job role.
- Company performance information helps keep track of critical metrics and KPIs.
- Metrics can be personalized to a group, team, or job role.
Human Resources Intranet page
This HR SharePoint intranet page is targeted to existing and new employees and provides resources about benefits, pay and expenses, and policies.
What's great about this intranet site example?
- Alerts at the top of the page help remind employees about essential deadlines.
- Page is chunked into easily readable blocks.
- Onboarding timeline and FAQs are easily accessible to help new employees get started.
- Forms and Templates directory offers the latest version of request forms and policy documents.
- Shout-outs help celebrate milestones and achievements, and welcome new team members.
For the full version of this design example, check the post below.
SharePoint Training Site
A learning and development site on the company intranet can help employees access general training for all such as cybersecurity, privacy, and compliance, and targeted courses for their role.
SharePoint Training Site Example
What's great about this SharePoint intranet example?
- Quick links to the most popular learning and development resources.
- Targeted links to relevant courses for a role
- Trainings are prioritized based on their importance, with the least important courses listed at the bottom of the page
Employee Onboarding Intranet Site
The new employee intranet page has resources to help new hires onboard, get to know their immediate leadership team, and see what their first few weeks and months will be all about.
What's great about this intranet example?
- New employees get a personal welcome right on the page; how great is that? The system picks up their name from the Active Directory.
- Contact information of key people is available so new employees know who to reach out to if they need help.
- Onboarding roadmap with links to resources helps new employees onboard in a consistent way.
- The roadmap can show different steps to different employees based on their job role.
Safety Department Intranet
A safety department intranet page helps employees get required safety training and promote work-safely culture by sharing valuable metrics.
What's great about this intranet example?
- Content and apps provide rich detail on their own.
- KPIs help visualize information, making it more readable and trackable.
- Events help promote safety initiatives.
- The interactive training section allows employees to explore content more organically.
For the full version of this SharePoint online design example, check the post below.
Intranet Site for Government and municipal
The intranet homepage for a government organization helps employees see their organization's impact on a large scale, which can be challenging to measure for each employee individually.
What's great about this intranet example?
- The news and events slider tracks the organization’s internal and external happenings.
- Metrics and KPIs help employees see the impact of their work by numbers.
- Can be secured by permissions.
- Frequently accessed applications are grouped for easier access to a set of quick links.
- Can be targeted by department, job role, and other permissions.
For the full version of this SharePoint online intranet example, check the post below.
SharePoint Internal Department Site
Internal department pages have everything employees need to start their day, from links to everyday applications to tasks, calendars, and recent documents.
What's great about this intranet example?
- Personalized welcome and quick links help department site users feel like this site is their digital work homepage.
- Personalized tasks, meetings, and recent documents track what's important all in one place.
- Permissions ensure all of this content is secure.
SharePoint Site for Project Management
The project site helps keep the team on the same page about the upcoming deadlines and milestones, team tasks, KPIs, meetings, and issues.
What's great about this intranet example?
- Unlike the SharePoint intranet examples above, this one is only accessible to people who have access to the project.
- Project KPIs can be dynamically updated from a SharePoint Online list or connected to pull information from other systems.
- The monthly calendar keeps everyone in the loop on milestones, planned absences, and deadlines.
- Tasks help everyone see what each project team member is responsible for and current task status.
And there you have it! SharePoint intranet examples built with intranet best practices.
Beautiful design, useful integrations, but what about the implementation process?
So what’s the first step on the road to intranet adoption? You can stitch together the company intranet examples we show here into a proposal for a beautiful intranet, but there is one piece missing—the implementation intranet project plan like the one below.
Many companies have never done an intranet project before or built one years ago—and the lack of process often throws a wrench into the entire project.
Team members may come to meetings but fail to decide what should go on the intranet, how each page should look, and what the navigation should be like. We've seen these issues stall projects for months, and some projects never officially launch and remain in a half-baked soft-launch state.
This is not the way to go.
Check out the project plan below to see how you can knock your SharePoint intranet design out of the park and get it up and running before a deadline.
Sabina Saetgareeva is a Digital Marketing Specialist at ORIGAMI. She helps infuse ORIGAMI brand with what customers need and seek. Sabina is an avid reader of the future of work, digital transformation, and trends in Digital Employee Experience.