Workforce communication must be efficient and productive. For it to be effective it must be easy and similar to our everyday communication habits. What are the expectations of today’s workforce for company’s internal communication? How can we meet those needs and what will be the benefits? All of this and more will be covered by Juha Koivula from Valo Intranet. Esineja: Juha Koivula (Valo Intranet)

1. Vision for effective
internal communication
Juha Koivula
Product Manager,Valo Intranet

3. Millennials are in your
working place already

4. • Millennials place an emphasis on producing
meaningful work, finding a creative outlet,
and have a preference for immediate
feedback.Findings also suggest the
introduction of social media has
augmented collaborative skills and
created a preference for a team-oriented
environment.
-Wikipedia
Millennials

5. Millennials
• Millennials associate job satisfaction with
free flow of information, strong
connectivity to supervisors, and more
immediate feedback.
• Millennials show a growing importance on
work-life balance

6. Millennials expect a modern working
environment
• Fast feedback channels
• Flat and transparent hierarchies
• Enterprise Social
• Mobile applications

7. A modern Intranet improves
the employer brand

9. Workday experienceCustomer experience

10. Valo is a Ready-to-go
Modern Intranet on
Office 365 and
SharePoint
Center of all
communication, social
and teamwork in your
organization
Beautiful User
Experience
Works with any device
You can start using it
immediately
Always up-to-date

11. Full of Features
• Company News
• Content Pages
• Quick Links
• Events &Trainings
• People Finder
• Social Hub
• LatestVideos from Office 365
Video
• Discussion Feeds (Yammer )
• Yammer Praises and
Announcements
• Delve Blogs
• Surveys
• Forms
• FAQ
• Open Job Positions
• Classifieds
• Teamwork Hub
(Workspaces+Office 365
Groups)
• Idea Management
• AdminToolpack
• Multilingual

12. LUX

13. Lumen

14. Candela

15. The Best Mobile Intranet
Experience
• NativeValo Intranet Mobile App for
Android and iPhone
• All ready-made themes are responsive
for the full mobile intranet experience
• Fully supports Microsoft apps available
forYammer,Teams, SharePoint,
OneDrive, Office 365Video, Office…

16. 100% compatible
Also available on on-premises SharePoint Server 2013 / 2016

17. https://customers.microsoft.com/Pages/CustomerStory.aspx?recid=20626
Microsoft Global Case Study about our journey

18. Reference cases
More from valointranet.com

19. 200 customers and over 400,000 users in 20 countries
You?

26. “I just opened our new Intranet
for the first time and it looks
awesome :)”
SabinVusca
IT Specialist, Eldon Group
“An emotional teardrop squeezed
from the corner of my eye as our
employees started to collaborate in
a strategy discussion using our new
intranet.”
Tove Forsström
Recruiting Manager, Carea
“We were looking for an intranet
package that could be implemented in
just a few months.Valo had the most
features in this category of providers.We
also liked that it was offered at a fixed
price.”
FredrikWennström
Business Developer, Bixia
“Valo Intranet has been built following
Microsoft’s recommendations to align
with the Office 365 roadmap.”
Vesa Juvonen
Sr. Program Manager, Office 365
engineering, Microsoft Corporation

27. How to buyValo Intranet?
License Categories
<100 users and non-profits
101 – 1000 users
1001 – 5000 users
> 5001 users
Product Modules
1.Valo Intranet Base
Package
Teamwork Hub
People Finder
Social Hub
Video
Delve Blogs
Admin Toolpack
Idea Management
Multilingual
2. Add-ons
Valo Fresh Subscription
Valo Fresh subscription costs 25% of the
total license fee per year and grants the
customer an access to the upcoming releases.
Fresh also includes the
Valo Mobile App
Delivery Project (by a localValo Intranet Partner)
Express:
5 days of work
Rapid delivery and
basic branding
1 week 4 weeks 8-12 weeks
Standard :
~15 days of work
Focus on information
architecture.
Maximize the value
through piloting
Enterprise :
>50 days of work
Focus on governance
and launch planning.
CustomizeValo per
customer

28. PickYour Ready-made IntranetTheme
… or choose full-scale branding
Lux Lumen Candela

29. Custom theme and anything is possible

30. Features
Do more with your intranet

31. Intranet base package
features
• Three visual templates:
Candela, Lumen and Lux
• Responsive design
• Native Mobile App
• News with targeting
• Alert News
• User-friendly page templates
• Survey
• Footer
• Discussion feeds (Yammer or
Newsfeed)
• New employee presentations
• Event Calendar
• Training Calendar
• Shortcuts
• Open positions
• RSS feeds
• Yammer praises and
announcements
• Blogs
• Wikis
• FAQ
• Classifieds
• Enhanced document
metadata
+ Add-Ons
TEAMWORK HUB
SOCIAL HUB
VIDEO
DELVE BLOGS
ADMINTOOLPACK
PEOPLE FINDER
IDEA MANAGEMENT MULTILINGUAL

32. Add-On:Teamwork Hub
• Ready-to-use workspace templates for
projects and teams
• Document management
• Easy user rights management
• Workspace order form with an approval
process
• AutomaticYammer integration
• My favorite workspaces
• Each workspace is a separate site
collection
• Workspace summary page with filters
and search
• Workspace inactivation process
• Office 365 Groups integrated
Order Approve Create
Find and
use
Archive
Workspace lifecycle

33. Add-On:Video
LatestVideo add-on displays latest videos from Office 365Video
portal in your intranet.
Record a video with your iPhone, upload it into Office 365Video
portal and publish it in to the intranet front page. Record you Skype
trainings and share them to everybody via intranet. New employee
introductions, announcements, employee onboarding. Use cases
for internal videos are endless.
LatestVideo add-on displays latest videos
from Office 365Video portal in your
intranet.
Record a video with your iPhone, upload it
into Office 365Video portal and publish it
in to the intranet front page. Record you
Skype trainings and share them to
everybody via intranet. New employee
introductions, announcements, employee
onboarding. Use cases for internal videos
are endless.
Videos are one of
the key intranet
trends in 2016

34. Add-On: People finder
LatestVideo add-on displays latest videos from Office 365Video
portal in your intranet.
Record a video with your iPhone, upload it into Office 365Video
portal and publish it in to the intranet front page. Record you Skype
trainings and share them to everybody via intranet. New employee
introductions, announcements, employee onboarding. Use cases
for internal videos are endless.
Looking for contact information? Call from
an unknown number?
UseValo People Finder for searching
colleagues by name or phone number.
Seamless integration with SharePoint’s
powerful People search and Delve user
profiles.

35. Add-On: Social hub
Social Hub makes it easy for you to follow
what people are talking about your
organization in social media
Social Hub guides your employees to
share your company’s content in a
meaningful way. Social Hub includes an
example text for your organization’s
social media guideline
• Supported channels:
• Blog (Wordpress, Blogger, and
Tumbler)
• Facebook
• Instagram
• Pinterest
• SlideShare
• Twitter
• Vimeo
• Youtube

36. Add-On: Delve blogs
LatestVideo add-on displays latest videos from Office 365Video
portal in your intranet.
Record a video with your iPhone, upload it into Office 365Video
portal and publish it in to the intranet front page. Record you Skype
trainings and share them to everybody via intranet. New employee
introductions, announcements, employee onboarding. Use cases
for internal videos are endless.
Office 365 has a great blogging tool in
Delve. However, the problem is that the
blog posts are very difficult to find
because they can be accessed only by
navigating to person’s own Delve profile.
With Delve Blogs add-on all the latest blog
posts from users’ Delve profiles will be
surfaced in you intranet.

37. Add-On: Admin toolpack
LatestVideo add-on displays latest videos from Office 365Video
portal in your intranet.
Record a video with your iPhone, upload it into Office 365Video
portal and publish it in to the intranet front page. Record you Skype
trainings and share them to everybody via intranet. New employee
introductions, announcements, employee onboarding. Use cases
for internal videos are endless.
Gathers all the necessary Intranet
statistics and tools into one view
• Content tools
• Pending workspaces
• Most popular workspaces
• New workspaces
• Outdated pages
• Most unpopular pages
• Most popular pages
• Most commented news
• User manuals
Lots of configurable parameters

38. Add-On: Idea Management
LatestVideo add-on displays latest videos from Office 365Video
portal in your intranet.
Record a video with your iPhone, upload it into Office 365Video
portal and publish it in to the intranet front page. Record you Skype
trainings and share them to everybody via intranet. New employee
introductions, announcements, employee onboarding. Use cases
for internal videos are endless.
Collect and grow new ideas to solve
problems and discover new opportunities.
Users achieve scores from submitting new
ideas and commenting others’ ideas.
Ideas have categories and a predefined
workflow.
Statistics are displayed in visual
dashboards:
• Best performers
• # ideas per month/category/status
Lots of configurable parameters.

39. Add-On: Multilingual
LatestVideo add-on displays latest videos from Office 365Video
portal in your intranet.
Record a video with your iPhone, upload it into Office 365Video
portal and publish it in to the intranet front page. Record you Skype
trainings and share them to everybody via intranet. New employee
introductions, announcements, employee onboarding. Use cases
for internal videos are endless.
Manage your Intranet content in multiple
languages.
Includes a landing page where user
chooses their preferred language.
Easy navigation between language sites.
Roll-ups that can display contents from
multiple language sites.

40. Roadmap
Where we are going?

41. Valo intranet Roadmap
September: 1.10 Airglow
Idea Management New add-on
Managed navigation Fresh
December: 1.11. Mirage
Multilingual Intranet New add-on
H2 2016 H1 2017
April: 1.12 Green Flash
News comment feed Fresh
MyTools Fresh
Expertise Finder Fresh (****)
SharePoint Framework Fresh
News analytics Fresh (*)
July: 1.13 Gegenschein
Teamwork 2.0 Fresh (***)
Social Hub 2.0 Fresh(**)
Candela UI refresh Fresh
“Who has access where” Fresh (*)
(*) included inAdminToolpack
(**) included in Social Hub
(***) included inTeamwork
(****) included in People Finder
+130 smaller improvements in H2
H2 2017
Fresh = Included in theValo Fresh subscription
Add-on = newAdd-on
2 newValo versions:
October release
December release

42. Select the platform
External workspaces are not available for
on-premises solution. Consider building a
hybrid solution and deploy external
workspaces to SharePoint Online.
AllValo solutions are available for SharePoint
Online.
The popular O365 tools likeYammer, Office
365Video, Delve and Groups are only
available in the cloud.

43. Microsoft cloud licensing
All users usingValo must be licensed with anOffice 365 or
SharePointOnline subscription
The approximate cost for the Azure App Service B1 PLAN
with 99.95% SLA is 47 € per month (*)
(*) See pricing in your region:
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/app-
service/
Valo intranet is built according
Microsoft’s recommendations for
implementing a sustainable cloud
solution.
This model is called SharePoint
Add-in Model, which means that
all the code thatValo solution
requires is placed outside of
SharePoint - in MicrosoftAzure or
the browser.
By keeping you SharePoint free
from any customizations you to
get all the updates that Microsoft
brings to Office 365

45. Thank you
With ♥ fromValoTeam