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#23 Intranet hub

Modern intranet with hub-and-spoke in SharePoint

Communication hub architecture + spokes by department/region. SPFx web parts, dynamic navigation, semantic search.

Implementation: 3-6 months 6 technologies
The pain

What it costs you today

In a 1,500-employee firm with organic growth, the intranet ends up being a tangle of 180 to 250 SharePoint sites created by every department since 2014, with no governance and no taxonomy, and nobody knows where the information they need lives. Onboarding a new joiner takes 2 to 3 weeks because the manager does not know which policies to read first, and the helpdesk receives 200 tickets a month of the form "where do I find form X". SharePoint native search returns 30 unordered results, and the intranet competes with WhatsApp and Slack as the source of truth. "Every area has its own SharePoint and none is connected to the rest" is how any IT director sums it up. What is the cost of an intranet that people stopped consulting?

The value

What changes when you have it

A modern communication hub connected to spokes by department and geography, with adaptive navigation that shows the sites from the employee's area first, and semantic AI search that understands synonyms and returns the right policy in a ranked list. The home shows news cards updated in real time from the newsroom and is embedded in Viva Connections for one-tap mobile access. Custom SPFx web parts deliver a native app feel without losing SharePoint governance. The visible output is the communication hub plus a Viva Connections dashboard, with PnP PowerShell governing the provisioning of child sites. The solution is in production at a 4,000-employee financial entity where useful search results rose from 45% to 88%. The investment pays back through reduced IT tickets.

Stack
Technologies we touch in the implementation
SharePoint OnlineSPFxReactTypeScriptPnP PowerShellViva Connections
Modern intranet with hub-and-spoke in SharePoint
#23 · Intranet hub

Home with news cards, dynamic navigation and search

Intranet hub

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