Custom SharePoint or Ready-Made Ishtar365?
SharePoint has proven itself as one of the most popular platforms for setting up corporate intranets. Originally designed as a document management system, it has grown into a fully-fledged private portal for organisations, enabling colleagues to share documents, communicate and collaborate. This makes it a powerful tool within many companies.
With the rise of the cloud, however, a new trend has emerged: ready-made platforms. These out-of-the-box solutions, such as Ishtar365, offer an alternative to custom SharePoint solutions. In this publication, we examine five key success factors: speed of implementation, cost, productivity, flexibility and maintenance. Based on these factors, we compare custom SharePoint with the ready-made solution Ishtar365 and the advantages each brings.
The 5 success factors of an external portal.
1. Speed of implementation
Whereas setting up a custom SharePoint environment can take months, Ishtar365 can be up and running within days. Thanks to pre-configured features and an intuitive user interface, your environment can go live quickly and deliver immediate value to your organisation.
This gives Ishtar365 a significant advantage when it comes to speed of implementation.
Who wins?
2. Cost
Did you know that the costs of a custom SharePoint environment can quickly rise to €50,000–€100,000? This is because extensive analysis, multiple workshops and dedicated development are all required.
With a standardised solution like Ishtar365, on the other hand, you have full flexibility in licensing and configuration. This keeps costs low and highly predictable.
Who wins?
3. Productivity
With custom SharePoint environments, user adoption and ease of use can vary depending on the quality of the implementation and customisations. With Ishtar365, you choose a solution designed with ease of use as a priority.
It offers rapid adoption and increased productivity without the need for extensive training — and has already been tested by thousands of users!
Who wins?
4. Flexibility
Ishtar365 is a no-code platform that offers configurations and customisations to meet most business needs for workflow configuration.
To support unique requirements, SharePoint offers even greater flexibility — but this flexibility comes at a price: higher costs and longer implementation times.
Who wins?
5. Maintenance and updates
Custom SharePoint environments require regular maintenance and update efforts, which can lead to additional costs and complexity. You are responsible for updating and reporting any issues with the SharePoint environment in a timely manner.
A major advantage of Ishtar365 is that it is delivered as a cloud service. This means updates and maintenance are carried out automatically, without any extra effort from your IT team. Your environment always runs on the latest version, and you have a direct point of contact for any issues.
Who wins?
Conclusion:
Ishtar365 offers an efficient and cost-effective solution for companies that want to quickly benefit from a complete digital work environment. With advantages such as rapid implementation, lower costs and easy adoption, it is the ideal choice for organisations that want to focus on their core activities.
With the prediction that up to 90% of companies will realise within a few years that ready-made systems like Ishtar365 are the future, this is the ideal opportunity to get ahead of the rest of your sector.
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