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Designing an Internal News Channel Solution

2018

September

Challenge

Thüga sought to establish an internal news channel that could reach all employees across the group, including those in subsidiaries with separate IT operations. Existing CMS systems failed to meet their requirements for ease of use, a modern user interface, expandability, and the ability to reach employees in external IT environments while offering a comment function.

Thüga

Electricity Distribution

Designing an Internal News Channel Solution

Munich, Germany

Thüga, headquartered in Munich, Germany, is a prominent energy company specializing in the management and provision of energy services. They focus on local and regional energy supply, working closely with municipalities and utilities to ensure efficient and sustainable energy solutions. Thüga emphasizes innovation, sustainability, and collaboration to shape the future of energy supply.

Solution

In collaboration with Thüga, we developed a technical concept to enable IT operations to provide all employees, including those in other companies with separate IT operations, with access to an internal news portal via Azure AD (Active Directory).


We recommended using SharePoint Online News in Microsoft 365 as the CMS for news articles, which offers a user-friendly, modern interface and uncomplicated functionality. We demonstrated how a news portal could be created in just a few steps without any programming effort. Additionally, we outlined how more complex tasks, such as implementing an approval workflow or time-shifted publishing of articles, could be achieved using standard Microsoft technologies.

"I worked together with Peter, when we introduced Sharepoint/Office 365 in our utility-company 2018. He is technically brilliant, has in-depth-knowledge on Microsoft software and had great ideas how the MS-tools could facilitate transparency and our communications-work every day.

He led two very structured workshops where he openly discussed in our team features and benefits, pros and cons and adaptation cost of the solution for our company. He showed us the way through the implementation process and was aware of impacts on internal processes and various target groups. He surpassed our expectations by far.

Peter was any time available for queries and open for changes. Teamwork was absolutely brilliant."

Volker Sagstetter

PR-Manager

Outcome

Our solution design provided Thüga with a clear, implementable strategy to create a robust internal news channel that meets their needs. While we did not execute the implementation, our design ensured that Thüga could proceed with confidence, knowing the system would be user-friendly, modern, and capable of reaching all employees across diverse IT environments. The use of SharePoint Online News and Azure AD ensured scalability, security, and ease of management for their internal communications.

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