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About

GroupNews is the simple intranet for small to medium sized businesses (SMBs). It helps you keep everyone in your company informed and up to date. GroupNews does this by providing a platform for your company to publish and discuss everything happening in your organization, all in one place. Post updates, events, and deadlines in a unified news feed that everyone in the company has access to by default. The events and deadlines also get posted a global calendar. Additionally, channels help you organize your content the way you want it. Every post has an optional full featured discussion thread for contextually related updates and follow up. Cut down on confusing email chains and start a discussion instead! You can also request acknowledgment on any post to ensure that employees see the important news they need, and have a record of their having read it. Every week, a digest of the past weeks news, and the coming week's events and deadlines get sent to everyone in your group.

About

Microsoft SharePoint is a secure, enterprise-grade collaboration and content management platform that connects teams, information, and workflows. With AI-powered Copilot and SharePoint agents, users can instantly generate pages, summarize content, and surface insights from within their sites. It enables seamless document management, version control, and real-time collaboration—both inside and outside your organization. Customizable templates and drag-and-drop tools make it easy to design visually engaging intranet sites and portals. SharePoint also provides robust security and compliance features, including access controls, data governance, and conditional policies. Integrated deeply into Microsoft 365, it helps businesses streamline communication, boost productivity, and accelerate their AI transformation.

Platforms Supported

Windows
Mac
Linux
Cloud
On-Premises
iPhone
iPad
Android
Chromebook

Platforms Supported

Windows
Mac
Linux
Cloud
On-Premises
iPhone
iPad
Android
Chromebook

Audience

GroupNews is made for small to medium sized businesses that would benefit from having a centralized platform to share updates with employees.

Audience

Enterprises, IT leaders, and business teams seeking a secure, AI-powered content management and collaboration platform to streamline communication, automate workflows, and enhance knowledge sharing across their organization

Support

Phone Support
24/7 Live Support
Online

Support

Phone Support
24/7 Live Support
Online

API

Offers API

API

Offers API

Screenshots and Videos

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Screenshots and Videos

Pricing

$5/user/month
We have three plans: Lite, Premium, and Enterprise. Lite is priced per person, and is the most cost effective for up to 100 people. Premium and Enterprise feature flat-fee pricing, suitable for groups of more than 100 people.
Free Version
Free Trial

Pricing

$1.00/one-time/user
Free Version
Free Trial

Reviews/Ratings

Overall 0.0 / 5
ease 0.0 / 5
features 0.0 / 5
design 0.0 / 5
support 0.0 / 5

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Reviews/Ratings

Overall 4.7 / 5
ease 4.6 / 5
features 4.4 / 5
design 4.5 / 5
support 4.6 / 5

Pros & Cons from Real Users

Pros

  • It offers a robust ecosystem of third-party integrations that can extend its functionality and enhance its value. It has improved its user interface and ease of use over the years, making it easier to create, share, and access content across sites and devices. It provides a high level of security and compliance features such as version control, retention policies, records management, legal holds, electronic discovery, and auditing. It supports multiple document libraries, lists, calendars, wikis, blogs, forums, surveys, and other types of content that can be customized and organized according to the needs of each team or project. It enables real-time collaboration and co-authoring of documents with internal or external users, as well as commenting and voting capabilities. It allows users to create workflows and automate business processes using Power Automate or other tools. It has a powerful search engine that can help users find relevant content on sites and documents, as well as customizable search capabilities for advanced users.
  • Microsoft SharePoint has the strategic ways of making the sharing of information straightforward and simplistic. Microsoft SharePoint delivers suitable ways of scanning the authorized information users. It integrates with numerous systems that deals with information.
  • Microsoft SharePoint is a strong and reliable storage and sharing solution, where organization and other business needs are well determined. More so, Microsoft SharePoint has the compatibility with different social programs. The security of the stored files is high and systematic.
  • This tool is great and is one that I currently utilize for collaboration with one of the nonprofits we serve.
  • MS SharePoint is a great tool for project team collaboration. You can easily create a project team home page to store and share relevant documents, announcements, progress reports, and team information like contact list and organization charts.

Cons

  • It can be expensive and complex to implement, configure, customize, and manage, especially for large or distributed organizations. May require experts or consultants to ensure proper use and adoption. You may have some errors or crashes while creating or editing SharePoint pages or documents, such as the inability to change the number of columns or insert images. It does not have a desktop or app version that can be used offline or separate from the browser. It would be helpful to have a separate option with more features that align with Microsoft Office. It can be difficult to keep things organized within SharePoint, especially when there are multiple sites or libraries with similar or overlapping content. It would be helpful to have more options for filtering, tagging, or grouping sites or content.
  • Microsoft SharePoint has the value for every communications transaction, and useful mechanisms are well outlined to suit the business use. Further, Microsoft SharePoint is a resourceful platform in making changes.
  • Microsoft SharePoint offers efficient access sharing procedures, and there is proper follow u in all business needs. However, Microsoft SharePoint is pricey, and there is a challenge in new subscriber having the tool.
  • It is challenging to collaborate with external individuals.
  • Ironically, like most Microsoft tools, MS SharePoint keeps gaining functionality which is great, but then sometimes the basic things get more complicated because there are so many options. An example is that sometimes functionality that I use most often get buried into a "menu" or "layer" or something moves to another location unexpectedly...especially since as a SaaS solution the change can happen overnight.

Training

Documentation
Webinars
Live Online
In Person

Training

Documentation
Webinars
Live Online
In Person

Company Information

GroupNews
Founded: 2021
United States
groupnews.com

Company Information

Microsoft
Founded: 1975
United States
www.microsoft.com

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Categories

Categories

Intranet Features

Activity / News Feed
Blogs
Calendar Management
Content Management
Discussions / Forums
Employee Directory
Knowledge Management
Policy Management
Search
Wiki

Employee Communication Tools Features

Activity / News Feed
Audio / Video Conferencing
Blogs
Chat / Messaging
Employee Directory
Event Calendar
File Sharing
Knowledge Management
Newsletter Management
Surveys & Feedback

Intranet Features

Activity / News Feed
Blogs
Calendar Management
Content Management
Discussions / Forums
Employee Directory
Knowledge Management
Policy Management
Search
Wiki

Collaboration Features

Brainstorming
Calendar Management
Chat / Messaging
Contact Management
Content Management
Document Management
Project Management
Real Time Editing
Task Management
Version Control
Video Conferencing

Integrations

AdmiralCloud
Adobe Acrobat
Atlassian Rovo
BDRCloud
Calamari
Cloud Elements
Diplomat Managed File Transfer
FIELDBOSS
Inogic SharePoint Security Sync
Kudos
Matters.AI
Mobile Locker
Powell 365
Real Directory
ShareVault
Tungsten eCopy
netDocShare
yourMAIL Team

Integrations

AdmiralCloud
Adobe Acrobat
Atlassian Rovo
BDRCloud
Calamari
Cloud Elements
Diplomat Managed File Transfer
FIELDBOSS
Inogic SharePoint Security Sync
Kudos
Matters.AI
Mobile Locker
Powell 365
Real Directory
ShareVault
Tungsten eCopy
netDocShare
yourMAIL Team
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