welcome to your new intranet…...welcome to your new intranet… mercury is our flagship intranet...
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Welcome to your new Intranet…
Mercury is our flagship Intranet product designed for Office
365/SharePoint On-Premises, it hooks into and is further enhanced by the
rich functionality offered in the cloud such as Delve, Office
Graph, Microsoft Planner etc. and contains many additional features that
will benefit your organisation over and above your Intranet requirements.
Mercury comes with our Analytics and base docCentrum product giving
you click level insights into the Intranet’s usage and a starter kit for
controlled Document Management.
Features
Home Page
Figure 1 - Mercury Home page
Mercury starts with your home page which is both attractive and
engaging out of the box and is easily branded to match your
corporate colours. The home page comprises of a number of our
custom Intranet Accelerators.
Mercury Header
Header
Mega Menu
Mega Menu
The Mega Menu is an infinitely customisable and branded drop-
down menu which provides userfriendly navigation and is used to
navigate across the different sites and areas within your Intranet.
Application Launcher (App Bar)
App Bar
The Application Launcher or the ‘App Bar’ for short brings
personalisation to your Intranet, allowing your users to configure
shortcuts to their favourite applications, line of business systems and
external web links.
News & Updates
News and Updates
News and Updates
Mercury News/Updates shown with different styling
At the heart of Mercury is information and as part of this we realise
how important your corporate news is. Getting corporate news and
messages out to your user base in a way that will keep them engaged
and interested is important. This is why, built into Mercury straight
out of the box is the ability to display corporate news in multiple
different and engaging ways on the home page or on any page in
your Intranet.
The Breaking News bar at the top of the homepage provides the
ability to mark selected News Articles as ‘breaking’ with a link to
open the article.
The Carousel is a great way to showcase corporate news using
imagery. It can be configured to scroll automatically or manually. In
our vast experience of developing Intranets, Carousels have been a
repeating requirement due to their flexibility and attractiveness to
users.
Featured Content
News can be displayed through the use of the following Modules:
• News/Updates Web Part (can be seen above)
• Carousel
• Tiled News
• Breaking News/Announcements Ticker
News Centre
News Centre
The News Centre provides users with a single place to locate all
Corporate and Departmental level news articles. Recently published
news is shown at the top and can be narrowed down by Category,
Author, Date etc. using the refiners on the left hand side.
The ‘Featured Articles’ Accelerator displays highlighted news articles
which have been marked as ‘Featured’ by the content editor.
The prominent search box at the top allows users to quickly search
for a specific news article.
News Article
The News Article Page is designed for creating and publishing
corporate news. There are various placeholders for images and
configurable categories to allow filtering and refining when users
search for news articles.
News Article Page
News Article
The News Article Page is designed for creating and publishing
corporate news. There are various placeholders for images and
configurable categories to allow filtering and refining when users
search for news articles.
News Display Templates
Staleness Indicator Department Indicator Source Indicator
Hidden Author
News Type Indicator
Page Like and Views
Simple
Tiles
Image
Tile
Combined
Simple
and Image
Tiles
Hero Tiles
Full
Page
Fixed
Layout
Full
Page
Random
Layout
Functions/Departments
Mercury Function/Department Homepage
Each function/department in your organisation can have its own site
and landing page. Using the built-in Accelerators these sites can
host Documents, News, Events and more.
Ownership of the content in the site can be delegated to specific
users within that department.
These Content Editors can create their own News Articles and host
content such as Documents or Calendars within their specific site.
User Profiles
In Office 365, The final destination for People Search in Mercury is
Delve. Office Delve surfaces personalized content to you from
across your Office 365 Tenant– from OneDrive for Business,
SharePoint, Exchange, Yammer and more. Powered by the Office
Graph, Delve brings you information based on what you’re working
on, who you’re working with; always maintaining established
permissions.
Delve User Profile
Navigation
Navigation in Mercury subsites is achieved using a combination of
the Mega Menu and the Out of the Box top link bar navigation. In
addition to these navigation options, you can also use our Search
Web Parts for a different look and feel, for example the ‘In this
Section’ Web Part.
Subsite Navigation using Top Link Bar
Subsite Navigation displayed in a mobile
Hero Tile Navigation
Hero Tile Navigation
Our Hero Tiles have recently been updated and we now have Flexi-Tiles to
extend these tiles
Flexi Tile Navigation
Accelerators
Mercury contains many configurable accelerators (Web Parts) e.g.
Share Price, Weather, People Search and many more. These
accelerators bring real business value and can be added to any page
within your Intranet and easily configured by a Power User.
People Search
The People Search Accelerator allows you to quickly and easily locate
colleagues by typing all or part of their name.
Matching people are returned immediately using as-you-type search.
From the results view, the user has the ability to ‘Follow’ another user which
means their social updates will be visible in the Newsfeed.
Clicking on a user will navigate to their My Site so you can view Contact
details, Interests, Past Projects and more.
If no results can be found then the magnifying glass will direct the user
through to the Search Centre where a full search of the User Profile can be
conducted.
People Search
Newsfeed
The Newsfeed displays a user’s social updates from
across your Intranet. It looks and functions in a similar
way to Facebook’s newsfeed.
From any page on your Intranet, a user can post status
updates, photos, hashtags and mention other
employees.
In an ordinary SharePoint environment, the Newsfeed
resides in My Sites and is therefore rarely utilised. By
bringing it out and into the core of the Intranet,
collaboration, user adoption and social interaction is
dramatically increased.
Yammer Feed
In Office 365 deployments of Mercury, we recommend the use of
Yammer and typically embed a Yammer feed. This is because the
anove Newsfeed does not exist in Office 365/SharePoint Online.
Employee Milestones
The Employee Milestones
Accelerator can be used to
highlight employees who have
reached particular milestones
e.g. Work Anniversary,
Promotions, Employee of the
Month etc.
It is fully configurable by using
the data stored in a user’s User
Profile allowing you to configure
any number of custom
milestones.
This is one of our most popular
accelerators within Mercury as it
dramatically increases user
adoption by giving employees a feeling of belonging with the
Intranet.
Who’s Who
The Who’s Who Accelerator allows
you to highlight key users within
your organisation or
function/department.
Contact details are displayed for
each user together with the
additional option of configuring
links to their Social Network
profiles.
In addition to the above, the Who’s
Who accelerator can highlight
which department the user belongs
to through the use of a unique
colour around their profile photo.
Calendar
The Calendar Accelerators displays
both corporate and departmental
level events. These are automatically
rolled up from department/function
site.
Hovering over the event indicator
displays a popup which provides
details about the event and allows the
user to add it to their Outlook
Calendar. Events can also be filtered
by their category.
The Calendar Accelerator has both a Month and Year view and can be sized for
any page on the Intranet.
Service Status
The Service Status Accelerator displays the status of Core IT
System(s) in an easy to understand manner.
This reduces calls to your IT Service Desk because your users are
kept informed and therefore keeps your IT Department happy. It is
fully configurable meaning IT can easily update it should a system
incur downtime or require maintenance.
Local Weather
The Weather Accelerator displays the current weather conditions for
the user’s location configured in their My Site/User Profile. In
addition to displaying the current forecast, it also provides a full 4
day forecast.
Search Based Content
The Popular Content Accelerator uses Search to display content from
across your Intranet which have been most frequently accessed. This
Accelerator can be used to display Popular Documents or Pages amongst
other types of content.
The Followed Content Accelerator displays a list of items that a
user is following, together with a link to open them. This
Accelerator can be used to display documents/pages and other
content in your Intranet that the current user is following.
Quick Links
Allows the building of personalised two tier hierarchical useful
links
Displays yours or an external twitter feed in a single zone
Survey
Provides a graphical Web Part to display an Out of the box
SharePoint/Office 365 Survey
Mobile Views
Doc Centrum
Intelligent Decisioning are pleased to announce the general release of their
docCentrum suite of tools for enhancing your documentation. docCentrum includes
the following:
Document Centre
• Starter kit for Enterprise Document Management
• An extendable secure publishing and storage of documents o
Store a single source of the truth
o Restrict Edit access to only those employees with authority to
upload, edit and delete documents
• A standardised process for creating, collaborating, reviewing and
publishing documents will be consistent across all departments
• Published documents stored as PDF where appropriate and in
native format where not e.g. Spreadsheets
• Working Documents stored in the native Office format o Flexible
Information Architecture
o Integration with the Security & Compliance Centre for Review,
Retention and Security
Recorder
• Track reading of corporate documents for audit purposes
• Consolidates all of a staff members Mandatory and Recommended
reads into one easy-to-find place
• Mandatory or Recommended reads delivered immediately to staff
members via their Intranet, Mobile Device and Document Centre
views
• Target individuals, entire SharePoint groups and AD groups to give
you your day back
• Read Receipts are stored indefinitely for every acknowledgement and
accessible through Power BI and Excel
• Admin Centre allows authorised users to add, remove or delete
requests
Recorder Example
1. Recorder requests are initiated from the Document Centre
2. A PowerApp collects the Mandatory reads either as individuals or as groups
of employees
…and Recommended reads
3. The PowerApp then validates the request
4. The Mandatory and Recommended Reads are then allocated to the
respective employees
Recorder in Mercury
Recorder functionality can be embedded into your Mercury Intranet through
Tickers and Webparts
Functionality can also be embedded into your Document Centre
Validator
• Quiz users on the documents they have been sent to read
• Reads are not considered complete until the Quiz is complete
• Simple easy to use Quiz designer
Quizzes are displayed using Information Panels
onBoarder
• Send packs of documents for new employees to read
• Role based setup that allows for targeting of specific types of
employees
Requests are created in PowerApps allowing the selection of the new
employee and their role. Documents are then assigned as Mandatory
or Recommended Reads to the new employee.
Administer
• Control all your requests centrally
• Request and User based functionality to add, edit and delete
requests
• The Admin Centre covers the following:
▪ Document Tasks
▪ User Tasks
▪ Notification Templates
▪ Sent Notifications
▪ Quizzes
▪ Create
Document Tasks
User Tasks
Custom Notifications
Quizzes
Task Creation
How Do I
Included within our Mercury accelerator is our "How Do I?" solution,
this is a feature packed Knowledgebase/FAQ solution for SharePoint
and Office 365.
Say goodbye to all that extra e-mail traffic due to having to answer
the same questions repeatedly!
"How Do I?" enables employee self-service by giving your users
access to frequently asked questions and information they need to
do their job in an easy-to-use location.
This helps your business reduce overheads, improve on
boarding/recruitment and reduce calls to your service desk (keeping
your IT Department happy!).
How Do I Home page
‘How Do I’ can be organised in a manner to suit your business. You
can organise by Region, Country, Location, Function, Department,
Team, Skill – the list is yours to define. If you have differing
requirements across the business multiple ‘How Do I’ areas can be
used to give you full flexibility in organising your knowledge.
In the example below, IT content is organised into technology areas
e.g. Equipment and Devices. Once in the subject area desired, the
articles available in this section will be listed along with related,
popular and featured articles.
How Do I Department/Technology Area
Once in the article containing the information required, SharePoint
social features allow the user to follow the article for future
reference, like and share or send the link to the article to other
colleagues.
How Do I Article
‘How Do I’ also integrates seamlessly into the SharePoint/Office 365
powerful search framework utilising its own specific Display Template
and Search Vertical to display results in a manner where the tagging
of Metadata can bring efficient refinement of information.
How Do I Display Template/Search Vertical
Analytics
Every click in Mercury is collected from Page Views, Carousel clicks,
How Do I to your custom events added to your web parts. Stored in
Azure Tables it allows Power Bi access to produce a number of visual
reports
News Analytics
Page Views
Users Metrics
Unique Users
The full suite of OOTB reports include:
• Page Views
o Weekly & Monthly Totals
o Active Users
o Monthly climbers
o Most Visited Pages
• Publishing
o Weekly & Monthly Totals
o Active Publishers
o Monthly climbers
o Most Visited Pages
• Social
o Likes & Shares
• News
o Weekly & Monthly Totals
o Active Users
o Monthly climbers
o Most Visited Pages
• Blogs
o Weekly & Monthly Totals
o Active Users
o Monthly climbers
o Most Visited Pages
• Carousel
o Weekly & Monthly Totals
o Monthly figures
o Most Popular Items
• Navigation
o App Bar and Mega Menu usage
• Users
o Active Users & Editors
o Monthly Stats
• Popular Pages
o Most Visited and Most Liked
• Unique Users
o Current Week
Current Month
o Month by Month
Multi-lingual User Interface
Mercury in Office 365 supports multi lingual requirements – below you can
see a Proof of Concept site for Dreher breweries in Hungary, part of the
SABMiller Group.
Mercury Multi-lingual homepage
We have localisation templates for the major European languages
but can easily add new languages through the pattern we employ.
We look forward to working with you.