Building a Family Office Intranet on SharePoint Online

WebVine’s client is in private wealth and is a family office of approximately 40 staff and guests. As the team grew, day-to-day information lived across personal drives, email threads and chat – there was no single, trusted place where people could find policies, news, contacts or forms. Leadership wanted a digital space to bring everything[…]

Intranet ROI in 2026: the metrics execs care about (and how to report them monthly)

TL;DR Page views are a vanity metric. Execs don’t care how many people loaded the homepage. Good intranet ROI reporting answers three questions: is it faster, is it used, and are people informed? Pick 6 to 8 metrics. Report monthly. One page. That’s the whole discipline. Search success rate and self-service deflection are the two[…]

“We got our IT folks to build our Intranet and… This Is What We Got”: When SharePoint Isn’t the Core Capability

TL;DR Paying $25k for an intranet isn’t the problem. Paying it to a team where intranets aren’t their core capability often is. Having a bit of know-how means you  can build something in SharePoint, but building a useful, scalable intranet is a specialist skill set. When intranets aren’t the core skill, organisations usually end up[…]

WebVine Achieves Microsoft Solutions Partner for Modern Work

TL;DR WebVine is now a Microsoft Solutions Partner for Modern Work, recognising our real world delivery across Microsoft 365 This status is earned through proven customer outcomes, not marketing claims It reflects strong results across SharePoint, Teams, governance, adoption, and Copilot readiness For you, it means lower risk, better foundations, and a partner Microsoft independently[…]

How Councils Can Fix SharePoint Findability and Get Ready for Copilot

Webinar Wrap Up Copilot puts a spotlight on something councils have been wrestling with for years: findability in SharePoint. So we partnered with Microsoft to run a practical webinar for councils, focused on getting SharePoint foundations right and preparing for Copilot with confidence. In the session: John Crawford, Chief Digital and Information Officer at Central[…]

SharePoint Turns 25: What Microsoft Announced, and What It Means for Your Intranet

TL;DR Microsoft used SharePoint’s 25th birthday to set direction, not look back SharePoint is now the primary knowledge platform powering Copilot and AI agents Microsoft is redesigning SharePoint around how people actually use it: Discover, Publish and Build This is a foundational UX shift, not a cosmetic refresh Copilot doesn’t fix messy content. It amplifies[…]

People-First, AI-Ready: Why Drafting SharePoint Pages For People Unlocks Better Copilot Outcomes

TL;DR Designing for people first results in much better Copilot outcomes. Clear headings, short sections, good summaries, strong page properties and alt text make content easier for people to read – and easier for Copilot’s semantic index to interpret. Over-optimising for AI leads to brittle experiences and bad content. Think of Copilot as the colleague[…]