Posts by Jesse Dyck
Services We Provide: Business Process Automation
Welcome to a new blog series here on Imaginet.com (an Improving Company). In this series, we will take you through some of the services we provide from our different practices and demonstrate how we deliver them to our clients. We hope to shine a light on the delivery process and how we operate at Improving Winnipeg. Today, we are kicking it off with business process automation. Selection of a Process At the very start of this type of engagement, we need to identify a process that would benefit from being automated. This helps to define and limit the scope of our engagement, which helps keep our team on task and … Read more
Top 3 Beginner Tips for Developing Canvas Power Apps
Canvas Power Apps is a handy tool from Microsoft that lets you build custom business apps without needing to write any code. Imagine you’re working with a blank canvas where you can drag and drop different elements to design your app’s interface the way you want. You can connect your app to many data sources, like Excel, SharePoint, or third-party services. You can also use Excel-like formulas to add logic and functionality. Canvas Power Apps is perfect for creating apps that work on the web, mobile, or tablet, and you can share them with your team to use on any device. Below, we’ve compiled the top three beginner tips to … Read more
Why Power Pages Are Better than Squarespace, Wix, and DIY for Businesses
In today’s digital era, choosing the right platform to build your business website is a critical decision. There are many options, ranging from do-it-yourself platforms like Squarespace and Wix, to bespoke builds crafted from the ground up. However, Power Pages have emerged as a compelling alternative that outshines these options, particularly when examining costs, security, and overall platform efficiency. This blog will discuss the costs (both realized and hidden) and security concerns involved when building a DIY/custom website vs. when building with Power Pages. Cost to Build from Scratch Building a website from scratch can seem appealing for the tailored customization it offers. However, the costs associated with this approach … Read more
SharePoint Look Book: A Hidden Design Gem
SharePoint Look Book: A Hidden Design Gem In the world of digital collaboration, SharePoint stands tall in helping organizations enhance collaboration and empower teams to create, share, and manage content seamlessly. One of its impressive features is the SharePoint Look Book, which showcases a vast array of design ideas and solutions of modern workplaces. SharePoint Look Book is a hidden gem – a treasure that offers design ideas and solutions, showing the endless possibilities of leveraging SharePoint for the modern workplace. SharePoint Look Book serves as a gallery of modern, visually stunning templates and designs built on SharePoint. It offers a collection of site designs, layouts, and components that demonstrate the … Read more
Extending SharePoint Using SharePoint Framework (SPFx) and Custom Development
While SharePoint’s modern experience provides impressive functionality updates and improvements, there are still several reasons why clients may want to further extend those features or add new features that will better facilitate their organizational needs. This can be as simple as adding a new web part displaying calendar events differently to more complex full custom solutions that integrate multiple 3rd party systems to push and pull data in and out of SharePoint. We can perform these tasks using the SharePoint Framework (SPFx) to customize existing features or build new features of our own. This framework allows us to keep it simple using only JavaScript or provides the option to combine … Read more
How Imaginet’s Business Productivity Practice Delivers a Project
In this blog post, I wanted to walk you, a hopefully potential customer, through a rough idea of how my team delivers a project. There are many different types of projects, from migrations, Intranet builds, process automation, and even fully custom development for features that M365 doesn’t capture. But today, I will walk through the simplest one, a single process automation project.
Customizing SharePoint Themes Using PowerShell
When it comes to choosing the color scheme for your SharePoint site, the default options may not be quite what you are looking for. Out of the box, SharePoint only comes with 12 distinct color schemes. And most of the time, these color schemes do not mesh well with your Company’s branding. To perfectly match your Company’s color scheme, you can create and upload custom themes.