The pages-and-layouts engine in Omnia Intranet by Precio Fishbone gives you a lot of publishing power. The two most common uses for Pages are News Articles and Content Pages — but you can design a page layout to serve just about any purpose. One of the most popular requests we get with intranets is a […]
What I think
Ten things I love about Omnia Intranet
Over the past two decades, I’ve implemented dozens of company intranets using many different platforms, including on-premises SharePoint Server, SharePoint Online, Valo Intranet, LiveTiles and Powell 365. Below are ten reasons that Omnia Intranet by Precio Fishbone is my favourite platform. 1 Speed. Omnia Intranet doesn’t use SharePoint’s UI. It has its own page infrastructure engineered […]
Displaying PowerBI reports directly on Omnia pages
When your digital workplace is a mix of Omnia publishing apps (for company-wide intranet content) and SharePoint Team Sites (for smaller groups), page authors will notice a difference in the authoring experience. Omnia pages render their content in Blocks, a proprietary widget technology, but SharePoint Online uses Web Parts. The gallery, or “bin,” of available […]
Omnia’s former biggest weakness is now one of its strengths
Slater Hill has been implementing Microsoft 365-based “intranet-in-a-box” products for years now, starting out with LiveTiles and Powell 365, then adding Valo and Omnia later. We are frequently asked which platform is our favourite to work with; the official answer is “whichever one is best for our customer” (if we’re forced to pick one, the […]
Top surprises when starting with Power Apps
For my money, Microsoft’s Power Platform is the best low-code/no-code development platform in terms of power and ease of use. For this post series, I will be focusing on PowerApps, primarily in its use as a platform for replacing the default SharePoint List forms with full-featured apps. Initially, I was skeptical about yet another low-code […]
Psst: when I interview you, I’m actually rooting for you
NOTE: I wrote this post almost ten years ago, but it was the most popular post I wrote on my old blog, so I’m preserving it here. I’ve been interviewing a lot of candidates lately for our open SharePoint positions (developers, BAs, QAs …). It’s nothing like the summer of 2009, when I interviewed over […]