
TRY Australia
“The new intranet has a much more contemporary look with added custom features that didn’t exist before.” – Shon Hazra
“The new intranet has a much more contemporary look with added custom features that didn’t exist before.” – Shon Hazra
Since 1883 TRY Australia have been creating opportunities for young people to change their lives through the dignity of work. Today, they are a social purpose organisation. TRY Australia delivers access to early learning, mentoring for the vulnerable and those at-risk and training and employment opportunities for those wanting to try, but have not had the chance.
Our previous intranet’s look and feel was quite old and outdated. The platform was originally built and deployed via Drupal.
Our old environment presented many different versions of documents and the users were unsure which documents were up to date and available to use. The search functionality would also bring up different documents at once and confuse the user.
As a not-for-profit organisation, the cost was something that we had to take into account when making our decision. Plus, better platform functionalities and quality level of support were the main factors that led us to choose FiveP.
I had a clear time frame in mind about when the new platform should have been deployed and FIveP managed to get the job done well before our implementation expectations by providing tailored training and support following the migration from the old to the new solution.
Midway through the project, FiveP and TRY Australia decided to rebuild the intranet using the newly released Modern rather than Classic User Interface for SharePoint. This delivered significant benefits including major performance enhancements, simplified user interfaces and optimised use on mobile devices. One of the challenges was coordinating all the “Team Champions” from across the organisation who needed to fit their work on the intranet project around their day jobs. FiveP made the decision to fund the intranet upgrade from Classic SharePoint to Modern as a contribution to the great work Try does with disadvantaged and at-risk youth.
TRY’s employees have noticed that the new intranet has a much more contemporary look with added custom features. The addition of the “Staff Benefits” page (which offers movie tickets discounts and more) has also improved the engagement with the platform.
Shon Hazra – ICT Manager – TRY Australia
"We have noticed great improvements from a communication and time saving perspective"
Wendy Farrall - MHA Care
"The data is now managed in a transparent manner which is unifying for our business."
Kirsten Blake - Community Engagement Coordinator - KPST
"GenesisCare wanted one common solution, a single source of truth for their staff."
Ricky Barclay - GenesisCare
"Primary Care staff are now excited to use our new SharePoint and to see how it will help in collaborating."
Megan Lorains - Primary Care
"There is less double handling, no second guessing and staff are happy they can spend more time with the customer."
Danielle Crosby - DCB