New Intranet and Client Portal for select Projects

Our firm has recently rolled out a new 'social intranet' which shall foster a more collaborative and engaging environment for knowledge sharing and communication, both internally and externally.

​After taking a look at many different options to enhance our process and further bring our clients into the experience of architectural design, we settled upon the Igloo Community platform to centralize many of our ideas, knowledge and general best practices for architectural design.

To further emphasize and improve our digital workplace, the new Intranet will help facilitate the efforts from our employees, consultants and clients for select projects and as a company.

Continuing reading to find out more details below.

Below is a quick snap shot of the features and benefits that will be employed and developed to enhance the value and productivity at 8TFive Studio. The excerpts and images are taken from Igloo's public website at https://www.igloosoftware.com/product/difference/

​Igloo is a leading provider of digital workplace solutions, helping companies design and build inspiring digital destinations.

​More than a social collaboration tool

Social collaboration tools like Workplace by Facebook, Yammer, and Slack make it easy for employees to connect with each other at work. But they fall short if you're looking for a solution with advanced knowledge management and corporate governance features.
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Igloo is built for business. It creates connections between people at work, but not at the expense of productivity or engagement. Social interactions take place within the context of work, and it's easy to understand what activities are critical vs. extracurricular.

More than a company news blog

Top-down communication is an essential part of employee communications. Many companies use leadership blogs or mass emails to distribute company updates, but true engagement happens when conversations are driven from the bottom up.
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With interactive features like newsfeeds and discussion forums, Igloo gives employees a channel to interact with (and celebrate) each other, from wherever they are.

More than a glorified document share

With shared drives or file-sharing apps like Box or Dropbox, it’s difficult to know which documents exist and where they’re all kept. Plus, there’s no simple way to collaborate on documents in context of your project.

With Igloo, your information can be stored as documents in searchable folders or as articles in a wiki that can be updated by anyone on your project team. And you can set permissions by group, so you know everyone who needs access has it, without ever involving IT.

More than just another tool people won’t use

Some technology solutions take a long time to implement. And once they’re up and running, the real challenge kicks in: getting people to adopt it as part of their daily routine.
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At Igloo, we don’t just hand you the product and walk away. We stick with you throughout the journey to help you design, build, and evolve an engaging digital destination that people will actually use.