SharePoint Online as a platform for portals and teamwork

SharePoint is a platform for an organization’s news, guidance, policies, videos, and important links – commonly the intranet. SharePoint’s rich content pages are used for bringing text, images, documents, and videos together in an easily accessible format using any device. Rich document views and a native video player reduce the need for the user to jump back and forth between content. Native web parts enable adding questionnaires or surveys using Microsoft Forms or creating small apps with Power Apps to rich content pages, again improving the user experience.

Lists and libraries are core building blocks of storing data in SharePoint and can be used in various solutions. A SharePoint list itself can be a small application, extended with views and workflows. A document library is a place for documents, but when adding an approval workflow, it already transforms into a document management solution. Transforming...