What is Solar?
Solar is a new breed, pre-built, digital workplace toolkit which drives increased employee engagement and improved workplace productivity.
Unlike expensive custom solutions, Solar’s search, communications, and team collaboration tools combine simply and seamlessly on a single user-friendly platform. Built for Office 365, Solar’s modular approach means that you can tailor your toolkit and be ready for rollout in as little as four weeks.
- A happier, more engaged workforce
- Increased productivity
- Better leverage of your investment in Office 365
- Local product, local support
Document and personnel search are frequently-cited frustrations of traditional intranets. Solar’s enhanced search capability will reduce user search time by up to 95%. What took minutes, can now take seconds.
Solar’s communications features enable you to share important information, gain feedback and provide social opportunities for your workforce – wherever they may be.
Solar’s user-friendly interface puts the right tools at employees’ fingertips, which encourages increased use and greater collaboration. With Solar, training, tips and demos are also simply a click away.
Key Features
Solar is a firmly user-centric platform, designed to place relevant information, tools and resources at an employees’ fingertips. Its features will support the delivery of KPIs for multiple teams. Features can be controlled discreetly by departments or shared across individuals or teams.
News
Events
Homepages
Social
Analytics
Video
Contents
Marketplace
Team Workspaces
Toolbox
Mobile Responsive
Navigation
Advanced Search
Project Sites
Wikis
Content Owners
External Access
O365 Integration
New Joiners
Leave Request
People Finder
Policy Search
Employee Benefits
Online Training
Office 365 Integration
We’ve designed Solar to make optimal use of the tools & licenses that you are already paying for.
SharePoint
The ability to access information on the go is now a workplace necessity. SharePoint makes file storage and document collaboration more people-centric, with touch-based experiences across devices and improved mobile access to content, people, and applications.
Yammer
Yammer is an enterprise social networking and collaboration tool that helps employees to connect and engage across an organization. Start conversations, share knowledge, and build communities.
Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams is a chat-based workspace that organizes group and private messaging, meetings, notes, and attachments by topic. .
Groups
Office 365 Groups allows users to create and manage ad hoc "groups" for improved collaboration and information-sharing.
Delve
Delve helps users find and discover information relevant to them personally, by pulling it from multiple sources such as Exchange, OneDrive for Business, SharePoint and Yammer.
Flow
Microsoft Flow allows employees to create and automate workflows across multiple applications and services without the need for developer help.
Locally supported
Solar is a new breed of digital workplace that supports increased engagement and improved workplace productivity.
As a local business, we can also provide the added support of someone on the ground while you develop and roll out your digital workplace.
Your Workplace
Our Passion
Created by New Zealand-based consultancy, Brighter Days, Solar is the culmination of over 20 years of intranet and workplace productivity experience.
At Brighter Days, we’re driven to enable a simpler, more effective work day for workforces across Australasia. We know that to achieve this, our products must be intuitive and of value to each and every employee; regardless of their role.
