Capital Power Wins 2018 Intranet Design Award From the Nielsen Norman Group Using Bonzai

Press Release (ePRNews.com) - Vancouver, BC - Jan 09, 2018 - Capital Power has been awarded the prestigious 2018 Intranet Design Award from the Nielsen Norman Group using their Bonzai intranet. Since 1998 Nielsen Norman Group (www.nngroup.com) has been a leading voice in the user experience field: conducting groundbreaking research and evaluating interfaces of all shapes and sizes.

Capital Power notably won this prominent worldwide award alongside revered Fortune 500 giants, such as: Delta Airlines, eBay, Travelers Insurance and GSK.  With a mere but mighty intranet team of 3 individuals, Capital Power created a sustainable, responsive and highly organized intranet built with 95% out-of-the-box Bonzai intranet functionality.

“We are very pleased to have Capital Power recognized for this prestigious award having built their intranet on the Bonzai intranet platform. The team at Bonzai has always been dedicated to ensuring we build the very best product possible while maintaining the highest level of support,” exalts Shereen Qumsieh, 2-time Microsoft SharePoint MVP & Director of Product Development at Bonzai.

“We are very pleased to have Capital Power recognized for this prestigious award having built their intranet on the Bonzai intranet platform. The team at Bonzai has always been dedicated to ensuring we build the very best product possible while maintaining the highest level of support.”

Shereen Qumsieh

2-time Microsoft SharePoint MVP & Director of Product Development at Bonzai

Capital Power chose to build their intranet on Bonzai because of its out-of-the-box functionality, as well as its significant time and cost savings with fully responsive page templates, pre-built intranet features leveraging the functionality of Office 365 and SharePoint, and a best practice delivery framework. Capital Power’s awarding-winning intranet was delivered on-time and under budget to fully support Capital Power’s workforce, 50% of which work completely by mobile device.

“The Nielsen Norman Intranet Design award for an intranet created on Bonzai validates that achieving an award-winning intranet does not require a huge investment or involve a lot of complexity. Organizations have the option to choose a managed, pre-built intranet platform that meets their needs and focus on developing great content or building additional functionality that’s important to their business,” details Denise Ching, Director of Solution Delivery at Bonzai.

Capital Power’s intranet services more than 900 employees and contractors that work in 24 different locations in the United States and Canada, which meant that central, up-to-date and digestible information became critical to keeping the entire workforce informed and engaged while achieving year-over-year sustainability.

Further, Capital Power was able to reorganize and refine their intranet content moving on to the Bonzai intranet platform.  Leveraging Bonzai’s best practice methodologies, Capital Power eliminates 350 intranet content pages on their new intranet, while designating page-level ownership on their Bonzai intranet to help the intranet remain usable over time.

“We built Bonzai to take away the hardest parts of building an intranet that slow down the creation of experiences an organization really needs. Capital Power was able to leverage that and delivered an award-winning solution,” describes Matthew Carriere, Director of Engineering at Bonzai.

This esteemed Nielsen Norman Intranet Design Award comes just weeks after Bonzai was awarded the 2018 Intranet Choice – North America by Clearbox Consulting.

“The Nielsen Norman award proves that intranet in-a-box solutions on SharePoint and Office 365 are not just an alternative, but an award-winning option. No customer has won a worldwide intranet design award built leveraging just SharePoint or Office 365 without massive customizations and add-ons,” explains Michal Pisarek, 6-time Microsoft SharePoint MVP and Director of Product at Bonzai.

About Capital Power

Capital Power (TSX: CPX) is a growth-oriented North American power producer headquartered in Edmonton, Alberta. The company develops, acquires, operates and optimizes power generation from a variety of energy sources. (www.capitalpower.com)

About Bonzai

Bonzai is a Vancouver-based award-winning intranet company that delivers dramatically evolved, ready-to-roll intranets for SharePoint and Office 365. As a Microsoft Certified Gold Partner, with multiple SharePoint MVPs, Bonzai has the technical skills and business sense to recognize that an alternative to designed-from-scratch intranets is not only possible, it’s imperative for organizations wanting to maximize the value of their investment in SharePoint.

At Bonzai, we believe that intranets should better connect and engage employees, but not at the expense of a long, drawn-out and often failed custom deployment. With our proven delivery methodologies and seasoned intranet consultants with deep expertise into both Microsoft SharePoint and Microsoft Office 365, Bonzai gets you through objective setting, design, ownership, launch/roll out and support in as little as 8 to 12 weeks.  See why Bonzai is the Stress-Free Intranet you’ve been waiting for. (www.bonzai-intranet.com)