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novaWorxx

Our solution for structuring and managing Microsoft 365 to suit your requirements

The novaCapta solution for governance & lifecycle management in M365

Microsoft Cloud provides excellent collaboration tools, such as Teams, Planner and SharePoint. But even the best tools are only helpful when used correctly.
Reach your company goals faster by tailoring your Microsoft applications to fit the way you work internally. In other words, you can transfer your established structures and processes into your modern workplace: with novaWorxx

Overview 

How does novaWorxx help you with structuring and managing M365?

novaWorxx provides easy, straightforward support as you add new rules and guidelines to your governance framework, creating the foundation for long-term collaboration in your cloud.

Governance for Teams & more

Improve collaboration in Microsoft Teams by creating a long-term governance framework

Templates to meet your needs

Create new teams, SharePoint sites, groups, etc., in Office 365 using custom templates

Lifecycle management

Keep control of your infrastructure in Teams by deactivating inactive teams or controlling the lifetime of a site.
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Benefits of novaWorxx

Easy to configure

novaWorxx is highly configurable even without programming knowledge, making it suitable for complex company structures

Freely scalable solution

novaWorxx grows with your requirements and will remain useful in the long term. It is therefore the ideal tool for structuring and managing Microsoft 365 how you want

Flexible interfaces

Provisioning functions are often required in applications that you have developed yourself. You can seamlessly integrate novaWorxx into your own applications using API or REST services

Keep control, save costs

You specify the rules for your information architecture. Taking control at the beginning means you can avoid time-consuming clean-ups later on, and self-service functions help take the pressure off your IT staff

Microsoft Teams: lifting governance to the business level

A company is a constantly changing organism comprising many different areas and tasks. In very large companies, individual areas often act independently. And even in mid-size and smaller companies, divisions and departments can be quite different from one another. Production staff work differently from those in Sales, for instance. That’s why the necessary templates, stipulations and processes also vary. A set of standard templates or a long list of all sites will not suffice here. novaWorxx not only creates order in the provisioning and management of a modern workplace, but also continually takes into account the various requirements from different areas, dynamically and flexibly.

Overview of functions

Dashboard to display sites

Beispiel Dashboard zur Anzeige der Sites auf einem PC Bildschirm

The dashboard gives you an ideal overview. On the Sites dashboard, you can view, filter or search specifically for any site. From here you can also request new sites. You can make things more flexible and transparent by creating several dashboards, such as for different task areas or parts of the organization.

Full integration with Microsoft Teams

novaWorxx ist vollständig in Microsoft Teams integriert.

Teams is becoming a more important user interface than SharePoint, so the dashboard is fully integrated with Teams. It can be added to any channel as a new tab. Of course you can always link from it to other teams.

Request approval process (self service)

Übereinander dargestellte Screenshots zu den einzelnen Schritten des novaWorxx Antrags- und Genehmigungsprozesses für eine Siteerstellung.

New sites are created step by step. novaWorxx also has an interface with Microsoft Flow, so you can implement custom workflows quickly and without needing to programme anything. Azure Logic Apps and Azure Functions can also be integrated like that.

Lifecycle management

Graphik showing Lifecycle Management using the example of MS Teams: Clockwise, starting at the top:  Create team, Manage team, Deactivate team, Archive team

Lifecycle management for a site or a team is an important element when it comes to adjusting and monitoring information and data in the company.

novaWorxx includes lifecycle management templates, which you can adapt or create from scratch.

Provisioning Office 365 templates

Screenshot novaCapta Provisioning Engine

The novaCapta Provisioning Engine is a fundamental component of novaWorxx. It was designed especially for Microsoft cloud requirements and has very flexible configuration options. Unlike in the on-premises world, in the cloud you must do more than simply provide SharePoint templates. For instance, a template can contain two Teams sites and an additional SharePoint site. novaWorxx provisions Teams, SharePoint sites, Planner and Office 365 groups. The Provisioning Engine takes into account Microsoft’s standard templating functions, so you can access a PnP template, for example, or integrate a Teams template. Rather than being an alternative approach to the Microsoft functions, our provisioning enhances them where necessary.

Configuration centre

Screenshot vom Admin Center im Provisioning Center von novaWorxx

The whole administration and configuration takes place in the provisioning centre, although the focus is mainly on managing the templates. Wherever possible, novaWorxx uses Microsoft PnP – which is more or less the standard – for the templates. However, it also expands and supplements PnP with additional options, starting where PnP leaves off. For instance, with a novaWorxx template for Teams, you can set the channels, private channels, tabs, plans, predefined lists, attributes and documents all in one.

Foto des Bürogebäudes der Union Investment

Union Investment relies on novaWorxx

Union Investment chooses M365, Microsoft Teams and SharePoint Online on Azure - the most advanced cloud delivery platform for business use. Clear governance and user-oriented self-service features are provided by novaWorxx.

Aspects to keep in mind

How do you start working with novaWorxx?

The installation and set-up process is mostly automated. To get things running smoothly we recommend keeping the following points in mind. The exact time depends on various factors, with the company’s size and organizational complexity certainly being the most important, alongside your own level of experience. For instance, the initial time investment is higher for companies with many independent sub-divisions than for those which are more homogeneous.

Installation & set-up

Usually one of our expert consultants will help you with installation and set-up. We’ll talk about your company’s particular requirements in advance and will clarify security matters. We estimate that supported set-up will take about 1–3 days.

Create templates

In our experience it has proven very helpful if, in addition to the documentation, you have a consultant to help you create individual templates. The time required depends very much on your own level of experience and on the number and complexity of the templates. You should usually plan 2–5 days for this.

Operate it yourself or Software-as-a-Service?

There are two ways to operate novaWorxx:

Operate it yourself

If you choose to operate it yourself, you receive an installation package that you install in your Azure instance. In that case operation will be completely down to you.

SaaS

Or you can use our cloud service in Azure, using the solution as software-as-a-service. In that case we will take care of operation and monitoring for you.

Licensing

Regardless of whether you operate novaWorxx yourself or use it as a service, you lease the software for a year at a time. That way you can decide each year whether you want to keep using the functions. The licence fee depends on the number of users in your M365 tenant.
We’ll be happy to give you a specific quote

Get to know novaWorxx in detail

My team and I will be happy to introduce you to novaWorxx.

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Wolfgang Raestrup

Head of Modern Work

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