Drive exceptional employee experiences

Boost employee engagement and improve customer experiences through your digital workplace with GO, a SharePoint Office 365 intranet by Habanero.

GO intranet home page - SharePoint site example

A SharePoint intranet that goes above and beyond

Customizable
We've thoughtfully developed a set of GO features that can be used as is or customized.
Updated by our team
Our worry-free approach keeps you up to date with new features and SharePoint upgrades.
Guided by our intranet experts
Our team will lead you through the decisions to make your intranet a success.

GO intranets are created by Habanero experts

Habanero has designed and built over 250 intranets, helping organizations rally the resources, support, and focus it takes to create a great employee experience.

A great workplace
Habanero is the #1 Best Workplace in Canada. It’s no wonder customers wanting a better workplace experience turn to GO.
Award-winning
Our intranets have won five Nielsen Norman awards and four Step Two Intranet and Digital Workplace Awards.
Gartner and industry recognized
Habanero and our product GO have been featured in articles like the ALM Vanguard and ClearBox reports.

Lifting off in 16 weeks

For years, employees of the Greater Toronto Airport Authority (GTAA), the organization that runs Toronto Pearson International Airport, had been using a dated intranet that often left them feeling disoriented and frustrated.

Having seen our empathetic, employee-centric approach on another project, the GTAA turned to Habanero to design a modern portal to connect the 1,800 employees who help move nearly 50 million passengers a year.

GTAA’s intranet launched in only 16 weeks with a modern interface that is true to the GTAA’s focus on people, diversity and accessibility as well as our focus on creating exceptional employee experiences.

Daniela Marchetti, GTAA’s manager of digital and corporate solutions explains, “We didn’t skip the human-centred design. We went out to users to understand their goals and the jobs they’re trying to do, and that’s what our intranet is designed around.”

WestJet intranet - a GO SharePoint intranet example.

Keeping WestJetters connected

WestJet, one of North America’s most respected travel brands, wanted to reignite their employees' connection with the organization's vision and values and each other. With 12,000 employees, that's not an easy task.

So WestJet took flight with a GO-based intranet. Literally.

Their new GO communication portal connects on-the-go employees to the latest news and important communications. It also supports WestJet’s open and nurturing culture by encouraging dialog and collaboration through integration with Yammer.

Their new communication portal was launched in less than eight weeks using GO.

“Habanero was incredibly tight on process and deadlines. They did a great job of managing the process to hit the milestones we had identified,” Robin Farr, director of internal communications and culture, WestJet

Building a new company from the ground up

QuadReal is a global real estate company with managed assets totalling more than $18 billion. Built from consolidating four Canadian real estate investment and management companies, QuadReal is a new company with deep roots.

In this time of major change and transformation, QuadReal recognized that a great intranet could help people connect to the new organization, nurture a new culture, and increase productivity.

So QuadReal used GO to get their Office 365 SharePoint intranet up and running in less than 12 weeks.

PHSA's intranet - a GO SharePoint site example.

From eight intranets to one

The Provincial Health Services Authority operates 10 provincial agencies that provide care and services through specialized hospitals and centres like the BC Children’s Hospital and the BC Cancer Agency. These agencies were supported by eight different intranets.

Habanero worked in sprints with PHSA to iteratively develop the design and IA. And PHSA’s own development team used GO to build one new SharePoint 2016 intranet.

Within a month of launch, the new intranet had over 39,000 unique users.

The new intranet not only consolidated the content from eight agency intranets into one fresh, vibrant intranet, but it also provided employees with access to news, social interactions, policies, procedures as well as localized tools and resources.

Barton Malow's GO SharePoint site example.

Finding efficiency with GO

By it's centennial year in 2024, Barton Malow set a goal to double its efficiency.

Dana Galvin Lancour, senior director of marketing and communications, realized that achieving this goal depends on connecting people to each other. So Dana saw an opportunity to do this with a new intranet.

But instead of a huge, time-consuming intranet project, our intranet experts felt GO would meet Barton Malow's needs.

“Habanero could’ve sold us a custom intranet, especially because that’s what we thought we wanted. That kind of project easily would have cost us two to three times more. [Habanero consultants] knew that GO would give us a solid foundation to build on and that we would get to our desired outcome faster and more economically,” says Dana.

Sleep Number's GO SharePoint intranet example.

Modernizing communications

For Sleep Number, 2017 was a year of growth and change. So they decided the time was right for a new intranet. Employees had to rely on emails because their existing intranet was difficult to update.

“We wanted our employee experience to reflect who we are,” says Leah Guimond, director of corporate communications.

Using the quick start approach, we built them a GO intranet in 10 weeks.

According to Leah, their GO intranet "... modernizes the way we communicate. It significantly reduces emails sent ... and provides access to tools and other systems. It is also a place for team members to feel inspired by our company and culture.”

Don’t underestimate how a new intranet can change a culture. Not only has it made the communications team way more efficient, but it also showcases who we are as a digital company.

Leah Guimond Director of Corporate Communications | Sleep Number

Our GO intranet features

GO SharePoint intranet example with targeted content.

Users aren’t finding the content being created for them

Targeting content by role, location, or interests removes the noise and information overload and ensures your employees see and read the content they need.