Creating applications that empower your employees and transform your business.

We bring together the latest Microsoft technologies, including SharePoint, Office 365, Azure, Yammer, OneDrive for Business, Skype for Business (formerly Lync), Delve, SQL Server, and many more to create applications that bring real and lasting value to your business. By connecting people with one another, and with the information they need, we can help you to take your business to the next level.

Microsoft SharePoint is an enterprise collaboration and publishing platform that offers document management, records management, web publishing, workflow, enterprise search, and much more.

More than just a product, SharePoint is a fully-fledged development platform that offers almost unlimited opportunities for presenting, manipulating and interacting with the critical data that powers your business. 

At Cielo we specialise in developing lightweight, modern applications that leverage the power of SharePoint, connecting your users with each other, and with the data they need, wherever it's stored.

We can also help you to design, plan and deploy your on-premises SharePoint platform from the ground up, ensuring a rock-solid foundation for your applications.

Microsoft Office 365 is a cloud-based enterprise productivity platform, offering a suite of powerful, connected services that together enable your business to work in an entirely new way.

Services include SharePoint Online, Exchange Online, Yammer, OneDrive for Business, Skype for Business (formerly Lync), Delve, and many related services.

SharePoint Online is not only a genuine alternative to on-premises SharePoint - it offers compelling benefits over and above an on-premises deployment, including integration with other next-generation technologies, such as Office Delve, that are only available in the cloud.

At Cielo we develop sophisticated apps for SharePoint Online and Office 365, using the very latest technologies and best practices to connect all of the services that Office 365 provides, bringing them together to connect your people and your information.

We also offer comprehensive professional services to help you plan your Office 365 deployment, and make the transition as painless as possible. 

Wherever you are on your journey to the cloud, talk to us about what Office 365 can offer your business, and how we can help to prepare your organisation and your users for the transition to the cloud. You may be closer than you think.

Microsoft Azure is a comprehensive cloud services platform, offering a vast array of features and services which enable core IT infrastructure and application services to be hosted in the cloud.

With Microsoft Azure you can host virtual servers, web sites, database services, apps, and even Active Directory in the cloud. Use and pay for only what you need, and scale up and out on demand.

With little or no onsite hardware or maintenance to worry about, enormous resources in time and money can be saved and diverted towards your business goals.

Talk to us about how you can integrate some or all of these services with your existing on-premises capabilities, securely and with confidence.

Whether the right choice for your business is an on-premises deployment, a cloud solution, or a hybrid which leverages both, there is much planning required to ensure success. Cielo brings decades of hands-on, real-world experience to the table to ensure that your project is a success, first time, every time.

Here are just some of the ways in which Cielo can help you to plan, design and deploy the right solution for you:

- Design & build on-premises Microsoft SharePoint farms, up to massive scale with first class performance and reliability

- Provision and deploy Microsoft Office 365 tenants and services

- Design and provision Microsoft Azure tenants and services

- Connect and integrate your existing on-premises Active Directory, applications and services with Microsoft Azure and Office 365

- Automate deployment and management tasks for Microsoft SharePoint, Azure and Office 365 using Microsoft PowerShell

- Train end users, administrators and other employees

The future of technology is in the cloud. But transitioning from your current, on-premises technologies to cloud-based alternatives can seem a daunting prospect. There are seemingly limitless options, and little practical guidance on how to choose between them.

Cielo can help. We have the know-how and years of real-world experience of helping businesses take their first steps into a new, cloud-based world of technology. We can help you to assess your options, select one or more appropriate strategies, and do some or all of the technical work to implement them.

Organisations that have already invested in SharePoint on-premises solutions, with customisations that are not supported in Office 365 or other cloud platforms, will need to transform and transition their applications into new development models. Cielo can help you to assess your current application estate, evaluate options for refactoring code into supported models, and ensure that all the latest best practices are applied.

Even if you are not currently considering moving your SharePoint applications to the cloud, the chances are that you will at some point in the future. Knowing how to develop on-premises applications that are cloud-ready will save your business time and money if and when you do decide to move to the cloud, and will ensure compatibility with future on-premises versions of SharePoint.

Whether in the cloud or on-premises, effective governance and adoption policies are essential for any successful SharePoint deployment.

With years of real-world experience in designing governance frameworks, we know what works and what doesn't.

Having successfully launched SharePoint into some of the world's largest organisations, Cielo can help you to ensure that you achieve the maximum possible return on your investment by planning, designing and promoting your applications to achieve maximum impact, and get users onboard and enthused about their new ways of working.

Sometimes, things don't go quite as planned.

SharePoint and Office 365 projects can fail to have the desired impact for any number of reasons. The good news is that there is almost always a solution, and a way to get your project or application back on track and getting the results you want.

If your investment in SharePoint or Office 365 hasn't quite connected your business in the way you'd hoped for, if your applications suffer from poor performance, lack of engagement, lack of user adoption, or just don't meet your needs, we can help.

Cielo has assisted several major organisations to recover failed projects, boost adoption of flagging applications, and bring good practice to bear where it may not have been in place from Day 1. Let us help you transform your deployment and light up your original vision. 

Cielo is delighted to have been accepted into the G-Cloud 6 Framework for UK Public Sector procurement.

This recognises Cielo as an authorised supplier of IT services to a wide range of UK Public Sector clients. To date our clients include central government departments, universities, NHS Trusts, and other NHS organisations.

You can find our G-Cloud supplier profile, and request further information on these services, here.

An application for the new Digital Services Framework 2 is currently pending.

We offer on-demand support for SharePoint Server and Office 365, on flexible terms that provide excellent value for money.

SharePoint Server, and the technologies that underpin it, are expensive to run and manage, and the skills to maintain them are scarce. Even a managed service like Office 365 requires management and maintenance sometimes. Maintaining a team of highly-trained full time staff who may only be needed occasionally is often not cost effective. Our simple service and support plans may be just what your business needs - flexible support when you need it, no charge when you don't.

Please get in touch if you would like to discuss how we can help you with your SharePoint support and maintenance needs.