Bonzai Sets Growth Record, Expansion & Awards in 2017 with 2018 "Shaping" to Break New Records

VANCOUVER, British Columbia - Feb. 20, 2018 - PRLog -- Bonzai, the award-winning, stress-free intranet platform with pre-built, ready-to-roll intranets for Office 365 and SharePoint, announced record breaking growth, expansion and international award success in 2017 with 2018 tracking to break new records.

Prestigious Intranet Design & SharePoint Intranet Awards

Named both, Intranet Choice for North America (http://blog.bonzai-intranet.com/bonzai-intranet-awarded-intranet-choice-for-north-america-2018) by ClearBox Consulting, and receiving the prestigious Intranet Design Award with Bonzai customer (http://blog.bonzai-intranet.com/capital-powers-bonzai-intranet-wins-best-intranets-of-2018-award) by the Nielsen Norman Group, Bonzai intranet platform stacked up accolades and platitudes alongside Fortune 500 behemoths in the intranet space.

"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." details Denise Ching, Director of Solution Delivery at Bonzai.

Year-over-Year Record Breaking Revenue Growth

In 2017, annual recurring subscription revenue at Bonzai grew by a massive 200%, in conjunction with 220% subscription revenue growth in 2016, along with 100% customer retention since the inception of Bonzai Intranet in 2014.

"The record breaking success we saw in 2017 is foreshadowing into what you can expect from Bonzai in 2018," foretells Michal Pisarek, Director of Product at Bonzai & 6-time SharePoint MVP.

Beyond record breaking revenue, Bonzai expanded the reach of the award-winning intranet platform across the globe launching the Bonzai Global Partner Alliance (http://bonzai-intranet.com/partners); partnering with certified Microsoft SharePoint and Office 365 solution delivery organizations from the USA, Australia, Germany, Singapore and Canada, enabling Bonzai to now offer the award-winning intranet platform worldwide.

The "Shaping" of a Record Breaking 2018

In 2017, Bonzai delivered a major release and eight minor releases, which included such capabilities as redefined user experience, multi-lingual support, new layout options, new web parts, additional designs and a range of other improvements.

"Our ongoing relentless commitment to provide continuous enhancements and improvements to Bonzai remains true in this period of rapid growth and expansion," states Matthew Carriere, Director of Engineering at Bonzai. "2018 is 'shaping' up to be another stellar year that will ensure our clients continue to gain consistent value from the Bonzai intranet platform."

2018 is "shaping" up to be another momentum year for Bonzai. With a new major release of the Bonzai intranet platform, known as the ShapeShifter release. Bonzai will be introducing completely new functionality, including a conversational-based interface, as well as advanced management capabilities to easily refresh user experience, enable advanced search capabilities, further simplify content publishing and other improvements to collaboration tools.

Shereen Qumsieh, Director of Product Development at Bonzai and 2-time Microsoft SharePoint MVP, explains the background of the impending Bonzai ShapeShifter release: "We're investing in the use of natural language queries/bots to search and perform for Bonzai, which allows users to ask questions and get answers without having to navigate a traditional website or user interface. We're also making huge improvements around search, for the next release of Bonzai."

ShapeShifter will be launched in Q2 2018 and will provide world-leading Intranet and Digital Workplace features on SharePoint On-Premise and Office 365.

For more information about Bonzai intranet platform visit: http://bonzai-intranet.com/

About Bonzai:

Bonzai is an 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.

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 12 weeks. See why Bonzai is the stress-free intranet that eliminates the technical hassles of intranet administration to allow you to focus on deeper engagement in your workplace. (www.bonzai-intranet.com)