Enterprise Platforms
SharePoint
Custom SharePoint engineering for organisations already living in Microsoft 365 — built by people who know when to stop fighting the platform.
Overview
SharePoint is Microsoft’s collaboration, document-management and intranet platform, and part of Microsoft 365. At its core it gives you document libraries with versioning, check-in/check-out and real-time co-authoring; lists for lightweight structured data; and sites and hubs you compose into an intranet or portal. Around that sit permissions and governance, enterprise search, and workflow and automation through Power Automate. For a large organisation it is often the path of least resistance for “where do our documents and our intranet live” — because the licences are already paid for and the identity, security and compliance story is shared with the rest of M365.
Yarqat works on the engineering and integration side of SharePoint, not the click-together side. That means custom development with the SharePoint Framework — SPFx web parts and extensions that add genuinely bespoke behaviour to pages, rather than rearranging the stock ones — and connecting SharePoint to a client’s own systems and data through the Microsoft Graph API and other services. We build intranets and document-management solutions that do real work, and we automate the processes around them with the Power Platform. The interesting problems are almost never “make a nicer page”; they are “make SharePoint talk to the line-of-business system that actually runs the company”.
Almost all of this now happens on SharePoint Online — the cloud service inside Microsoft 365 — rather than on-premises SharePoint Server. The cloud model changes how you build: no server-side full-trust code, a client-side development model in SPFx, and Graph as the way in and out. We are blunt about the platform’s nature throughout an engagement. SharePoint is large and opinionated. Work with its grain and it is productive; push against it and it fights back. A good SharePoint engineer spends as much effort deciding what not to customise as what to build.
Best for — Microsoft 365 organisations that need document management, intranets and governed collaboration — and want the custom SPFx development and system integration done by engineers, not configured by hope.
Why teams choose SharePoint
It lives where your people already are
Because SharePoint shares identity, security and the M365 apps your staff use every day — Teams, OneDrive, Outlook — a solution built on it lands inside existing habits instead of asking for yet another login and yet another place to check. Adoption is the hardest part of any internal tool, and this is a real head start.
Document management you do not have to build
Versioning, co-authoring, metadata, retention and permissions come with the platform. For document-centric problems you inherit a mature engine and spend your budget on the bespoke ten per cent that is specific to you, not on rebuilding libraries and check-out logic from scratch.
A real integration surface, not a walled garden
Through the Microsoft Graph API and SPFx, SharePoint is programmable and connectable. We use that to pull line-of-business data in and push SharePoint events out, so the intranet becomes a window onto your actual systems rather than a static noticeboard.
Why businesses choose SharePoint
- You are an M365 organisation and want document management, an intranet or collaboration delivered where your people already work.
- You have SharePoint already and need it to integrate with your other systems, not sit as an island of static pages.
- You want custom SPFx and Power Platform work done by senior engineers who will tell you when a requirement should leave SharePoint entirely.
- You value governance and compliance being handled by a platform your security team already signs off on.
What we build with SharePoint
The capabilities this technology is genuinely strong at — and what we most often build with it.
Custom SPFx web parts and extensions
We build with the SharePoint Framework: TypeScript and React web parts, application customisers, field customisers and command sets that add bespoke behaviour to pages and libraries. This is the supported, cloud-native way to extend SharePoint Online, and where genuine custom functionality lives now that server-side code is gone.
Microsoft Graph integration
The Graph API is how we read and write across M365 and connect SharePoint outward — users, groups, files, calendars, Teams and beyond. We use it to bring line-of-business data into SharePoint and to drive actions in other Microsoft services from SharePoint events, with app registrations and permissions scoped tightly.
Document libraries and metadata architecture
We design libraries, content types, managed metadata and views so documents are findable and governable rather than dumped in folders. Versioning, co-authoring and retention are configured deliberately, and the information architecture is planned up front because retrofitting it across a live tenant is expensive.
Lists as lightweight structured data
SharePoint lists are a quick way to hold structured data — registers, trackers, request queues — without a database project. We know their real limits, particularly list view thresholds and query behaviour on large lists, and we design column types, indexing and views to stay the right side of them.
Sites, hubs and intranet architecture
We structure communication and team sites into hub associations that give an intranet consistent navigation, search scope and branding without a rigid subsite hierarchy. The aim is a portal that scales and stays governable, not a sprawl of sites nobody can find.
Power Automate and Power Platform automation
We automate the processes around content — approvals, notifications, provisioning, syncing to other systems — with Power Automate, and add Power Apps where a richer form or interface earns it. This is often where the measurable time-saving lives, and it keeps custom code to the minimum the problem actually needs.
Use cases
Company intranet and portal
A communication hub with news, policies, people and search, extended with SPFx web parts that surface data from HR, finance or operations systems so the intranet is genuinely useful rather than a static front page.
Controlled document management
Policy, quality or compliance libraries with content types, mandatory metadata, approval workflows and retention — the document lifecycle enforced by the platform and reported on for auditors.
Line-of-business integration
SPFx and Graph solutions that connect SharePoint to a client’s bespoke systems, pulling records in for staff to act on and pushing updates back, so people work in one place instead of copying between systems.
Process automation over content
Request-and-approve flows, onboarding checklists and provisioning built with Power Automate and lists, replacing email chains and shared spreadsheets with something auditable and consistent.
When SharePoint is the right choice
- You are already committed to Microsoft 365, and you need document management, an intranet, or team collaboration with proper versioning, permissions and governance. This is SharePoint’s home ground and the licences are already sunk cost.
- You want to surface data from other systems inside the place people already work — an intranet dashboard, a policy library, a request form — and connect it through Graph and APIs rather than standing up a separate application nobody visits.
- You need document-heavy workflows — approvals, controlled documents, records with retention — where SharePoint’s libraries, metadata and Power Automate flows do most of the job before a line of custom code is written.
- Wrong for: when what you actually need is a bespoke web application. If the requirements are a genuine product — complex domain logic, a custom data model, a designed user experience — build that as a proper application. Bending SharePoint into an app it was never meant to be is slower, uglier and more fragile than starting from a clean stack.
- Wrong for: organisations not in the Microsoft ecosystem. SharePoint only makes sense as part of M365. If your identity, email and files live elsewhere, adopting SharePoint for one feature drags in a whole platform, and you would be better served by tools that fit where you already are.
SharePoint: pros and cons
Strengths
- Deep, mature document management — versioning, co-authoring, metadata and retention — that would be expensive to build and maintain yourself.
- Tight integration with the rest of Microsoft 365: shared identity, Teams and OneDrive surfacing, and Power Platform automation out of the box.
- Governance, compliance and permissioning that enterprises and their auditors already understand and trust.
- A genuine developer surface — SPFx, the Graph API and Power Platform — so it can be extended and integrated properly, not just configured.
Trade-offs
- It is large and opinionated. Customising beyond its intended patterns is clunky and frustrating, and fighting SharePoint to make it behave like a bespoke app is genuinely painful work.
- Performance and governance need active care at scale — sprawling sites, over-broad permissions and heavy pages degrade quietly until someone has to untangle them.
- Deep custom applications usually fit better as a proper web application; forcing complex domain logic into SharePoint customisation is a false economy that costs you later.
- It only earns its keep inside Microsoft 365. Outside that ecosystem the platform overhead vastly outweighs any single feature you wanted.
Architecture
The load-bearing decisions on SharePoint are made before any code: the site and hub structure, the content types and managed metadata, the permission model, and — crucially — where the boundary sits between what SharePoint does natively and what we build. We map that boundary honestly at the start, because the most costly mistakes are things configured into an intranet that should have been code, and things coded as custom that a native feature already did.
Custom development is client-side by design in SharePoint Online. SPFx web parts and extensions run in the browser, authenticate the current user, and reach data through the Graph API or a client’s own APIs, typically fronted by Azure. Where integration logic is heavier than a web part should carry — scheduled syncs, webhooks, event handling — we move it into Azure Functions or a proper service and let SharePoint stay the presentation and document layer. Keeping that separation clean is what stops a SharePoint solution ageing into an unmaintainable tangle.
Performance
SharePoint performance problems are predictable and mostly about restraint. Pages get slow when they are stuffed with web parts each making their own calls; lists get slow when they cross view thresholds without indexing; search gets slow when the information architecture never anticipated scale. We design against these from the start — batching Graph calls, caching where staleness is acceptable, indexing list columns, and keeping pages lean — rather than tuning after users complain.
Because SPFx runs in the browser, we treat a custom web part like any front-end code: watch the bundle size, defer work that is not needed on first paint, and avoid chatty request patterns against Graph. We are also honest that SharePoint Online is a shared, throttled service. There are rate limits you must respect, and some latency you cannot engineer away; part of our job is setting expectations about what the platform will and will not do quickly.
Security
SharePoint inherits M365’s identity and compliance model, which is a real advantage — authentication is Entra ID, and conditional access, data-loss prevention and retention policies apply consistently. The security work that actually goes wrong is permissions sprawl: unique permissions scattered across items, broken inheritance, and over-broad sharing that nobody can later reason about. We design a permission model that leans on groups and inheritance, and we resist the per-item exceptions that turn governance into guesswork.
For custom code, the sharp edges are app registrations and Graph permissions. We scope application and delegated permissions to the minimum a solution needs, prefer acting as the signed-in user over broad application-wide access, and never place secrets in client-side SPFx bundles, which anyone can read. Integrations that need elevated access run server-side in Azure with their credentials held properly, not smuggled into the browser.
Scalability
Scaling SharePoint is less about raw capacity — Microsoft runs the service — and more about keeping it governable as it grows. The failure mode is sprawl: thousands of sites created ad hoc, duplicated content, inconsistent metadata and permissions nobody owns. We plan provisioning, naming, lifecycle and hub structure so growth stays coherent, and we automate site creation with templates so new spaces are born governed rather than fixed later.
At the data level, scale means respecting the platform’s limits deliberately: list view thresholds, item counts, and search freshness. We index for the queries that matter, partition data across libraries or lists where a single container would strain, and design integrations to page and throttle politely against Graph. Where a requirement genuinely outgrows what SharePoint should hold, we say so and put that data in a proper store, surfacing it back through SPFx rather than forcing the platform past its design.
SharePoint integrations & ecosystem
The technologies we most often pair with it — each links to how we work with it.
How we deliver on SharePoint
We start with the information architecture and the integration boundary, not with pages. That means agreeing site and hub structure, content types, metadata and the permission model, and being explicit about which requirements SharePoint should own, which belong to the Power Platform, and which should leave the platform for a proper application. This early honesty is where a SharePoint project is saved or sunk, and it is where senior judgement earns its cost.
From there we build custom SPFx components with TypeScript and React, wire integrations through Graph and Azure-hosted services, and automate processes with Power Automate — deploying through the tenant’s app catalogue with proper versioning rather than hand-editing pages in production. We test with real permissions and real data volumes, because SharePoint behaves differently for an ordinary user than for the admin who built it, and against realistic list sizes rather than a handful of demo items.
The service behind it
Delivered throughDigital TransformationWhat we build with SharePoint
The disciplines this technology most often shows up in — from a first build to taking over and stabilising an existing one.
How we deliver
- 01
Discover
We map the system, the constraints and the business it serves — including the parts nobody documented.
Architecture brief
- 02
Architect
Decisions get made, written down and defended before a line of production code exists.
Decision records
- 03
Build
Short cycles against working software. You see progress in the product, not in a status deck.
Shipping increments
- 04
Operate
Monitoring, incident response and iteration. The system is alive, so the engagement is too.
Runbooks & SLOs
Industries we use SharePoint in
Domain knowledge changes what gets built. A few of the sectors we know before the first meeting.
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Why teams choose us for SharePoint
We know when to leave SharePoint
The most valuable thing a SharePoint engineer can tell you is that your requirement should not be built on SharePoint at all. We will say it early, and we can build the bespoke application instead, so you are not left with an expensive customisation that fights the platform forever.
Real engineering, not just configuration
We write SPFx and Graph integrations as proper software — TypeScript, version control, testing and deployment through the app catalogue — rather than clicking pages together and hoping. That is the difference between a solution you can maintain and one that breaks at the next tenant update.
We connect SharePoint to the systems that run you
Our angle is integration. We bring your line-of-business data into SharePoint and push actions back out through Graph and Azure, so the intranet does real work instead of being a static front for content nobody reads.
Senior people who operate what they build
The engineers who design your architecture are the ones who build it and support it. We live with our own permission models and integrations, which is a strong incentive to keep them clean, governable and honest.
Typical timeline
- 01
Discovery and architecture
One to two weeks agreeing site and hub structure, content types, the permission model and — most importantly — the boundary between native SharePoint, Power Platform and custom code.
- 02
Foundation and integration design
Setting up the tenant structure, app registrations and Graph permissions, and proving the riskiest integration early so surprises surface before the bulk of the build.
- 03
Build and automation
Iterative delivery of SPFx web parts, Graph and API integrations, and Power Automate flows, deployed through the app catalogue and reviewed against real permissions and data.
- 04
Hardening and handover
Governance, performance and security review at realistic scale, followed by documentation and handover so your team can run and extend the solution rather than depend on us indefinitely.
How pricing works
- The biggest cost driver is how much is genuine custom development versus configuration. Standing up libraries, sites and Power Automate flows is fast; SPFx web parts, Graph integrations and connections to bespoke systems are engineering and priced as such.
- Integration depth matters most. Connecting SharePoint to one well-documented API is modest work; orchestrating several line-of-business systems, with authentication, error handling and scheduled syncs, is the bulk of a serious engagement.
- Information-architecture and migration work — especially untangling an existing sprawling tenant or moving from on-premises — can equal or exceed the build. We scope it honestly rather than pretending a messy starting point is free.
- Licensing sits with Microsoft, not us: SharePoint comes with the M365 plans you already hold, and Power Platform premium connectors or Azure services carry their own costs, which we flag up front so there are no surprises.
Hire SharePoint engineers
Need SharePoint capacity on your own team? We embed named senior engineers into your existing team — reporting to your leads, working in your rituals — so you add capacity without a hiring cycle.
Hire SharePoint engineersCommon questions
Should we build this on SharePoint or as a custom web application?
It depends on how much of the requirement is documents, collaboration and governance versus genuine custom application behaviour. If it is document-centric and you are on Microsoft 365, SharePoint saves you building things you would otherwise have to. If it is a real product with complex domain logic, a custom data model and a designed experience, build it as a proper application — forcing that into SharePoint is slower and more fragile. We will give you a straight answer before you commit, and we can build either.
What is SPFx and why does it matter?
The SharePoint Framework is Microsoft’s supported, cloud-native model for custom development on SharePoint Online. You write web parts and extensions in TypeScript and React that run in the browser and reach data through the Graph API or your own services. It matters because the old server-side, full-trust code model is gone from the cloud — SPFx is how genuinely bespoke functionality is added now, and doing it properly is engineering work, not configuration.
Do you work with SharePoint Online or on-premises SharePoint Server?
Overwhelmingly SharePoint Online, which is where almost all new work sits and where the modern development model lives. We still meet on-premises SharePoint Server, usually as something clients want to migrate away from, and we can help plan and carry out that move. If you are choosing today, cloud is the default and on-premises needs a specific reason.
How do you connect SharePoint to our other systems?
Through the Microsoft Graph API for anything inside Microsoft 365, and through your own APIs — typically fronted by Azure — for line-of-business systems. Lighter reads can happen directly from an SPFx web part as the signed-in user; heavier or scheduled work, and anything needing elevated access, runs server-side in Azure Functions or a service so credentials stay off the client. The result is SharePoint surfacing and acting on your real data rather than holding a stale copy.
Why does everyone say customising SharePoint is painful?
Because it is large and opinionated, and it is only pleasant when you work with its intended patterns. Configure libraries, lists, sites and flows the way the platform expects and it is productive. Push it to behave like a bespoke application — custom data models, unusual interfaces, logic it was never meant to hold — and it fights you at every turn. The skill is knowing where that line is and staying the right side of it, which is exactly the judgement we bring.
Building on SharePoint?
A technical conversation with the engineers who would do the work. If we are not the right fit, we will say so on the call.