Overview

This best practice provides recommendations for use cases for spoke sites available in the Networked Enterprise Edition.

Recommendation

Spoke sites can be used to solve a variety of business challenges within your digital workplace strategy. Here are the most popular use cases for spoke sites:

1. Large organizations - a spoke site for each of your major departments.
2. Offices - a spoke site for each geographic office.
3. Firms/franchises - a spoke site for each member firm and/or franchise with their own branding.
4. Board room - a private spoke site to collaborate with board members.
5. Portals/Extranets - a spoke site for a partner and/or customer portal.
6. Customer rooms - private spokes for collaborating with your customers.
7. Online community - a public/member only site for your member organization, customer groups or specific affiliation group.
8. Deal rooms - private spokes for managing deals such as mergers and acquistions.