Give Employee Comms what they need
- without giving IT a headache
Your Employee Comms team wants a more modern, visual way to tell stories on SharePoint.
You’re the one who has to make it safe, supportable, and compliant.
Dexy is a set of SPFx web parts for SharePoint Online that run entirely inside your Microsoft 365 tenant. It modernizes how news and video are presented — without introducing a new platform, external data flows, or extra systems for IT to maintain.
This page explains how Dexy works, where it runs, what it touches, and why it’s a low-risk, high-impact option for IT teams.
Built natively for Microsoft 365
Dexy is built on SharePoint Framework (SPFx), following Microsoft’s recommended patterns for extending SharePoint:
SPFx web parts deployed through your SharePoint app catalog
Runs inside SharePoint Online and Microsoft 365 — not separate infrastructure
No iframes, proprietary content stores, or “shadow intranets”
Dexy isn’t a replacement platform. It’s a modern presentation layer that makes the content you already have look dramatically better.
No data leaves your environment
Security and compliance stay simple:
No external services — Dexy uses zero vendor-run backend services
No data egress — your content remains inside your Microsoft 365 tenant
No external databases — all configuration lives in SharePoint
No additional identity store — authentication and authorization are handled entirely by Microsoft 365
Dexy behaves like a well-engineered SPFx solution you would build or approve internally — without needing engineering time to build it yourself.
Respects your existing permissions model
Dexy does not introduce new permission models or shortcuts.
Every web part respects existing SharePoint and Microsoft 365 permissions
Users only see what they’re already authorized to see
No elevation of privilege, no bypass of site or content security
If a user can’t see a page or video in SharePoint today, Dexy won’t expose it.
What Dexy stores in your tenant
Dexy is intentionally minimal in what it writes:
The only stored data is configuration — layouts, mappings, display rules — in a SharePoint list
No custom content database
No duplication of news or videos
No hidden dependencies injected into your content
If you ever remove Dexy, your SharePoint content remains intact, unchanged, and fully usable.
Uses Microsoft 365’s foundations
SharePoint News — upgraded
Dexy uses your existing SharePoint news infrastructure:
No new “news platform” to provision or govern
News items remain standard SharePoint pages
Dexy provides modern presentation
Your content stays 100% SharePoint-compatible — it just looks like it belongs in 2025.
Microsoft Stream — brought to life
Dexy also enhances your existing video capabilities:
Delivers Stream video through a more engaging, optimised interface
Keeps storage, permissions, and compliance inside Stream/SharePoint
Adds a modern storytelling layer missing from the out-of-box web parts
You keep all the benefits of Microsoft’s video stack — with a front end people actually want to watch.
Architecture at a glance
From IT’s perspective, Dexy is simple:
A user visits a SharePoint page containing a Dexy web part
The web part runs as SPFx code hosted in your tenant
It queries SharePoint / Stream using standard Microsoft APIs
Content is rendered in a modern, visual layout in the browser
✔ No external endpoints.
✔ No third-party APIs.
✔ No hidden services.
Built the way Microsoft intends
Dexy follows Microsoft’s guidance for safe, supportable SharePoint development:
Built entirely on SPFx and associated tooling
Aligns with Microsoft’s guidance around extensibility, security, and performance
Uses patterns familiar to teams who already understand SPFx
If your developers have ever reviewed a well-structured SPFx solution, Dexy will feel immediately understandable.
SaaS licensing
- without SaaS infrastructure risk
Dexy is licensed as software-as-a-subscription, but everything executes inside your Microsoft 365 tenant.
Your subscription provides:
Ongoing product development
New layouts and enhancements
Support and documentation
A roadmap aligned to Microsoft 365’s evolution
Licensing scales by employee/user count — not infrastructure.
You get SaaS agility, without SaaS dependency.
Created with IT and Employee Comms in mind
Dexy is shaped by 15+ years of hands-on experience in intranets, SharePoint development, and Employee Comms:
Consulting with IT and Comms teams globally
Delivering enterprise SharePoint solutions
Leading UX and product design for digital workplace tools
Using video and media to transform employee engagement
In practice, Dexy responds directly to the conversations you’re likely having:
“Comms want something more modern.”
“We can’t allow data to leave the tenant.”
“We don’t have time to build this.”
“We don’t want another platform.”
“We don’t have bandwidth for a major intranet project.”
Dexy provides a straightforward answer:
Yes — you can do this. Safely. Quickly. Natively in Microsoft 365.
Why should you choose Dexy?
✔ Safe — no data leaves Microsoft 365; respects all existing permissions
✔ Native — SPFx-based; uses SharePoint News + Stream
✔ Low friction — easy to deploy; minimal configuration
✔ Future-friendly — content remains standard SharePoint
✔ Proven thinking — shaped by real-world IT + Comms experience
Dexy solves a real problem for Comms, while ticking every box IT cares about.