“We evaluated five vendors before choosing PapaSiddhi. Their Business Central expertise was unmatched — went live across three countries simultaneously with zero downtime.”
Thomas Andersen
IT Director
Zo**** Manufacturing · Denmark
PapaSiddhi Technologies is a team of experienced Microsoft SharePoint development experts with 10+ years of experience building intranets, document management systems, team portals, and automated workflows for companies across the USA, UK, Netherlands, and UAE. Our SharePoint developers cover the full spectrum — from SharePoint Online modern sites to classic SharePoint on-premises, from Power Automate workflow automation to custom SPFx web parts and Power Apps integration.
Custom SharePoint intranets, document portals, team sites, and workflow automation built on SharePoint Online and SharePoint on-premises for organisations of all sizes. Serving UAE businesses with India-based expertise.
UAE organisations approach SharePoint with data residency at the front of the conversation, particularly for government-adjacent and regulated work where the expectation is that content stays within the UAE or an approved jurisdiction. Microsoft operates UAE data centre regions, which makes in-country residency achievable but requires deliberate tenant provisioning rather than a default setup. Arabic content adds a genuine technical dimension too — search relevance, metadata and document templates all need Arabic handling that default configurations do not provide. Our team's overlap with UAE hours means governance and permission model workshops run as live sessions with your stakeholders.
Microsoft operates Azure data centre regions in the United Arab Emirates, enabling in-country data residency for Microsoft 365 workloads — but residency is determined at tenant provisioning and cannot simply be switched on afterwards.
UAE Personal Data Protection Law, sector-specific data residency expectations for government and regulated entities, and DIFC or ADGM data protection rules where applicable.
Market Landscape
SharePoint estates in UAE organisations tend to grow quickly and structurally, because Emirati businesses expand by adding entities and locations rather than by gradual organic growth. A UAE group that has opened operations in three emirates and two neighbouring markets over five years typically has sites created per entity, per project and per department, with permissions granted as people moved between them. The result is an estate whose shape reflects the company's history rather than how it works today.
Key Challenges
Bilingual content is the specific UAE complication. When documents are filed with Arabic titles and English metadata, or the reverse, search becomes unreliable in a way that is hard to diagnose — colleagues genuinely cannot find each other's work and conclude the platform is poor. Beyond that, UAE organisations with a mobile workforce face a departure problem more acutely than most: when people leave the country as well as the company, material sitting in personal storage or in sites they created is difficult to recover and the loss is often permanent. Adoption failure completes the picture, with staff reverting to messaging apps and shared drives when structure does not match how they work.
Why India Works
We treat information architecture, bilingual metadata, permissions and lifecycle as the substance of a UAE engagement rather than as preparation, and build custom components only where the platform genuinely falls short. We have delivered SharePoint intranet and document platforms in enterprise environments. Because this work depends on frequent short conversations with content owners, the near-full working day overlap with the Emirates is a real advantage — decisions happen the same day rather than the next. Against UAE consultancy rates, governance becomes affordable rather than deferred.
UAE organisations file documents with a mix of Arabic and English titles and metadata. Search then fails in ways nobody can diagnose, and users conclude the platform does not work rather than the taxonomy.
With a mobile expatriate workforce, material in a departed employee's personal storage or personally created sites is frequently unrecoverable. UAE organisations discover the gap long after the person has gone.
Emirati groups add entities and locations quickly, and the site structure records that sequence instead of how the business runs now. Finding anything requires knowing the company's history.
We rebuild UAE SharePoint estates around how the business works today rather than the order it grew in, with a bilingual taxonomy that makes search reliable in both languages. The near-full working day overlap means content-owner decisions happen same-day, and our rates against UAE consultancy equivalents mean the governance work gets done rather than postponed.
Ask us to test whether your UAE teams can find each other's documents across Arabic and English.
Our Track Record
200+
Projects Delivered
13+
Countries Served
98%
Client Retention
10+
Years Experience
SharePoint is the backbone of Microsoft 365 collaboration — but an out-of-the-box SharePoint rarely meets all your needs. Organisations need custom intranet portals, tailored document libraries, branded team sites, and automated approval workflows that fit their exact processes.
PapaSiddhi's SharePoint developers build custom solutions that transform SharePoint from a generic file store into a powerful, branded digital workplace. From a simple department intranet to a complex multi-hub SharePoint architecture, we design and build SharePoint solutions that your employees actually want to use.
Branded, modern SharePoint intranet that serves as your digital headquarters — news, announcements, quick links, team sites, and personalised content.
Structured document libraries with metadata, version control, approval workflows, and records retention policies for compliance and efficiency.
Custom SharePoint Framework web parts, extensions, and application pages that extend SharePoint with bespoke features your team needs.
Power Automate flows for leave approvals, document review, onboarding checklists, purchase orders, and any multi-step business process.
Deep Microsoft Teams + SharePoint integration so your Teams channels are powered by SharePoint document libraries, apps, and tabs.
Safe migration from SharePoint on-premises 2013/2016/2019 to SharePoint Online, with content, permissions, and workflows preserved.
We map your information architecture, understand user needs, and design the SharePoint site structure and governance model.
Custom SharePoint look and feel matching your brand — logo, colours, fonts, navigation, and homepage layout.
Building all sites, libraries, lists, SPFx web parts, Power Automate flows, and integrations to specification.
Content migration from existing systems, UAT with key users, bug fixes, and performance testing.
Phased rollout, end-user training, adoption support, and post-launch hypercare.
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Read guide“We evaluated five vendors before choosing PapaSiddhi. Their Business Central expertise was unmatched — went live across three countries simultaneously with zero downtime.”
Thomas Andersen
IT Director
Zo**** Manufacturing · Denmark
“PapaSiddhi felt less like an agency and more like a senior team that happened to sit eight time-zones away. Business Central live in three months, and our finance team actually likes using it.”
Elise van der Berg
COO
No******* Logistics · Netherlands
“Our store-level reporting was always a week behind and never quite trusted. Their Power BI work gave us daily numbers the whole exec team now relies on, and the dedicated analyst took the time to learn our business instead of just building charts.”
Johan van der Merwe
Finance Director
Du***** Retail · South Africa
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