Today at Ignite 2017, we (Microsoft) announced SharePoint hub sites, a new building block of the intranet, to bring together related sites to roll up news and activity, to simplify search, and to create cohesion with shared navigation and look-and-feel. The digital workplace is dynamic and ever changing. Busi…
Source: SharePoint hub sites new in Office 365
With the new hub sites in Office 365 we can roll up all related team and communication sites in one location. This will provide the users with focused entry points to find everything about a topic. Even if the information is located on different sites. For every team and communication site we set the related hub site and if needed be change it. The hub site will show activities and information from all related sites and provide the user with a powerful search scope to search within all related sites. A faster and easier way for users to find what they need.
A big upside of using hub site is during a transformation of a company. Simply change the association for a site and it is ‘migrated’ to the new hub. No complicated migration process is required.