ONSITE IT INTRANET DEVELOPMENT
Intranet Overview
Intranet applications allow organisations to control a diverse range of information efficiently, and most importantly communicate, manage and share this information between relevant staff.
These benefits can include Documents, Templates, Telephone Directories, Job Boards and any Advertising internally.
An Intranet is the term commonly applied when information is to be shared solely within an organisation. An extranet is where this functionality is extended to include access for ‘external’ people, for example customers, suppliers and partners. Both intranets and extranets allow you to implement varying levels of access and user rights e.g. defining what each person can see and whether they can make changes to such information.
An intranet can work just like the internet over a web browser; consequently with an intranet geography is not an issue, as long as staff are connected to the internet they can securely access the company intranet within their own locally hosted network or through VPN (Virtual Private Network).
This creates an ideal, efficient and cost effective environment for organisations that operate over multiple sites (or countries) and companies that have remote staff, for example home workers or support teams constantly out of office. Intranets can also be enabled to operate within an office environment on existing architecture such as a local or wide-area network.
Here are some of the basic Intranet Key Features and Benefits:
- Communicate between offices and remote staff securely and instantly
- Share, organise and schedule people and resources
- Content Management System allows administrators to securely manage and disseminate information
- Enhance staff communications and procedures
- Manage staff functions such as booking holidays, inductions, training
- Search and locate information rapidly (by words/ topic/ directory etc.)
- Build knowledge and document libraries for easy reference
- Communicate company news instantly including electronic newsletters
- Group and distribute relevant information to relevant people
- Allow interaction such as discussion forums/ FAQ’s
- Extensive reporting for administrators and users
- Integrate with existing systems such as HR
- Branded intranet design
- Secure intranet hosting
An intranet site can be used to replace existing legacy applications.
A major benefit of an intranet application over traditional programs is that they can be made to run on almost any PC with a standard browser installed (EG: Internet Explorer Firefox or Safari)
Future updates are then done centrally, this means everyone always sees the same version.
No more walking around the office to individual PC's to upgrade the software.
These applications can also run over slow and unreliable networks.
If you are considering having a custom application written please call us on 01621 850550.
