Intranet News & Articles

A Check List of Must Have Features For Your Intranet

Your intranet can be anything that you want it to be. It can merely contain a list of company polices and a picture of the employee-of-the-month. Or it can be an all-inclusive, high-tech wonder that transforms an otherwise overwhelmed organization into a well-oiled machine. Ready to embrace efficiency? Carefully consider including the following intranet features into your organization's intranet. (read more at Intranet Journal)

Sharing Information In Your Company. Is it Time for an Intranet?

Can small companies obtain the same competitive advantage by implementing an intranet? This article will assist in evaluating the need for an intranet in a small business environment based on the decision factors. (read more at Intranet Journal)

Performance Matters: Guidelines for Building a More Responsive Intranet

On an intranet, where broadband connections are the norm, user expectations are higher still. Pages that don't appear instantly stand a good chance of never being seen. Different norms apply, of course, to research sites and rich media, such as online training videos. But for an important class of intranet applications - portals, discussion forums, sales force automation and priority content delivery (e.g., regulatory updates) - slow pages might as well be no pages. (read more at Intranet Journal)

What Does It Take to Design a Custom Intranet?

There is only one rule when it comes to designing and delivering a custom intranet for a company: listen to the customer. Following this simple rule can only result in a product that benefits the customer and creates real value for their company or organization. (read more at Intranet Journal)

Toby Ward's Intranet Insight: Five Winning Intranet Characteristics

What are the winning characteristics of successful corporate intranets such as Cisco’s? While there are too many to mention in this column, here are five winning characteristics of leading intranets that will help drive success on your intranet. (read more at Intranet Journal)

Turning Your Intranet into a Teacher

Over the past several years, industries around the world have been slowly warming up to the idea of e-Learning – a virtual "classroom" where the instructor and students may be scattered over continents. E-Learning can range from simple online orientation sessions for new employees to full-fledged certification programs. (read more at Intranet Journal)

Building A Potent Intranet For An Enterprise

Intranets can change the way your organization works. When built correctly, they centralize information, streamline processes and reduce costs. (read more at Intranet Journal)

Resurrecting Your Intranet

The single most important thing to realize about an intranet is that it is a growing entity. If you wipe your brow in relief after rolling out your intranet and think that that was all there was to it, you are going to be in for a surprise. (read more at Intranet Journal)

Bring IT All Together on the Intranet

The information and applications that are available to the corporate Intranet, the greater its usefulness. Enterprise application integration (EAI) addresses this need by enabling multiple applications within an organization to share information and functionality over the Intranet. (read more at Intranet Journal)

Best Practices For Successful Intranets

Thinking big in the first phase of intranet planning is the nature of e-business, but then it's time to start asking the tough questions. One needs to figure out where the business goals and the user goals need to meet in order to create an intranet that offers the most value. (read more at Intranet Journal)