Intranets

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Intranets

• What is an intranet?
• How does it benefit your organization?
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Definition

• Intranet is the generic term for a collection of
  private computer networks within an organization.
  An intranet uses network technologies as a tool
  to facilitate communication between people or
  work groups to improve the data sharing
  capability and overall knowledge base of an
  organization's employees.
• Thats the technical definition of an intranet
  in simpler term, imagine an intranet as an
  internal network of your organization think back
  about your school days, remember the log-in
  system of your school (student account, email,
  calendar, directory) ?
• Yes, thats an intranet, in this case, the
  students, faculties and staffs would have
  different levels of access to the network!

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Benefits - Communication

• Many schools and non-profit groups have deployed
  them, but an intranet is still seen primarily as
  a corporate productivity tool. We will go through
  a list of the benefits that this technology can
  offer
• Communication Just think how telephones, emails
  and digital calendars have revolutionized the way
  we communicate. Now, an Intranet can connect all
  of those tools and create a network that only
  your company employees can access. Intranet also
  provides discussion groups, chats, user profiles,
  Intranet forms, and bulletin boards. Using
  intranet tools help in conveying and distributing
  necessary information or documents among the
  employees of an organization. Using smartly, this
  results in easy communication and sound
  relationship between the employees and top level
  management.

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Time Saving - Productivity

• Time Saving Time is money! Using Intranet
  technology allows to distribute valuable
  information among the employees in a fast and
  efficient manner. Intranet saves time by
  interactivity, i.e. employees can access
  information at a relevant times that suit them,
  rather than sending and waiting for email and
  email replies.Productivity Intranet technology
  provides fast information to employees and helps
  to perform their various tasks with
  responsibility. An employee can access any data
  from any database of the organization without
  wastage of time. Employees working on projects
  can collaborate easily, ensuring better and
  faster results.

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Reduce Costs

• Reduce Costs An important benefit of Intranet is
  that it is cost-effective. This can be attributed
  to the fact that it is paperless. As Intranet
  supports online publishing, it definitely cuts
  down the printing and distribution costs as well.
  All the documents of the company can be published
  through the Intranet using web pages, as compared
  to spending money on printing documents. The
  information can be accessed from the respective
  workstations of the employees. Intranet results
  in reduced costs for corporate training,
  administrative and operational purposes.Incorpor
  ated and Distributed Computing Environment
  Intranet supports an active distribution of
  stored information through different types of
  operating systems and computer types, from which
  the employees can access information. Intranet
  results in distributing information at a lower
  cost due to the web architecture feature of
  intranet.

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Collaboration Rich in Format

• Increases Collaboration As intranet allows all
  employees to access data, this helps build team
  work within the organization. Also certain
  contents of intranet like declaration section,
  help desk, FAQ, handbook of employee, etc., aids
  in collaboration among the employees.Rich in
  Format Intranet allows employees to view
  documents in various rich format applications as
  well as video and audio. Multimedia programs can
  be used with intranet as well, allowing for
  better communication and information being shared
  very fast.

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Final Words

• The Intranet has become more and more
  sophisticated  over the years. What should you
  expect of a future intranet?
• Social Media have revolutionized the way
  marketing has been done in the past decade.
  Expect the future intranets with the features of
  social sharing tools. Two-way communications
  within an organization will triumph along with
  closer collaborations among your employees.
• Would the future Intranet look better? Sure,
  just imagine Skype or Yahoo Messenger without
  emotion icons. Users might be the center, instead
  of the content.
• A company data base with training videos or
  online lectures is common but how about an
  internal radio station? (or 3D conference calls?)
  Why not?
• Let us help you build the Intranet that would
  benefit your organization, pain-free! Visit
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