Corporate Intranet Website Development

Advanced Corporate Intranet Web Design & Management

Intranet design is a similar undertaking as is internet website design. The corporate intranet and extranet have become the de-facto enablers for sharing and communicating effectively within and with an organization.

 

Streamline your internal company operations and gain a real competitive advantage with a professional intranet design and management programme.

 

An intranet design should be much more task-oriented and less promotional than an Internet design.

 

A company should only have a single intranet design, so users only have to learn it once.

What Can An Intranet Do For Your Business

Intranets today do much more than simply host the company phone book and HR manuals - though these components remain critically important, and teams are continuing to improve them. Intranets often run between a hundred and a thousand times faster than most Internet users' Web access which is stuck at low-band or mid-band, so it is feasible to use rich graphics and even multimedia and other advanced content on intranet pages. Intranets are commonly used as platforms to distribute market share and sales information to field sales representatives.

 

Intranets, in particular, have grown in complexity, as organisations are now transferring more and more of their historically paper-based tasks to online applications. Intranets can be simple or as complex as you need, with extensive functionality and many features such as data archives, corporate directory, calendar, bulletin boards, news, broadcast, event planning and more.

 

Intranets are about connecting staff, vendors, and customers to your business systems through a centralized and standardized interface. Intranets improve productivity and can lower actual operating costs and overhead. Intranets and Extranets allow you to connect and strengthen the existing links between customers, suppliers, partners and employees. The vast majority of new intranets now feature CEO and Managing Director blogs.

How We Create The Perfect Company Intranet

Our intranets can be tailored to your budget and depending upon your requirements can be based on smaller web based content management systems such as Adobe Contribute or more fully featured applications such as Microsoft SharePoint,  which offer full integration with your existing Microsoft applications and servers.

 

Microsoft SharePoint is the perfect platform with which to build most organisations intranets and extranets. It encompasses a collection of web browser based components to give you access to process management and document management as well as a huge selection of in built components to provide all the functionalityyour business may need as well as a fully integrated search to help you find exactly what your looking for in any of the content held on your intranet as quickly as possible. Unlike other intranet platforms it is designed specifically to be completely integrated into your current Microsoft applications such as Office giving you access to your calendar, contacts, inbox, mail and tasks and works seamlessly with your Microsoft server’s current document and user security setup helping to save time and costs on implementation.

 

Our intranet design and extranet design services range from consulting or complete project design, to implementation and management.

 

Most organisations have an intranet but very few are satisfied with their current arrangements. This is in large part because intranets are often seen as internal communication and therefore not worthy of spending much time or money on – in effect the poor relation to the website. However, we believe that a successful intranet can often make a larger impact on an organisation’s efficiency than their website.

 

To aid internal communication and improve efficiency, there are a number of elements that we frequently incorporate into our clients’ intranet solutions:

• Document resource and sharing
• Directories, people, phone numbers etc
• Meeting room booking
• Calendar and alerts
• Employee training
• CRM tools
• News and events
• Online tools, quoting and tracking
• Urgent updates to SMS text alert.

 

A successful intranet takes every bit as much planning as the website, often more so. Ideally we like to get direct input from the business units, departments or stakeholders that will be using the intranet. The closer the intranet is built around their specific needs the more likely it is to be welcomed and successful.

 

The effective design of an intranet is one of the most challenging information design tasks an organization may need to face so it is important to choose a company with experience in the corporate intranet field.