A company intranet is a private, secure Website that enables employees to communicate, collaborate, share documents and other information, and access productivity tools. An intranet is often hosted and maintained on company servers and can only be accessed by internal employees.
Recently, intranets have been used to enhance customer relationships as Web-accessible extranets or customer portals. Companies can set up a custom built intranet, or a hosted, cloud based intranet.
The ASP (application service provider) or software-as-a-service approach, which HyperOffice offers, allows users to access all the tools they need to build their company intranet over the web. This is also known as an “asp intranet”, “hosted intranet” or “saas intranet”. A variation, called the “social intranet” is also gaining in popularity these days. The benefits of this approach:
You are not required to set up at any servers or software. Everything is managed by the intranet vendor.
You pay a low subscription fee per month, and are saved the costs of hardware, software and staff.
All new features and improvements made by the intranet vendor are immediately available to you.
Cloud software, by its very nature, is “anywhere accessible”. Your users have access to the intranet anywhere with an internet connection.
The second option is to hire or commission a dedicated development team to create your own customized intranet. Although this approach allows companies to build a highly specialized intranet, it involves huge costs and effort, which makes it unsuitable for small to medium companies.
The best intranet solutions in the market offer you the following selection of tools