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INTRANET BENEFITS
An intranet is a private computer network based on TCP/IP Protocols (Internet Protocol technologies - an internet) belonging to an organization, and is only accessible by the organizations members, employees and any other authorization.
Intranet is a term that is used in contrast to the internet, and refers to a network within an organization. Sometimes the term refers only to the organization's internal website, but there may be a more extensive part of the organization's information technology infrastructure. It may host multiple private web sites and constitute an important component and focal point of internal communication and collaboration. An intranet website looks and acts just like many other website's, but the firewall surroundings an intranet fends of unauthorized access. Intranets can help users to locate and view information faster and use applications relevant to their roles and responsibilities, which is made available anytime and - subject to security provisions - from anywhere within the company workstations, increasing employees' ability to perform their jobs faster, and also helps to improve the services provided to the users.
Intranets allows the organization to distribute information to employees and saves time and money. Employees can link to relevant information at a convenience rather than being distracted by electronic mail. It can serve a powerful tool for communication and can easily be conveyed in the purpose of staff opportunity and to keep up-to-date with strategic focus and goals of the organization. Some examples of communication would be email, blogs, and even chat.
Easily access materials such as Employee benefits, documents, manuals, company policies, business standards, training manuals, news feeds, and common internet standard files such as Acrobat files, CGI applications and Flash files.
Easily access materials such as Employee benefits, documents, manuals, company policies, business standards, training manuals, news feeds, and common internet standard files such as Acrobat files, CGI applications and Flash files.
With the help of the web, users can locate and view information much faster and access data held in a database for the organization making information available anytime, thus increasing ability to perform an employees job such as applications relevant to their responsibilities and roles of the employee.
Employees can link information at their convenience and allows companies to distribute Company information/memo's rather than the use of email.
Business operations and decisions can be delivered across the intranet enterprise by deploying applications to support business decisions and operations.
Accessible by all employees which enables teamwork, thus giving the opportunity to keep up- to- date within daily organizational activities..
'Live' changes to compliance, laws and code of ethic information can easily be kept up-to-date especially when dealing with he public which can limit a company's liability.
Linking everyone to the companies’ management information system can be very useful especially when specific meetings are arranged. A CRM system is a powerful tool for communications within the organizations. It involves synchronizing business processes to organize and automate business activities. The overall goal is to attract and entice new customers and reduce the costs of marketing and client service.
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INTRANETS can easily be accessed throughout the company.
Important documents such as employee benefits, employee manuals, company policies and procedures, company compliance, and company code of ethics, are easily accessible with the most recent version of the document being available to all employees, rather than maintaining a physical copy of the documents. This can potentially save time and money on printing and duplicating those documents. Every user has the ability to view the same information within the Intranet.
Intranets are also being used as a platform for developing and deploying applications to support the business operations and business decisions. It can enhance collaboration of information and is easily accessible by all users and enables teamwork. It has cross-platform capability such as Windows, Mac, and UNIX.
Since Intranets are user-specific by requiring database/network authentication prior to access. You know exactly who you are interfacing with and can personalize your Intranet based on a job role, title, department or individual. It can also be linked to a company's management information system to help collaborate daily business activity.