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Benefits for Launching a Company Intranet

An intranet portal facilitates communication between members of the organization from all its units and maintains a healthy and efficient work environment.

By: Rian Kapur
Category: Internet
: Computers:Software
Posted: Sep 13, 2011
Updated: Sep 13, 2011
Views: 62


Intranet is a comprehensive term for a collection of private computer networks within an organization using network technology as a tool to facilitate communication between people or workgroups. It improves data sharing proficiency and the entire knowledge domain of an organization’s employees. Through the technology of intranet, company personnel can categorize, distribute, aggregate and manage information, share calendars and carry out other collaborations in a user friendly browser based environment, at anytime from anywhere in the world.

Some of the main benefits of an intranet portal are:
By working as a web browser frontier, intranet helps users get access to information held in any database in an organization, anytime, from anywhere. Employers can acquire right information whenever they need, regardless of time and space barriers, thereby improving their efficiency.

Intranet helps employees attain relevant information as and when required, without being disturbed by the chaotic process of electronic mailing.

Intranets can serve as a tool for vertical and horizontal communication within the organization and help in increasing the efficiency of all members. They are helpful in communicating strategic initiatives that have a global reach throughout the organization.

The success of any Intranet network depends upon the Intranet software. The process of Intranet development encompasses all the factors that need to be taken care of while developing an intranet portal.

Document management control is a commonly used intranet feature. It controls the life cycle of the documents in the organization — how they are created, reviewed, and published, and how they are ultimately disposed of or retained. The tools that are used for document management should be flexible enough to enable a tightly control on document's life cycle, if it fits the enterprise's culture and goals, and also facilitate any changes in the structure if needed, for the betterment of the enterprise.

An effective document management solution specifies the following:
What kinds of documents and other content can be created in an organization.
What template to use for each kind of document.
What metadata to provide for each kind of document.
Where to store a document at each stage of its life cycle.
How to control access to a document at each stage of its life cycle.

How to move documents within the organization as team members contribute to the documents' creation, review, approval, publication, and disposition.

What policies to apply to documents so that document-related actions are audited, documents are retained or disposed of appropriately, and content that is important to the organization is protected.

Whether a document has to be converted from one format to another as it moves through the stages of its life cycle.

How to handle documents as corporate records, which must be retained according to legal requirements and corporate guidelines.

A good intranet software includes features that implement all these aspects of document management. With the help of an intranet portal, an organization grows at an accelerating speed when all the relevant information and other important documents are made available instantly whenever and wherever they are needed by an employee.

MAG Studios is a leading Custom Software Development Company, providing Company intranet to its clients from all over the globe.

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