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Intranets are private corporate information and collaboration systems that can increase market share, profitability,
and efficiency.
How can an Intranet help your company?
Interoperability and flexibility allows Intranets and the Internet to send information to all employees directly to
e-mail accounts, fax machines, remote printers, or via video conferencing, boosting productivity.
Since employees use their familiar browsing tools your company can avoid the training and support that come with
groupware client programs.
The following are some of the information that an intranet and the Internet can make available for internal and or
external use eliminating printing, reprinting, and out-of-date information. This brings large benefits to geographically dispersed groups.
Procedures Manuals
Company Practices
Company phone book
Catalog and Inventory lists (Limited intranet access to customers – see Extranets)
Employee benefits information
Bulletin boards
Job Postings
In-house newsletters or publications
Memoranda
Training
Presentations
Order Processing
Inventory Control
Workgroup Collaboration (Workers can collaborate from different cities and greatly reduce time to market.
Workers can also collaborate from different cities and solve problems at one site that have been solved at another)
Expense Reports
Sales Force Automation (Offsite employees conducting sales, marketing, or anything in general can access all
the companies information remotely easily and in a cost effective way)
Help-desk and technical support
Company suppliers information
Sort through thousands of documents and quickly retrieve the information you need with the proper search
engine.
Video Conferencing
Putting such applications on an Intranet can serve a large group of users at a substantially low cost.
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