How can an Intranet save your time?

Most organizations are run by people working together. How do your employees communicate ? by phone, voice mail, email, fax or by person to person meetings?

An Intranet can cut down the time your employees spend on routine communication tasks. If you are using email internally you already know the benefits over trying to get someone over the phone. The one problem with using email is that the entire message is usually not conveyed in the first communication. One email usually starts a string of emails back and forth until the other part completely understands your request or message. Instead consider putting forms on your Intranet. Design forms for frequently requested tasks within your organization. For ex. Request for PC repair, stationary reorder from supply room, telephone messages. Have your users fill out the form and make sure the required information is entered by using data validation. This will provide the recipient with an email that is complete with all the required information and save a lot of time.

How much time do your employees spend answering routinely asked questions? want to cut down the time? put the information on an Intranet. Don't just put it out there, refer all your callers to your Intranet. for ex. before your travel office answers the phone play a short recorded message saying "For routine questions check our pages on the company Intranet at www..... ."

Do your employees spend time chasing paper? trying to hunt down paper forms, reports, documents, microfilm? consider converting these documents to electronic formats using scanners, OCR software or other means. Provide a search interface to these documents using your Intranet. Once users know how easily accessible these documents are over the Intranet, they will prefer the faster solution. Result? you save time.

Benefits of an Intranet

• Reducing administration loads
  
• Reducing Overheads
  
• Information Sharing
  
• Securing sensitive information
  
• Online training for employees

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Why would I want an Extranet?

An extranet is a private network that uses the Internet protocols and the public telecommunication system to securely share part of a business's information or operations with suppliers, vendors, partners, customers, or other businesses.

An extranet can be viewed as part of a company's intranet that is extended to users outside the company. It has also been described as a "state of mind" in which the Internet is perceived as a way to do business with other companies as well as to sell products to customers. The same benefits that HTML, HTTP, SMTP, and other Internet technologies have brought to the Internet and to corporate intranets now seem designed to accelerate business between businesses.

An extranet requires security and privacy. These require firewall server management, the issuance and use of digital certificates or similar means of user authentication, encryption of messages, and the use of virtual private networks (VPNs) that tunnel through the public network.

Benefits of an Extranet

• Project management tools for companies and collaborating third parties.
  
• Sharing proprietary ideas with select a select group.
  
• Online training for resellers
  
• A way of using high volumes of data using Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
  
• Sharing product catalogs and inventory levels exclusively partners
  
• Collaborating with other companies on joint development efforts
  
• Providing services offered by one company to a group of other companies.
  
• Share news of common interest exclusively with partner companies

We price all website projects on an individual basis based on the level of work involved. Please contact us for a free extranet assesment and quotation.