How can a business benefit from having a custom intranet site?
There are many uses for an intranet site. It is, in effect, a bulletin board: a place where up-to-date sales figures can be put and where you can post documents for immediate download. It’s a central location where private, personal information that is only available for either certain work groups or the internal company is available. Examples would be a copy of the employee handbook and a calendar of company-related events like paydays, people’s birthdays, important how-to documents and information about the tasks that they perform. Of course, it varies from industry to industry what an intranet is used for. How does an intranet differ from groupware software packages? Groupware software packages are based on the user. A user, as a member of a group, can interact with other members in the group. Groupware software packages such as Outlook, with Exchange in the back end, allow you to perform such functions as maintaining public folders and tracking tasks. An intranet is a Web site, so
