An Intranet May Include Many Features
Intranets may be created with what is called a "Dashboard".
Just as in your car, the dashboard is hooked up to a variety
of systems to display information from various functions.
Individuals or user groups are given the ability to customize
the portal page, which includes a search engine for internal
documents. In business, it can display many, many things in
real time:
Statistics
Sales figures
Goal to date
Annoucements
Events & Calendar
News
Commonly shared or accessed files
Hyperlinks to Web sites
Document versioning control
Organizational Searching
KPI
CRM
Workspace software
charts
Companies also need to consider search capabilities and
taxonomy. Everyone has had the frustrating experience of
having an Internet search engine recommend 15,000 (mostly
useless) links. As intranets grow in breadth and depth—IBM's
intranet is now bigger than the entire Internet was a couple
years ago—they are becoming just as difficult to sift through
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Some companies
have created an intranet taxonomy that's very specific to its
business—in essence, a corporate vocabulary that helps
employees find what they need.
Intranet Vertical Niches & Uses:
Over the past few years, the game of the Intranets has evolved
to encompass knowledge management with the aid of enterprise
information portals. Here are some of the uses organizations
and companies have for Intranets:
vertical portals (also known as 'vortals'),
Organization wide search engines,
knowledge portals,
online content management and
online information management.
Enterprise Information Portals
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Groupware
Content Management
Collaborative Learning
Collaborative Communication
Virtual Communities
Communities of Practice
Knowledge Management
Online Information Management
Summary
We approach what will be on the intranet from the employees'
perspective: Give them things that will help them do their
jobs, and don't waste their time. At Computer eCommerce we
know how to return a profit on your technology investment.
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