An Intranet is a practical implementation of Internet technology within your company. Intranets empower your employees with an easy and inexpensive way to search for documents, retrieve vital information quickly, collaborate via group networking, maintain and update databases, and facilitate training all via a password protected access to your company-wide web. All information is securely stored behind a firewall, and only those people with proper authorization can access the files.

    Implementing an Intranet can enormously reduce your printing and distribution costs for internal documents, especially those time-sensitive documents which require constant updating. Once an item is updated, it is instantly available to anyone within the firewall. Interoffice memos, paper shuffling, and multiple copies of documents become vestiges of the past.

    Employee training becomes less expensive and time-consuming using Intranet technology. The expense of training manuals is eradicated. Your employees are afforded the opportunity to expand their horizons without being absent from work to attend seminars and external conferences. They can learn in smaller units which will fit nicely into their daily agenda, and the employer can be assured that the training matches the company's needs and requirements.

    Company conferencing, email, sharing programs, even the utilization of Net meetings are other advantages of Intranets. You may choose to include valued clients in your Intranet, as well, to facilitate in the ordering of supplies or in the expediting of services.

    Whether or not your company has a presence on the World-Wide Web, an Intranet can be an effective and money-saving tool. In this day of downsizing, an Intranet has the capacity to lessen your company's financial outlay on paper, printing, and distribution of internal documents and, thereby, freeing up your capital for more profitable investments.