More and more companies, not just large ones, have their own intranet. This is because an intranet facilitates communication and collaboration within the company.
Many factors are forcing companies to be more competitive every day, and in this sense, having an intranet has gone from being an advantage to a necessity.
The advantages of an intranet are innumerable but we believe that the most important are:
- facilitating controlled and immediate access to current information.
- creating a collaborative environment among the members of the company.
- encouraging participation in the company.
- improving efficiency.
These advantages result in increased productivity and reduced costs. But above any other advantage an intranet facilitates promoting and sharing knowledge, communication and participation, and helps an organisation to maintain its quality system.
The implementation of an intranet requires technical expertise and an implementation plan to ensure success. The tasks to be performed within the implementation plan include installation, graphics customisation, structuring information, information security, data upload, and training. In many cases, data migration and custom development are also needed.
It is imperative to enable users to find the information they need easily and as quickly as possible. This may be obvious but it is not a simple task, and requires a user-centric design focused on usability. Access to information from different devices (computers, tablets, smartphones, etc.) also requires knowledge of the possibilities and limitations of each device, in order to offer the best solution for each of them.
Our intranet solution is based on Open Source software. This eliminates the cost of software licenses and lets us add improvements to our solution as they emerge from the growing community of Open Source developers.
Our intranet gives our clients immediate access to an efficient solution that improves business communication, both internally and with clients and suppliers. It is also a completely flexible solution because we can focus our efforts on adapting to the current and future needs of our clients by developing custom extensions.
Alvantia specialises in developing custom business applications based on Open Source technology. We believe that the best solution is often to adapt existing technology to the needs of our clients. In this way, we can provide our clients with a custom solution at a competitive cost.
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