Anticlue

Intranet Consolidation

Builder.com has an interesting article on how to consolidate your intranet infrastructure.

According to the article, an intranet can be each of these things individually. In my experience however it is a collection of these items.

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A dashboard for the corporation—Is the core of your intranet designed to bring together reporting numbers from various Web-based systems into one dashboard where management can see how the company is doing at a glance?
Dashboard for internal applications—Is your intranet site simply navigation for getting to all of the internal Web applications that have proliferated over the past several years?
File repository—Is it a file repository that is designed to replace or supplement your existing file servers? File-based intranets allow for more categorization of files and more regimented tagging of files, but the increased organization may be resisted by users.
Collaboration—If you have teams of people who need to share calendars, to-do lists, or project plans, you'll have a site that focuses on the collaborative opportunities of an intranet. This type of foundation most highly values the ability for groups to maintain their own rapidly changing information.
Corkboard—Some organizations use the intranet as a virtual corkboard. It's a place where the human resources department can place notices about changes to health benefits, for example. Some extend this concept further, allowing anyone who has something to say to post a note on the intranet.