Beats only speaking with people around the corner.

Do kids even know about the two cans and a string anymore? It is a technology that has its place. It can teach basics. But it is limited and slow. Your customers and employees don't need to know the technology, they need information about your business. Unless your business is cans and strings. In which case …

Intranets, extranets and portals save your company, your customers and your employees time. Intranets, Extranets and Web portals also save your company and your clients money. They let you streamline internal and external communication. Portals, intranets and extranets allow you and your customers to share content--files, multimedia, data--with your employees and coworkers and/or your clients. Get information to the people who need it inside and outside your company, securely and in a timely manner.

What Can Portals, Intranets And Extranets Do For My Business?

Intranets and portals are internal, aimed at employees and coworkers, even those at different locations. Extranets are aimed at clients and customers, but both, intranets and extranets, can do the following:

Facilitate communication

Eliminate redundant processes

Reduce paperwork

Increase productivity

Provide immediate updates and information

Provide quick response times to problems and questions

What are Portals, Intranets And Extranets?

An intranet is a private, secure Website that enables users to share documents, calendars, and other information within a business. An intranet is often hosted and maintained on company servers and can only be accessed by internal employees or external employees through a VPN.

An extranet allows businesses to share documents, calendars, and project information with distributed employees, partners, and customers. Extranet functionality enables 24/7 private, secure access to collaborative tools with just an Internet connection.

A portal is an interface to the intranet, extranet or employee access to the Internet. It is a customized and branded page that aggregates content that is most useful and/or most requested by employees or customers during the day. It is comparable to an iGoogle or My Yahoo in terms of configurability. Who configures the portal, management or the customer/employee, is dictated by client needs.

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