BREAKING NEWS
Interact Intranet, a supplier of intelligent intranet software, announced the latest expansion of its Partner Program with digital agency Rippleffect. Founded in 1999, the Liverpool-based Rippleffect has built successful, long-standing digital relationships with market leaders across the public and private sectors, and is a member of the Trinity Mirror group.
Editorial/News & Tools
Posted 05 Apr 2011
Interact announced the release of Interact Answers, a crowd-sourcing feature that allows users to post questions on the intranet and receive accurate solutions, using Interact Intranet's intelligence store and the knowledge of other users. Available with Interact Intranet 4.8, Interact Answers responds to a user-posted question with possible solutions, first using intelligent capabilities to supply information, and then recommending colleagues who may be able to answer the question.
Editorial/News & Tools
Posted 22 Mar 2011
Socialtext announced a set of product enhancements that make corporate intranets more social, personalized and engaging. This intranet-focused release (4.6) also delivers key administrative and analytic improvements that help IT leaders, IT developers and business champions gain critical insight into the valuable work employees perform inside Socialtext.First generation intranets and portal technologies have aggregated enterprise systems and enabled self-service for IT and HR tasks. They have been document repositories that make it difficult for people to find what they need to get their job done. And since content requires IT's help to update, intranets quickly become stale and outdated.
Editorial/News & Tools
Posted 24 Feb 2011
Queplix Corp. introduced its new Application Software Blades, integrating three major social media sites with its content. Companies can capture information from Facebook, LinkedIn, and Google contacts to link it with corporate data.
Editorial/News & Tools
Posted 18 Jan 2011
FEATURED STORIES
The Copernicus Group Independent Review Board (CGIRB) has a mandate to protect human research subjects within clinical research projects. This results in millions of pages of documents coming in to CGIRB, including things such as the study's protocols, the informed consent forms signed by the human subjects, and the credentials of the investigators. On an average weekly basis, CGIRB was generating the equivalent of 22' of paper.
Kathmandu provides quality outdoor clothing and equipment for travel and adventure throughout stores across New Zealand, Australia, and the U.K. Kathmandu's head office faces the challenge of communicating efficiently and consistently to a dispersed and rapidly expanding network of retail stores. The company enlisted Intranet DASHBOARD (iD) to create an intranet not only to address these challenges, but also to improve the overall operational efficiency of the company in readiness for ongoing growth and success.
Portal is a term that is overloaded with definitions. Discussions revolving around a portal project offer no guarantees that everyone has the same understanding of the term. Officially, the purpose of a portal is to provide a point of access for information, data, applications, and processes. Today, portals are everywhere; it could be argued that portals define today's online experience, whether using public sites or a corporate intranet. Portals are pervasive, and they fill many different needs in different situations.
Each year, the Intranet Innovation Awards (IIA) celebrates new ideas and innovative approaches to the enhancement and delivery of intranets. The goal is to find these ideas (whether they are large or small), and share them with the community. Gold Awards are given in four different categories, each focusing on a specific aspect of intranets: core intranet functionality, communication and collaboration, frontline delivery, and business solutions. A Platinum Award winner is then chosen to recognize the most extraordinary entry for the year.