Intranets as Social Networks

When we first began the design of Office Ability Intranet software about 3 years ago, the design team set out to discover the most important features used by a variety of organizations and made available on the world's top Intranets. We studied many sources of information during our research, including, published data, interview research, survey information, and published reports from the Nielsen Norman Group, the most rigorous Intranet survey conducted and a wealth of information from the business Intranet community.

Company Intranets Keep Employees on the Same Page

Adapted from original article by Mie-Yun Lee

If you want to share a document company-wide, do you e-mail it to everyone? Perhaps you make dozens of paper copies instead, giving one to each employee and filing the extras away. Or maybe you save a master in one of the various shared directories on your company network and hope that people will be able to find it.

Intranet Launch – Considerations for OfficeAbility Roll-out

An effective Intranet launch will affect both the short-term acceptance and the long-term success of your Intranet. There are a number of key considerations, as you contemplate your own Intranet launch.

While these points are only meant as helpful suggestions, the best results will arise when an Intranet launch is approached as a cohesive effort, usually championed by a dedicated group or committee. The following points are provided as a starting point; as food-for-thought.

Intranet Content Administration - The Middle Ground

At some point during an Intranet planning process, the question of how to administer and who will administer the content of an Intranet must be dealt with. An Intranet is an important information receptacle, full of the thoughts and ideas that help form the culture and institutional memory of the organization; so someone needs to be in control... right? Or perhaps not right at all?

OfficeAbility Has Migrated to Amazon Web Services

Mai Thai Enterprises Co., Ltd., the developers of OfficeAbility Intranet Software, is pleased to announce that OfficeAbility Intranet is now being delivered as software-as-a-service (SaaS) via Amazon Web Services. 

OfficeAbility, as part of a transition to full cloud deployment via Amazon Web Services (AWS), has now moved all Intranet customer accounts over to Amazon.  AWS is the world's leading provider of cloud services such as elastic cloud computing (EC2),

There are many advantages that the move to Amazon cloud will provide for our customers.  Dynamic provisioning means that Intranet sites will be deployed on-demand, taking advantage of fully scalable and often virtualized resources. Another main advantage is the availability of ‘elastic’ services, load balancing, and sharing of computing resources.  This ensures that OfficeAbility Intranet customers will enjoy optimal site performance regardless of peak-usage scenarios.

The New Intranet - Social Media Meets the Enterprise

Intranets for the Small Business - Can Your Small Business Benefit?

C. Sumner Winship, Marketing Manager, Office Ability

Advice for the New Year... small businesses can enjoy all the advantages, and benefits, of an office Intranet

Small business owners and human resources staff alike may be scratching their heads at the thought of purchasing an intranet.  ‘We have less than 50 staff, is that really enough to justify an Intranet?  What can we gain by implementing an Intranet for our small organization??

The answer to the first of these questions is quite simply, yes; you will almost certainly see tangible benefit in introducing an intranet solution.  The second answer, simply put, is that an Intranet is sure to help increase efficiency and enhance intra-office communication.  

How can an Intranet save you money$$?

Basic ROI calculation of Intranet benefits: How does OfficeAbility Intranet help customers to save money?

It is too common that companies do not know how to go about calculating cost:benefits that could be realized by introducing an Intranet. One reason for this is that the benefits are often seen as being intangible and calculations complex.

Most often people using an Intranet see the benefits as simply being obvious; or the complete opposite when referring to outdated technologies and under-utilized Intranets.

One example of how Intranet value can be calculated is by using simple ROI calculation. In the current economic times, it is a necessity that technology investment should either save or make customers money. Modern Intranets are regarded as having high value, where benefits greatly outweigh the cost. This is because of time and effort saved in finding information, reducing printing/distribution, reducing errors, reducing travel requirements, and other measures that can be calculated.