Intranets & Extranets

Intranets

The facilitation of effective communication between employees is vital for a business’ success; an intranet’s ability to interact with its users and share information securely achieves this better than almost any other tool. Other benefits include a dramatic reduction in the emails and paperwork, which can block up even the most effective system, and the ability to communicate your brand daily to the employees that need to uphold it.

Interdirect has experience in creating reliable intranet systems for nationwide standards organisations such as the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW). The intranet improves interaction with users as well as maintaining the high standards of informative quality that the organisation sustains. The intranet also portrays an effective marketing message in reminding members and employees of the ICAEW brand.

 
Extranets

An extranet is a closed system like an intranet; however an extranet is available to anyone that serves the company and not just to its employees.

Having previously worked with Bluewater Shopping Centre, Interdirect was an obvious choice of agency for their extranet project. In order to achieve constant communication with retailers, Bluewater identified the need to develop an extranet which would enable information to be distributed more freely to relevant users. The result was a highly successful extranet which enabled both retailers and centre managers to access a global system which could communicate information, such as footfall and data marketing releases, as well as enabling visitors to download forms. In addition, centre staff can track lost property and log customer comments.