Intranet Strategies - Potential Advantages of Using Intranets

Potential Advantages of Using Intranets

• reduces printing, distribution, and paper costs - particularly on policy manuals, company newsletters, product catalogs, technical drawings, training material, and telephone directories
• easy to use - no specialized training required
• inexpensive to use (once it is set up)
• moderate initial setup costs (hardware and software)
• standardized network protocol (TCP/IP), document protocol (HTML), and file transfer protocol (ftp) already well established and suitable for all platforms
• can be used throughout the enterprise
• reduces employee training costs
• reduces sales and marketing costs
• reduces office administration and accounting costs
• ease of access results in a more integrated company with employees communicating and collaborating more freely and more productively