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
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