5 Key Features To Consider When Choosing A Social Intranet

30th July, 2010 - Posted By Angela Cullen - 2 Comments

When building a business case around a social Intranet, there are a few key components to consider. Here are five suggested features that you might ask your potential vendors to demonstrate.

Is ECM Going The Way Of The Dodo? Or Maybe The Way Of The Intranet?

20th December, 2009 - Posted By Sean R. Nicholson - 12 Comments

Is Enterprise Content Management going the way of the Intranet and becoming an outdated notion? Will better federated search technologies negate the need for a central repository? Are organizations better off investing in the functional elements of ECM like document management, records management, and business process management instead of buying the whole enchilada?

Intranet Best Practices –
Building A Federated Search Strategy

17th August, 2009 - Posted By Sean R. Nicholson - No Comments

If you haven’t figured it out already, it’s a Google kinda world out there and your Intranet users expect your search functionality to provide them with accurate, relevant results to their search queries. With that in mind, if you haven’t already begun the process of building a federate search strategy, it’s time to do so.

Top 10 Must Haves For Every Good Intranet

9th April, 2009 - Posted By Sean R. Nicholson - 15 Comments

Okay Intranet fans, here it is…the 2009 completely unofficial list of must have functionality for every Intranet:

{drumroll please….}

Intranet Portal Requirements In The Age Of Social Media

30th March, 2009 - Posted By Sean R. Nicholson - 8 Comments

A few years ago, I was in charge of an RFP for a Fortune 500 company to select an Intranet portal application and portal content management system. Thinking about the requirements for that portal and how they would change in this age of social networking got me thinking about how the requirements would change if I were to conduct that same RFP today.

Single Sign-On or Simpler Sign-On…What Expectation Is Realistic For Identity Management?

28th March, 2009 - Posted By Sean R. Nicholson - 2 Comments

Who isn’t interested in accomplishing Single Sign-On? You know, that nirvana of Identity Management where users only ever have to sign on to their local workstation and then have completely unfettered access to applications throughout the enterprise. While this concept may sound great to end-users and executives, it’s an absolute nightmare concept for IT personnel and application administrators.

The Difference Between Mashups And Messes…How Integrated Are Your Portal Applications?

22nd March, 2009 - Posted By Sean R. Nicholson - No Comments

One of the strengths of a good Intranet portal is the ability to integrate the disparate applications that exist within an enterprise. Just because links to the applications are presented in the portal or, in some cases, even natively surfaced in the portal doesn’t make them effectively integrated. Take a look at the following tips and see if they indicate that your portal has mashups or messes.