Intranet and Portal Success Criteria
Identifying clear and measurable criteria that can be used to evaluate the success of the intranet is important not only for managing the solution, but also for communicating the success to executive stakeholders and other parties. These criteria are commonly a combination of empirical results derived through quantitative and qualitative assessments.
 
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Intranets and Portals

Intervate has been involved in implementing intranet and portal solutions for over 10 years and has worked on many large scale local and multinational solutions. This experience has given us great insight into what is necessary to make initiatives successful. Our knowledge has been formulated into a best practices intranet consulting solution and methodology.

Intranets form the platform for unifying people, processes and systems and lie at the heart of an organisation's communications, knowledge and collaboration strategy. Well planned and implemented intranets result in significantly improved productivity and cost savings achieved through:
 
 
  • Greater access to information,
  • More efficient processes,
  • Reduced time wasting activities,
  • ​Sharing of knowledge and
  • Distributed information and management
Portals provide an aggregated view into organisational information and systems. They form a logical extension to an organisation’s intranet and introduce capabilities such as personalisation and single sign-on. Moreover, portals are excellent tools for delivering customer and partner extranets.

Intervate’s research model for intranet and portal projects takes a user, content and context centric approach that leads to well adopted solutions which produce real business value.
 
Portals and Microsoft SharePoint Server
Microsoft has in recent years been instrumental in commoditising what has previously been a niche and often expensive technology to implement and maintain. Microsoft SharePoint has within 5 years of launch become the largest licence based Portal product in the world and with the release of its next generation capabilities in SharePoint Server 2010 it continues to rapidly grow its market share. SharePoint 2010 is a truly enterprise level application that provides a flexible platform on which to build and deploy intranet and portal solutions.
 
An intranet is often the starting point of a SharePoint deployment. Intervate can define a SharePoint deployment roadmap for you which begins with the communication value of an intranet and then extends into various departmental level workloads such as multi-dimensional content management, self-service capabilities provided through workflow, knowledge management and corporate social networking capabilities, line-of-business system integration, and business intelligence.
 

 Our Intranet and Portal Customers

 
  • Vela VKE
    Intervate has completed its first Microsoft SharePoint 2010 implementation for Vela VKE. Vela VKE identified the need for a knowledge management system that would enable them to share, capture and access information. Intervate implemented an Intranet system to solve this problem for them.
  • Gauteng Economic Development Agency
    GEDA approached Intervate to assist with the analysis and implementation of a new divisional portal based on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007.
  • Nampak
    Nampak is in the process of improving its communication channels within the organisation. To aid this process they have implemented an intranet site which is used as a communication tool.
 

 Packaged Offerings

 
  • Enterprise Portals using SharePoint 2010
    Intervate's Enterprise Portals using Microsoft SharePoint 2010 is a consulting Offering that will prepare you for an effective Portal and Collaboration implementation using Intervate's best practices for technology planning and architecture design.
  • Social Computing Using SharePoint 2010
    Social Computing using Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 is a consulting offering designed to help organisations realise their goals of corporate social networking, collaborating on and sharing of ideas and knowledge, and expertise discovery amongst the talent that resides within the organisation.
  • Financial Services "SPIN Box"
    SPIN 2010, a joint solution from Intervate and Silverminute (U.K.), is a preconfigured on-premises or hosted SharePoint 2010–based portal that provides high-value collaborative components for investment management organisations.
  • Intranet-in-a-box
    Intranet in a Box is a rapid intranet deployment model that delivers a packaged intranet solution for mid-market or enterprise customers based on Microsoft SharePoint Server within a limited budget.
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