Intranets and Extranets

Business intranets and extranets vary greatly in their implementation from organization to organization. Some companies' intranets and extranets serve as an organizational component in a larger web portal, catering to an enterprise wide application. Intranet vs. Extranet: What's the difference? Functionally, there is no difference between an intranet and an extranet. The only difference is whether you're accessing the resource through the internet, or through your local network. Intranets exist within your existing network, whereas Extranets exist out on the web. Both are secure and only accessible by your workforce. Other intranets and extranets are implemented to serve some services of smaller scale, akin to a web-based version of Microsoft Outlook.

Whatever the scope of your intranet or extranet project, Argot Systems can develop it for you. Our approch to this kind of development is to favor single-sign on for your company. What this means in practical terms is this: if your company's network is Microsoft-based, we will build and intranet or extranet into your Active Directory network authentication infrastructure using some combination of Microsoft products including SQL Server, ASP.NET, SharePoint, and C#. If you are running a Linux-based network, it is more likely that we will implement your intranet or extranet based on open-source technologies like PHP, MySQL and Perl.

Some common features that you may wish to implement in your intranet or extranet include:

• Web-based Forums
  Forums allow your workforce to engage in focused discussion threads that are easily archivable, searchable, and printable.
• Document Repository
  While an intranet or extranet is not a replacement for a LAN-based fileserver, your intranet or extranet can present a web-based view into your companies' fileserver, allowing for easy and secure remote access
• Help Desk
  If your company has an in-house IT team, your IT team's workflow and communication can be revolutionized by having an intranet or extranet help desk. Help desks provide a simple user interface for your non-IT workforce to use to report technical issues to the IT staff. The IT staff can then prioritize, manage and correct the technical issues from the help desk administration features. Management can track problem resolution timeframes, the number and kinds of problems reported, and more.

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