Functional Overview

The Intelligent Intranet's rich functionality includes all the essential services that you would want from an intranet portal, and much more. Here we have listed some of the key features.

Powerful Publisher with Distributed Content Management
The powerful browser based publisher allows users to create full multi-media content with ease. Creating and updating content is as easy as typing up a standard office document. Normal office documents can be simply uploaded to the intranet and automatically become indexed and access controlled.

A rich choice of pre-defined templates from FAQs and press releases to documents makes deployment easy, whilst preserving flexibility and design freedom for more advanced users. All content is scheduled with start and expiry dates with optional email alerts to notify on expiry. You can allow any type of files you deem are appropriate.

Multi-level FocusXpert hierarchy enables a distributed approval process.

Powerful content structure manager
Structuring the intranet is always a very important aspect of the deployment. With the ability to move, rearrange, rename sections and articles, to sort the order and cross-link, sitemaps, optional table of content per section, Intelligent Intranet makes it easy for you to manage the structure through evolving needs of the organisation.

Access control & authentication
The Intelligent Intranet has a built-in user manager and supports transparent single logon for Windows domain users. Ability to define viewing and publishing rights to each content area are based on user access classification or by user group.

User manager
Different levels of user rights, automated tools to help the administrator with leavers and starters, an easy way to maintain supervisor relationships.

Who is who knowledge base
More than an enterprise wide telephone directory, this who is who also includes configurable and protected fields and extensive search facilities. Details can be maintained by employees themselves. For Human Resources, the built-in skills database makes locating particular skills and competencies in a large organisation a simple case of search.

Content indexing, search and taxonomy
Unified search across database content and documents, with Advanced Search interface makes it easy for the users to accurately and quickly locate information on specific areas of the intranet . You can build your own taxonomy to help users, and monitor the use of search words. Access controls are applied to all search results as well as to the automatic what's new.

Digital Asset and Image library
The central image library allows you to store and organise both high and low resolution versions of images with support for keywords and credits. You can configure the categorisation to suit your requirements and to aid the image search.

Personalisation
End-users can create their own favorites and request email notifications for new or updated articles as well as manage their to-do lists, forms and archives. Centrally, you can create different views for each department. Generally, what users are not allowed to access, they cannot see.

Look and feel
The look and feel can be customised to reflect your corporate image and you can further create distinct home pages for each department. The Enterprise Edition further enables each divisional intranet to have their own look and feel, or variants, if that is appropriate.

Instant communications
Supports one to all, one to many and one to one communications, with centrally timed messaging by the hour or by date. There is a choice of scrollers, newsflashes, email notifications and mobile alert via text messages.

Collaboration areas
These can be used for more social purposes or as discussion forums for specialists groups and projects, with ability to organise all project documentation.