Not all websites have to be public-facing, you know. An intranet is a website specifically designed to be viewed within your organisation; it's for the benefit of your staff. Your intranet could serve all kinds of purposes:

Sharing information about projects, key contacts, each other, research, key dates, and other company activities. Your intranet could be your employees' first port of call for facts, phone numbers, etc, and their first option for publishing information throughout the organisation.

Ask EB was a knowledge-sharing intranet delivered to
the Business West organisation in partnership with
Mint Solutions Ltd.

Building communities of people both inside and outside your organisation. By providing your visitors with a key information resource and a forum to exchange ideas, you can give them a sense of belonging to a community. A successful online community makes your site a daily requirement for people in your market sector.

The IT @ Work extranet we delivered gave them an
online community for a selection of industries
across the west of England.

Integrating other databases and information systems with your intranet means that it isn't just another resource for your organisation - it's the resource. Your employees can use it to access account, sales or contact information - the list is endless. Further to this, expanding your intranet to be accessible by your clients means they can access the parts of the system applicable to them - think online billing tied up to your accounting system, a support ticket system integrated with your contact management solution, or even a retail ordering system linked to your stock control!

Intranets can be linked up to a variety of different sources
and databases, making them the one-stop-shop for your
organisation's information.