Many companies have derived business value from their intranet applications. Intranets dramatically reduce the costs and time of content development, duplication, distribution and usage.
The intranet publishing model includes a much shorter process, skipping many of the steps involved in the traditional publication model. Intranet using companies report cost reductions, revenue increases or other benefits after they replaced traditional methods of accomplishing information publishing and other business processes with intranet based methods.
Elimination of printing, mailing and distribution of paper documents with electronic multimedia versions on intranet:
*Telephone directories
*Hunan resource materials
*Other paper-based communication
*Newsletter
*Company policies
*Job openings
Companies that use web technology to distribute documents may experience momentous gains in productivity and incredible cost savings.
Like the reengineering craze that has marked the other half of the client/server revolution, converting many paper-based systems to web systems can save both labor and over head costs within an organization.
In the intranet model, revision becomes part of the updating process while the original content is available to end user thus dramatically reducing the time it takes for the information to become available to the user.
Business Value of the Intranet: Publication Cost Savings
