> -----Original Message----- > From: Adam Churvis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 2:48 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Intranets and extranets > > In your experience, what have been the features and functionality that > you, > your associates, and your clients have found most useful in an intranet > or > extranet of any kind, regardless of platform?
We just completely redesigned the enterprise intranet (serving about 40,000 associates in many locations). By far the first and greatest request was a good directory system. The old system (Lotus Notes based) SUCKED. It would error with no recourse if entered input wrong. You could only search by name (not location, manager or anything else). I was very picky about search criteria (for example to search for first name and last name you HAD to enter, for example, "Davis , Jim" including the spaces or it would error). The new system is better - not great, but much better. You can (finally) do a directory search directly from the launch page (our corporate XP image locks the IE launch page to the intranet - you can't change it). You can search by manager and location and other nifty things. In our company everything else was secondary to that. Making it easy to connect with other associates was far and away more important. Some of the other features that got moved to the front are: +) "Associate Information Center" - essentially the online employee handbook with access to vacation calendars, travel reimbursement systems, benefit information, etc. +) Our enterprise time management system (just a link to the external system - it would be nice if it were more integrated with the intranet). +) The enterprise job posting system. With such a large company there's a lot of people who transfer from department to department and the company encourages it (good move on their part). +) The Request and Acquisition system (for ordering stuff - PCs, office supplies, etc). There's also the obvious stuff: company news, "letters from the CEO" and "fluff" pieces (employee hobbies, charity work and such: one of our agents won a dinner with Oprah!). There are hidden, Masonic-like areas dedicated to managers that people like me are not allowed enter. All told the Intranet is actually much better designed than the public web site... even tho' it suffers greatly from being done using IBM's portal server (I hates it! I hates it forever!) Jim Davis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion 8 - Build next generation apps today, with easy PDF and Ajax features - download now http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/coldfusion/cf8_beta_whatsnew_052907.pdf Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:239465 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
