The role of the intranet in business has evolved over the years. While it was once just a place to check for company news, modernised intranets offer a collaborative hub for employees to communicate with one another, share documents, and manage tasks.

Let’s be honest: Most company intranets today are outdated and unexciting. They tend to be static, one-way communication portals built on older technology that’s cumbersome to support. Rather than being a hub of activity, they’re practically ghost towns.

As far as corporate technology goes, intranets are a simple yet great go-to solution for connecting your workforce and keeping them up to date on important news and information. There’s many more benefits to using intranets, which we explore below—along with a much-needed clarification on how an intranet differs from the internet.

When you think about older intranets, images of ghost towns and tumbleweeds probably come to mind. That’s because these corporate solutions were costly, one-way communication tools—in other words, expensive megaphones.

You’ve heard talk about intranets and extranets throughout your career, but you’ve never really gotten a definitive definition or what makes them different. We’re here to clear things up for you.

The pressure to work more efficiently is ever increasing. We need to work faster, smarter and with more and more information. Not having the right information where and when you need it makes this harder and more stressful.

When I first got involved with Glasscubes, sometime ago now, the main message which was being communicated was that businesses typically do not have a resource or application to go to when creating a secure online intranet.