For organizations whose core business relies on tight integration with employees, vendors, and partners, the web isn’t just the external corporate website - it’s the "everything".

It’s where employees sign up for health benefits and adjust 401(k) options. It’s where corporate vendors can securely access their current orders and past invoices. The web is where managers approve time sheets, where executives access their graphical sales roll-up dashboards, and where Human Resources team members publish new org charts, and the field sales force connects with headquarters.

All layers of the web - Public websites, the Intranet, the Extranet - combine to form the heart and soul of your successful company.

Intranet: What’s In Your Closet?

The concept of the "Intranet" has transformed from a glorified File Share into a true business tool; a "mini-web" that provides the same value behind the scenes for employees that the Internet provides for clients. The Intranet is where your team members interact with management and one another. It’s where they store and retrieve data. It’s where they track down important information about benefits, company policy, and procedures. You don’t want your Intranet to be the closet where everyone shoves documents and data in piles that are impossible to sort through. A well organized Intranet promotes speed and efficiency which, in turn, boost morale.

Our custom designed apps enable your team to easily create, edit, and organize their key reference documents - departmental documentation and standards guides, technical specifications, client data sheets, product references, and everything in between. Your sales staff can easily access letterhead, PowerPoint ™ templates, and sales brochures. Your HR department can quickly ensure that updated Employee Conduct Guides are published quickly. And department heads across the organization can manage their internally "owned" content with built-in security.

Extranet: Connections That Count

The Extranet has evolved as well. No longer a corporate afterthought, the Extranet can be more important for the daily operations of some businesses than their public website. The new Extranet is a place where franchisees can view available corporate displays for their stores, order parts from inventory, and receive important notices from the parent corporation. It’s a place where vendors and clients can pay their bills easily without burdening the Accounts Receivable department directly. It’s - well, a lot. It’s a place where the actual business of the business happens.

Corporate Portals: All That and More

The evolving Intranet and Extranet are headed toward one business goal: the unified, integrated Corporate Portal. Sounds like some scary final frontier? It’s not. The Portal has become key as corporations discover they store more information in more places (and more formats) than ever before. Managing that information is growing exponentially more difficult. With that growth, the complexity of applications, locations, and content management tools increases as well – and so does the time required to maintain and manage them all separately. A Portal meets the organizational need to be able to retrieve, share, organize, and manage information effectively and efficiently. We’ll guide you through the Portal—the process, the procedure, and all the many plusses.

Here’s What You’ll Get.

• Easy Navigation - members don’t have to search around in frustration to find what they need
• Aggregation - multiple services are available for the portal members, so that it becomes a quick and efficient "one stop shop" for their business needs
• Key Business Services - the true Portal offers a degree of interactivity with business functions, something beyond the "bulletin board".
• Specificity / Authentication – most Portals offer information and transactions specific to the member (such as account management)

Open a window to a new way of working

Intranet and Extranet portals serve as gateways to vast amounts of enterprise information. An effective portal gives all users access to mission-critical data and applications in a user-friendly, high-performance, remotely accessible web application.

Ariesnet Corporate Portals deliver:

• Easy access to needed information and applications
• Searchable data and dynamic reports
• Centralization and integration of various data and information silos
• Collaborative tools to promote organizational communication and information sharing
• Customized solution that fits your organization’s real-life workflows
• Management tools to ensure easy maintenance

At Ariesnet we help you conceptualize, architect, build, and manage the right Portal instance for your organization. We use a variety of tools to provide that "custom fit" –Microsoft Sharepoint Portals, SharePoint-based web application, customized SharePoint Web Parts, sites with line-of-business application integration, and custom-built extensive portals tailored for your specific needs.