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Many of the greatest Internet success stories have little to do with sales and marketing to outside customers. These Intranet applications focus on significantly improving internal business capabilities, processes and operations to:
Great Connections® can assist your organization in the planning,
design, implementation and ongoing management of your Intranet applications
including: assessing requirements; selecting software; integrating systems;
and developing custom applications. We are Intranet experts with over
15 years of experience in network-based on-line services and applications.
Our Intranet applications include:
Although building upon the same Internet technology, Intranet applications
often have a number of special requirements including:
Sooner or later many organizations taking advantage of Internet technology
to publish internal documents experience problems that limit or diminish
resulting benefits. Typical issues include:
Example: One ADD Place
(Input Form,
Published
Web Page)
Also see: Forms-Based Applications
Internet technologies offer unprecedented opportunities for supporting and augmenting collaborative group or team processes. Collaborative applications can improve the quality of group results while significantly reducing the time and cost associated with: coordinating; scheduling; meeting; exchanging information; generating and evaluating new ideas; polling; and decision making. Great Connections® can help you implement these customized applications quickly and cost-effectively. Also see: Knowledge Management
Education and training applications have becoming increasingly popular as organizations realize their strategic benefits. These applications help staff maintain, improve and expand their knowledge and skills to meet the requirements of a rapidly changing business environment. Internet-based applications are unparalleled in their ability to quickly develop and deploy new training modules. Time and cost can be reduced dramatically over traditional training options. Great Connections® can help you develop and implement these modules quickly and cost-effectively. Also see: Webinars, Multimedia, Forms-Based Applications
The Internet has amply proven its capabilities as a marketing and sales tool. But this is just the tip of the iceberg in supporting your relationship with your customers and adding value to what you offer them. Our applications offer cost-effective options for your organization to provide your customers - anywhere in the world - the information they need to get the most value from your products and services. For many companies today, these applications are essential for achieving customer satisfaction and competitive advantage. These applications include: user support; technical support; user education and training; and product or service documentation. Also see: Webinars, Forms-Based Applications
An Internet-based document management application may be just what your organization needs to author, publish, distribute, update and secure its formal or official documents including: HR documents; policies and procedures; strategic and project plans; technical and user documentation; and many other documents. Also see: Knowledge Management
Group authoring can be a time consuming and frustrating process. An Internet-based application can dramatically improve the quality and speed of authoring, coordination, content integration, comment and review, version management, publishing, distribution and updating. Also see: Knowledge Management, Forms-Based Applications
Many organizations have realized significant savings in time, money and staff resources for hiring new staff and providing employees access to important HR information. Example: Premisys
Communications Also see: Internal
Staff & Computer User Support,
For any organization, knowledge is one of its most strategic and valuable assets. Our Knowledge Management applications focus on the fundamental knowledge-based business processes underlying all individual and organizational business activity including: information gathering, integration, sharing and reuse; continuous learning; group or team coordination; and collaborative interaction. Our approach is inspired by the peerless contribution of America's foremost information-age visionary and pioneer, Dr. Douglas C. Engelbart, currently Director of The Bootstrap Institute. More specifically, our Knowledge Management process models spring from a seminal Engelbart concept: the Concurrent (and Continuous) Development, Integration and Application of Knowledge (CoDIAK). This powerful concept envisions the rapid development, fluid integration, immediate application, and continuous improvement and extension of knowledge. Although Knowledge Management may sound somewhat lofty or vague, Great Connections® can help your organization take practical, high-value, cost-effective steps toward this goal. Also see: Collaborative Applications, Group Authoring, Forms-Based Applications
In many organizations, an increasing number of documents are being produced for multiple information channels (print, web, e-mail, CD-ROM, slide presentations, etc.). All too often, the tools and methods used for authoring the original content produce files that are too time-consuming and expensive to effectively convert to formats required by other channels. Great Connections® has developed a simple, but effective, integrated process model and associated practical steps for publishing and delivering your text and graphic content through multiple channels. This approach has proven to dramatically reduce both cost and time for content authoring, and subsequent conversion to multiple information channel formats. We can help your organization apply this approach using your existing software tools and staff capabilities. Also see: Automated Web Publishing
Numerous internal projects and
initiatives depend on good project management to achieve their objectives
on time. Our Intranet applications offer practical, low-cost options for
effectively supporting project teams including:
Talk to any sales person (internal
or var) for an organization that is rapidly developing and launching new
products and services, and you are likely to get an earful about how challenging
it is to keep up. Keeping your sales force well informed, trained and
supported can be a critical factor in successful sales growth.
Great Connections® can help
you achieve this objective with practical, cost-effective, customized
Intranet applications for:
Also see: Forms-Based Applications
Whether the target audience for
your R&D is internal or external, the success of your organization
depends on how well you transfer your technology developments to the field,
where they can be beneficially applied. Great
Connections® can help you achieve this challenging objective with
practical, cost-effective, customized Intranet applications for:
Also see: Forms-Based
Applications
Effectively supporting internal staff and computer users can be daunting task, given the limited time and resources available in most large and small organizations. Our Intranet applications offer practical, cost-effective, customized support options for your staff including:
Also see: Forms-Based
Applications
Seminars can be an important vehicle for educating and creating awareness, whether for external customers or internal staff. They can also be costly and time consuming. More and more organizations are using the Internet to deliver web-based seminars or "Webinars" more quickly and to larger audiences. These applications offer convenient access (any time, anywhere), self-paced user-driven interaction and significant cost savings. Great Connections® can help you convert and redesign your existing live-seminar slide programs and materials into effective Webinars, or to develop new ones. These Webinars can be basic text and images, or they can incorporate sound (voice-overs, music, sound effects) and other multimedia. Example: ISI Webinar Also see: Computer-Based
Education and Training, Customer Service & Support,
Sales & VAR Support, Technology
Transfer
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