Intranets.com Helps Company Collaborate

Let’s be clear here to start off with, this isn’t an unbiased interview at all. The question “What competitive products did you consider?” wasn’t even answered. That out of the way the article does bring up excellent point for why hosted services like Intranets.com are right to many companies. I think the most important is the fact that it is hosted: you don’t have to worry about building or maintaining your infrastructure. The other collaboration features they talked about can be found within any decent groupware package. Even with Outlook you have a lot of this functionality. Again, though, to use most of those features, you have to have the servers on site.

There are alternatives to Intranets.com. SocialText is a good example, but I think the user interface could use some work. I found the whole scheme pretty confusing. Bell Canada offers packages for SMBs to get online and some include Exchange and SharePoint (I think).

The other option, especially if you just starting out and don’t need calendars and tasks, is a hosted blog.

I would read this article to get a handle on one companies requirments and solutions. Their experience might help you work out your own requirements.

Intranets.com Helps Company Collaborate

Just because your employee headcount doesn’t number in the thousands doesn’t mean you don’t need to think about ways to communicate more efficiently. Boston-based Intranets.com caters to the needs of small and mid-size businesses by providing software that lets you share files, calendars and databases with co-workers, suppliers and other business partners. (The basic rate is $59.95 per month for five users; 10, 25, 50 Workgroup plans are also available for $99.95, $229.95, $399.95 per month, respectively.)