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Intranets
Increase productivity, reduce costs, provide better customer service

An intranet is a website that is only available to your organisation. It provides a central area for you to put documents, forms, and to process information.

Our intranet service is affordable - it can be as cheap as running a normal website, and if you are already on one of our managed website packages, then you benefit from a discount. More pricing information below or see our overview of pricing.

How can an intranet help my organisation?

Some of the ways an intranet can improve your business
Improvement How?
Increase staff productivity Replicate tedious calculations online, eliminating mistakes and saving time
Improve customer service Use a CRM tool to aid your sales and support teams
Reduce costs Send quotes via email instead of post
Improve teamwork Introduce forums for your staff members to discuss new ideas

How does Switchplane build intranets?

As with all of our services, we concentrate 100% on delivering a good return on investment. With intranets, that means increasing efficiency or reducing physical costs (e.g. postage, stationery, phone calls). We approach intranets using a 3-step process:

  1. Review of your business
  2. Develop recommendations and action plan
  3. Implement

Review

Most of our customers generally are not aware of how much they can use web-based technology to improve their operations. We visit your business, look at how you work, and identify areas where website technology can be applied.

Action Plan

Once we have identified areas, we will produce a document which summarises what technology we can provide, how it improves your business, and how much it costs.

Implementation

You prioritise each area for development, and we can then implement it.

How will I access the intranet?

It will be hosted on one of our dedicated servers. If you are already on one of our managed website design packages, you will be able to access it via your website. Otherwise, you will have to ask your hosting company to setup a subdomain pointing to our hosting platform - we can give you the technical details or liase directly with your hosting company.

How much does it cost to setup and run an intranet?

The review and production of the action plan costs £350+VAT, plus expenses if you are outside the areas we normally cover.

All other intranet development is charged at our ad-hoc development rate.

There is a monthly hosting fee which starts at £20+VAT. 

What kind of thing will I get?

  • Content management allowing you to create pages and upload files and documents
  • Sales tools helping you to monitor the progress of prospects into customers
  • Customer database
  • Letter generation templates e.g. Collection Letter
  • Quote generator