An intranet is a private computer network that enables an organization to securely share it's information or operations with it's members. An Intranet enables the efficient use and more importantly reuse of an organization's gathered business knowledge and intelligence, which increases productivity and knowledge transfer in any organization.

Increasingly, extranets are also coming into use, where external partners can also interact with an organization.

The need for Corporate Intranets

• Interactions between known, remote members of organization need to be saved and stored
• Exchange of tools, files, and information between team members and teams increases efficiency
• Availability and transfer of knowledge throughout organization increases productivity
• Controlled file and information storage and distribution is required
• Large amounts of information need to be organized to be found easily

Corporate Intranets with cyn.in

cyn.in is an open source collaborative knowledge management appliance delivered to entperises and small businesses in an On-Premise and SaaS model. cyn.in enables teams, companies or communities to create, manage, organize, store, version, search through, collaborate and share any kind of information.

• Content with quick formatting and image uploading: With cyn.in you use a full-featured web based word processor to edit your content. You don't need to worry about how underlying HTML markup will be created, cyn.in's rich featured editor enables you to do everything from simple textual formatting (bold, underline, italics etc.) to complex wizard based HTML Table creation, to inline image placing and positioning.
• Collaborate and review internal knowledge: Users of your site can work collaboratively together on the same piece of information, and participate in reviewing created information by commenting on any individual piece of information.
• Enterprise class Search features: Full text search inside any information or file. Enterprise class search features in cyn.in enable you to search instantly inside uploaded content, files; even files inside zip files can be fully searched by cyn.in.
• Inbuilt Security: With cyn.in your information is always protected from unauthorized access - only authorized members of your site can access selective information.
• Browser based access: Web based browser access means complete platform independence. You can access your Intranet from anywhere that you have access to the Internet.
• Manage meetings with the in-built event calendar: Event calendar can be used to setup team meetings and collaboration about the meeting can be done in the event itself.
  
• Revision Control: Using cyn.in all your data is under an automatic revision control system but this is transparent to users, every body sees the most current version of managed resources without you having to worry how it all happens. Older versions can be instantly restored at a click.
• Selectively allow publish to the Web: Good authors can help you draw more audience to your business by publishing items of general appeal to the entire open Web - use cyn.in to creat content and publish it to your sites.

Benefits of cyn.in Corporate Intranets

• Increase Workforce productivity
• Increase efficiency by reducing time to find information
• Allow "pull" of information rather than "push" it to everyone, individually
• Increase knowledge Transfer and communication
• Store any kind or size of information and scale capacity as and when required

Who uses cyn.in Intranets

Any group can use cyn.in's intranet solution to manage, share, version and collaborate on documents and information; these are some of the broad categories where usage is typical: