Intranets and extranets can connect employees within a company and also connect a company to external partners and remote workers. They allow sharing of information, collaboration, and two-way communication in ways not otherwise possible. Avvio has designed intranets that make publishing content easy while prioritizing usability and features important to users. This includes search, quick links, department news feeds, and feedback channels. Extranets similarly provide a secure channel for controlled external access that extends a company's intranet and brand to remote fields teams.

1. Connecting
people through
intranets
Intranets offer a channel for both businesses and employees
to share, collaborate and improve communications. For us,
they also provide a great opportunity to connect people to a
brand, creating two way conversations and interactivity in a
way not achievable otherwise.
Interacting with employees to
create more productive people
Not content with just designing and building Sky’s new intranet, we set out to create
something to lead the way. We developed an effective business tool delivering
corporate messages, showcasing Sky’s own content and providing interactive
feedback channels.
While making publishing content as easy as possible for editors, we never lost sight of
its ultimate users, the people who work at Sky. So an intuitive and streamlined interface,
easy searching, quick links (customizable), my department’s news feed, voting widgets,
company blogs and feedback channels were also essential components.
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2. Communicating to remote workers can be a problem. However,
an extranet offers a secure channel, which can be viewed as an
extension of a company’s intranet. This allows controlled access
An engaging, essential part of the business from the outside from anywhere, and creates a connection with
a company’s brand.
QinetiQ knew their existing intranet needed to do much the messaging easier and quicker to absorb. To ensure
more. By evaluating the current content and through close functionality and improve navigation, the architecture utilised
partnership with QinetiQ’s build team, Avvio planned, relevant aspects of SharePoint 2010, to optimise search
designed, and created an engaging resource which is now options and control future updates.
a living part of the business.
The new site – Nucleus – is now a multi-faceted hub for
By bridging the gap between the internal communications everyone to learn, network, share and collaborate across the
team and the developers we were able to integrate QinetiQ’s business. All in all a more vibrant and engaging place to be.
new internal brand identity with the content making
Connecting
with people
in the field
The problem of engaging field teams was solved when we
designed and built the Sky Engineers’ extranet, enabling
them to access the latest documentation securely from
anywhere. As a result, the communication lines between
managers and their teams and from engineer to engineer
were opened up, building a real sense of community at both
a local and national level that had not existed previously.
With 5000 downloads a week and 85% active users,
the most popular feature of the extranet is the ideas and
knowledge forum. With around 1000 new posts a week, it’s
hard to keep up!
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