Secure Online Areas
Control and Share Information
DOTSER creates secure online systems to share information within an organisation.
Where the 'internet' is an online network between organisations, an 'intranet refers to the online network within an organisation. It sometimes refers only to the organization's internal website, but may also be a more extensive part of the organisation's information technology infrastructure.
DOTSER can host multiple private websites and configure them to make up an integral component of internal communication and collaboration for business.
DOTSER combines various Internet protocols including HTTP (web services), SMTP (e-mail), and FTP (file transfer protocol).
An intranet could be used as a secure private area of the Internet, generally restricted to employees of the organisation,
Extranet is used to describe secure areas of the Internet that may be accessed by customers, suppliers, or other approved parties with strict control on authentication, authorization and account crontrol.
Benefits:
Productivity:
Intranets allow users to find and view information quicker and provides online services relevant to their roles and responsibilities. Through the web browser interface, users can access company data anytime, anywhere (subject to security provisions) - from anywhere within the company workstations, increasing employees' ability to perform jobs faster, more accurately, and with the most up-to-date information.
Time:
Intranets allow for distribution of information to employees on an as-needed basis; Employees may link to relevant information at their own convenience.
Communication:
By providing information on the intranet, employees have the opportunity to keep up-to-date with the strategic focus of the organisation. Some examples of communication methods would be forums, blogs and knowledge bases which allow staff share problems and proven fixes allowing for constant improvement in the problem solving process. Web publishing allows corporate knowledge to be maintained and easily accessed throughout the company using a web bowser. Examples include: expense forms, time sheets, manuals, company policies, healt and safety documents, quality standards, company news feeds, and internal training, can be accessed using common Internet standards (Word Documents, Adobe PDFs, Excel, Powerpoint, etc). The most recent versions of any internal policy or document can be constantly available to all employees using the intranet.
Improved Business Processes:
Intranets are being used as a platform for developing and deploying applications to support business operations and decisions over the internet. Sales, marketing, production and account information can be shared securely to allow real time access to aid improved decision making throughout the enterprise.
Cost-effective:
Information and data can be access through a web-browser rather than costly printing of physical documents which are nearly out of date once printed such as internal phone directories, user manuals, company forms.
Enhance collaboration:
Enables real teamwork in real time with information easily accessible by all authorised personnel.
Cross-platform capability:
Standards-compliant web browsers are available for various operating systems on most devices.
Promote common corporate culture:
Every user has the ability to view the same information within the Intranet.
Immediate updates:
When dealing with the public in any capacity, laws, specifications, and parameters can change. Intranets make it possible to provide your audience with "live" changes so they are kept up-to-date, which can limit a company's liability.