You’ve probably seen the term, or heard it bantered about by geeks, or maybe your head is in it; you may not fully understand the term “cloud” or “SasS” (software as a service) or perhaps just think its another catchy marketing acronym like MOSS (Microsoft Office SharePoint Server).   The “cloud” refers to cloud computing [...]

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Silver bullets that solve all your problems are rare in life; and nearly non-existent in the intranet world. Far from being a silver bullet, enterprise intranet portals are extraordinarily and exceedingly powerful, but are also complex, pricey and pose many, many challenges for large organizations.   There are few enterprise applications that, when implemented properly [...]

A new poll from a vendor shows that nearly 50% of UK organisations could be leaving themselves open to litigation through managing their corporate policies primarily on the intranet (see Businesses warned over use of intranet).   I could not find the actual poll results and the company that conducted the poll, NETconsent, does not [...]

The number one most repeated call to your IT help desk relates to a forgotten password. Give your employees the tools to get their own password without having to engage an expensive techie, and you could save hundreds of thousands of dollars.   Some may have read my recent article Dialing for intranet dollars that [...]

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Security researchers have found a way to use JavaScript to map a home or corporate network and attack connected servers or devices, such as printers or routers.   The malicious JavaScript can be embedded in a Web page and will run without warning when the page is viewed in any ordinary browser, the researchers said. [...]

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Like a child, an intranet is a lot of work