Intranet Full Feature List

Interact Intranet comes with 100s of amazing and clever tools.

Listed below are some of those tools to help

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Productivity and Efficiency

Workflow & Forms Application Builder	Powerful tool to model processes or replicate paper forms.Drag and Drop interface to create attractive layouts. Use any standard field type, such as drop-down boxes, radio buttons, date pickers and file attachments.Link to third party databases, to extract data and make business decisions.Generate automated emails, to notify staff of outcomes & actions.Create reports on data.Export to CSV, ensuring your data can be imported into excel or other databases.
Interact Online Help	Every page contains professionally written help text, making the software incredibly easy to use.No training is needed for standard users.The help text can even be edited by administrators, should you want to give your staff specific instructions on a page.
Interact Intelligence Store	A unique product which creates networks from your documents, staff and knowledge.Understands how your content is linked.Monitors searches to better return content to the user.Improves search results, promotes content to users, improved document quality.
Intelligent Intranet Search	Revolutionary intranet search, based on Interact Intranet’s unique Intelligence store.Rank searches based on a number of criteria – including popularity, keyword density, ratings.Learns from use – “is this what you were searching for?”Shows popular searches and best ranked. Either immediately search the full intranet, or gradually widen the scope.
Attachment Search	Full-text Document Search on demand, including Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and PDFs.
Menu Creator	Easily design, create and structure your intranet.Assign icons to any menu, link or application.Quickly create links to websites or third party applications in your portal.Assign security to each menu item, if required.
Tooltip Creator	Add hover-over tooltips to menu items and categories, allowing users to discover the content of that area quicklydescribing the contents to users before access.

Intranet Administration

Style Manager	Create multiple unique styles for different users of your intranet, including companies, projects, teams or clients.Any style sheet can be set to enforce strict AA accessibility, making Interact Intranet the most compliant intranet in the market.High- and Low-contrast style sheets to help dyslexic users access the content.Individuals can select which style sheet is most useful to them, from an approved list.
Interact Update Manager	Tightly controls the deployment of software updates.Ensures you have the latest software available to you, while keeping downtime to the absolute minimum.Doesn’t overwrite your individual configurations.
Company Manager	Interact Intranet is developed to work with Group structured companies, and allows you to model your group structure.
Location Manager	Interact Intranet is designed to help companies who are geographically spread, and allows you to record and display the details of your various office locations.
Department Manager	Easily model structure your company, including departmental hierarchies.Each department can be assigned one or more managers.
Organogram	Displays the hierarchical structure of the whole organisation in a drill-down tree view format. Shows the staff levels from the top to the bottom Displays organisational diagrams linking managers and their staff members Enables you to find staff details in a logical, quick and convenient way
Language Manager	All menu items, buttons and text can be translated into any number of languages, creating a true Multilanguage environment.Individual users can select which primary language the intranet is displayed.
Cyrillic Language Support	Enables global organisations with offices in countries where they use ASCII based character sets such as Greek and Russian, to communicate in their own language, creating a more engaging, user friendly and efficient intranet.
People Manager	Synchronises your staff lists with Active Directory, removing the administrative task of updating them separately. If Active Directory isn’t used, or is unavailable, staff can be one-click imported from Excel.The People Directory is expandable, allowing you to easily create new fields to store the information that’s most important to you. Permissions can be set against each field, allowing you to decide who can see and update that data. Each field has an icon assigned, to give an at-a-glance overview on user’s profile.
Transactional Alerts	Interact Intranet uses a transactional messaging system to keep staff notified about anything that affects them – for example: Forms they are required to complete Tasks or documents they must approve Content areas they have subscribed to The appearance and text of alerts can be customised to meet your branding and requirements.
Security Platform	Security is of paramount importance, and Group/role management is a common task in Intranets.Groups can be easily created and structured, or synchronised with Active Directory.Permissions can be applied quickly and easily, making it a simple task to create secure areas or lock down confidential data.
People Manager	Record a massive amount of information about your staff, including: Employment Dates Review Dates Manager(s) Department(s) Which stylesheet and language they prefer to see the intranet in Quick-view of any user’s site access with one click.
Business Contact Manager	Record and share the details of the contacts your company has. Including: Contact details Web address Physical Address Link to online map Any other field you require

Communication and Collaboration

Content Section Builder	Allows the administrator of each area to: Set permissions of their section to decide which users can read or edit the content Create the sub-menu for their section to structure the content intuitively Configure how documents are ordered, grouped and displayed Configure which document options can be used – e.g. Are authors allowed to invite comments on documents in this area? Can authors set tests against these documents? Assign the “best bets” for the area – the key documents that are most helpful and must be promoted
Webpage Builder	Simple to use WYSIWIG editor allows users to create attractive webpages, with the minimum of training.Includes all the tools you would expect from a word processor, plus: Drag and drop picture editing Automatically removal of poor Microsoft word formatting Audit trail to show history of last edits Start, Expiry and Review dates – with prompts to remind authors that action is required Assign document owners, to ensure the correct colleague has final responsibility for the content Interactive table editor Manage related or similar content to help users locate their information quickly. Quickly attach any number of files, website links or application links to the page Quick image finder and image map creator Spell-checker Hyperlink Manager HTML code view Also, there are two alternative tools to create the content: Step-by-step wizard, helping new or occasional content authors move through the different steps in a structured way “Expert Editor” to allow more experienced users to rapidly add content, with a live view of the article in progress and the various configuration options at their fingertips.
Interact Answers	An innovative and unique crowd-sourcing feature which drives productivity and improves the collective knowledge of your organisation by allowing employees to post questions on the intranet and receive accurate solutions, using Interact Intranet’s intelligence store and the knowledge of co-workers.Once an employee has posted a question, Interact Answers will attempt to provide an instant solution to the question by using its intelligence store and offering relevant content such as documents, calendar events or discussions and by searching previously asked questions.
Keyword Assistant	Links to the Interact Intelligence Store, and suggests alternate keywords based on the built in thesaurus – with the most popular terms highlighted.One-click keyword add enables quick tagging of documents, to make them easier to find using the search engine.
Comments	Allow users throughout the organization to comment on any document or article, creating a collaborative workspace.
Direct Feedback Collector	Allows users to report errors, omissions or outdated content directly to content owners.Drastically reduces administrative overheads, and improves the quality of your intranet content over time.
Rating Manager	Collates user feedback and aggregates it into easily usable reports.Feeds into Interact Intelligence Store, to indicate to users which articles are preferred by their colleagues.Allows content administrators to identify poor or failing content, to rectify it quickly.
Interact Recommends	Revolutionary application which intelligently promotes relevant content to users.Works in a similar way to “Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought” on Amazon – understanding a users interests and reacting to them intelligently by offering them content that best meets their requirements.
Discussion Board	Encourage open discussion and debate on the Interact Intranet Forums. Any number of discussion areas can be created, to cater for both business- and social-based needs.
Voting and Polling	Getting your staff to interact with the intranet is vital in driving usage, and asking their opinion on key topics is a great way to do this. The polling tool allows you to create Homepage polls, Article polls and Recurring polls on any subject.
SMS Messager	Text Messaging staff is an excellent way to communicate certain types of information. Interact Intranet allows you to send messages to individuals or groups – perhaps to notify them of calls they must return, or actions that need to be taken.
Document Watcher	Subscribe to your favourite documents or content areas, receiving immediate notifications if there’s new or updated content.Allows key staff to stay in the loop.
My Widget	A homepage dashboard for each individual, showing them all the info they need to see to stay up to date, such as: Status updates – to keep track of what colleagues are working on Stay ‘in the loop’ with active discussions and comments Rapidly access your recently viewed and edited content Link to RSS feeds that are of direct interest to you
Sitemap App	At a glance view of the entire intranet’s structure – giving users a clearer idea of how the information is structured.
Skills Database	Create a skills list that’s relevant to your organisation and assign skills to individuals. Searchable by skill set, location, department User editable Qualification levels Free text against each skill to describe your competency Examples of skill types: Languages Projects Qualifications Software or IT experience
Interests Database	Improve internal enterprise and social networks among staff.Show common interests between staff members.Highlight and create communities of interest.Users can suggest skills that aren’t already part of the database – making it flexible and expandable to meet your changing staff needs. Examples: Clubs or sports Activities Fundraising & charities Favourite books, tv & movies
Staff Profile Dashboard	Dashboard to all user’s information, e.g. training and absences.The area is secure so it can only be viewed by the user & their manager”.About Me” allows users to describe themselves, their history & personal info.All users can contribute to their area of your intranet. List of user’s contributions/documents.
Clever Linker	Easily create inline links to anything on the Intranet.Links are ‘unbreakable’ – moving or deleting the document will alter the link, ensuring your intranet doesn’t fill up with dead links.Embed attractive mini staff profiles or content instantly.
Thesaurus	Interact Intranet learns your jargon and specialist words.Used in searches and “did you mean”.Referenced by the Keyword Assistant when tagging documents.
Intranet Homepage Manager	Create attractive Homepages with a minimum of training.Choose from a variety of templates and layouts.Homepage Manager automatically publishes documents saved in areas.
Profanity Filter	Prevents inappropriate language making its way into the Intelligence Store.
Section Homepage Manager	Individual departments, teams or projects can decide exactly what visitors to their section see on their homepage.AutopublishVideos.Staff lists.
Metadata Manager	Expand your content to include any fields you would like to store against documents.Helps to intelligently relate your content e.g. Product codes, acronyms, reference numbers, dates.
Content Bulk Reorganiser	Move articles around the intranet in seconds – ensuring you’re never required to re-enter content.The Content Reorganiser is particularly useful to handle structure changes within the company and means administrators are never stuck with poor layout decisions.
Image Manager	Images are a vital component for an attractive and successful intranet. Interact allows for a wide range of image management techniques: Upload to albums/categories Crop and/or rotate without the use of separate software Automatic resizing to Edit – crop, rotate etc Save an image to more than one area
Video library	Upload videos and categorise them for quick reference.One-click insert into articles.A video Auto Thumbnails functionality means that the first video frame is automatically saved as the Thumbnail, giving the video a seamless effect when you play it.
Icon library	Interact Intranet comes with thousands of built in icons, which can be freely used to quickly make the intranet look fantastic.
Gallery Widget	Pictures taken for corporate or company social events can easily be displayed on your homepage for everyone to see with the gallery widget.Administrators can select any image library category and display all those images in a slide show or a homepage of your choice.

Reporting and Business Intelligence

Instant Export	Any data table in Interact can be exported in CSV format with one click, making it simple to create reports in Excel, or import the data into third party systems.
SSRS Report Generator	Interact interfaces with SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) to allow users to generate any number of custom reports or graphs.SRSS can also integrate with third party SQL databases, creating KPIs on your internal systems.Reports can be embedded on homepages to create dashboard views, or linked within the intranet itself.
Usage Statistics Engine	Providing an intranet without any metrics to measure its success is a frustrating exercise. Interact Intranet comes with a suite of statistics to enable you to measure: Hits Unique visits % staff using the intranet Most- and least-visited documents Document ratings Warnings, such as documents without authors, or not viewed for 3 months
Search Analytics	All modern intranets have Search Engines, but Interact Intranet is unique in having a set of tools which enable intranet managers to analyse how the search is being used, in order to improve the quality of the intranet.These include a report to identify searches which returned zero results – a vital tool to identify what content users are expecting the intranet to deliver, but are being disappointed.