IntelliEnterprise is starting to make its way into the Intranet suite market, competing with the likes of WebEx WebOffice and Microsoft SharePoint. In this review, we’ll take a look at its features and pricing.
Intranet Suites
IntelliEnterprise is a comprehensive Intranet suite developed and supported by adenin Technologies. In addition to providing an enterprise portal and a host of collaboration tools, IntelliEnterprise includes content and document management, an application builder, business dashboards, and a number of other features designed to make the presentation and distribution of important information both quick and painless.
Other names in the Intranet suite business include Microsoft SharePoint, WebEx WebOffice, and Intranet DASHBOARD, with SharePoint being the most commonly known. Each has its own ups and downs, but all are priced high enough that choosing one is not a decision to take lightly.
While there are some free solutions available, such as Google Apps and Microsoft Office Live, these suites have very limited functionality for now, and all they really offer is a way to share various types of documents along with email capabilities. Sure, you can build something usable from these applications and call it an Intranet suite, but the end result isn’t even going to come close to what you can accomplish with the previously mentioned packages.
Live Demo Site
To get a feel for what the Intranet suite is capable of, a live demo has been set up on the IntelliEnterprise site that you can peruse at your leisure. While the demo does show what is possible with the software, it doesn’t really give an indication of how hard it is to build the site from the starting tools. If you want to test this out for yourself and create content for your own company, there is a free 30-day evaluation of IntelliEnterprise available.
Dashboards and Application Builder
When exploring the features of IntelliEnterprise, the first two things that caught my eye were the Applications Builder and Business Dashboards module. One thing that is missing from a lot of Intranet suites is the ability to effectively summarize and present data without using some other outside tool or application. Note the emphasis on "effectively" here. Most all tools, at least those with the higher price tags, have some data presentation means, but they tend to be unwieldy, not robust enough, or just plain ugly.
These two tools in IntelliEnterprise can be combined to develop reports on the fly from information housed in existing data sources, as long as these sources are ADO/ODBC compatible. This is ideal for members of management who want a daily one-page summary of all statistics important in their respective divisions.