We are reinventing the corporate intranet with a product that is fast, inexpensive and fun to use.
We present product library assistant intranet, PLA id), which is a system programmed in Java for organising product library information on the World-Wide Web (WWW).
As a user, you can log in to your company's admin page and access both private data hosted on your company's server (intranet) and data from cloud products like Box, Salesforce and Google Apps.
The main point, bigger picture, is that Yammer is in an increasingly tough league — even if most traditional enterprise intranet tools are far worse, its product is also having to sell itself to people who use cutting edge consumer-quality products, who expect only the best.
He says that in the past few years, Box has created a new category in enterprise products of what the company intranet could have become.
But Varsavsky's ultimate aim is to offer a panoply of new-age products, from e-mail and intranet to Internet, videostreaming and other data-intensive broadband services, all at superfast transmission speeds.
Concur's main product, Employee Desktop, is an intranet-based application that allows corporate executives to file and manage their expense reports, make travel plans, book airplane tickets and even manage their personal finances.
But everyone from startups to publicly traded companies is getting into the stodgy enterprise intranet software business with easier-to-use products that are patterned after popular consumer sites.
Microsoft says that Andrea's product enhances Microsoft's Internet and intranet conferencing software.
"The trend now is to bundle it all in one place," said Peter J. Smail, the president of Fidelity's employer-services unit which, besides providing retirement information, offers payroll and health benefits through intranet portals for clients like the Mead Corporation, a forest products manufacturer in Dayton, Ohio.
