What is it?
Tri-Portal:Business Intranet is a comprehensive, fully-serviced intranet. Staff can be organised into on-line workgroups. Workgroups each have a private area and may also publish to the staff intranet. Consequently, staff have a powerful means for managing, sharing and disseminating documents. Add to this a staff-wide noticeboard facility and a staff-wide calendar facility and Tri-Portal provides an essential and easy to use information sharing platform.

Why is it an essential business tool?
Professional information management is essential to the efficient and productive operation of all organisations in all sectors. It is fundamentally important that staff at all levels have ready access to business information appropriate to their job function. Tri-Portal:Business Intranet provides an immediate solution to this need with an integrated on-line platform that is the foundation for efficient information management.

Who is it for?
Tri-Portal:Business Intranet is specifically tailored to meet the needs of SME-sized organisations with anything between 10 - 200 on-line staff. It is equally valuable to workgroups and departments in larger organisations and provides an easy stepping stone to the comprehensive and scalable facilities of Tri-Portal Enterprise.

What facilities does it provide?

• Core system
  • Staff Intranet for document sharing and dissemination
  • Professional Tri-Portal management support or self-management
  • Staff noticeboard
  • Staff calendar
  • Various comprehensive technical support packages
• Options
  • Intranet noticeboards - enterprise system
  • Intranet calendars - enterprise system
  • Intranet discussionboards - enterprise system
  • Integrated Internet Site with noticeboard and calendar
  • Busines to business extranet
  • Business to customer extranet

How do staff access the system?
Staff use a web browser to access Tri-Portal which means that it is easy and cost effective to deploy. All they need is a PC with a browser and internet/network access. With the use of encryption and other security measures, Tri-Portal can also be accessed from any location across the Internet and so is ready to support tele-workers and other remote workers such as sales staff.

What technical facilites are required ?
In a word, none! Tri-Portal is provided as a fully serviced system, so there is no need to worry about servers, backup, recovery, security, and all the other technical issues that go with on-line environments. Comsiant provide all of this and operate it from dedicated facilities at the heart of the UK internet in Telehouse, London. Alternatively Comsiant can install the Tri-Portal servers into an organisations own network