Two ways of thinking have gone the way of the dinosaurs: "Intranet" thinking, where a centralized organization determines what information employees need and gives it to them in the format that's most convenient for the current IT systems, and "portal" thinking, which serves the body of corporate knowledge to staff in the formats in which it is found. Both approaches have demonstrated to be unscalable: they result in a rapidly growing ocean of information that becomes expensive to maintain and difficult to use to find the correct information.

 

Today, organizations see things differently: they regard their employees as knowledge holders. Each employee has information he or she needs on the job, plus information and knowledge that others may be able to use. The next level up is the team. Each team has information it uses, plus information and knowledge others may be able to use. This structure continues up through departments, divisions and business units all the way up to the top. Throughout the enterprise there are then additionally cross-organizational themes that are of interest to individuals at various levels.

 

 

The Hyper.Net Employee Portal Module for SharePoint significantly increases the efficiency of the flow of information within the organization by following this model instead of the old-fashioned intranet and portal models. Each individual is enabled to create his or her own "mysite". Any group of individuals is enabled to create a teamsite. Content in the form of source documents is managed in the teamsite. Content that is approved for use outside the team's membership is published into a separate publishing center that is available to all or to selected individual or groups based on SharePoint user security. It is the collection of these publishing centers that comprise the organization's modern intranet. But the difference is clear: this modern intranet contains information pulled from other systems using SharePoint's search facility, content pulled from other systems and published into designated publishing centers and content published from mysites and teamsites published into corresponding publishing centers. All of the content on this intranet has been optimized for end-user access: it's in the right formats, it is organized according to any desired taxonomy, it is protected by SharePoint's user security model and it has a homogeneous look and feel. Everyone contributes knowledge, everyone contributes to the effort of maintaining the knowledge, and all captured knowledge is available to all.

 

The Hyper.Net Employee Portal Module for SharePoint significantly increases the efficiency of the flow of information within your organization by embracing this modern employee portal thinking and by making it possible to capture important knowledge at every level. You get: 

 

• An employee portal solution built on the full functionality of SharePoint: user management, personalization, search, collaboration, feedback, etc.—all implemented using SharePoint-native tools for maximum system longevity.
• Complete information management and publishing functionality courtesy of Hyper.Net that enables collaboration, production, conversion, re-purposing and deployment of content to end-users in optimized formats.
• An advanced, ready-to-use solution based on a proven model for automating the supply of information to the employee base. The model makes it easy for anyone to quickly set up a mysite or teamsite and get to work.
• Existing integrations for external systems like Lotus Notes, SAP, IBM Content Manager, email, etc.
• Complete elimination of manual PDF conversion and posting processes.
• Minimized levels of redundancy and elimination of incorrect or out-of-date information via automated expiration dates.
• Improved information quality through formalized content management and deployment best practices.
• Immediate compliance functions for quality management and online information solutions.
• Can be used without customization to immediately and significantly improve productivity throughout the organization.