New Approach to Intranet Development

There is no ‘one fits all’ model for developing intranets as developers have to engineer new designs and techniques to meet the customer’s demands. The development cycle starts from the analysis stage, through prototype stage to testing and implementation stage.

Often, the cycle is full of caprices as technologies may change along the way, and customers may consistently request changes. As one of the most experienced developers in cloud-based intranets, we’re providing a more straightforward, cheaper and flexible approach to building intranets for intranet developers and customers alike.

Intranet Development Process

Let’s begin by stating the rudimentary details involved when building an intranet platform for a client. First, you have to undertake a needs assessment analysis to identify the kind of hardware and software infrastructure the customer uses, number and nature of the workforce, and the goals of the business. As an intranet developer, understand the clients’ propositions succinctly so that you can design the intranet around the client’s needs, goals and expectations.

Get all the necessary documentation in place that includes business structure, HR process, and workflows. Having satisfactorily undertaken the two steps, you’re set off and ready to begin the intranet development process. Deliver a prototype to the client to get acquainted with what the end product would look like.

Then, there goes the final stage of your intranet development process – beta stage. Before deploying the newly developed intranet, test it for its speed, aptness, usability, and compatibility. The all process is onerous, and at the end of the development tunnel, there is no guarantee that the intranet service will perform as expected.

Customarily, after the deployment, the intranet developer has to follow up and make necessary changes to ensure that the system is up and running. The entire process is not only long but also expensive.

New Approach

Instead of starting from scratch, hosted intranet enables you to kick off the development process from an already established system. This system works just like standard templates where users will often eliminate what they don’t need and add what they want. Hence, you’ll be able to test the needs of the customer against the functionality of the existing systems.

With this approach, it’s more of configuration than building the system. No hardware installations are involved. If there is something that may take a few days to create is the database development because each organization has complex data storage/retrieval/backup requirements.

The best thing about this approach is that the entire framework has been proven and tested and therefore, as a developer you have an assurance that it will work as expected.

LS Intranet provides you with a personalized intranet development framework that would be ready within a week. The platform integrates with mobile devices, designed with gamification features, has user-friendly workflow and iterative development process that keeps your intranet platform up-to-date. For any inquiries, you can email, chat or call us. We’re there 24/7 for you.