It's an indispensable tool for facilitating a company's internal communications. It enables documents and information to be exchanged in a private, secure environment, with access restricted to a certain number of people.

Benefits and more benefits 

Setting up an intranet offers several particularly interesting advantages for a company:

• Accessibility: the intranet lets you connect anywhere, anytime. In fact, any machine can connect to the local network, and therefore to the intranet.
• Cost reduction: an intranet is an opportunity to save money! You can reduce your IT costs to those of hardware, maintenance and updating, with client workstations running free browsers. Also, the more traffic the electronic interface generates, the more you can reduce investment costs to zero. And don't worry: the cost of intranet software is amortized by the whole range of functionalities that replace certain collaborative tools, thus reducing the number of tools to be managed. Finally, replacing an old intranet with a new-generation one will reduce the cost of ownership!
• Document management: don't have a dedicated document management platform? The intranet solves this problem with an efficient document management system, reducing the cost and effort involved in the administrative organization of your business. 
• Succession planning and knowledge transfer management: does your company have executives taking early retirement? The intranet can take care of succession planning without any worries. In fact, you can save and archive the expertise and know-how of your managers on the intranet, and then share it with potential successors. The intranet stores and organizes this knowledge so that it can be accessed and consulted more easily. At the same time, it helps new employees to find information directly on the intranet.
• Increased sales: the intranet simplifies customer management at all levels, which has a positive impact on sales. In the case of a sale, the intranet will speed up the process by making it clearer for your teams to work together.
• Innovation: it's essential, but costly... To remedy this and ride the wave of innovation, an intranet can be an effective way of bringing together the ideas that emanate from your company, particularly from its employees, who can perfectly exploit customer needs and expectations to stimulate innovation and thus remain a company with a high ideation value. Another way to stimulate your teams: the hackathon. Discover this new method, a real creativity emulator. 
  Improving human relations: the intranet connects employees through collaboration. Employees are encouraged to participate, to communicate, interact and work together more effectively.

In short, an intranet has become an indispensable tool for supporting companies and their teams on a day-to-day basis. It has many advantages, and must be properly designed to match the company's needs.