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We officially decided to take our Task Tracker and redevelop it. It has been a valuable tool for us to keep organized and efficient. We know where all of our man-hours go whether they are billable or not. We were doing a poor job of tracking time prior to developing it.

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Often the drive for creating an Intranet is simply to keep up with the Joneses (because every other company is doing it) or because rogue departments set up their own internal Web servers and the Communications or IT departments try to reign them in. Unfortunately, it is too often the case, especially with smaller companies, that there is no real strategy behind creating, maintaining, and using an Intranet.

Larry Ellison extolls the virtues of Linux and predicts that the open-source operating system will soon decimate Microsoft Corp. in the battle for the data center market.

http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/linux/story/0,10801,79951,00.html

How does a b-blog differ from a bulletin board or chat room? A b-blog will typically have an individual who acts as monitor and uses the blog as a way to communicate knowledge to colleagues, customers, partners, and other interested parties.

http://www.clickz.com/experts/em_mkt/enl_strat/article.php/1579091

Web applications are business strategies and policies implemented on the Web through the use of User, Business and Data services. These tools are where the future lies.

http://www.sitepoint.com/article.php/1038

Using open-source software like Linux is a no-brainer for many companies. It’s stable and can be fixed easily if bugs appear, and you can’t beat the price. But some companies and government organizations are taking their commitment to open source a step further by actively participating in the open-source community.

http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/story/0,10801,80053,00.html

A study by high-tech researcher Jupiter Research found that 61 percent of companies that have deployed the software for creating and managing content for the Web have gone back to manual processes for updating their sites.

The average mid-sized company could gain $5 million per year in employee productivity by improving its intranet design to the top quartile level of a cross-company intranet usability study. The return on investment? One thousand percent or more.

Smart businesses realize that they can take advantage of the Web to run certain distributed aspects of their operations much more efficiently.

An intranet can deliver return on investment (ROI) by either reducing the cost, or expanding the ability, to communicate. By shifting manual processes to the intranet, the cost of accessing and processing information is reduced. The intranet speedily delivers information to large numbers of people. This gives the organization a greater capacity to change.