WordPress offers an excellent basis for a simple and flexible intranet.
Since WordPress is open source, there are no licensing costs for the basic setup. However, depending on your requirements, additional costs may arise for specific features, such as connecting to an Active Directory or LDAP integration for login. These costs, however, remain manageable, at around CHF 300 per year. Server costs also remain relatively low, as high-performance servers are generally not required for internal use.
Speaking of servers: We can implement the WordPress intranet solution either as a traditional cloud solution, where you can log in from anywhere in the world via the website, or set up the entire intranet within your internal network. All you need for this is a virtual machine running Windows Server 2016.
The default WordPress search can search all content on the intranet: Blog posts, pages or even specific content types. With an extension, documents such as PDFs can also be indexed. This does not require an external interface, but is implemented directly in the intranet.
Actually, it should be self-evident today and yet we have encountered some dusty solutions in practice. WordPress offers a simple and attractive way to make the intranet solution easy to use for all devices.
You can use blog posts to share company news in chronological order. You can also include an event calendar with announcements and a comment feature to facilitate discussion.
With our in-house address directory, you can quickly and easily view your employees' key contact information, as well as their profile photos, departments, groups, teams, and more. All information can be searched and filtered.
A knowledge base is similar to a wiki—a collection of all relevant information. Organized by chapters and categories, individual articles can be commented on and rated. This allows you to create comprehensive and interactive documentation and guides.
In our view, one of the most interesting features is autolinking. This feature automatically links words that appear elsewhere on the intranet to the corresponding article. This makes navigating the intranet faster and easier.
Of course, even WordPress has its limits for certain purposes. Collaborative solutions such as Office 365 with SharePoint connection are much better suited for data exchange and collaborative work on documents. On the other hand, WordPress makes it child's play to publish news, generate address directories and build entire knowledge bases. WordPress as an intranet solution does not necessarily have to replace existing Microsoft-based solutions, but can rather complement them.
Yes, we can also set up the intranet internally at your server environment.
As long as the intranet is hosted on our servers, you can access it from anywhere in the world. If we integrate the intranet into your network infrastructure, you can also easily access it remotely using a VPN solution.
Yes, you can also obtain our intranet solution as software as a service. We take care of the infrastructure, backups, security and updates.
