This evaluation was essential to lay the proper foundation for future projects incorporating Internet and intranet based software applications. The intranet facts listed below helped to support our decision to create an intranet as soon as possible. There are many good reasons to choose to implement an intranet, and you will find that the list below is applicable to most law firm environments, as it is to our own. Utilizing a standard Web browser, a corporate intranet offers a hardware independent platform. Hardware and software incompatibility is often compounded by conflicting groupware applications.
Costs associated with an intranet are reasonably low.
A law firm can expect to pay anywhere from a few thousand dollars for a smaller implementation to several hundred thousand dollars for a large project that is national in scope. These estimates are very competitive when compared to the cost of purchasing proprietary, in-house software designed to support networked document distribution. Configuration options provide the flexibility to match the content to the requirements of the user group. An intranet can be equally valuable to departments, practice groups and the entire firm. An intranet can be designed and launched quickly, often in a matter of weeks, and can support a wide range of information which is accessible through one uniform interface.