Save on photography, typesetting, printing, paper and distribution. And, if you made a mistake in the first version, it only takes seconds to fix it, you don't need to reprint or issue erratta. The point is that the roll-out is fairly cheap, but the productivity improvement so great. You are free to choose the best of breed packages. Available across the organisation The Intranet is available across all computer platforms, PC's, Macintosh, Unix and even more obscure machines.
Nobody is cut out of the system with an Intranet.
And there is no high cross-connectivity costs either. Your Intranet can be made available to users in other offices, even if they are on the far side of the world. You don't have to, and you can make it secure. But imagine working from home or on the road using your standard office documents. With new NT technology you could even use your office applications over the Internet .