With hundreds of intranet platforms on the market, picking the one that's right for your business can be daunting. Many vendors, old and new, are more than willing to show you their wares through online flash demos, brochures and webinars. All of them seem to have great features and functionality. Some vendors boast of their extraordinarily powerful and flexible workflow and approval capabilities, one-to-one personalization, ERP/CRM integration, virtual repositories, robust search capabilities and the like. But are all these bells and whistles going to meet your needs?

Without defining those needs, the question is impossible to answer. Long before the question is even asked, a plan supported by a proven methodology needs to be developed. But determining business requirements is only half the process. The other half is determining if the technology can do what it says it can do. Knowing this, the value of a technology-neutral approach to picking the right platform becomes that much more important. An unbiased assessment of the platform's strengths and weaknesses is essential to helping organizations see past marketing ploys and neatly-packaged products.

This whitepaper includes:

• Valuable analyses of the differences between portals, CMSs and other intranet technology solutions.

• Technology platform data from Prescient's Intranet 2.0 Global Study 2010, which shows how the intranet technology market has changed in the last year.

• The most popular features that are most commonly considered and evaluated when organizations select an intranet technology platform, including pros and cons.

Why it matters to you:

• This whitepaper will make your job easier providing a perspective and an approach to evaluating solutions, understanding the marketplace, and the key vendors that power most of the world’s best intranets.