An intranet is an internal website that is generally hosted within your companies private local area network (LAN). The intranet is usually a database driven website that has been developed to streamline internal services, customer management, product and stock systems etc. Intranets can vastly improve workforce productivity, they can help employees to quickly find and view information and applications relevant to their roles and responsibilities. Via a simple-to-use web browser interface, users can access data held in any database the organisation wants to make available, anytime and – subject to security provisions – from anywhere, increasing employees’ ability to perform their jobs faster, more accurately, and with confidence that they have the right information.