Intranet portals have become the primary platform for application development for many companies. Not only do the portals provide the technical infrastructure needed to assemble diverse resources and applications, but they also offer the contextual engine needed to help tie the information in those modules together, such as search, navigational infrastructure, security, and permission management. However, with the heavy demands placed on IT departments, many companies do not have the time, money, or expertise to create and maintain all the Intranet-based applications everyone wants.
As a result, IntelliEnterprise also includes an application builder. This is an engine that allows non-technical users � subject matter experts, unit managers, knowledge workers � to design their own application to automate their business processes. We call this claim �development by design.� Everybody who knows his business process should be able to create fully interactive applications with features such as real-time data operation without any coding.
When business users can create their own applications, the organization becomes more agile, innovates faster, and can respond more quickly to an ever-changing business climate. We believe this is the next generation of Intranet portals � where business experts organize their own data and applications and end-users determine how information is organized and displayed.