Managed and Custom-Created Intranet/Extranet Solutions

Though within the industry the terms "intranet" and "extranet" have some flexibility in usage, Trinity today defines both as web-based solutions—the former for a website restricted to a group of users within a particular organization, and the latter for one or more groups of users structured in a manner that crosses organizational boundaries.

Trinity has years of experience developing secure web-based environments for users to share important information and collaborate in the development of documents and intellectual property. We develop proprietary client solutions to perform many functions. Among them: (1) controlling and guiding communication/data flow in project management, and (2) integrating various communication methods with the intranet/extranet services to keep everyone connected (email/text messaging, fax, page, etc.).

Trinity Consulting also leverages managed in-house or outsourced hosted options to provide the best client value (particularly MS SharePoint). There are many excellent third party suites and utilities that have broad-ranging capabilities—some of them are certainly better than others. Trinity can help you identify available products that most closely match your needs, test drive them, and then compare findings to original goals to see if these options are viable solutions, or if a proprietary system meets cost-benefit benchmarks.

Corporations that favor paperless offices demand efficient operation in document digitizing, naming, cataloging, and retrieval. The wrong combination of netwok resources and peripherals can cause a multitude of problems and considerable inefficiency. We will install customized solutions that reliably serve users and provide document change tracking/version backup to ensure the availability of version rollback.

Building a Better Intranet

More than a decade of building internet/intranet websites has taught us that there is no such thing as a perfect user interface. Users are unique individuals with unique needs and preferences, and one user will enjoy what another user merely tolerates or outright disdains. Though you strive to identify and cater to the common interests of the group, you can't please all people all of the time.

What is consistent is that people like things to be simple. The user interface should (1) make task options clearly available, (2) minimize the number of steps and clicks between task start and completion (without destroying the intuitiveness of the interface), and (3) give concrete confirmation upon task completion and provide avenues to pursue related tasks or start the process over again.

Therefore, we try to make all user interfaces simple and intuitive, with easy orientation mechanisms, unobtrusive security mechanisms, and content/features that are driven just as much by user input as they are by administrator preference. Though many more points are constantly under consideration during development, these principles are the core of our development philosophy.