Business Weekly - Cambridge, UK

The system is designed to maximise the value in expensive corporate intranets by exporting existing intranet content out of the computer and into the workplace.

Using a range of visual displays, including large interactive touch screens incorporated into key location points in a factory or office, allows staff to access a corporate intranet in communal areas such as staff rooms or canteens.

The system relies on internet-based content management technology, allowing multiple channels of information to be displayed and updated remotely by key stakeholders throughout the day. Visual Planet says the Intranet Broadcast system makes a corporate intranet more relevant to a greater number of staff, who can touch the interactive screens to access more information of subjects of interest to them.

Dynamic, internet based content allows news feeds and travel information to be displayed alongside the latest sales initiatives and canteen lunch menu.

Mike Cole, commercial director at Visual Planet, said: “Corporations can now use RSS news feeds, bulletin boards and even digital TV to add value to existing intranet systems. The Intranet Broadcast system presents information in a new way, widening the user base and adding a social element not found in a computer system.”