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Effective internal communication and employee productivity are the foundation for any business achievements. Open-source intranet software has become widely used over recent years as an affordable and malleable technology to manage business procedures. It is becoming ever more popular owing to the increasing demand for enterprises – especially small and medium ones – to adopt alternatives that find an equilibrium between ease and competitiveness.

When information is scattered across multiple platforms, it can feel like navigating a maze – complicated, time-consuming, and frustrating. Teams often find themselves wandering through endless corridors of emails, files, and messages, struggling to find what they need. This is where the corporate intranet acts as the guiding Ariadne’s thread, leading employees through the maze and helping them stay on track.

The Swedish Armed Forces (Försvarsmakten) has announced it will standardise on Signal for all non-classified communications via mobile devices. Signal has a strong security posture, encompassing end-to-end encryption, minimal metadata, and other privacy-preserving features. The decision underscores an ongoing shift among military and government entities worldwide towards adopting end-to-end encrypted communication solutions to protect unclassified yet sensitive exchanges.

A content manager’s morning can feel like a mini survival quest. You sit down with your coffee, ready to tackle an important task, when suddenly – bam! – a flood of notifications from various apps bombards you. Need to find a document urgently? Great, it’s somewhere in the cloud… or maybe in the task manager? Or perhaps a colleague sent it in the chat?

Sometimes searching for important information feels like walking through a dusty old archive – endless shelves piled high with folders full of old conversations, project overviews, and to-do lists. A dim light from a flickering lamp does little to help, and that smoldering fuse keeps prodding you that the deadline is looming near. You’re stuck, eager to dig through that one important message with up-to-date revision notes, knowing time is not on your side.

When your colleagues are again digging through the depths of the old intranet searching for a lost document, and an important message gets buried in a deluge of useless updates, something’s wrong. Intranet is a lot like that old file cabinet. It’s huge, cluttered with everything, and it appears as if everything’s in its place. But when you need to find something specific, good luck trying to find it.

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