The companies who have been judged to have the best-designed Intranets for 2010 most commonly developed their Intranet using SharePoint.

This informative article reveals the ten best-designed Intranets for 2010 and notes the frequent use of SharePoint amongst the award-winning companies.

As SharePoint  specialists, we can help you use SharePoint   to develop a powerful Intranet for your organisation that will make it easy for your employees to find and share critical business information.

Call us on 0800 33 456 30 to find out more, or click here for more information about our SharePoint Portal  solutions and services.

According to an article in Personnel Today, almost 14% of the UK workforce was absent last week due to the severe weather conditions, at a cost to the economy of £0.5bn a day.

But even if the adverse weather is freezing productivity and costing you money, if staff can not get into work because roads are blocked or public transport has been cancelled, is there anything you can do other than waiting for the weather to improve?

One course of action you may wish to consider is to analyse the impact that the adverse weather has had on your absence rates, using LeaveMaster , our time and cost-saving leave and absence management solution.

As LeaveMaster stores absence data for all your employees in a single, centralised location, you can use it to evaluate the affect the frozen weather has had on your attendance rates and make an informed decision about whether to implement technology that will make it easier for your staff to work from home if they can’t make it in.

And should your assessment reveal the need for remedial action, Systems Valley can help by implementing solutions such as SharePoint in your organisation that facilitate remote and home working and allow your employees to remain productive even if they can not get into the office.

Call us on 0800 33 456 30 to find out more. Or for more information about our full range of business solutions, click here

In a blog at the end of last year, we discussed how websites designed and developed by Systems Valley have been ranked as amongst the most innovative and modern design galleries on the Internet. We’d like to start the new year by discussing our web design principles and practices in more detail.

We feel too many web design agencies and service providers offer clients websites that, while eye-catching and flashy-looking, are difficult to navigate and are not compatible across multiple browsers. We believe our clients deserve better and are committed to designing and developing websites that not only look good, but are also effortless to navigate and are as accessible to as many users as possible.

That’s why our award-winning web designers and developers design and build websites and portals that not only feature spectacular, eye-catching graphics, but have smart, clean and extremely user-friendly interfaces and offer an exceptional user experience.

And as we are passionate about ensuring that our clients’ websites render uniformly in all browsers, irrespective of Operating System, all our designs stringently comply with XHTML 1.1 and CSS 2.0 and W3C recommendations.

To find out more, call us on 0800 33 456 30.