FACT SHEET

If your organisation covers multiple sites, you will be familiar with the difficulty of ensuring everyone has easy access to all the information they need in their work. Paper-based information is sometimes not easy to locate and tends to be costly to update and cumbersome to use. Electronically stored data is often located on multiple hosts with various interfaces, making it inaccessible for many users.

An intranet can improve productivity by making it dramatically easier to share information across your entire enterprise. It can even be extended to include access for your business partners, allowing you to provide better service in many areas such as inventory queries, order entry and invoicing.

By using familiar Internet technology, such as web servers, open standards and easy to use browsers, information is readily accessible to all users and easy to keep up-to-date.

Big Pond Intranet allows you to outsource the running of an intranet. Through Big Pond, Telstra provides a high quality, commercial grade, one-stop-shop intranet solution. The services are modular and can be combined to meet the particular needs of your organisation.

Big Pond Intranet offers commercial grade security and can distribute information simply, efficiently and cost effectively.

The many benefits of outsourcing your intranet to Telstra include:

• Single Point of Accountability: With Telstra providing the infrastructure solution, customer assurance is available from one central point.
• Scalability: Intranet Connect, Big Pond Intranet’s data VPN (Virtual Private Network), can be expanded simply by lodging a new application form. Usage of the hosting service can be expanded merely by using the service, as peaks are easily accommodated (excess usage charges may apply).
• Cost Effective Solution: Entry Level Intranet Connect and hosted services use a shared infrastructure. Cost savings resulting from the pooling of resources for networks, staff, computer room and hardware make the solution very cost effective compared to an in-house operation.
• High Level Availability: Big Pond Intranet has been engineered to be robust and offers a high level of service availability. Our fee structure offers specific service level targets, relative to the more open ended in-house situation, where cost overruns can occur.
• No Technology Obsolescence: Big Pond Intranet takes responsibility for technology selection and obsolescence issues.
• Less Time Spent on IT Management: Big Pond Intranet manages the data VPN and the hosting platform for you. This allows your specialist IT resources to concentrate on developing applications that deliver productivity gains or strategic advantage.

Any organisation wanting to improve communications across multiple sites will benefit from Big Pond Intranet. Linking offices together via an intranet will make employees more productive and improve your organisation’s ability to respond to business opportunities.

Equally, if your company already has several legacy systems, a browser can provide a consistent front end, making access easier and quicker.

Examples of organisations that could benefit from Big Pond Intranet:

• small to medium companies building new wide area networks
• organisations acting as an "umbrella organisation" for their members (eg. franchises, dealers, retail outlets, enterprises with telecommuters)
• medium to large organisations that already manage their own data networks but are now considering oursourcing

- one-stop-shop ordering for access to the network

- Telstra’s managed router service (IMS) (optional)

- Internet gateway (optional)

- commercial grade security

- superior reach and flexibility

- Intranet Web Professional

• web hosting, only accessible from your intranet

- Intranet Web Integrator

• web hosting, only accessible from your intranet with database integration for dynamic web page generation

- Intranet Messenger

• email between colleagues on the intranet and with business partners across the Internet

With all Big Pond Intranet services, we provide:

• commercial grade security
• high availability and robustness
• commercial grade physical environment
• robust service and fault clearance procedures
• 7 days x 24 hours site monitoring

We will also make introductions, as required, to Telstra Business Partners with expertise in:

• applications development
• systems integration
• web site creative design

To find out how to get started with Big Pond Intranet, please contact your Telstra Account Executive or phone us on FREECALL™ 1800 358 560.* You can also visit us at our web site at www.bigpond.net

* Calls from mobile phones will be charged at the applicable mobile rate.

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