Intranet web applications provide a lightweight, easy to maintain and upgrade alternative to many of the legacy applications you may be running in your office. They may also provide that common office interface your employees need, with proper security, to access all the data across the company. The advantages to utilizing an intranet web application over other forms of application software are many. No additional costly software or hardware requirements Runs on a variety of OS environments Only requires a web browser to access (IE, Netscape, Opera, Mozilla) and a web server (IIS, Apache) all of which you already own and in most cases is installed by default Does not require Internet access Modifications and maintenance are simple and instant Built with very common development tools which means finding someone to support it long term will not be difficult and costly Easy and quick to develop Common web look and feel Design and layout are highly customizable Excellent for mobile development as it can be made available anywhere, anytime with the proper security