RIA Novosti (1C-Bitrix: Corporate portal)

The intranet resource of RIA Novosti Media holding is created on the platform "1C-Bitrix: Corporate portal". For the leading news agency which proclaimed efficiency one of composed information success, development of a system of internal communications is a part of long-term corporate strategy.

To optimize and expand the existing system of internal communications, to create a common information space and to integrate all staff of RIA Novosti, it is kind of far from the central office they were not, the decision to carry out a number of high-quality changes and to organize work of an internal corporate resource was made.

Preference was given to the solution "1C-Bitrix: A corporate portal" as to the most attractive at once for several reasons:

• simplicity of deployment of a reference platform;
• convenience of administration;
• broad functionality;
• powerful search engine.

The solution 1C-Bitrix practically from "box" allows to implement already at the initial stage a possibility of the most operational publication of content; automate routine business processes; organize joint work over projects and many other things. "1C-Bitrix: The corporate portal" gives to employees an opportunity to organize the working groups, to exchange instant messages, to organize video conferences and video calls, to discuss urgent issues in microblogs, to monitor a tape of updates on a corporate resource.

The corporate portal of RIA Novosti became the main internal resource for covering of events of the Moscow office of Media holding. The portal "lives" – something new appears on it daily, updates happen instantly, in real time. Having own image bank and video base, it serves as the platform for operational exchange both as the office, and accompanying information between divisions and the staff of the Agency.

The portal became the convenient instrument of regulation of a daily routine. Integrating functionality of traditionally accepted methods of communications in the Agency – Lotus, Outlook, ICQ – with advantages of computer automation, it allowed to simplify many workflows substantially: task management, work with documents, working groups, planning and many other things.

With its help it was succeeded to formulate and to technically implement internal hierarchy of managerial communications – both horizontal, and vertical: employees – top management, employees – linear management, linear management – top management, top management – employees. It considerably accelerated decision making process and simplified permission of matters of argument.

The portal – the favorable platform for the publication and exchange of business information: as general use – orders, orders, standards, instructions, and between individual employees.

"The portal minimized territorial barriers and presented to people feeling of harmoniously working factory of news, – the first deputy of the Joint edition of news of RIA Novosti Irina Kedrovskaya explains. – Now the Portal is "mirror" of internal life of the Agency, information on it appears most quickly, so, answers requests of staff of RIA Novosti".

Today the corporate portal of RIA Novosti news agency is the best intranet of electronic media, according to jury of the annual tender "The Best Corporate Media of 2012".

One of the most visited sections of the Portal is Forum including two functional parts: "Bulletin board" and directly Forum. The section is intended for the different purposes – for communication on subjects, for the publication of polls, discussion of notes and articles, but is used, generally for an informal talk.

Other visited section – a news feed "Our life". Any socially directed stocks, for example, charitable departures of employees, are announced and kept here. The portal plays a mediator role, the coordinating link for consolidation of employees, will play also an educational role, having provided in an available form information on volunteer activity, addressees of the help, etc.

In use specialists of RIA Novosti carried out partial redesign of the portal. The structure was optimized, taking into account the principles of ergonomics some elements of the user interface are processed. In the near future the company plans a homepage remake – to refuse the template of "three columns" which set the teeth on edge. The company lays special hopes on considerable expansion of multimedia opportunities of the Portal: photocontent, online video, virtual excursions, animation.