Content Management System Company Aurora Information Technology Discusses How Bitrix Intranet Portal Can Help Businesses Improve Efficiency and Profitability

COLD SPRING, N.Y., Sept. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- As Certified Bitrix Gold Partners, Aurora Information Technology (Aurora IT), a medical website design, website development, programming and Internet marketing company based in Cold Spring, New York, believes in the integrity of Bitrix, Inc., Content Management System (CMS) and enterprise portal solutions. Bitrix Intranet Portal 9.0 (BIP 9.0), a business portal that was distinguished earlier this year as "Best Software of the Year" by PC Magazine for the second consecutive year, has been a part of Aurora IT's staple of Intranet software offerings for website design clients for many years. Bitrix's new Enterprise Portal offers document management software and other features that respond to the growing demand of the business world that enable them to achieve new efficiency levels and better connect with their customers, partners and employees.

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"All size businesses desperately need productive, cost-effective Intranet portal solutions for their work environments as well as reliable communication vehicles for their outside customers and vendors," said Daniel Gilbert, CEO of Aurora IT, the only Certified Bitrix Gold Partner in the United States, "The features of Bitrix Intranet Portal 9.0 help all size business employees and groups in various locations connect into one seamless work group, which is very attractive in today's highly competitive global and digital business world."

Bitrix Intranet Portal 9.0 offers an alternative to the expensive and complex enterprise portal solutions, such as Microsoft's SharePoint Server, and outperforms the limited and simplistic CMS business portal offerings. Aurora, the only Bitrixsoft partner in the Americas that offers BIP 9.0, offers free, no-obligation online demonstrations as well. The web-based Bitrix Intranet Portal, for which, integrates easily into any existing IT infrastructure. Bitrix Intranet 9.0 can increase employee productivity, internal interoperability, customer satisfaction and user involvement by offering:

• Communication – Employee contact via instant messaging, video chat or video conferencing
• Community Features – Forums, blogs and photo galleries featuring comments and rating systems
• Company Extranet – Clients and vendors can share information with your company without accessing internal information
• Customizable User Groups – Administrators can control access to any site functions or documents
• Customizable User Homepage – the ability to add, remove or hide content from users' own homepages for faster access to vital company information
• Document Libraries – Users can upload documents to a centralized shared library via a customizable document management software solution
• Organization – Sync Outlook to view company-wide employee availability as well as scheduling of meetings and conference rooms
• Personal Profiles – Each user has their own profile page, which can store files, photos, and documents that can be shared with others
• Scalability- beneficial features to companies of any size that grows with the business needs
• Task Management – Assign user tasks and monitor workflow progress

"And Bitrix delivers all of these features with their unparalleled security system that includes a new anti-virus module, embedded backup and integrity control that increases security, minimizes downtime and ensures business continuity as well as reputation protection," concluded Gilbert. "New Bitrix Intranet Portal 9.0 features further cement Bitrix's place as a technological leader and trendsetter in business communications solutions, as well as demonstrates why Aurora IT will always believe in their products."

SOURCE Aurora Information Technology, Inc.