Web Access
Many intranets are only available to internal corporate users who are inside a firewall. This is understandable due to security concerns and some internal corporate policies that want to regulate from where the Intranet is accessed. When advanced functional components, such as those discussed in this section, are included in an intranet, there will be circumstances where opening access to outside users should be considered. If mission-critical items like a time/project management utility or contact manager are going to be included in an intranet, their immense utility to staff will necessitate allowing them access while they are away from the office (at home, at a client's office, or at a conference, for example).
There are a number of ways to attend to this, but your network administrators should address this issue as its primary concerns regard corporate IT security policy.
Remote Web Access should be considered during the Need Analysis to ensure network administrators properly scope it out (and estimate related costs and implementation time) for inclusion in the Project Scope Document (more on this later).