Phoenix—McMurry has launched an extension of its popular, easy-to-use website management and building software WebEdge that offers companies an easy, branded, low-cost way to install or improve an employee intranet.

"WebEdge – Employee Intranet" is a cross-platform solution that serves as a central place for a company's employees to access critical communications, share knowledge, and uniquely engage one another in an online social atmosphere that has been proven to help establish an award-winning culture.

"An intranet should be more than a place to post forms, links and documents. It should be a communication and culture-building hub within a business," says Michael Barber, president of Interactive Services at McMurry. "It should also be a flexible product that can evolve with a business, and an exciting place that employees want to visit."

"WebEdge – Employee Intranet" is personalized to reflect a company's branding requirements. Its intuitive structure and navigation make rollout simple because user education isn't needed. It has open-source framework to accommodate growth and accessibility, an adaptable security model, flexible hosting and support options, and an interface that allows each employee to organize his or her own home page so it's most useful for the individual.

The feature set for "WebEdge – Employee Intranet" is deep and expansive, and can be implemented for as little as $500 per month. Some of the features include:

• Personalized user accounts
• Company news
• Individual employee profiles
• Single source sign-on capability
• Fully customized user interface
• Searchable and sortable employee directory
• Universal search of all links, documents, files and information on Intranet
• Employee groups and departments
• Personalized interest categories
• Blogs and discussion forums
• Classified ads
• E-mailed employee recognition modules
• Local weather
• Photo galleries
• Polls and surveys
• Remote server connections
• Rotating banner ads
• Employee birthday and date-of-service reminders
• Event calendar with categories
• Document library
• RSS reader
• Social media tie-ins
• Company wiki to help staff understand nomenclature, policies and more
• Rotating "status updates" on home page
• Internal "tweet" function

McMurry launched WebEdge in 2007. The product has been implemented by more than 200 businesses, and those sites collectively contain more than 20,000 pages and attract more than 10 million unique visitors per year.

For more information about "WebEdge – Employee Intranet" or to receive a demo, please contact Michael Barber at michael.barber@mcmurry.com.

About McMurry
McMurry, with three offices in Arizona and New York, offers a complete line of marketing communications services to a variety of clientele, including The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Co., CBS, Aon, Deloitte, HP, Verizon, UPS, Thomson Reuters and Amtrak, as well as resources to thousands of corporate professionals. The company has specialized practices in healthcare, finance and insurance, and best-in-class content marketing, interactive and video production services. One of the largest independent marketing communications companies in the U.S., McMurry is on the Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Companies list and is recognized by the Great Place to Work Institute and the Society for Human Resource Management as one of the top five "Best Small Companies to Work For" in the U.S.