Bitrix White Papers

Choosing the proper CMS for a website or intranet is crucial for meeting strategic business goals. Should organizations give preference to ready-made, off-the-shelf software, develop a home-brew platform, or apply for a custom-built solution offered by a selected provider? Go to the download page.

This white paper overviews ten the most crucial pitfalls of pure open source CMS and provides a well-grounded argumentation on how Bitrix Site Manager, an off-the-shelf, hybrid-licensed CMS, can solve these drawbacks to enable web developers to increase development performance. Go to the download page.

This paper addresses ten typical collaboration and communication issues in a modern company and outlines ways to solve them using a full-featured intranet system. It also provides valuable advice for choosing the right intranet solution that can cover mission critical operations. Go to the download page.

An intranet portal is a useful tool that allows HR executives to address a cornerstone of modern business by creating a team from a diverse group of specialists. In this white paper, we set out basic HR scenarios leveraging an enterprise-wide intranet solution and show what benefits are delivered. Go to the download page.

This whitepaper depicts the Bitrix approach to measuring and calculating the two principal financial indicators of an intranet project: TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) and ROI (Return on Investment). This approach, based upon generalized constructions that are consistence with the experience of our clients, adheres to common sense and can be applied to real life. Our approach is especially applicable to small and medium-sized companies. Go to the download page.

SharePoint is only for collaboration. But collaboration is not only SharePoint. The product's value proposition make it a rather uncomfortable choice for small and medium-sized organizations. Especially in the areas of total cost of ownership, project implementation time, dependence on the Windows platform and difficulties in deployment, maintenance and management. Discover a valuable advice on how to choose a SharePoint alternative. Go to the download page.

This white paper casts light on the particular benefits for each party in the software delivery chain with special emphasis on new business opportunities and cost saving when using Enterprise 2.0 products in the Cloud. The document can also serve as a guideline for decision-makers looking for new ways to improve their intranet investments and business development ideas. Go to the download page.

This document contains the viewpoint of Bitrix concerning the state of affairs in web security, and its consequences for the development of the Internet as business tool. As one of the leaders in the field of integrated security for web projects including websites, intranets, and extranets, the company sets out its opinions about the principles of protection and rules of modern web hygiene. Go to the download page.

This document will help fill in the gaps in knowledge and clarify the differences between the concepts of an intranet solution and an intranet platform, while covering potential applications of their combined use and demonstrating that these two concepts can fit into a single product as a solution for the most complex of problems. Go to the download page.

When deciding on a platform for any corporate service, end-users are faced with a dilemma. What are the real strengths and weaknesses of free open source software and proprietary software? Which concept is better for the task at hand? Is there an alternative somewhere in the middle? This document will investigate that and several other issues as well as introduce the reader to the hybrid licensing concept. Go to the download page.