We are looking for an Intranet template that gives us mobile, news, content aggregation from the Department sites amongst other stuff!
If you built your own, can you let me know how you went about it?
Alternatively, if you bought one in, how long did it take, were your users happy and was it a success?
as Mark just mentioned, there is not a single correct answer for this question. Your choice of a template is really depending on what you need from the intranet and how your users’ personas might dictate a particular user experience. The above templates will give you the common functionalities most organizations use an intranet platform for which can be only 40-60% of the picture.
you might take a step back and think why you are building an intranet and whether a single web platform is the answer for you.