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?
Well IMO the point of a template really is to give you a starting point which is closest to your business need.
We used a publishing portal simply because we were looking to have aggregated content from different site collections.
Admission: Our biggest challenge was coming up with a unified Top Menu for all Site Collections. (about 100+ site Collections)