Running corporate intranets seems to be falling out of favor. But with Microsoft SharePoint 2016 and Office 365 release it seems that you can finally have good corporate intranet if you use https://emgage.com/prime-sharepoint-intranet


Moreover, people are also considering alternatives to InfoPath and to Microsoft Power Apps. If that's in your future i would suggest you take a look at this.
https://emgage.com/turbo-infopath-alternative-bpm-tools
It seems to be a great business process management tool

best of luck and stay focused on solving problems at least 10x better than what you have now.