INTRANET SOLUTIONS



Although an intranet offers many business and technological advantages over traditional networks and client-server solutions, research shows that users do not immediately flock to an Intranet "just because it's there." Intranet applications that significantly enhance an organization's business processes. They are categorized by functional group - sales and marketing, human resources, engineering.

Nothing kills a business Web site like poor performance. Yet performance is often overlooked during intranet development. For building well performing intranets, planning for performance, performance-aware design, testing and optimizing, deployment and configuration, and system tuning.

Your intranet can be anything that you want it to be. It can merely contain a list of company polices and a picture of the employee-of-the-month. Or it can be an all-inclusive, high-tech wonder that transforms an otherwise overwhelmed organization into a well-oiled machine. Ready to embrace efficiency? Consider including the intranet features listed here in your organization's intranet. Enterprise application integration should not be viewed as a destination but rather as a journey.

Higher business value can be realized as increasingly complex business processes are automated, standardized, reused and shared. Yet the costs of enterprise application integration can also be substantial, both from a financial standpoint and in terms of the organizational disruptions that are often involved. The shift from business-to-consumer models of e-Business to an emphasis on value-chain automation can be seen as a reappraisal of network value in favor of inter-process, as opposed to interpersonal, communication. This article surveys back-end, middleware and front-end techniques for getting code and data trapped in discrete networked systems to work together.

The drive to reduce costs is prompting a convergence between the corporate intranet, extranet and Internet into one website for multiple audiences. This convergence promises to meld Internet, extranet and intranet platforms into a single ubiquitous platform that serves up content and data based upon the user's profile. Sounds glorious, doesn't it?
Although an intranet offers many business and technological advantages over traditional networks and client-server solutions, research shows that users do not immediately flock to an Intranet "just because it's there." This article presents intranet applications that significantly enhance an organization's business processes. They are categorized by functional group - sales and marketing, human resources, engineering, customer service and support, finance and accounting, and manufacturing and operations