9-2 Applications of Intranets:
Organizations are implementing a broad range of intranet uses. Several common functional intranet business applications include:
1. Marketing
2. Finance
3. Human Resources
4. Sales
5. Manufacturing
6. Training
7. Customer Information
Intranet applications support communications and collaboration, web publishing, business operations and management, and intranet management. These applications can be integrated with existing IS resources and applications, and extended to customers, suppliers, and business partners.
Intranets can significantly improve communications and collaboration within an enterprise. Examples include:
1. Using an intranet browser and PC or NC workstation to send and receive E-mail, voicemail, paging, and faxes to communicate with others within your organization, and externally through the Internet and extranets.
2. Use intranet groupware features to improve team and project collaboration with services such as discussion groups, chat rooms, and audio and videoconferencing.
The advantages of developing and publishing hyperlinked multimedia documents to hypermedia databases accessible on World Wide Web servers has moved to corporate intranets. The comparative ease, attractiveness, and lower cost of publishing and accessing multimedia business information internally via intranet web sites has been one of the primary reasons for the explosive growth in the use of intranets in business. Examples include:
1. Company newsletters, technical drawings, and product catalogues can be published in a variety of ways including hypermedia and web pages, E-mail, net broadcasting, and as part of in-house business applications.
2. Intranet software browsers, servers, and search engines can help you easily navigate and locate the business information you need.
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