Business Operations and Management:
Intranets are being used as the platform for developing and deploying critical business applications to support business operations and managerial decision making across the internetworked enterprise. Employees within the company, or external business partners can access and run such applications using web browsers from anywhere on the network whenever needed. Examples include:
1. Many companies are developing customer applications like order processing, inventory control, sales management, and executive information systems that can be implemented on intranets, extranets, and the Internet.
2. Many applications are designed to interface with, and access, existing company databases and legacy systems. The software for such businesses uses (sometimes called applets or crossware) is then installed on intranet web servers.
3. Employees within a company, or external business partners, can access and run applications using web browsers from anywhere on the network whenever needed.
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