INTRANET

INTRANET

Stanford H. A & Marshal L. (2002) Intranet refer  to deliver an organization internal information, such as integrated email, websites department wise, homepages ,personal, administration of site ,layout of pages dial up intranet connection to the internet.

It is a private internal business network that enables your employees to share information, collaborate and improve their communication.

It requires users connected on it to share a single internet dial up connection on a network a proxy server  is essential. An intranet is an internal corporate net6work built using Internet and World standards and products. Employees of an organization use it to gain access to information. After getting their feet wet either public Web sites that promote products and Services Corporation are seizing the Web as a swift way to streamline transform their organizations

An intranet is an inexpensive yet powerful alternative to other forms of internet medication, including conventional computer setups. One of an intranet’s most virtues is its ability to slash the need for paper. Because Web browsers run on any   computers, the same electronic information can be viewed by any employed all requisition forms can be inexpensively converted to electronic form on they be constantly update. An internet provider employed with an easy and intuitive to accessing information that was previously difficult to obtain such as solution to providing information to a mobile sales force that need aces to rapidly information

Importance of intranet                                                                   

1.       Helps better internal communication, whereby it can act as communication hubs for staff corporate information such as memos, staff news and announcements can be stored centrally and accessed at any time.

2.      Intranet are also being used as corporate culture-change platforms. For example, a large numbers of employees discussing key issues in an intranet forum application could lead to new ideas in management, productivity, quality and other corporate issues.

3.      Sharing of resources and best practice, due to fact that virtual workplace and community can be created to facilitate information storing sharing and collaborative working .an intranet can also act as training platform when providing online training content to staff.

4.      Improve customer care services whereby better access to accurate and consistent information by your staff lead to enhanced level of customer services.

5.      Web publishing

Allows cumbersome corporate knowledge to be maintained and easily accessed throughout the company using hypermedia and web technologies. Examples include: employee, manuals, benefits documents, company policies, businesses standard and even training, can be accessed using common internet standard.

6.      Increase accuracy and timeliness information

This is also another importance that it increases accuracy and also the information that is found there is new so you get new and also accurate information so this helps in good product of work and also information

7.      Collaborative, group working

This is also another importance of intranets and extranets that it also enables group working due to that all the information of the company is shared so it is easy to divide work and also make collaboration in working hence it builds a good relationship between workers

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                   KIMATI, ELITRUDAH (BAPRM 42582)