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Intranet
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While the WWW may be the internet's best-known medium to publish
information for external consumers, it has also become an increasingly
common vehicle for distributing data in-house over corporate
networks. These so-called "Intranets" use web servers,
web browsers, and HTML documents as a means to publish corporate
information such as employee benefits, stock information, organizational
chart, policy manuals as well as new product/services updates,
promotions, a product catalogue, messages from the CEO, etc.
All the information can be quickly modified, expanded and enhanced
so that it is always current and readily available.
An intranet streamlines activities such as distribution of sales
materials and collaboration. The same system that keeps the
sales force informed of new products, product enhancements and
new price structures can be used by engineers for collaboration
on product design, manufacturing, and a host of other activities
that will increase the overall efficiency of the organization.
To be precise, a well designed intranet may be one of the most
valuable Assets to an organization to achieve better results
than the conventional means of data access and transfer. It
helps in cutting costs, easy and fast accessibility of day to
day information
Most content on the web consists of static pages written using
an editor capable of applying HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language)
code that controls a web page's presentation format, including
hyperlinks to other pages or web sites. The emergence of HTML
formatting, which enabled the use of input forms on web pages,
triggered efforts to integrate databases and the web. Instead
of being mere information recipients, web users can now send
data to the web server.
Integrating databases also lets web pages present dynamic information
obtained by querying a database. Bi-directional data flow and
dynamic output are the essential ingredients that are underlying
efforts to make the web a vehicle for conducting business with
customers, and for broadcasting database resident information
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