Networking is  a company-wide software and information distribution system that uses Internet tools and technology. It could be a simple HTML file linked on a LAN, a full-blown sophisticated system with dedicated server hardware, or anything in between.

You can use an intranet to give employees access to company documents, distribute software, enable group scheduling, provide an easy front end to company databases, and let individuals and departments publish information they need to communicate to the rest of the company. Typical intranet content could include the corporate directory, a calendar of events, a policies and procedures manual, the health plan and the company newsletter. The most important information will be industry-specific, such as supplier information and databases of products.

An Intranet is a way of thinking about and organizing the way we work with other people. It's a method for leveraging the people, and the tools they all use, to make something new and better than merely the sum of the parts within that group.

 FIVE REASONS WHY YOUR COMPANY NEEDS AN INTRANET

1- Intranets solve the problem of information overload
Ironically, too much information doesn't cause information overload, and the solution isn't to reduce available information. Problems arise when individuals have little control over the information that comes at them. They're buried under a mountain of data. And it takes mental energy to filter, sort, store and later retrieve all this information, most of which is irrelevant.

2- Intranets are cheap
One advantage of using Internet tools to distribute company information is low cost. Your networked PCs are all perfectly capable intranet clients, and browsers are cheap or free. Even the server hardware, software and middleware is affordable. Any employee with access to a TCP/IP backbone can publish. Perhaps best of all, roll out can be gradual, modular and minimally disruptive.

3- Intranets are cross-platform
Most organizations are as heterogeneous as hell on the client side. Macs here. UNIX boxes there. A couple of OS/2 machines in the corner and, of course, Windows, Windows everywhere (in all three flavors: 3.1x, 95 and NT). Intranets are the easiest way to get everyone talking.

4- Intranets are robust
Even though the Web is just seven years old, and the first graphical browser just three, much of the underlying technology has been in use on the Internet for a decade or two, and it's robust and reliable.

5- Intranets are fast
You've seen Web sites with large, spectacular graphics, cool videos, neat Netscape forms, and other bells and whistles. And you'd probably enjoy them even more if they took seconds, rather than minutes, to download. That's one of the great advantages of an intranet: Videos and sound can load in less than a second. You can really push the envelope with the hottest available Web technologies without worrying about performance.

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