Intranet

Intranet
An Intranet is a private network, owned by an organization or corporation. An intranet is accesible only by its own members, and can be used for communication, information sharing and hosting. Intranets are used by many corporations as communication tools, as they are less costly then the internet, and they can conceal confidential information from the public. Intranets work on slightly similar premises as wikis, despite their more restricted and exclusive nature, which focuses more on information and data sharing, and less individual input. Individuals can communicate with each other through applications that exist within the intranet, including interoffice email, online discussion forums, and bulletin boards. Intranets host company relevant information that is useful for employees. An example of an intranet is the Microsoft "Dynamics NAV Employee Portal", which is an intranet application used by Microsoft employees in order to allow users current "Real Time" access to current data, and allows different users to work with the same data. Microsoft boasts that their intranet applications saves employees time and increases productivity. For these reasons among others, Intranets are becoming increasingly more popular, and are being adopted by more companies due to their potential and cost effectiveness. = = Here is a simple illustration of an [|Intranet network] structure.

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