Role of intranets
Intranets are generally used for four types of applications:
- 1) Communication and collaboration
- send and receive e-mail, faxes, voice mail, and paging
- discussion rooms and chat rooms
- audio and video conferencing
- virtual team meetings and project collaboration
- 2) Web publishing
- develop and publish hyperlinked multi-media documents such as:
- policy manuals
- company newsletters
- product catalogs
- technical drawing
- training material
- telephone directories
- 3) Business operations and management
- 4) Intranet portal management
- centrally administer all network functions including servers, clients, security, directories, and traffic
- gives users access to a variety of internal and external business applications
- it integrates many different technologies