There is another important parallel as well. Companies want to use the intranet and Internet for both information and transactions. In the Internet information is expressed through a Web presence. In the intranet this is done through collaborative communication. The intranet sees transactions provided through applications and services.
Businesses expect an internetworked marketplace for transactions on the Internet.
Businesses are looking for ways of integrating their internal business processes. This is one of IT's greatest challenges and a business's biggest opportunity. I'll give just a few examples of how Sun has used its internal Intranet to address these values. Additionally, we can have more timely articles. Our corporate on-line human resources reference used to be on a proprietary commercial search and retrieval document platform.