Other Intranets contain marketing and sales data for large restaurant chains, stores, and suppliers. The same is true for today s traveling support engineer. Being able to call up technical specifications on the corporation s entire product line while at a potential customer s site, without having to carry dozens of pounds of printed materials, is now a staple for today s corporations. The Intranet provides this capability for any authorized user. The Intranet provides the communications capability, data storage, and access methodologies for other now-familiar technologies as well.
Electronic mail is an effective communications tool for millions of people.
The hype around the Intranet has reached a fever-pitch this year. New Intranets are coming online daily around the world. Yet, its larger counterpart, The Internet, receives even more attention. Computer and software manufacturers are now very careful to ensure that their products interact well on the Internet. Those that did not take the Internet into account during the engineering of their products are either in a quick catch-up phase or are part of computing history.