European business is braced for an on-line information boom, claims latest research.
More than half the 566 European companies surveyed have developed a corporate intranet and, of these, the vast majority have either put an information strategy in place or are planning to do so by the end of the year. The research, conducted in six European countries and regions, found a close correlation between the use of intranets and the existence of an information strategy. The results build a comprehensive picture of the state of Internet and intranet penetration in some of Europe's largest companies, and their reliance on business information from a variety of sources. Whilst the UK is the largest on-line business information user it has yet to grasp the intranet nettle. But despite this, UK companies lag behind their European counterparts in terms of the rate at which they are implementing and developing intranets and information strategies.