Private intranets are being embraced by corporations as the wave of the future because they bring immediate gains in helping people find information, work together, and distribute their results effectively. Those gains translate to higher productivity, lower costs, and increased competitiveness in the marketplace. Intranets, private webs that use the protocols and standards of the public Internet, are the most important new corporate computing platform since personal computers were introduced into the business environment.
Intranets are about corporate workforce connectivity.
They connect people to people and people to information. Powerful data management. Retrieval, use, and management of complex information and complicated applications is possible through the Web's ability to handle more users and data than any other network in history. Dynamic workgroup exchange. An Intranet changes the Web from read-only content to a dynamic workspace that can empower local and global workgroups to do business efficiently and effectively.