According to Nick d'Arbeloff of intranet and extranet developer Conjoin , five years into the future, the vast majority of internal company communications are going to take place via an intranet. An intranet is the internal backbone of an organization to which any and all information can be attached so that employees can get at the information to accomplish their jobs. There are several reasons why Internet technologies have such a significant impact on business networking applications. Any individual or department on an intranet has the ability to interact with any other individual or department. Beyond that, intranets are also valuable for communicating with business partners and markets.
Visual enhancements make presentations much more enjoyable to read and easier to absorb.
Internet technology has proven itself to be a highly robust and reliable way to transmit information. Coupled with daily backups, rapidly changing data can be protected from occasional server crashes. Compared with proprietary networking environments, Internet technology costs are surprisingly low. With an intranet, documents of any kind can be updated with a few keyboard strokes. In the past, for example, an error in a newsletter meant a correction or retraction in a subsequent issue.