The Corporate Intranet: Create and Manage an Internal Web for Your Organization - Softcover

Bernard, Ryan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0471149292 ISBN 13: 9780471149293

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 1996

Synopsis

Transform your organization with Web technology

AT & T, Levi Strauss, 3M, Federal Express, and hundreds of other companies have already discovered that the Intranet is a fast, cost–effective way to dramatically improve corporate communications, distribute and share vital information, and dynamically transform entire organizations. Now, you can unite the computers, software, and databases within your organization into a single Web system that enables your employees to find any kind of information they need, anywhere.

The Corporate Intranet shows you how to create and manage this powerful interactive information platform within your organization. You′ll get a practical overview of what it takes to allow your LAN network to support Web technology. You′ll also find out how individual departments can set up Web servers and publish data and documents electronically in–house. You′ll learn how to:

• Use Internet technology to break information logjams.
• Select the right software and resources for an Intranet.
• Design and build internal multimedia Webs.
• Launch an Intranet and promote it within your organization.
• Help departments harness the full power of Web publishing.
• Link an Intranet to a company′s enterprise databases and to the "external" Internet.

About this title

Synopsis:

Systems that allow the widespread exchange of information across company networks are usually difficult to create and not particularly user- friendly. Off-the-shelf groupware products such as Lotus Notes are effective, but they may be expensive and cannot be adapted to suit the needs of a business. For this reason, managers are now looking at the Web as an innovative solution to their groupware needs. In this book, Ryan Bernard explains for a broad and computer literate, but not highly technical audience, the technology and processes by which companies can establish internal webs within their organizations and the compelling, tangible benefits of doing so. The book describes how to: select the right software and hardware for an internal corporate web; identify and structure useful information on corporate web servers; launch a corporate web and promote it throughout the organization; tie together the whole corporate web with a central hub page and index; link the corporate web to the enterprise network and the external Internet; establish appropriate corporate web policies, procedures, budgets, and publishing resources.

About the Author:

RYAN BERNARD is a principal at Wordmark Associates, a publishing and consulting firm in Houston, Texas. Since August 1994, he has been designing and building Intranet sites for Fortune 500 clients in the United States and Europe. In 1994, he received a Distinguished Technical Communications Award from the Society for Technical Communications.

About this edition

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0471149292
• ISBN 13: 9780471149293
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416