Hello friends, we are here again with new topic that is Intranet. You will definitely find question regarding Intranet its working, Business Value and Application of Intranet or may be related to Extranet in your BCA/BSC-IT semester exam. So examination point of view this topic is very important.
Lets begin with Intranet, the road map of today's topic is as follow:-
- Introduction
- Working of Intranet
- Application of Intranet
- Advantages of Intranet
- Disadvantages of Intranet
- Difference Between Internet & Intranet
1.Intranet
Intranet is composed of two words Intra and net where Intra means within the organisation and net means Network. Intranet is a smaller private version of Internet can also say mini-Internet.Moreover we can define Intranet as:
- Intranet is defined as private network of computers within an organization with its own server and firewall.
- Intranet is system in which multiple PCs are networked to be connected to each other. PCs in intranet are not available to the world outside of the intranet.
- Usually each company or organization has their own Intranet network and members/employees of that company can access the computers in their intranet.
- Each computer in Intranet is also identified by a IP Address, which is unique among the computers in that Intranet.
2.Working of Intranet
Just like user access the information on internet, The employees of the company can access the information from the company's intranet web server using a web browser. This Web server is connected to the company's Local Area Network(LAN).The working of Intranet is as follow:-
- When an employees of a company needs to access company information then he sends a request to web server using web browser.
- The web server retrieves the appropriate web page and send it to the employee's web browser and content is displayed on the employee screen.
- Employee of the company can also access the Internet from the company's Intranet by using a firewall.
3.Application of Intranet/ Business Value
Intranet applications are same as that of Internet applications. Intranet applications are also accessed through a web browser. The only difference is that, Intranet applications reside on local server while Internet applications reside on remote server. Here, we've discussed some of these applications:
Interactive communication Application
Like on internet, we have e-mail and chat like applications for Intranet, hence offering an interactive communication among employees.
Support for Internet Application
Intranet offers an environment to deploy and test applications before placing them on Internet.
Research and development
It is used by the research and development team to provide information related to the project schedule, post technical specification, get feedback from the sales staff etc.
Sales and marketing Application
sales and marketing staff requires up-to date and accurate information about the product and services which is very crucial in today's competitive environment.
Accounting Application
Intranet can help the finance department to post their objective to staff all around the world. The company's stock prices, current status which can be viewed by various employee and associated customer.
4.Advantages of Intranet
Intranet is very efficient and reliable network system for any organization. It is beneficial in every aspect such as collaboration, cost-effectiveness, security, productivity and much more.
Effective Communication
Intranet offers easy and cheap communication within an organization. Employees can communicate using chat, e-mail or blogs.
Time Saving
Information on Intranet is shared in real time.
Collaboration
Information is distributed among the employees as according to requirement and it can be accessed by the authorized users, resulting in enhanced teamwork.
Platform Independency
Intranet can connect computers and other devices with different architecture.
Cost Effective
Employees can see the data and other documents using browser rather than printing them and distributing duplicate copies among the employees, which certainly decreases the cost.
Workforce Productivity
Data is available at every time and can be accessed using company workstation. This helps the employees work faster.
Business Management
It is also possible to deploy applications that support business operations.
Security
Since information shared on intranet can only be accessed within an organization, therefore there is almost no chance of being theft.
Specific Users
Intranet targets only specific users within an organization therefore, once can exactly know whom he is interacting.
Immediate Updates
Any changes made to information are reflected immediately to all the users.
5.Disadvantages of Intranet
1. Management Concern
- Loss of control
- Hidden complexity
- potentional for chaos
2. Security Concern
- unauthorized of services
- denial of services
- packet sniffing
Difference between Internet and Intranet
so friends this is all about Intranet.In the next post we will learn about Extranet. Don't forget to leave your comment.
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