The technology that surrounds intranet is quite similar to this of internet. That is, network infrastructure, hardware platforms, firewalls, server software, client software, site management software, application servers, implementation approaches, etc.
Due to different nature of organizations, there are several ways to built an intranet. However the most common characteristics of successful intranets architectures are: Integrating information design with business planning, help the employees to use it effectively by using different techniques, think about tasks rather than documents, organize tasks into larger processes and last but not least create virtual workgroups organized around processes.
Because of the nature of intranets it is very possible if is not planned carefully to create chaos into the company. The following decisions must be communicated in order to avoid this problem. Application/infrastructure boundary, application interface standards, service specific standards, vendor standards.
The report further down examines a case study of an intranet application in Nike company, which case study answers to questions such as: why an intranet is a crucial tool for geographically ? scattered groups, how to change user behavior and increase intranet usage, what security issues do appear when implementing intranet systems and what can be done.
At the end the reports examines the socio-technical approach, which approach connects four aspects (people, organization, technology, tasks) and examines their inter relationship when implementing information systems to organizations.
At the end of the report the writer comes out with his conclusions and recommendations.
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