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Intranet

An intranet is a private network within an organization that connects computers using the organization's own servers and firewall. It allows employees to securely access and share information. Key benefits of an intranet include improved communication and collaboration through tools like email and blogs, increased workforce productivity by providing real-time access to shared data from any computer, and cost savings versus printing and distributing documents. While similar to the internet, an intranet is localized within an organization and more secure than exposing information publicly.

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Intranet

An intranet is a private network within an organization that connects computers using the organization's own servers and firewall. It allows employees to securely access and share information. Key benefits of an intranet include improved communication and collaboration through tools like email and blogs, increased workforce productivity by providing real-time access to shared data from any computer, and cost savings versus printing and distributing documents. While similar to the internet, an intranet is localized within an organization and more secure than exposing information publicly.

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Intranet

Intranet is defined as private network of computers within an organization with its own
server and firewall. Moreover we can define Intranet as:
 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.
 Every computer in internet is identified by a unique IP address.
 Each computer in Intranet is also identified by a IP Address, which is unique
among the computers in that Intranet.

Benefits
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.
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.

Issues
Apart from several benefits of Intranet, there also exist some issues.. These issues
are shown in the following diagram:

Applications
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:

Document publication applications

Document publication applications allow publishing documents such as manuals,


software guide, employee profits etc without use of paper.

Electronic resources applications

It offers electronic resources such as software applications, templates and tools, to


be shared across the network.

Interactive Communication applications

Like on internet, we have e-mail and chat like applications for Intranet, hence offering
an interactive communication among employees.

Support for Internet Applications

Intranet offers an environment to deploy and test applications before placing them on
Internet.
Internet vs. Intranet
Apart from similarities there are some differences between the two. Following are the
differences between Internet and Intranet:

Intranet Internet

Localized Network. Worldwide Network

Doesn't have access to Intranet Have access to Internet.

More Expensive Less Expensive

More Safe Less Safe

More Reliability Less Reliability

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