Web Applications-3
What is an Intranet?
An intranet is simply a specific kind of web application. I will make up an example.Suppose a company has a warehouse in Punta Gorda. This warehouse ships all orders the company receives to all USA destinations. The company also has sales offices in 12 cities throughout the country. Each sales office processes it own sales orders as the sales reps make their sales.In order to process the orders correctly, each office needs to know the on-hand quantity for each item sold, so as to know whether to put it on backorder or not, and properly keep the customers informed.How you would go about doing this is to have the Inventory Database (probably located at the warehouse in Punta Gorda) housed on a web server. You make the processing of Sales Orders a web application (now probably called ebusiness) . The sales clerks in all 12 sales offices are therefore logged onto the Punta Gorda Server each day. Nobody outside the group of offices can ever log on because they do not have a login and password. We therefore end up with 13 locations all sharing a web application, the application is not available to the public. This is an intranet.
Conclusion:
For organizations that depend upon input from offices or personnel in different locations, the potential benefits from using a web applications may be very significant.There is a normally a much smaller initial investment than there is for a local network application.
- You can make your Management Information System available to employees and associates anywhere in the world at little cost.
- Maintenance of the system is much cheaper than conventional programs, because there is only one working copy of the application.
Stuart B. Brister
Brister Software Inc.
28 June 2005
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