Intranet
Chekwoti Aramadhan
Islamic University in Uganda
Key concepts
• Internet
• Intranet
• Extranet
What is an intranet?
• An intranet is a private internal network • It operates similarly to the internet but is
that organizations use to facilitate secure restricted to authorized users within the
communication, collaboration, and organization.
information sharing among employees. • An intranet is a corporate LAN and/or Wide
• It operates similarly to the internet but is Area Network (WAN) that is secured behind
restricted to authorized users within the company’s firewalls and it uses Internet
organization. technologies
• An intranet is a private internal network • Intranets often include features such as
that organizations use to facilitate secure document management systems,
communication, collaboration, and employee directories, and communication
information sharing among employees. tools, enabling employees to access
company resources efficiently and securely.
The Intranet
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History of intranets
• Before there was the internet, there was first an intranet.
• It should come as no surprise that the first intranet was created by the
Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
• The ARPANET linked the Department of Defense computers
together, allowing for easier use and enhanced capabilities.
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Benefits and Uses of Intranets to Organizations
Benefits:
• Enhanced Communication: • Improved Collaboration:
• Intranets streamline internal • They enable teamwork through
communication by providing shared documents, project
platforms for announcements, management tools, and real-
discussions, and feedback, time communication channels,
which reduces reliance on
fostering a collaborative work
emails and meetings.
environment.
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• Centralized Information • Increased Productivity:
Access: • By providing easy access to
• Intranets serve as a single resources and tools, intranets
repository for important help employees perform tasks
company information, policies, more efficiently, ultimately
and updates, making it easy for saving time and enhancing
employees to find what they overall productivity.
need quickly.
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• Establishing and • Enhanced Employee
reinforcing a strong Engagement:
institutional culture • Intranets promote a sense
of community and
connection among
employees by offering
platforms for social
interaction and
recognition.
Uses/importance
• Knowledge Sharing: • Project Management:
• Intranets facilitate the • They provide tools for
organization of knowledge tracking tasks, deadlines,
through wikis, forums, and and project progress,
document libraries, helping teams stay
ensuring that employees organized.
stay informed.
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• Simplified records management • Corporate Culture
Development:
• Reduced dependency on other
• Intranets can be used as
employees
platforms for fostering
• Decision Support
corporate culture by allowing
• Promotes Innovation employees to discuss key
issues and share ideas.
Extranet
• Extranets are network connections that
• The extranet maximizes the
use Internet technologies to interconnect
communication advantages of an
the intranet of an organization with the
intranet to those outside the
intranets of a number of external
organization
stakeholders and shareholders
• With
• It also allows easy sharing of ideas,
an extranet, each organization
moves particular information outside of easy access to product information,
its private intranet but makes the pricing, company information and
information accessible only to certain policies and can, therefore, be used
other organizations, which share the to train and support value-added
extranet.
resellers and manufacturers
Summary on the internet, intranets and extranets
• Attached seperately
End of presentation
