Question

How have the Internet, intranets, and extranets affected the types and uses of data resources available to business professionals? What other database trends are also affecting data resource management in business?

Answer 1

Hi,

Below is the answer-

Internet:
Uses of Internet in Business
Business uses of the Internet include:
• Collaboration among business partners
• Providing customer and vendor support
• Buying and selling products and services
• Marketing, sales, and customer service applications
• Growth of cross-functional business applications
• Emergence of applications in engineering, manufacturing, human resources and accounting
• Enterprise communications and collaboration
• Electronic commerce
• Strategic business alliances

The Business Value of the Internet:

• Substantial cost savings can arise because applications that use the Internet and Internet-based technologies (like Intranets and Extranets) are typically less expensive to develop, operate, and maintain than traditional systems.
• Attracting new customers with innovative marketing and products
• Retaining present customers with improved customer service and support.
• Generating revenue through electronic commerce applications is a growing source of business value.

Business Use of the Intranets

• Sending emails within your organization, and externally through the Internet and Extranets.
• Using GroupWare features helps to improve team and project collaboration with services such as discussion groups, chat rooms, and audio and videoconferencing.
• Company newsletters, technical drawings, and product catalogs can be published in a variety of ways including hypermedia and web pages, E-mail, net broadcasting, and as part of in-house business applications.
• Intranet software browsers, servers, and search engines can help you easily navigate and locate the business information you need.

Intranet Technology Resources

Since Intranets are Internet-like networks within organizations, they depend on all of the information technologies that make the Internet possible. These include:
• TCP/IP client/server networks
• Hardware and software such as web browsers and server suites
• HTML web publishing software

Extranets:
• Establish direct private network links between themselves, or create private secure Internet links between them called virtual private networks.
• Use the unsecured Internet as the Extranet link between its Intranet and consumers and others, but rely on encryption of sensitive data and its own firewall systems to provide adequate security.

Regards,

Vinay Singh