Abstract
The South African Journal of Information Management explores the latest developments and trends in information and knowledge management to offer research that can be used to further the application of sound information and knowledge management practice.
Highlights
Intranets are generally based on open standards for example, POP3, HTTP, etc. and TCP/IP, ensuring speed, compatibility with most other technologies and flexibility
By using a Web-browser, a Web server and any Internet-compatible client such as those which may be available as part of existing client/server architectures (LANS) and installations - intranets can be formed within organizational boundaries and so be protected from external violation (Wachter and Gupta 1997:393). This is contrasted with many other groupware applications that demand the use and maintenance of proprietary infrastructures (Telleen 1996b) and which achieve much the same result
According to the ABSA Group Internet/Intranet/Extranet Policy the Absa intranet is devoted to ABSA employees
Summary
An intranet reproduces the functionality of the Internet in the corporate network, by copying and building on an infrastructure similar to the public Internet. By using a Web-browser, a Web server and any Internet-compatible client such as those which may be available as part of existing client/server architectures (LANS) and installations - intranets can be formed within organizational boundaries (firewalls) and so be protected from external violation (Wachter and Gupta 1997:393). This is contrasted with many other groupware applications that demand the use and maintenance of (expensive) proprietary infrastructures (Telleen 1996b) and which achieve much the same result
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