Are multiple data warehouses too much of a good thing?
by W.H. Inmon
Certain types of data warehouses go well together and certain types don't.
If you make the right choice, you can achieve a symbiosis that will give your
organization a competitive advantage.
Two Different Ways to Sell the Intranet to Your Organization
by Melanie Hills
Do You Need an Intranet? Do you see a need in your organization that's not being met and for which an intranet is a perfect solution? Does your organization need better tools for communicating information, and maybe even for collaborating on projects?
NT vs. UNIX
by Rob Bilson
Several factors will come into play when deciding which platform you should use to build your companies Intranet. You will have to consider everything from your company's existing systems to technical support issues and projected future needs.
10 Hot Points for Intranet Success
from Pictorius Incorporated, with President and CEO Jesse Boudreau
"It’s more of a community effort than just an IS project," says Boudreau, "if the intranet isn’t used or updated frequently, it really defeats the purpose. You can spend a lot of time and money building it but if it doesn’t provide the perceived benefits to your customer, you end up with a big headache and most likely, redesigning the whole project."
How to Prepare the Information Systems Organization for the Intranet
by Alex Cullen
After the initial enthusiasm over info-availability subsides, qualities of availability and reliability, stability, user support, security and cost will demand more attention. Web developers and Webmasters must understand central IS's requirements for operating and maintaining production systems as they plan towards integration within IS
Avoiding Intranet Chaos
by Alex Cullen
Given the applicability of Web technology to both mainframe and many client-server applications, Intranets will move beyond information access to delivering the types of applications which businesses run upon. What does chaos mean to this environment?
Business process reengineering:
Intranet give new life to BPR
by Geoffrey James
If you thought business process reengineering was a thing of the past, take a look at how a Mexican bank, a health-care network, and an insurer are using intranets to rethink the organization and improve the bottom line.
Intranets rescue reengineering
by Geoffrey James
Forget all those reengineering debacles of the past. Intranets -- through their grass-roots employee support, inherent capacity to share information easily and cheaply and ability to embrace diverse computing platforms -- have recently led a resurgence in reengineering projects across corporate America.
Intranets: Increased Productivity leads to Striking Returns on Investment
by William P. Marino and Rainer Schelp
SGI employees around the world can now sit at their desks and "attend" meetings taking place at its World Headquarters in California via the company's vast intranet. In just a few months, SGI has integrated its intranet so tightly with its operation that it is not only the way its employees communicate, but also the way they think - it's their virtual electronic community.
The intranet data warehouse: A cultural revolution
by Rick Tanler
Is your enterprise's information culture that of a spectator, a competitor or a predator? Rick Tanler, author of The Intranet Data Warehouse, defines the terms.
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