What are the benefits of Intranet applications

The benefits of successful Intranet applications can be enumerated as follows:

• Cheaper: Use of client browsers with one standard Window interface, offers easy integration with a number of other applications, such as electronic mail, faxes, videoconferencing, calendaring, and linkages within messages. As a single interface to a variety of information sources, the browser is cost-effective, highly efficient, uses minimal resources, and is very easy to use.
• Versatile: An Intranet server eliminates the need to replicate database by providing users with easy access to source data. A single WWW server platform can support both internal and external applications for both internal information-sharing and external marketing on the Internet. In contrast, the Lotus Notes application is costlier and purely an internal application.
• Flexible: The Intranet provides the users with access to centralised information resources on a single point-and-click basis through the browser, which is available on a variety of client platforms (Windows, Mac, UNIX, etc.), at any location. With Notes, data distribution is in real-time, on an as-requested basis, over a public (or private) network.