Building a better intranet

Intranets are the topic for 1997, especially in the area of getting a good working setup. It is what has probably been the biggest IT revolution since the first computers were made. The World Wide Web is already providing companies and consumers alike on laptops to mainframes with information from a huge installed base of platforms situated all round the world. So, given this change, how does a company go about creating an intranet and taking up the enterprise-wide information challenge? The Web, Internet, TCP/IP and cheap CPU, memory and disk storage have, together with the advent of Ethernet and FDDI, resulted in the most radical and far-reaching changes to computing and IT we have seen. Getting some simple things right will allow companies to concentrate on the information and not the technology. The computer, born in the early 1940s, will, with the network, hopefully provide the promise of simple, quick and easy information access and exchange by the year 2000, which up until now has not been delivered