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The Internet and its corporately owned counterpart, intranets, continue to prove fertile in spawning a wide variety of business applications. The superimposability of Internet/ intranet based solutions onto the needs of business is explored in this review, and asserted as a pivotal reason for this phenomenon. In terms of business utility the splicing of IT/IS and telecommunications that comprise networks has proven ever more useful in recent years making this technology strategically significant and demanding strategic management. The significance of generic categories of application is addressed with examples provided for illustration. These categories include communication, publishing and enterprise support. Problems of security are discussed and ways of circumventing these problems considered Finally a summary is given in which is the importance of these networks to business is reasserted.
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Murray, M.A., Kerridge, S., Slade, A., Grey, D., Fergusson, I., Thompson, J.B. (1999). The Application of the Internet and Intranets in Business. In: Juliff, P., Kado, T., Barta, BZ. (eds) Educating Professionals for Network-Centric Organisations. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing, vol 17. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35393-7_11
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