Customer Reviews

Understanding Intranets (Strategic Technology Series)

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Aimed at students, managers and consultants who want a thorough overview of what an Intranet is about, `Understanding Intranets' covers in well presented chapters:

Intranet basics (definitions, applications, business case), from mainframe culture to Internet technologies (network topologies & management), the extranet option (security issues, applications), risks and mitigation strategies (security), using an intranet for quick publishing, using an intranet for information management, knowledge working, distance learning on an intranet, planning, launching a pilot project, building a business case, implementing your intranet, maintenance and evaluation, and looking further ahead.

Strengths are: the effective use of side-notes, side-bars, bulleted lists and illustrations; the broad consistent coverage of timely content; the attractive readable style; and enough guidance to actually implement useful intranets. Improvements could include reducing pagecount for the content; coverage of more advanced applications (e.g. business intelligence); a greater indication of global & sector business context; and more pointers to supporting material and further reading.

Overall I liked this book a lot, but suspect a new companion `advanced' text could bring things up to date, and offer readers more tools and insight to improve their corporate information systems.

I have searched and searched for a good book on intranets. It explains everything and has wonderful diagrams. A must buy!

The margin notes make finding topics of interest much easier. Most middle managers like to skim read books of this nature looking for the topic they are interested in. This is a book that should be on the desk of management available for constant referral.