Computer Business Application

Computer Business Application
Businesses have become internetworked E-business enterprises. The internet and internet-like networks inside the enterprise (intranets), between the enterprise and its trading partners (extranet), and other types of networks are now the primary information technology infrastructure of many organizations.

An internetworked E-business enterprise enables managers, business professional, team and work groups to electronically exchange data and information anywhere in the world with other end user, customer, supplier and business partners.

Companies and work group s can thus collaborate more creatively, manage their business operations and resource more effectively, and compete successfully in today’s fast-changing global economy.
Computer Business Application

Personal Information Manager

Personal Information Manager
Personal Information Manager is a popular software package for end user productivity and collaborations, and is a popular application for personal digital assistant (PDA) hand held devices.

Personal information manager such as Lotus Organizer and Microsoft Outlook help end users, store, organize and retrieve information about customers, clients and prospects, of schedule and manage appointments, meetings and tasks.

The personal information manager will organize data entered and retrieve information in a variety of forms, depending on the style and structure of the personal information and the information wanted.

For example, information can be retrieved as an electronic calendar or list of appointments, meeting, or other things to do, the time tables for a project; or a display of key facts and financial data about customers, clients, or sales prospects.

Personal information managers are sold as independent programs or are included in software suites and vary widely in their styles. Structure and features, for example,

Lotus Organizer uses a notebook with tabs format, while Microsoft Outlook organizes data about people as a continuous A to Z list. Most personal information managers emphasize the maintenance of contact list, that is, customers, clients or prospects. Scheduling appointments and meetings and task management are top personal information manager applications. Personal information manager are now changing to include the ability to access the World Wide Web also provide e-mail capability.
Personal Information Manager

Intranet Business Value: Publication Cost Savings

Intranet Business Value: Publication Cost Savings
Many companies have derived business value from their intranet applications. Intranet using companies report cost reductions, revenue increases or other benefits after they replaced traditional methods of accomplishing information publishing and other business processes with intranet based methods.

Many companies are replacing the publications of paper documents, company newsletter and employee manuals with electronic multimedia versions published on intranet Web servers.

Eliminations of printing, mailing and distribution costs are a major source of cost savings. Companies are also electronically publishing telephone directories, human resource materials, company policies, job openings, and many other former paper–based communications on intranet websites.

Companies that use web technology to distribute documents may experience momentous gains in productivity and incredible cost savings.

Like the reengineering craze that has marked the other half of the client/server revolution, converting many paper-based systems to web systems can save both labor and over head costs within an organization.
Intranet Business Value: Publication Cost Savings