APPLICATION BUILDING

Code Conspirators
For programmers, collaboration has always been a necessary evil, and cultural biases persist. But leading-edge organizations are finding that shared design elements, knowledge bases and extended development teams made possible by the intranet really work.

April 1997: Systems and Network Management

Probe 'n' Pray With few integrated products to manage intranets, piecemeal products have to suffice for now. Users are looking for divine inspiration in the form of polling agents, centralized consoles and more rigorous administrative practices.

March 1997: Webcasting

Now Showing On the Company Channel Keeping staff and business partners up to date is the next use of 'push' technology. Though not quite ready for prime time, it may just change the way you manage information.

February 1997: Web Data Warehouses

Data, free-for-all? Web-enabling your warehouse is cheap and simplifies data access. Is there any reason not to do it? No, as long as you've resolved security and bandwidth issues.

November 1996: Groupware

All together now -- almost Until Web groupware makes interoperability seamless, stitching proprietary systems together will have to do.

October 1996: Infrastructure

Firm Foundations Sure, you can cheaply build an intranet atop your current infrastructure. But soft costs add up fast. Piggybackingintranet expenses onto existing projects can provide solid grounding.

September 1996: Database integration

Old iron, new links Intranets can't yet replace client/server connections to databases. But fast-evolvingtechnology lets pioneer companies unite legacy systems and intranets.

August 1996: Intranet role models

Role models Intranets can finally give IS the respect itdeserves. The key: choose the right leadership role.

July 1996: Security

Innersecurity Don't panic! The right mix of technology and good management can tame the malicious and clueless.

June 1996: Intranet ROI

Net gain, net pain Payoffs from intranets can be big. But there are no free lunches.

NOTE: Intranets was not published in December 1996 or January 1997