A Intranet is a Data-processing network used inside a company or of any other organisational entity using the techniques of communication of Internet (IP, waiters HTTP).

Advantages

  1. Work of the Employed S: The Intranet helps the Employé S to find and visualize quickly Information S in electronic Documents and relevant applications in their fields of Compétence S. Via a Interface of Navigateur Web easy to use, the user S can reach the Donnée S of any Base of data S which an organization wants to make available, any time, of anywhere, increasing consequently the skill of the Employé S in their work.

  2. Communication: The Intranet is powerful means of communication inside an organization, vertically and horizontally.
  3. Mass mailing Web: the use of Intranet makes it possible information to be published by bonds beyond simple the Hypertexte.
  4. Organization and business: The Intranet is also used like a platform to develop and deploy applications of support with the data-processing Transactions used to ends Financière S and decisional, across the inter-connected Entreprise….

Structure

Generally, a network Intranet has an architecture customers/waiter (S) N third which rests on whole or part of the following components:

  • Waiter (S) of file S, NAS, SAN (for the division of the Given S)
  • Waiter (S) HTTP of the Intranet (similar (S) to a Web server)
  • Waiter (S) of Databases (for the Storage of information)
  • Waiter (S) of Transport (for the exchange of emails or the Instant messaging)
  • Waiter (S) of Authentification (for the identification of the user S and the Storage of the Directory S)
  • Waiter (S) and software customers of Supervision network /syst èmes (the protocol SNMP is generally used to obtain information on the statute of the various components of the network)
  • Serveur (S) of videoconference
  • Switches , Routeur S, Pare-feu X (elements of the infrastructure)

The Intranet of a Undertaken point of disjunction often its Information system.

It is generally connected to the world network Internet via one or more footbridge (S) and one or more fire walls (S) ( Firewall ) which isolate it from the hot areas in the field of the safety thanks to a “demilitarized zone” ( DMZ ).

The functionalities offered to the users of an Intranet tend to be gathered via an interface Web (which is posted in a Navigateur Web, like Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera or Netscape Navigator).

The data storage shared on an Intranet is carried out in a way privileged on a NAS ( Network Area Storage ) or on a SAN ( Storage Area network ) which will form a dedicated part of the internal network.

Place de l' Intranet in the Engineering of knowledge

The trade which consists in organizing the division of knowledge of the Employé S and the leaders in a company calls the Ingénierie of knowledge.

The Intranet constitutes the technical Infrastructure of network which makes it possible to develop the projects of Ingénierie of knowledge (knowledge management in English).

One or more Intranets can be employed to structure the Communautés of practice.

Free software Intranet

Commercial software Intranet

  • I-MAJ

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