The Intranet: Expanding the Power of the Enterprise

They say "knowledge is power" and in a competetive business arena,there is no exception to this phrase. A company's success hinges on its ability to shorten product developement cycles, increase quality and reduce costs. Timely access to information helps corporations to achieve these goals while, at the same time, it allows them to stave off their competitors.
So how do you make information available to an entire company 24 hours a day, seven days a week? The answer is simple - the Intranet. An intranet leverages proven internet technology to create a network-wide communications system that lets users run internal applications over a corporate LAN. "CONNECTIONS" Ascend Communications, March 1997