Learning Outcome 5

Learners will be able to describe Internet/Intranet/Extranet relationship and discuss the enabling technologies for the intra/extra e-Business platform.

What event will trigger the application of the learning?

What degree of success will learner accomplish?

When the learners needs to advise on appropriateness and design of the architecture of Intranet, Corporate portal, and Extranet.

Learners will be able to explain the functionality of Intranet, corporate portal, and Extranet, discuss the technologies that enable these platforms, and compare and contrast these strategies in terms of both functionality and architecture.

Learning Objectives in the 'Mandatory Objectives' column refer to the bare minimum you need to learn to pass. It is essential that this learning is undertaken.

Successful completion of the 'Honours' column, together with the 'Mandatory Objectives' column, will prepare you more thoroughly.

If you complete all of the learning in each column, then you will be in the best position to obtain a high mark during the assessments.

For each category, click on individual Learning Objectives to access the relevant learning material.

Mandatory Objectives:

Honours:

First Class:

What are Intranets? What are the business goals for the deployment of an Intranet? What are the drivers for Intranet deployment? How could the deployment of Intranet change the organisational structure? How dose the Intranet compare and contrast with LAN?

What are Extranets?

How are Intranet, Extranet and e-Business related? How does Extranet technology differ from EDI?

What is VPN and tunnelling technology? What are the required strategic considerations for the implementation of Extranets?

What are corporate portals? How does corporate portal differ from Intranet?
What is the strategy for corporate portal development?

 

Are there any tools that learners can use in pursuit of this outcome?

PC with Internet access, books, periodicals.

 

Are there any special words or terms which can be used in the glossary?

Internet, Extranet, Enterprise or corporate portal, TCP/IP, Local Area Network (LAN), Wide Area Network (WAN), Virtual Private Network (VPN), Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), Supply Chain Management, Enterprise Resource Planning, Just in Time Delivery (JIT)

 

What references (books/articles/URLs) can the learner draw on?

http://www.cio.com/research/intranet/intranet_sites.html, http://www.cio.com/research/intranet/extranet_sites.html, http://www.intranetjournal.com/ix/