Week 4 Discussion

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Internet Tools—Part 1

We will now discuss some tools that organizations use with the Internet to accelerate knowledge transfer, create interactive services and products, and reduce coordination and communication costs.

The Internet tools are:

Browser: Uses a URL to access a Web site. Search engines, Web site directories, and the push technology can help �nd the URLs required to identify Web sites that may contain the requested information.

Shopping bot: Helps e-commerce buyers or shoppers locate or evaluate services and products they may wish to purchase. For example, the Product Search Web site of the Google search engine looks for the lowest prices of products for sale on the Internet.

Push technology: Obtains relevant information from networks by con�guring a computer to broadcast information directly to users based on their speci�c interests. An example of this is the automatic updating of business manuals.

Internet and web technology standards: Allows the interfaces and connectivity for private Extranets and internal private intranets that are used for collaborating with other companies for training, development, product design, and SCM. Private industrial networks are built on Extranets.