Intranet Executive

The Intranet Executive column series ran from November 1996 through May 1998. In this series, chief information officers and other leading technology executives discussed how intranets and extranets can solve business problems and increase communication and collaboration across a wide range of businesses and industries.   An archive of all the Intranet Executive columns is below. To read more about how networking impacts business, please see our new Net Economy column series.

Leveraging Legacy Applications - May 13, 1998
Glen Brownlee, president and COO of Simware, looks at the value of the web for delivering mission-critical applications that exploit valuable corporate data.

Extracting Order From Chaos: Staying on Top of the Intranet Software Market - April 29, 1998
Dave Dunlap, VP of Product Research Services at Intraware, talks about how his company developed Compariscope to help IT managers choose the products they need to solve their company's business problems.

Designs on the Web: New Ways to Improve Engineering Productivity and Competitiveness - March 31, 1998
Dr. Joel Orr, engineering laureate at Bentley Systems, discovered that by using a web-based system, the focus of engineering professionals, and of the vendors who provide them with engineering software, can change from incremental improvements to improvements in the productivity and competitiveness of the entire engineering enterprise.

The Borderless Electronic Marketplace - March 4, 1998
Martin Bangemann, a member of the European Commission, argues that a multilateral framework is necessary to tackle the technical, legal, and social challenges of the borderless electronic marketplace. He envisions the formation of an industry-led roundtable and, ultimately, the adoption of an international charter by the end of 1999.

The Future of Learning Is Now - January 28, 1998
JoAnn Ashman, VP of sales and services at Pebblesoft Learning, reports that the Internet, intranets, and extranets are changing the way we learn, just as they've already changed the way we work.

Wharton's SPIKE: Using JavaScript to Develop an Enterprise Application - January 14, 1998
Kendall Whitehouse, associate director for advanced technology development at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, explains the advantages of Wharton's JavaScript-based intranet application.

Intranet Executive 1996 - Intranet Executive 1997