Chapter 28. Using Web-to-Database Query Tools
April 30, 2008 by antz
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The most important information on an intranet typically is housed in databases. These databases can be on a single site, although typically, they can be found all across an entire intranet.
Most of these databases have been around since long before the Internet became popular, and before any corporate intranets were built. That means that they’ve [...]
Chapter 5 : Messaging Systems: Facsimile, Voice Processing and Electronic Mail (Page Five)
April 30, 2008 by antz
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The Technology
Voice processing systems are specialized computer systems consisting of ports, processors, an operating system, codecs, and storage. The computer platform typically is special-purpose, although it may be a general purpose computer with special application software. The operating system may be UNIX or some other industry standard, although it often is proprietary. Similarly the processors [...]
Chapter 27. How Document Management Systems Work
April 29, 2008 by antz
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What do most people in a corporation do most of their working days? Work on documents. Perhaps those documents are budgets in the form of spreadsheets. They might be sales reports. They could be long-range projects. More likely than not, after people have finished working on a document, they send it to someone else, who [...]
Chapter 5 : Messaging Systems: Facsimile, Voice Processing and Electronic Mail (Page Four)
April 29, 2008 by antz
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T.30
T.30 is a Group III/IV-compatible standard for routing faxes to users via subaddresses or fax mailboxes. Message security is included, with only the cover page capable of being viewed. The routing can be accomplished in several ways, including DTMF, DID, OCR, and manual. Dual Tone MultiFrequency (DTMF) routing requires the sender to enter the appropriate [...]
Chapter 26. How Intranet Whiteboard Applications Work
April 28, 2008 by antz
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Increasingly, people’s work is done not with pen and paper-it’s done with computers. That means that one traditional way that people collaborate-by sitting down with pen and pencil and marking up each other’s work-is no longer possible.
Online mark-up started with word processing programs offering simple “strikeout” and “redline” styles. Changes, however, were done sequentially, one [...]
Chapter 5 : Messaging Systems: Facsimile, Voice Processing and Electronic Mail (Page Three)
April 28, 2008 by antz
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Fax-on-Demand (FOD)
Fax-on-Demand (FOD) is a relatively new integration of voice processing and facsimile. FOD involves a voice processing front-end that answers the call, prompts the caller to select a document from a menu of options, enter a return fax number, and enter a credit card number in order that a fax response might be sent [...]
Chapter 25. How Intranet Videoconferencing Software Works
April 27, 2008 by antz
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Intranets are all about communication. And there is often no better way to communicate than in face-to-face encounters. However, intranets are also about communication outside of physical boundaries like buildings, companies, states, and countries. Often, of course, face-to-face meetings are not practical, due to time limits or budget constraints. In a corporation with branch offices, [...]
