Detailed discussions with the people building intranets.

ARCO surfs securely
Certificate-protected extranet lets oil company collaborate safely. 9/28/98

PacifiCare takes the plunge
The Web team at this health care services firm makes a big splash starting with an executive-only site. 8/24/98

Inside the rock
A Lotus Notes-powered intranet breaks down the walls partitioning Prudential's six business units. 7/27/98

Big value intranet on the cheap
The Intranet team at marketing services and franchise giant Cendant Corp. relies on freeware, shareware and tough negotiations with software vendors to keep development costs down and business worth high. 6/29/98

Slam-dunk Web team
Bristol-Myers Squibb's intranet team scores big points for bringing powerhouse applications to the company Web. 5/25/98

From the Top Down
The intranet mandate at Norwegian engineering giant Kvaerner ASA comes straight out of the executive suite. 4/27/98

Blasting off for Inner Space
Ernst & Young International charts a stable orbit of intranet resources. 3/30/98

Documenting progress
In this, the first of an ongoing series revisiting intranets we've profiled, we take a second virtual tour through Xerox Corp. and its Web. Much has changed, but not enough to satisfy the core intranet team. 2/23/98

Intranet Intensity
You won't find anyone cruising an IBM campus sporting a T-shirt emblazoned with the name of the company's intranet. IBM's intranet doesn't really have a name, let alone a catchy one worth putting on a shirt or coffee mug. Nevertheless, the net draws some four million hits per day. 1/26/98

Coffee with VINNIE
Intranet team members at Volkswagon's U.S headquarters periodically host cybercafes to percolate interest in VINNIE, the corporate web. 12/15/97

Heading down the E-Way
Office supply giant Corporate Express, Inc. is looking at electronic commerce as a way to support its just-in-time tactics and continue its explosive growth. 11/17/97

Dollars and sense
First Chicago NBD's Commercial and Institutional Banking group uses the Web to beef up business intelligence. 10/20/97

An intranet energized
Sandia National Labs is bringing its intranet to the next level with Web-based workflow applications. 9/22/97

Cubic creativity
IT managers at defense contractor Cubic Corp. are finding creative ways to offer tech support services on the Web. Their ingenuity, they hope, will encourage other departments to follow suit. 8/18/97

A sound strategy
Web experimenters in IS and engineering have learned to work in concert at speaker giant Bose Corp.

Opening the gate
Chip maker Xilinx began building its intranet with a specific goal of allowing business partners to travel to and pull down information from select pages.

Pure business
Mutual fund giant Fidelity Investments is building an intranet-centric information archictecture anchored by a huge data warehouse. 5/19/97

Sticky business
3M, the master of adhesives, is stuck on the idea of using Web technology to bring its Notes and legal system communities to a common ground. 4/21/97

In trying times
Building an intranet while your company is downsizing can be rather dicey - just ask developers at Westinghouse Electric. They've had to contend with corporate restructurings that make content providers disappear overnight.3/24/97

Merger mania made easy
An intranet chock full of corporate data has helped newcomers brought on board during Lockheed Martin's recent buying spree get acclimated and find the information they need to do their jobs. 2/17/97

Fruit of MIS' Loom
You'd think a company with an ad campaign featuring leotard-clad men wearing big fruit costumes might encourage a little fun at work. But, until recently, Fruit of the Loom executives ran a strict, no-nonsense operation. Just recently, it seems, that culture has stepped into the '90s. And the company's intranet is behind some of that change. 1/20/97

Shooting for the stars
To fill an order, the plant manager needs to requisition some parts. After getting a quote from one of his regular suppliers, he decides to run a check on companies providing goods to other portions of TRW's massive automotive business. He fires up his browser and clicks his way to the Supplier Data Warehouse, a repository of vendor and product information available on TRW's intranet. Using a search engine, he quickly finds the names of the top 10 parts suppliers with whom TRW does business. The manager decides to approach one of the suppliers. 12/16/96

Intranet shines at Sun
Sun feeds Network, and according to officials he doesn't bite. But the company also feeds itself, with arguably the highest per capita corparate installation of Web pages running on an army of its own servers. 8/96