Internet Explorer 4.0 offers significant improvements for your business in several key areas:
- It offers major productivity improvements, first by making it easier to use the Internet/intranet, and then by giving your employees a single way to find and work with information whether it's on their hard drive, your network, or the World Wide Web.
- It delivers a complete set of communication and collaboration tools, keeping everyone in your organization up to speed on critical business issues, which you can now deliver directly to their desktops. Also, they allow your employees to "gather" in an instant - no matter where they're located throughout the world - to share information and make better decisions, faster.
- It lets you keep your support costs down by giving administrators direct control over the desktops in your organization, and by providing unique helpdesk support solutions over your intranet.
- It provides a rock-solid technology platform, allowing you to use all the latest Internet technologies to create content that adds value for your organization and customers.
Use the innovation of the Internet everywhere
Internet Explorer is the easiest browser available anywhere, and it lets your users become more productive instantly. Features such as AutoComplete of URLs and the SearchBand make it easier and faster for users to find the information they need on your Intranet or the Internet. Another one of Internet Explorer 4.0's main achievements is its integration of the Web with the computer operating system, giving your employees one-click access to all the information they need - whether it's located on their desktop, a company server, or the World Wide Web. You can even extend the user interface of their desktops with the power of HTML, making it easy for them to find the information that they need, all customized to meet your organization's standards. By providing a single interface for both traditional and Web computing, Internet Explorer 4.0 reduces training costs and makes it easier for employees to use the latest technology to complete projects quickly.
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Achieve your goals with superior communication tools and Push technologies
Internet Explorer 4.0 delivers a complete set of communication and collaboration tools, including a feature-rich e-mail package, cutting-edge conferencing and application-sharing tools, and publishing tools that enable you to establish a strong intranet. These tools go well beyond the basics. Outlook Express, our new e-mail and news application, lets your employees embed an entire Web page inside of an e-mail message, or use the flexiblity of standards-based HTML to create their messages and get their point across. Plus, the Inbox Assistant makes it easy to manage incoming e-mail messages and helps them stay afloat in a sea of information.
To help groups collaborate on projects, Internet Explorer 4.0 provides NetMeeting, which brings people together from different locations to share ideas and develop solutions without incurring the high costs of travel. To reach a larger audience, Internet Explorer 4.0's NetShow lets you broadcast important events like your annual corporate meeting to every employee's desktop computer.
Internet Explorer 4.0's Webcasting capabilities provide the ideal solution for distributing critical business information throughout your organization. You can establish your own custom Intranet channels, which reside on every desktop computer in your corporation or just the desktops where it's appropriate. Create your own HR channel, a Security channel, a Developer channel, or a Breaking News channel. Because they're always active, you can keep employees current on the latest issues and information, be it product sales figures, changes to interest rates, new policies or applications, or the latest stock quotes.. Site subscriptions are another option. Employees can subscribe to any Web site in the world on either the Internet or your corporate intranet, and then always be alerted when those sites change. For your mobile employees, if they're not connected to the Web, they can have information at their fingertips by taking advantage of Offline Viewing, which lets users read Web pages anywhere, any time.
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Finally, get control of your users' desktops
The Internet Explorer Administration Kit for IE 4.0 extends the already powerful capabilities in the IEAK, enabling you to customize the look and feel of the browser with your companies' logo, home page, and Favorites. But more importantly, it enables you to set up the browser so it works the way you want inside your organization, and then lock it down. Don't like users running Java applets? Want to control which channels show up on the desktop? No problem - just set it and lock it with the IEAK. You can even control and manage your desktops remotely with the IEAK, so don't bother getting out of your chair. By implementing the IE 4.0 Active Desktop, you can literally create your web pages which become your organization's standard desktop. Turn off the icons and give your users links only to the applications, files, and servers that you enable.
You can even keep your helpdesk costs down with the video conferencing and true application sharing in Microsoft NetMeeting. Forget about telling a hapless user how to do something over the phone, or, even worse, having to visit their desktop in person. Just connect to their PC over the Intranet, and show them in real-time how it's done. Make emergency registry changes, fix a setting in any application, or have them show you what the problem is, as you can watch it live on your screen.
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Extend the platform to deliver more effective Web content
Internet Explorer 4.0 provides the best and broadest implementation of today's leading Internet technologies such as Dynamic HTML, ActiveX, and Java, so corporations can create interactive content in the languages they already know, that adds value for both customers and your company's operations.
Internet Explorer 4.0's Dynamic HTML enables you to create web-based line-of-business applications with new levels of functionality. Moreover, it does so without consuming more network bandwidth, and without pounding your intranet web servers, so you can make the most of your network and hardware resources. Now you can give employees faster access to critical business information, even allow them to maintain their own benefits information, such as family status, 401-k plan options, and health care choices. Best of all, it works with the existing databases that you're already using to run your business today.
Multimedia overview of 4.0 available here
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