Web design conference - Part II: Developing Intranet Solutions Marketing PC PC
Part II: Developing Intranet Solutions Marketing PC PC PC Engineering PC PCPC PC PC Sales MIS PC PCPC PC PC Intranet Server Firewall Database Server Administration PC PCPC PC PC Figure 4-1: A typical intranet-enabled company. Any Department Department Head Team Employee Project 1 Team Leader Team Employee Project (n) Team Leader Figure 4-2: User requirements for a typical intranet-enabled company. Each intranet application you develop must be able to authenticate and authorize different types of users. For example, an employee vacation management application has to incorporate the hierarchical chain of command that enables employee vacation requests to be reviewed and approved first by team leaders and then by the department head. So far, our intranet application framework has the following requirements: . Central authentication: Users need to be authenticated to access intranet applications. There are likely to be many intranet applications within an organization and therefore user authentication should be done such that a user logs in only once to access any application. A session should be