Corporations install networks to increase communications, eliminate some of the problems inherent in communicating across large distance and share resources. There are as many reasons to improve networks capability for corporations.

Whatever the reasons, the right reasons to install a network is a business one. Networks are business tools, not technology toys. Corporations doesn't install a network because it's great fun to figure out a new technology. Corporations install networks because it make the company more productive and thus more profitable. Networks must be conceived and built with the business of the company in mind. Here is the summary of reasons to network, followed by an indepth look at each reason.

Sharing cost resources
A network can be used to share expensive resources, such as color printers and potters. A network can be used also to share resources such as faxes, modems and optical disk.

Improving communications
Networks improve information exchange and communication among employees, customers, and suppliers.

Reducing the barriers of time dan distance
Even when the workers are located in different offices, a networks helps workers share information and communicate as if they were in the same workgroups.

Increasing workers' access to information
Employees can access many different sources of information, all the while using their familiar desktop computers.

Reducing the cost of doing business
By giving workers ready access to information, they can make decisions more quickly and efficiently. Networks reduce a company's reliance on other forms of information delivery.

Reducing the cost of MIS operations
LANs are less expensive to operate than mainframes, and LAN servers and applications are continually increasing in power.

Giving companies the freedom of location
Networks enable companies to locate their divisions and operations where they are most efficient, rather than according to the convenience demands of the computing systems.

Building an inter-company network
By connecting a company's suppliers and customers via an inter-company network, a corporation can act more quickly and gain a significant advantage over its competitor.

Customer Support
Business with networking capability opens the corporate information infrastructure, enabling the creation of innovative support offerings. Support applications provide customers with all the information they need to be successful. Removing the traditional barriers and re-engineering the information dissemination process allows new standards in business relationships to emerge, ensuring mutual success.

Revenue generation
With networked business, you can generate new product or services that really have a competitive advantage, better than your competitor. These can proceed to greater revenue generation

Transformed company culture
For internal use, networked business can transform company culture into better productivity, how to manage the changing environment and speed up the business