What Can the Internet Do for You?
In a nutshell, the Internet is all about sharing information.
It’s about publishing information to unknown consumers, using standard formats and protocols to
enable them to access the information you provide in a consistent, reliable, and secure manner.
It’s about making that information available globally, both inside and outside the organization’s networks,
while maintaining control over security and access to potentially sensitive information.
It’s about retrieving the information that other individuals or organizations provide, from multiple disparate
sources, to use as inputs to your application.
It’s about sharing information between producers and consumers, suppliers and customers, using standard
formats for that exchange.
It’s about looking outside of the classic Excel application, and adding value to that application by sharing
its results with a wider audience than simply the user sitting at the PC.
It’s about using Excel as a key component of a larger business process that may span multiple organizations.