This hoarding of intelligence puts companies at a competitive disadvan-tage
Private Healthcare Information Network This hoarding of intelligence puts companies at a competitive disadvan-tage. Companies that can quickly retrieve internal information and efficiently synthesize and disseminate external information have an advantage over those organizations that cannot. Further-more, each manager or executive is a data base of information, with years of functional and indutry expertise making him a resident expert on certain topics. Getting access to your co-workers or subordinates areas of expertise requires that you tap into their data bank of information, which is stored in their brain. Thus, the infloglut factor has led to the increased emphasis on and impor-tance of information sharing within organizations. The application layer is the top-most layer of OSI model. Communication protocols The client computer requests a service from the server computer. The server computer provides the requested service to the client computer. In client/server model, a com...