How do you get employees to communicate and coordinate work when they are all over the map? Information networks apply IT to connect all employees of an organization. Information networks are used to integrate information systems and, at many organizations, to find information, and to solve problems.

New apps and cloud-based tools are turning global workers into hives of collaboration and connecting companies with their customers as never before. Much of the network is based on machine-to-machine (M2M) communications.