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Extranets

We can guarantee you that by planning and deploying an Intranet you will make considerable efficiency savings and gain a real return on your investment (ROI).

What is an Extranet?

An Extranet is similar to an Intranet but it is made accessible to selected external partners such as business partners, suppliers, key customers etc, for exchanging data and applications and sharing information. As with an Intranet, an Extranet can also provide remote access to corporate and organisational systems for staff who spend lots of time out of the office, for instance those in sales, customer support, or home workers.

ExtranetsExtranets offer a cost effective and efficient way for businesses to connect with their trading partners. It also means that your business partners and suppliers can access the information they need 24 hours a day.  The ability of the extranet to automate the trading tasks between you and your trading partners can lead to enhanced business relationships and help to integrate your business firmly within their supply chain.  Within the tourism industry we have delivered customised extranet solutions that are now helping run day-today business processes on a worldwide level.

Businesses of all sizes are under increasing pressure to use online ordering, electronic order tracking and inventory management.  At the same time small businesses are keen to meet the demands of larger companies in terms of working flexibly, adopting new technologies and enabling the exchange of business information and transactions.

An Extranet can offer a range of benefits to your organisation or business from lowering costs, to producing faster results and improving the quality of service to customers.

Key advantages of an extranet include:

  • improved business relationships with key trading partners because of the close collaborative working that extranets support
  • improved customer service by giving customers direct access to information and enabling them to resolve their own queries
  • a single user interface between you and your business partners
  • improving the security of communications between you and your business partners, since exchanges can take place under a controlled and secure environment
  • shared news of product development exclusively with partner companies
  • flexible working for your own staff, as an extranet allows remote and mobile staff to access core business information 24 hours a day, irrespective of location
  • more integrated supply chains through the use of online ordering, order tracking and inventory management
  • reduced costs by making manuals and technical documentation available online to trading partners and customers
  • more effective collaboration between business partners - perhaps members of a project team - by enabling them to work online on common documentation

Why don't you...

County Dublin VEC are very happy with the outcome of our Extranet, the results of which have surpassed our expectations
George Murphy, County Dublin VEC