Benefits of intranets and extranets
A key requirement in today's business environment is the ability to communicate more effectively, both internally with your employees and externally with your trading partners and customers.
An intranet is a private - internal - business network that enables your employees to share information, collaborate, and improve their communications.
An extranet…
In essence, an intranet is a business' own private website. It is a confidential business network that uses the same underlying structure and network protocols as the internet and is protected from unauthorised users by a firewall.
Intranets enhance existing communication between employees and provide a common knowledge base and storage…
Your business' efficiency can be improved by using your intranet for:
publishing - delivering information and business news as directories and web documents
document management - viewing, printing and working collaboratively on office documents such as spreadsheets
training - accessing and delivering various types of e-learning to the user's desktop…
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 systems for staff who spend lots of…
