Extranet, how can we utilize it to benefit our business? With different levels of access groups, is this something we can establish?
Not every company is the same, but most policies are very similar in style. So in most cases, you'll have multiple levels of partnership and each level has their own requirements, benefits, and resources. These levels of partnership can be created into groups and resources can shared utilizing those groups as a security access.
Why have an Extranet:
- 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
- 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
While being concerned of security, our engineers are well aware of required security methodologies for web applications and external communications. We will work with your local IT team to identify what is required:
- SSL digital certificates w/ quality assurance
- User authentication system
- Firewall rules, ports, monitoring, and alerts
- VPN's and private tunnels
Rest assured, we will help your organization design and properly share required resources and tools.
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