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Extranet
An Extranet is a bridge between the public Internet and private corporate Intranets.
First there was the Internet, which is available for everyone to use. Then organisations got smart and started developing their own intranets that used the same friendly Web interface, but put up firewalls so that only employees could see the information on the site. Finally, the extranet was created.
An extranet is the natural evolution away from a pure employee intranet, by allowing trusted third party suppliers, partners and customers to access your organisation’s internal systems and content.
When done correctly, extranets provide a safe way to allow transactional business-to-business activities and can save your company some serious time and money.
Suppliers can receive proposals, submit bids, provide documents, even collect payments through an extranet site. An extranet has restricted (password-protected) access, so it may be connected directly to each party's internal systems.
Extranets enable customers to interact more quickly and effectively with your organisation. In this way, extranets include tools and content that facilitate customer relationship management (i.e, CRM), where the customer is actually in charge.
The purpose is to facilitate ‘doing business’ by exposing your business logic and business data to your customers
Continuity enables organisations to extend their Intranets outside their firewalls.
Built using C# on the .Net framework, Continuity offers proven scalability, performance, security and modular extensibility. Perfect for any size organisation.
