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Key benefits of extranets allow you to:
• communicate and collaborate more effectively - with clients, customers and stakeholders via a secure network
• integrate supply chains - eg consolidate processes such as online ordering, order tracking and inventory management
• reduce costs - eg make manuals and technical documentation available online to trading partners and customers
• improve business relationships - because of the close collaborative working that extranets support
• improve customer service - eg give customers direct access to information and enable them to resolve their own queries
• simplify processes - eg use a single user interface between you and your business partners
• secure your communications - exchanges take place in a controlled and secure environment
• share news - for example, of product development exclusively with partner companies
• work flexibly - extranet allows remote and mobile staff to access core business information 24 hours a day, irrespective of location
Titany answered the question on November 30, 2021 at 12:02
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