Extranets

An extranet is a portal that allows controlled access from both outside and inside an organisation, usually for specific reasons. An extranet can be viewed as an extension of a company's intranet, helping you to share data, information and knowledge by providing access to suppliers, customers and partners without granting access to an organisations entire network.

These browser based portals can deliver return on investment in a short timeframe by enabling you to unlock business potential and enhance productivity through providing role-based access to information and processes.

Advanced 365 works with customers to design and deploy extranet solutions based on Microsoft SharePoint 2010. SharePoint 2010 provides a comprehensive platform that can scale to meet business needs while simplifying how people find and share information. It provides a full set of tools and capabilities that you can use to create any kind of portal as well as a single infrastructure and management environment that simplifies site management. The capabilities included in SharePoint sites are based on simple and powerful site frameworks, the management tools included in SharePoint 2010, and enhanced capabilities that help people extend the SharePoint platform and customise SharePoint 2010 sites.

Benefits of working with Advanced 365 to deliver your SharePoint 2010 extranet site include:

• more integrated supply chains through the use of online ordering, order tracking and inventory management
• reduce costs by making publications and documentation such as manuals and technical information available on-line to partners and customers
• increase the effectiveness of collaboration between business partners and cross-organisational project teams by enabling them to share documents and data
• improve business relationships with key partners through close collaborative working
• improve customer service by providing customers with direct access to data, information and knowledge and providing self service facilities
• flexible working for employees by providing remote and mobile access to documents and data
• reduce face-to-face time and travel for disparate teams with live collaboration tools
• escape the burden of maintaining static html pages with easy to use updating tools
• access to the Advanced 365 application catalogue for easy to use feature rich SharePoint based applications such as timesheets, electronic expense claims and the reporting services consolidator
• industry leading support from the Advanced 365 service desk and support teams, if required, with guaranteed levels of service to support your business requirements