INTERNET and EXTRANET SITES

What is an Intranet?

In its most basic form an intranet is a web site that is only available to employees in your company. They would typically contain details relevant to your employees including:

• Company news & events information
• Fire precaution & procedure documents
• Company templates & policy documents
• Telephone directories & staff list
• Customer relations database
• and more

What is an Extranet

An extranet is similar to an intranet, however the site is now accessible to your employees, your suppliers and your clients. The purpose of an extranet is to increase efficiency in supply chains. Extranets would areas such as the following:

• Supply schedules
• Key files & documents
• Stock availability
• Internal references (part numbers, etc)
• Client or Supplier specific information

Although an extranet is termed as one system in nearly all instances it is split into two with clients and suppliers accessing different sections and employees being able to access every part.

Northwest Online has experience in developing advanced intranet and extranet systems for corporate organisations and providing bespoke solutions, integrating existing company processes & procedures.

Who Needs an Intranet?

Any company, from large corporations to small privately owned firms, looking to distribute information more quickly throughout their organization can benefit from an intranet solution. Intranet architecture, design and layout can easily be customized to fit specific business goals and objectives, as well as application and data retrieval needs for any type of organization.

Benefits of an Intranet

The benefits of an Intranet increase with the size of company. However, even small companies can benefit substantially from time and money saved on..

• Stationery
• Printing
• Filing
• Reduced media and media copying costs
• Inexpensive to implement
• Easy to use, just point and click
• Saves time and money, better information faster
• Scaleable and flexible
• Connects across disparate platforms
• Puts users in control of their data

Extranet Case Study - Blue Apple Contract Catering

Northwest Online developed an extranet site for Blue Apple Contract Catering Limited.

In addition to holding financial information such as sales, purchases, staffing hours, takings, the system's dynamic functionality means adding a new contract or unit is literally a 30 second task.

Delivered over the internet or private network, expansion is free - there are no software costs for additional users, clients or new accounts.

The flexibility of the system enables head office to control suppliers, and monitor hourly purchases and takings, run reports, create charts, look at and restrict user access via IP address, time of Day, Day of Week all combined with a tiered password security. The tiered username and password system allows different user levels for 3rd parties (such as clients), staff, managers, area managers, and Head Office.

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