Extranet |
| An extranet can be defined as a portion of a company's network that you want to be accessed by your trading partners or consumers via the Internet, but separated by firewalls from the company's intranet and the general internet users. |  |
Issues |
To give outsiders access to an internal Intranet and company databases, requires a "hole" to be punched through a firewall.
Sandy Scully of Xilinx .. the information on Xilink's extra "is not mission critical. It's the stuff we don't want our competitor to have, but it won't kill the company if they do."
Collaborative applications such as e-mail may cause problems with compatibility.
The ability to rapidly increase the number of users accessing a company's data.
Some extranets are separated from the source data with the extranet documents being periodically batch downloaded from the intranet to a separate extranet.
Database systems such as the Illustra database (Informix), are progressively being used to manage the sites documents.
Examples |
Tandem computers has an extranet giving distributers and manufacturers access to more than 6000 documents about products and inventory via Web browsers and the Internet.
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