An extranet is a private network within which document sharing can take place by specific groups of users outside the organization through a network administrator...

Companies increasingly prefer using an extranet over email to communicate with their team members, clients, and suppliers for document sharing because it ideally suits the groups engaged in collaboration; whereas, email is best-suited for one-to-one communication only...

Over the past several years, extranets have become a popular tool used by service companies to enhance their client relationships...

Public charities and other not-for profit organization can now make use of the latest tools for team collaboration...

Traditionally, architects are a conservative bunch who fiercely guards "company secrets" As a result, the idea of using an extranet to share documents and collaborate with others has been totally alien...

Ideally, clients and agencies have aligned interests, and they usually do Today there are real challenges to that important alignment, forcing clients and agencies to look for new and better ways to collaborate...