An Extranet is a way for your customer's vendors, wholesalers and retailers to securely exchange information with you. What kind of information is up to you. If you need to let your retailers know of a new product line that is coming out, the specs on a new part, or even repair or return information you could use an extranet. Just imagine all of the time and paper work that could be saved if all orders from your retailers were placed through your corporate extranet.

Worried about security? An extranet can be as open or as secure as you need it to be. From a virtual private network (VPN) where only encrypted data is sent over the Internet to a simple user name and password login security can be administrated and controlled by you allowing access only to people who require access and only the level of access that you want them to have.