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Application of Extranets

According to Szuprowicz, there are five categories of extranet benefits. They are as below: 
1) Enhanced Communications
 
i) Improved internal communications  
ii) Improved business partnership channels  
iii) Effective marketing, sales, and customer support  
iv) Collaborative activities support
 
2) Business Enhancement
 
i) Faster time to market  
ii) Simultaneous engineering potential  
iii) Lower design and production costs  
iv) Improved client relationships  
v) New business opportunities.

3) Productivity Enhancements
 
i) Just-in-time information delivery  
ii) Reduction of information overhead  
iii) Productive collaboration between work groups  
iv) Training on demand
 
4) Cost Reduction 
 
i) Reduced error  
ii) Improved comparison shopping   
iii) Reduced travel and meeting  
iv) Reduced administrative and operational costs.
 
5) Information Delivery  

i) Low cost publishing  
ii) Leveraging of legacy systems  
iii) Standard delivery systems  
iv) Ease of maintenance and implementation  
v) Elimination of paper publishing and mailing costs

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