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UNDERSTANDING THE BASICS
Intranet
An intranet is a secure online, internal communication and information network.
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Extranet
An extranet,is a secure online, external communication and information network.
Use it to enhance your organization’s day-to-day operations.
Intranets support every business activity from water cooler chats, information and file sharing, to corporate newsfeeds, calendars, and collaborative forums.
It’s designed to support information and file sharing, rapid communication, and fluid collaboration with external partners. It could be clients, vendors, franchisees, or suppliers.
Most often, businesses use extranets to gain efficiencies and add value to customer and supplier relationships.
An intranet is for your internal people to use, whereas an extranet is for internal and external people to use together.
