You can leverage the IT investments you've already made even as you begin managing your resources in entirely new ways. Which just might be why 60 percent of corporations use Netscape servers for their standard intranet environments. Today, companies are building advanced business applications on the Net that attract, satisfy, and retain both customers and suppliers. This new way of doing business is relationship-driven, and those relationships are being created through transactions on the Net. The potential pay-off to businesses who deploy it is enormous.
Loyal customers emerge by the millions to take advantage of incredibly convenient new services.
Entire procurement systems are streamlined through automated online selling. Suppliers gain direct access to the information they need about inventory, shipping, and billing. Innovative companies rewrite the rules of competition in their industries. From an IT perspective, the extranet is the key enabler of this superior way of doing business, linking Net-based systems to enterprise systems, employees, and outside partners. If you've built your intranet using Netscape software, you already have the means of extending your infrastructure beyond the firewall and the security to ensure the integrity of your network as you open it to the outside world.