This increases stress all around. Not one of these risks is insurmountable. Sensible, careful planning will enable you to avoid the major pitfalls so that you too can reap the benefits of extranets. It is improving communications, speeding up requests for information, and leaves a great trail. ConstructWare, an application service provider with an extranet, enabled them to do just that.
Projects involving local firms have communication problems as well.
Additionally, regulators are beginning to use extranets to help coordinate their activities with the people they regulate, at all levels of the government. But I believe that the ultimate power of extranets will be revealed within the next three years when they begin to shine as vehicles for knowledge management. The opportunity for capturing presently-discarded knowledge is enormous. I am confident that recognition of this hidden treasure will suddenly dawn on the engineering community, and that extranets will be there to help in its mining. All rights reserved.