In the last five years, the Internet has changed the way businesses communicate. It provides a new platform for exchanging information both inside and outside a company. As companies begin to leverage the power of the Web, requirements for managing information in this new medium become more complex.
To help address these needs, Click Commerce created Extranet. Click Extranet provides your organization with everything it needs for building and managing a secure Web site that's configurable enough to meet your every business need. Using Extranet, you can facilitate corporate communications, manage external relationships, and automate key processes within your organization.
Unlike most web sites today, the Click solution provides built-in support for delegating ownership of your site. Using a simple design metaphor, Extranet provides a mechanism for distributing content management, so any authorized individual or group can own and manage sections of your site.
In addition to distributed ownership, Click Extranet also provides a simple solution to publishing secure information. In traditional Web environments, publishing information on your site can be a time-consuming task. Each time a new piece of collateral is submitted, Web authors go through a series of steps to get the document to the right location and provide the appropriate navigational links. With traditional Web sites, it's also very difficult to manage different levels of access to your documents.
With Click Extranet, managing public and private documents on your site is easy. The site provides a simple set of forms that let you submit documents in any format, such as Microsoft PowerPoint, HTML, PDF, or Excel. By answering a simple set of questions about the document, you can manage all aspects of publishing, such as:
Where the document should appear?
Who should see the document?
Extranet takes a unique approach to information management. Using forms and a standard browser, you can interact with your Web site to control the flow of information between you and your colleagues, both internal and external.
In addition, Extranet provides several add-on applications that make it easy to automate internal business functions on the Click platform. For example, you can manage e-mail marketing campaigns with Campaign Manager. Or, for sophisticated workflow automation, you can use Click Process Manager.