"Building an Extranet" shows businesses how they can develop and use agent technology to improve business efficiency and lower costs. It describes the different commercial agents currently in use, presents and overview of strategic benefits, and shows how to integrate agents into existing systems.

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A comprehensive guide to extending SharePoint's most powerful feature beyond a company's network A critical book on Microsoft's best-selling new technology An important addition to Apress' market-leading SharePoint series

Building A Strategic Extranet Increase Your Business Agility with an Extranet Find out how successful companies around the globe are using extranets to gain a strategic advantage. With clear instructions and dozens of real-world examples, award-winning author Bryan Pfaffenberger demonstrates how to use existing intranet and Internet technologies to develop a robust extranet at minimal cost. Filled with sound business and management considerations, Building a Strategic Extranet offers authoritative, up-to-date information on extranet standards and tools, and addresses all of the issues posed by extranets — including content development, architecture, implementation, and security. Your Complete Guide to Planning and Implementing a Successful Extranet Evaluate a prototype extranet Review the fundamentals of enterprise networking Understand the pros and cons of Windows NT and UNIX architectures Master TCP/IP security issues Build secure cryptosystems Implement a virtual private network Choose the right extranet topology Select state-of-the-art applications that are easy to implement Explore the differences between available browsers and servers Master the latest tools for extranet content development Estimate the costs of your extranet http://www.idgbooks.com

This guide examines the use of technology for sharing information, both within an organisation, and between companies and their clients and customers. It looks in particular at the use of push/ pull technologies for delivering current awareness services. The guide also discusses the pros and cons of the technology, particularly information overload, and suggests a number of ways of minimising the problems. The guide contains a useful list of books, reports, journals and other information sources. Contents: Introduction; Intranets; Extranets; Groupware; Case studies; Push/pull technologies; Information overload; Key players; Useful information sources; References; Further reading.

Since the late 1990s, web-based collaboration technologies (‘project extranets’) have become increasingly widely used within the UK construction industry and are now routinely deployed on the design and construction of thousands of projects. The first book dedicated to the topic, this comprehensive guide will help current and future construction professionals understand, implement and use such systems more effectively. Cutting through the hype and jargon, it offers expert advice and guidance from an industry insider on choosing a software provider, key software features, hosting, legal issues, connectivity, achieving user buy-in and assessing the benefits.

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Extranets are currently a hot topic in TCP/IP internetworking. "Extranet Design and Implementation" solves real business needs. It discusses how to design, build, and administer successful extranets. The book includes full coverage of extranet security.

This report includes specific examples of how certain telecom industries use knowledge management to increase profitability: one telecom's new sales order process enabled a single service representative to perform the same functions as 12 technicians; how another company's call-center systems (after an extensive knowledge audit) yielded a 39.7 percent increase in capacity and a cost savings of $1,285,607; and how yet another competitor improved its return on process (ROP) and return on knowledge (ROK) by 87 percent after implementing an intranet system combined with an automated workflow application.

This detailed third edition is Scot Hillier's follow-up to his market-leading SharePoint book. The new version includes extensive updates to the previous edition, with a complete focus on SharePoint 2007 and its integration with the 2007 Microsoft Office System, as well as new approaches for using SharePoint to improve business efficiency. Also featured are new workflow solutions for SharePoint and BizTalk, and a new chapter on building a SharePoint solution from start to finish. With this book, you’ll gain intermediate-level guidance for those who want to design and deploy business solutions based on Microsoft SharePoint 2007 technologies.