Client and Partner Extranets

Enhance your relationships with clients and partners

Client and partner extranets provide your clients and partners with a rich set of tools to facilitate and further their relationship with your organization.

Common extranet scenarios include providing authenticated website users with additional content and functionality or developing a separate portal to integrate all of your customer applications and data.

Experience the benefits

A well designed extranet helps you in the following ways:

  • provides simple identity and security management through the use of feature and application-level security
  • decreases user frustration by providing a single sign-on to access all required applications
  • reduces support and training costs and increases customer satisfaction through the use of a consistent, easy-to-use, and attractive user experience
  • provides easy application integration, data management, and workflow configuration
  • supports increased user demand through the use of a scalable architecture

How we help you

Similar to our web application and .NET Smart Client design and development approach, we can support your extranet project in each of the following areas:

  • Heuristic evaluation—Let our user experience team conduct a complete review of your current extranet to identify issues and opportunities for improvement.
  • Information architecture—Ensure your site users can quickly find information they’re looking for.
  • User interface design—Ensure your site is easy-to-use, enjoyable to interact with, and attractive to look at.
  • Usability testing—Confirm your users can easily navigate through your website to find the information they're looking for.
  • User experience development—Use standards-compliant, semantically correct, and accessible XHTML.
  • Infrastructure and security—Develop an infrastructure model, deployment model, and security model.
  • Technical development—Get a solution design that meets end users’ needs.
  • Sustainment—Ensure long-term success and maximum value from your solution.

Need more information?

Contact Ben Skelton, Practice Leader, Websites and eCommerce