Modern Extranet Development
Modernize the way you communicate with customers and partners
Why do you need a modern extranet? Extranets enable teamwork across organizations by sharing applications and documents with customers, contractors, and business partners. Yet they’ve traditionally been difficult to operate securely, leaving many enterprises with limited or cumbersome solutions. Fortunately, modern cloud platforms like Office 365 enhance the security and reduce the effort in maintaining a secure, cross-company collaboration space.
Challenges of an outdated extranet
- SECURITY
Setting up identities for users requires ongoing account maintenance and adds risk
- INFRASTUCTURE
Hosting an extranet requires special infrastructure such as reverse proxies and firewall configuration
- LIMITED SUPPORT
Collaboration tools had limited support for external user permissions
Benefits of Office 365
- ACCESSIBLE TO THE RIGHT PEOPLE
Users log in with their company login, which is managed by their employer
- INTEGRATED
Extranet is hosted in Office 365, which is already hardened for direct Internet access. If you’re a subscriber, it’s probably already included!
- FLEXIBLE PERMISSIONS
Flexible permissions, such as limited time access and web-only viewing, are available
Office 365 Extranets
SharePoint Online and Microsoft Teams work together to provide a modern and familiar extranet experience. Microsoft Teams provides a rich meeting and conversation environment and is easily integrated with business applications or SaaS services in the form of tabs or bots. SharePoint’s modern user interface is fully responsive and works well on tablets and mobile devices.
A Teams and/or SharePoint site for each customer, partner, project, or other business relationship allows teams to work effectively anywhere on the planet. Additionally, modern SharePoint Communication Sites are a great way to publish information to extranet users.
Modern SharePoint includes
- Mobile-ready sites and document access
- Easy and powerful document management
- News feeds that roll up and target news
- Easier editing experience.
- Powerful new web parts
- Integrated Forms and PowerApps
- Integrated Microsoft Flow workflows and approvals
- Auditing with eDiscovery and compliance searching
- Enterprise ready for small to very large environments
- Integrated with Microsoft Teams
Modern SharePoint includes
- Encrypted conversations and data sharing
- Complete cloud based product without servers
- Compliance many major industry requirements
- Simple to administrator. Simple user adoption
- Voice calling, conferencing, video, screen sharing
- Presence automated and integrated across Office 365
- Enterprise ready for small to very large environments
- Auditing with eDiscovery and compliance searching
Why 6th Street Consulting?
Even if you know the latest Office 365 and SharePoint Online technology, it can be hard to know where to start. How should the extranet be organized? Will it include SharePoint, Teams, even Yammer? Does it include business features such as order tracking or invoicing? 6th Street Consulting is a Microsoft technology firm specializing in user productivity and collaboration on SharePoint and Office365, we have built Extranets for companies of all sizes and will help your team every step of the way.