Internet or Extranet - Furniture Manufacturer
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FYC is a furniture company that is moving slowly into the twenty-first century as far as technology is concerned. It has only recently enabled its customers to place orders on the Internet (previously, they used the Internet as a catalog and placed the order via phone). Internally, there is a broad spectrum of eagerness to embrace new technology as well as a broad spectrum of technology available. Some departments continue to use manual paper methodology while other managers use Excel spreadsheets. At the same time, the company is considering how best to integrate its Web presence with external customers and vendors, and leverage the technology that it recently implemented to reduce transaction costs. This research considers the next step-intranet or extranet-for FYC. An intranet, as its name implies, takes an internal focus within an organization. It connects departments and enables data to flow free and be manipulated throughout the organization. An extranet connects the company to the outside world, but in a more controlled environment than "just" a website. Extranets are ofte
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Approximate Word count = 800
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page)
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