Exhibit 3
Considerations When Developing an Extranet
- initial focus should be to decide how the business process will change
- required level of security
- proprietary nature of information
- level of disintermediation that the firm is willing to pursue
- politics - power structure
- difficult to determine who one might want to access applications in the
future (therefore build them for the broadest possible connectivity)
- who is the appropriate customer for IS - internal clients? Or the real
customers?
- what role will IS play in either disintermediating the middlemen or adding
value to them?
- to whom should one give software - your brokers or your brokers' clients?
Your insurance agents or your insurance agents' customers? Your tech
support people or the people they support?
- potential cost-savings and revenues