What are advantages and benefits to businesses by e-commerce over extranets?

The advantages and benefits to businesses comprise:

Less Paperwork: along with documents and business processes onto an Extranet, documents and information can be accessed, downloaded, processed (and when necessary printed out) upon demand;

Lower Costs: decrease in need for costly meetings, travel and phone calls; A single interface, the Web browser is the simply interface needed between you and your business partners, despite of the computer systems being utilized; simple to use- Web browsers give an intuitive, point and click interface modern and timely information Web-based documents can be updated simply, providing you and your business partners faster access to precise information.

More efficient customer service: information, such as inventory levels, is easily accessible and available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week… in effect creating self-service customers.

Easy access: because Extranets use Internet technologies, information can be accessed from anywhere in the world, e.g. from a remote office.