Distributor and Corporate Networks

A company intranet or extranet is a powerful tool, and one which is required by many organisations who want to share information with a range of external partners and customers.

A distributor extranet is a good example of how an extranet can "open company doors", and share information with external partners in a controlled way.

Case Study: ELGA LabWater

ELGA Labwater use Tribiq CMS to rapidly an extranet for its worldwide distributor network.

The extranet includes various types of private information for distributors, including News, Documents, Images, Events and other web content.

Distributors can sign up for access, which is granted for a fixed period of time, and controlled by an administrator. By using Tribiq's Temporary Membership sytem, member data is ensured to keep fresh.

Search is a powerful feature on the site, and not only can web pages be searched on, but also Microsoft Word documents and even PDFs.

The site contains an image library of considerable size. The screenshot here shows how a member can browse the image library, then preview images, and then go to a download of the image in its original raw size. Raw images are essential if the member wants to use the highest-possible quality image for printing or producing other marketing materials.

The storage size to support this is of course large, but Tribiq handles this in a scaleable way, with a special storage engine which can spread data across multiple servers if need be.

ELGA Labwater is owned by French parent company Veolia Environment, which is listed on the Paris Stock Exchange.