This field-sales support site allows employees to share presentations and proposals across borders and staff to contribute content easily. All presales material has been put online, resulting in time savings. When KN Energy moved its customer bulletin board from a legacy system to the Internet, transaction costs dropped 75 percent. The Energy Market site allows real-time coordination of the gathering, storage, transportation and delivery of natural gas via the company's pipelines. Florida's Leon County public schools use an intranet as an inexpensive, efficient way to provide information to staff, parents and others who need to know.
Content ranges from curriculum materials to cafeteria menus.
The result is a powerful, money-saving management tool. This extranet site brings together a multitude of services and information targeted to Detroit-area senior citizens, and collects resources for the gerontological research community. This site illustrates how knowledge sharing can help companies stop reinventing the wheel. Maritz salespeople can tailor online sales presentations for individual pitches. Maritz says the site cuts the cost of preparing a pitch by 25 percent.