To Offer Tenants Web Hosting For additional E-Business Applications stories As attractive as the Web might be to purchasing managers who want to procure direct goods and services, posting the various documents that comprise these formal RFQs is less than engaging. Grove deals with about 1,000 suppliers on a regular basis in the construction of cranes and other mobile work platforms. DocQuest lets users compose RFQs right from their desktops, assembling all bid elements into a single package. The completed package is then posted on a secure, Windows NT-based server from which bidders can view, print or download the RFQ through their browsers. A key component of docQuest is a proprietary collaboration function called ViewMark that lets suppliers who have questions about the RFQ communicate with procurement managers via chat.
Bidders can also mark up or highlight documents as needed.
Bandwidth-intensive documents are compressed to 50k packets and sent to bidders via Digital Paper's internally developed streaming media technology.