Over the past few years, companies have discovered that successfully conducting business on the Web and within an organization is a lot more complex than just having a good idea. In the long run, strategy and execution count the most and set a site apart from its countless competitors. Visitors search a national database of apartments, virtually tour properties, e-mail landlords and generate site maps. Neophytes can get a virtual tour of the agricultural trading floor via a Quicktime virtual reality movie. One noteworthy feature is local flight information, updated every 60 seconds.
City officials say the site has cut clerical time spent responding to information requests.
Once a buyer and seller have arranged a sale through i-Escrow's site, the company ensures that each party fulfills its end of the shipping and payment agreements. If the Internet is the public face a company presents to the world, the intranet is its off-stage presence, reserved for employees and trading partners. Allied Van Lines' narrow operational intranet site is an agent notifications system intended to make sure that the right trucks pick up the right stuff at the right time. Once fully-deployed, Allied's network of 500 independent agency locations will be able to receive the most current information about customer shipments. The anticipated benefit of this site is improved information quality that will yield more, and more-satisfied, end customers.