Schaffer no longer has to rely on the timely expense of producing a print catalog, customer's employees have ready access to the selection of incentive awards, and Schaffer has cut costs on paperwork handling.
Most employees find it's more fun to accumulate points and pick a reward.
Recently, many of Schaffer's three hundred marketing partners and six hundred end-users started asking for Web access to point programs, merchandise catalogs, and so on. Schaffer is delighted with the results. Learning while building Schaffer interviewed a number of prominent consulting firms before selecting Progress. Key to its decision was the fact that, with Progress WebSpeed , Progress consultants could help build a system that reached directly into Schaffer's production applications and Progress database, entering and retrieving data unimpeded by translation through a CGI interface. We wanted a real transfer of knowledge to the folks here who are responsible for maintaining and running things.