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Steelcase The Sales and Marketing Department of Steelcase Inc (NYSE:SCS) use their corporate portal for a more efficient CRM. Reliability, professionalism and availability in several languages were sound arguments for this high end office furniture company to start using the webbased CRM modules. Steelcase uses an advanced customized version to manage relations, contacts, notes, tasks, and quotations per sales region. In the relatively autonomous Belgian, Dutch and British offices, sales employees will only have access to the contacts in their region. The application administrators and sales team managers have extended access and vast reporting features. Source: i-Concept	www.steelcase.com
Siemens Communications Employees from Siemens Communications use their corporate portal for different features. For example, they use a comfortable CMS so that online editors all over the world can update their websites themselves. They also have got an efficient method to manage their relations. Cross links to the consumer portal called 'MySiemens' illustrate the synergies and interconnections of the company's different branches. Source: Aperto AG	www.siemens.com
Technogym Wellness Company Technogym is a market leader in the fitness and biomedical rehabilitation equipment fields. Research and Development, Product Innovation and Training are important assets. Technogym uses the multilingual knowledge management features to stimulate participation among the European offices and agents. Source: i-Concept	www.technogym.com
Bausch Datacom Over 300 high tech communications products are presented online through a customized version of a catalog module. This catalog can be fully managed from a webbased administration application. Website visitors will be informed in detail by personal e-mail about the products and projects of their interest. Source: i-Concept	www.bauschdatacom.be
AmeriKing One of the largest Burger King franchisees in the world, AmeriKing, saw an opportunity to increase productivity across its 12-state enterprise by unifying its communications and data systems through a corporate portal. As a result, the portal has already paid for itself, and the Delphi Group has calculated that it will generate a 355% Return-on-Investment within the next three years. Source: Plumtree Software	www.ameriking.com
University Groningen This coporate portal solution is used by ca. 23,000 students, 6000 employees and lots of alumni. The portal contains different parts, such as a schedulingsystem, for every course (180) and projectgroup different usergroups for documentsharing and discussing, newsitems and lots of other information. What's more, the portal is available in two different languages, Dutch and English. Source: Rijksuniversiteit Groningen	www.rug.nl

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Corporate portals: technology and business, KPMG-forum:
Efficient use of state-of-the-art information technologies is essential for competing effectively in the marketplace. Many dispersed applications are, in practice, difficult, time-consuming and costly to use. For this reason an increasing number of companies are launching their corporate portals.

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