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Case Studies
Case studies are divided into the following categories:
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Publishing and managing Web content is the most important aspect of building a Web service. Multiple file types, the large number of individuals involved in production and the high level of technical expertise required to create pages can cost corporations a great deal of money and lost revenue opportunities. A flexible and extensible Content Management System (CMS) can mitigate these challenges and reduce redundancy, increase content output and organization, and save corporations time and money. Integrated workflow functionality, a single content repository and a separate presentation layer are just a part of the complex CMS that made these sites possible.
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Grand Expeditions
Grand Expeditions, based in Boca Raton, Fla., is a collection of travel companies offering unique, high quality, high-end vacation experiences to destinations around the world. Grand Expeditions needed a framework that would allow them to build sub-sites to accommodate the needs of their eight unique travel companies. Read the full text.
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WGBH
The mission of WGBH, a not-for-profit institution, is to promote the general education of the public by offering television, radio, and other telecommunications programs and services. Therefore, WGBH wanted a site that is content-rich, provocative, and entertaining, as well a source for learning and education. In the future, the site's developers will provide collaboration features enabling the site's users to participate in enriching the online WGBH community.
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Organizations are in the midst of a paradigm shift brought on by the
evolution of technology in business and accelerated by the wide-spread
deployment of Internet technologies. The company of the 21st century is
a network of collaborating employees spread across the world and
organizational levels but aligned around a common business purpose.
Companies are already in the midst of using and struggling with current
collaboration technology and are looking for ways to use them more
effectively. Why? As Siemens has realized,
it is the knowledge of the employees and the sharing of that knowledge
through collaboration that comprises the assets of a company.
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Siemens
Siemens' Information and Communication Networks Group is a leading provider of integrated voice and data networks, including a comprehensive portfolio of IP-based products and solutions for enterprises, carriers, and service providers. The Group has many years of experience in consulting, planning, installing and operating converged networks. It is an integral part of the Information and Communications (I & C) business segment of Siemens AG, one of the world's largest electrical engineering and electronics companies, with annual sales totaling more than $74 billion.
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iDevelop2000
Oracle Corporation developed a conference series targeted at its global developer community. iDevelop2000 increased the conference's value for participants, by making presentations and participant lists available after the conference, and by providing discussion forums and participant company news. Through the conference Web site, participants could register and view conference updates. Participants also had online discussions about the iDevelop 2000 series and all its seminars. The iDevelop2000 site functioned as an adjunct to the physical conference, allowing education and discussion regardless of time and distance.
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The World Bank
The World Bank (www.worldbank.org) is the world's
largest source of development assistance, providing nearly $16 billion in loans annually
to client countries. It uses financial resources, highly trained staff, and an extensive
knowledge base to help developing countries onto a path of sustainable growth in the
fight against poverty.
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Away.com
Away.com is a vibrant online community of world travelers, travel experts, and tour operators. Away.com users can find extraordinary trips, use personalized travel planners, obtain expert advice, and buy gear. The site also operates a call center staffed with expert travel consultants, to provide advice and sales assistance to its more than 1,000,000 members.
Away.com is ranked the #1 Outdoors site by PC Data Online, and hosts the Web's largest network of tour operators and trips. Investors such as Gannett Co. Inc., Chicago-based New World Ventures and Potomac Ventures of Washington, D.C., back the privately held firm.
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