• Employees can easily access information about projects and opportunities within the company. This helps current employees to better share information across projects and keep abreast of the developments in new projects, technological achievements, improvement of corporate capabilits and so on. This also serves as an orientation tool for new employees
• Managers can easily identify which employees have suitable backgrounds for bidding on new jobs. Also, easy access to employee educational and skills information, as well as past project descriptions, improves decision making in the "bid/no bid" process.
• Information is available to employees who are located at different sites and use various suits of hardware and software. This is accomplished without specialized development or incurring the cost of employing specialized software at these sites. All that is needed is a graphics capable Web browser.
• Because all information is maintained in a database, maintaining the Web site is substantially easier than trying to maintain a growing set of document-based information.
• The database employed can be easily up-sized to more capable systems should the need for increased capabiLIties and functions arise in the future.
• Specific information is far easier to locate and retrieve using the querying and search capabiLIties of a database-based system.
• Corporate image is established and enhanced through the dissemination of information to external users. Visitors to the site can easily find out about the company strengths and core capabilities, the background of the staff and information about career opportunities.
• The system is a low-cost, low-maintenance effort, yet it provides the potential for vastly imporving the quality, quantity and effectiveness of shared information.
• Information serves a valuable marketing and advertising function. Not only is the system very low cost, but it provides a persistent, well targeted pubLIc presence. This helps promote corporate capabilities to potential cLIents as well as attracting potential teaming patterns in search of complementary corporate skills.
• The system is highly extensible. Additional queries can be developed and other applications integrated.

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