Exclusive CommunicationsWeek Report Details Boeing Company's Intranet InitiativeAerospace Giant Will Use Their Intranet to Revamp More Than 100 Business Processes, Saving the Company MillionsPRNewswire Aerospace industry giant Boeing is preparing to launch a huge corporate-wide intranet that will enable the company to revamp more than 100 separate business processes, according to a report posted this morning on CommunicationsWeek Interactive (http://www.commweek.com/). The intranet initiative, probably the largest and most complex ever introduced by an American company, is designed to improve the way the company deals with its defense and commercial airline customers. According to the report, Boeing is instituting the project to save money, reduce process cycle time and integrate crucial new business units. Furthermore, the intranet is a critical component in the assimilation of more than 100,000 new employees from Boeing's acquisition of Lockheed units and its proposed acquisition of McDonnell Douglas. "Boeing is constructing an intranet that will forever impact the way it does business, and the way the enterprise community will deploy their own intranets," said Editor-at-Large John Evan Frook, who was given exclusive behind-the-scenes access by Boeing. "Without losing their existing technology, the company has opened up business systems, structured its Web policies to encourage use while still maintaining control. It's quite a feat for an organization of its size." CommunicationsWeek, The Networking Newspaper, is the leading newspaper serving the information needs of Network IT Management. The newspaper delivers news and analysis that helps Network IT Management translate evolving advances in communications and computing technology directly into business advantage. In addition, the newspaper features Web Commerce, a biweekly section that provides in-depth features and analysis of electronic commerce products, technologies and case studies. Telepath, a monthly supplement to CommunicationsWeek, is directed to the innovators behind converging networks. CMP Media Inc., now in its 26th year of uninterrupted growth, is the only provider of publishing, marketing and information services to reach the entire spectrum of the high-technology market -- the builders, sellers and users of technology. With sales of $418 million in 1996, CMP marked a quarter century of success with an average annual growth of 20 percent. All of CMP's publications and a series of innovative news and interactive services are available on the World Wide Web through CMP's TechWeb®, http://www.techweb.com/, the industry's first free daily technology news and interactive services super site. CMP Media is also the creator of NetGuide Live (http://www.netguide.com/), the first comprehensive daily listing of live events on the Internet and commercial online services, and First-TV (http://www.first-tv.com/), the Internet's first 24-hour TV/video network. -0- 1/24/97 SOURCE: CMP Media Inc. CONTACT: Steve Rubel, Corporate Communications, 516-562-7434, or |