More room

Work Study

ISSN: 0043-8022

Article publication date: 1 September 2000

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Citation

(2000), "More room", Work Study, Vol. 49 No. 5. https://doi.org/10.1108/ws.2000.07949eab.009

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Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Copyright © 2000, MCB UP Limited


More room

eRoom Technology, a leading provider of digital workplaces for eBusiness has signed an enterprise-wide agreement with Ford Motor Company, to manage many of its collaborative activities. eRoom will allow Ford to work more closely with its suppliers, partners and customers to design, build, and improve new automotive products and services faster and more efficiently, as well as provide for the knowledge capture and re-use of information developed during these processes. In addition, Ford has further strengthened its relationship with eRoom Technology by making an equity investment in the company. The eRoom solution will be available to any Ford Motor Company team requiring a collaborative workspace. eRoom's digital workplace allows organisations to quickly assemble a project team wherever people are located, and manage a wide variety of business projects. The range of applications includes gathering new product requirements, enabling distributed product design and development, roll-out of new products to market, establishment and coordination of changes across the supply chain, coordination of distributed selling efforts worldwide, and management of consulting engagements from requirements through delivery. eRoom Technology is a leading provider of Internet-based software and services for eBusiness collaboration among the members of a company's extended enterprise of employees, customers, suppliers, and other business partners. The company has its global headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts and European headquarters in Covent Garden, London, which it opened in January 2000. Its flagship product, eRoom, is the digital workplace for eBusiness, allowing organisations to quickly assemble a project team wherever people are located and manage the collaborative activities that support their complex and rapidly-changing business projects and processes. Customers use eRoom to get products to market faster, drive down production costs, enhance customer relationships, and improve the work products that drive their businesses. eRoom is used by more than 300 innovative companies such as 3Com, Arthur Andersen, A.T. Kearney, Bausch & Lomb, Cisco, Compaq, Deloitte & Touche, EDS, GTE, Hewlett-Packard, KPMG, Pfizer, Siemens, Towers Perrin, and The Wharton School of Business. More information about eRoom Technology and its product offerings can be found on the company's Web site at http://www.eroom.com

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