OCTOBER 22: Netscape announced Netscape Communicator, an integrated client software product that lets you communicate, share data, and access information on intranets and the Internet. Netscape Communicator is a client suite of open email, groupware, authoring, calendaring, and Web browsing components.

Netscape intranet customers are already realizing a 1000 percent return on investment in less than three months, according to a recent study by International Data Corporation. IDC also documented an astoundingly swift payback time for these companies, with savings and ROI typically beginning as early as six weeks after deployment.

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THE MAIN THING: MANY HAPPY RETURNS
Jim Barksdale, President and CEO

In previous columns I've talked about the benefits intranets offer to businesses. Well, now I'm happy to report just how valuable these intranets are. The preliminary report from a study International Data Corporation has undertaken shows that Netscape-based intranets offer companies in many industries a high return on investment (ROI). In fact, the businesses studied are gaining the highest ROIs IDC has ever calculated. ... One of our customers in the study, Cadence Design Systems, had an ROI measured at more than 1700 percent. Cadence uses a Netscape-based intranet as the cornerstone of its sales support system. The system, called OnTrack, solves problems businesses have been experiencing since the days of Willie Loman - getting sales leads, meeting quotas, and generating new business. OnTrack provides supporting materials, custom applications, and reference information to sales reps for each step of the sales process. These are databases that already exist within the company - Cadence simply put them up and made them available via the same universal client, Netscape Navigator, that everybody already has. Sales reps can also use Netscape Navigator to show demos and presentations. ... Other businesses had similarly high ROIs. ...

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