Plumtree-Powered DFAS and WSIB Portals Named Among World's Top 10 Government Intranets
June 21 2004 - 3:43PM
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Plumtree-Powered DFAS and WSIB Portals Named Among World's Top 10
Government Intranets Nielsen Norman Group Releases In-Depth Report
on Top Public Sector Intranets SAN FRANCISCO, June 21
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Enterprise Web leader Plumtree Software
(NASDAQ:PLUM) today announced new findings by the Nielson Norman
Group that rank the Plumtree-powered intranets of Defense Finance
and Accounting Service (DFAS) and Workplace Safety and Insurance
Board of Ontario (WSIB) among the top 10 government intranet
designs in the world. The Nielsen Norman Group's "Ten Best
Government and Public Sector Intranet Designs," released today
presents detailed case studies on the public sector organizations
that are producing the highest return on their investments and
greatest productivity gains by making their intranets richer and
easier to use. DFAS is the world's largest finance and accounting
operation, processing payroll, vendor payment and accounting for
all branches of the U.S. military, the Department of Defense and
other select federal agencies. DFAS disburses more than $416
billion annually, pays nearly 6 million people and processes more
than 12 million invoices from defense contractors each year. The
Nielsen Norman Group lauded DFAS for consolidating more than 200
individual Web sites into their Plumtree-powered portal. Launched
in July of 2003, DFAS' portal gives its nearly 15,000 employees an
online working environment with centralized access to tens of
thousands of documents, team collaboration spaces and automated
processes such as travel reimbursements and training requests. "The
DFAS eportal has helped to make the agency more efficient and
effective," said Audrey Y. Davis, chief information officer for
DFAS. "Our portal delivers the information and tools our employees
need to make their jobs easier and to better serve the men and
women who defend America." Plumtree customer Workplace Safety and
Insurance Board was also recognized for its innovative and
easy-to-use Connex portal. "Plumtree customers have some of the
largest, most sophisticated portals in the world," said Plumtree
CEO John Kunze. "DFAS and WSIB have rigorously sought to deliver
ROI by tailoring their portals to address top business problems,
manual processes and collaboration needs of their organizations.
They have paid special attention to making their portals easy to
use so their constituents can take full advantage of new services.
We congratulate them for winning this prestigious award." About
WSIB Ontario's Workplace Safety and Insurance Board plays a key
role in the province's occupational health and safety system. The
WSIB is committed to the prevention of workplace injury and
illness. It also administers the province's no-fault workplace
insurance for employers and their workers. As part of this system,
the WSIB provides disability benefits, monitors the quality of
healthcare and assists in the early and safe return to work for
workers who are injured on the job or contract an occupational
disease About Nielsen Norman Group Nielsen Norman Group
(http://www.nngroup.com/) is a user-experience research firm that
advises companies on how to succeed through human-centered design
of products and services. Nielsen Norman Group principals Jakob
Nielsen, Don Norman and Bruce "Tog" Tognazzini are each
world-renowned experts in usability and human use of technology.
Besides authoring books and evangelizing about user experience,
they and the other user-experience specialists at Nielsen Norman
Group offer high-level strategic consultation on usability of
websites, consumer products, software designs and anything else
that needs to be easy-to-use. About Plumtree Software Plumtree
Software is the Enterprise Web leader. Plumtree's mission is to
create a comprehensive Web environment for employees, customers and
partners across the enterprise to interact with different systems
and work together. Plumtree's Enterprise Web solution consists of
integration products for bringing resources from traditional
systems together on the Web, shared services such as collaboration,
content management and search for building new Web applications,
and a portal framework for delivering these Web applications to
broad audiences. Plumtree's independence and its Web Services
Architecture allow this solution to span rival platforms and
systems, helping maximize customers' return on their existing
technology investments. With offices in more than a dozen
countries, Plumtree has over licensed over 600 customers, including
Boeing, Ford Motor Company, Procter & Gamble and the U.S. Navy.
NOTE: Plumtree is a registered trademark of Plumtree Software, Inc.
and/or its subsidiaries in the US and/or other countries. All other
registered and unregistered trademarks in this document are the
sole property of their respective owners. CONTACT: Carilu Dietrich
of Plumtree Software, +1-415-399-7047, or ; or Darcy Prov of
Antenna Group, +1-415-977-1920, or , for Nielsen Norman Group.
DATASOURCE: Plumtree Software CONTACT: Carilu Dietrich of Plumtree
Software, +1-415-399-7047, or ; or Darcy Prov of Antenna Group,
+1-415-977-1920, or , for Nielsen Norman Group. Web site:
http://www.plumtree.com/
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