Intranet: Keller Williams® Realty Chooses Intranets.com to Enhance Market Center Collaboration and Productivity
Keller Williams® Realty Chooses Intranets.com to Enhance Market Center Collaboration and Productivity
National real estate firm saves hundreds of thousands of dollars yearly by using online collaboration service from Intranets.com
Woburn, MA (January 5, 2004) - - Intranets.com, the leading provider of online collaboration services, today announced that Keller Williams® Realty International (KWRI), Americas sixth largest real estate firm with over 24,000 agents in the U.S and Canada, has rolled out a new online collaboration suite from Intranets.com to more than 300 realty chapters across 41 states and provinces. The Intranets.com hosted solution allows KWRI headquarters to share critical business information instantly with individual market centers and provides KWRI agents with a new way to collaborate and improve productivity.
"Each of our market centers now has its own secure online meeting place where agents in that office can access the latest corporate news, share schedules, manage documents and collaborate in real-time," said Jack Miller, IT Manager at Keller Williams. "We initially considered building a collaboration forum in-house, but we quickly realized a hosted solution like Intranets.com's offered all of the functionality we needed at a much more reasonable price. We're saving more than $500,000 per year with Intranets.com and that's not including the constant administration costs involved with building and maintaining a home-grown solution."
KWRI rolled out the service to its market centers in a matter of weeks and immediately customized it to match its own corporate look and feel. KWRI agents can now take advantage of a complete suite of applications to help them work faster and more efficiently. Also, additional customization provided by Intranets.com has enabled KWRI to display region-specific information about special KWRI seminars, activities and events on only the appropriate market center intranets.
"Our goal was to improve overall business productivity and communication for every KWRI market center in a cost-effective and timely manner," said Rick Faulk, CEO of Intranets.com. "Although our service is primarily focused on small-to-midsize businesses, our success with Keller Williams demonstrates how our product can be easily adapted to meet the needs of a large corporation. We will continue to grow with Keller Williams to help every one of its market centers benefit from our unique collaboration platform."
Intranets.com provides a broad range of hosted collaboration applications that work seamlessly within an integrated browser environment to help any organization work more efficiently. The Intranets.com suite includes a document manager, online calendar, task manager, online discussion forum, database manager, e-mail, opinion polls and other customizable applications.
About Intranets.com
Intranets.com is the world's leading provider of on-demand collaboration services for small businesses or departments and groups inside
large organizations. The company serves more than 350,000 users across 10,000 companies worldwide and offers a secure,
web-based collaboration suite to share critical business information quickly and easily at any time from anywhere. Privately held and
profitable, Intranets.com is led by an experienced team of software industry professionals who are committed to providing a secure,
customizable, easy-to-deploy intranet solution supported by world-class customer service. Intranets.com is a
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About Keller Williams
Founded in 1983, Keller Williams Realty International (KWRI) is an international real estate company with more than 282 offices located across the U.S. and Canada. Currently the sixth largest U.S. residential real estate firm in North America, Keller Williams began franchising its offices in 1991. The company has succeeded by treating its 24,000-plus franchises and associates as partners, and shared its knowledge, policy control, and company profits on a system-wide basis. KWRI's agents are distinguished by their level of professional education, their full-time commitment to real estate sales, and their level of business success. For more information, visit Keller Williams Realty online at www.kw.com.
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