• Need for innovative methods for reseach and development including speeding up of decision making.
• Need for infrastructure tools that enable global collaboration.
• Need to stimulate exchange of studies between the inside and outside of the company.

• The concept of Groupmax fits business requirements
• Enhanced e-mail functions
  • Reliable access to mail on other systems
  • Compatible with X.400 (An international communications standard)
  • Can send and receive organization mail as well as individual mail
  • Can be easily used in a mobile environment

Groupmax has:

• Broadened use of asynchronous communications
• Speeded up information exchange
• Provided linkage with other mail systems such as e-mail(HORNET) and cc:Mail
• Enabled discussion by mobile/remote access

• E-mail,bulletin boards (Mail, Address)
  • Sending different kinds of information, presenting notices
• Document and work-item management (Document Manager)
  • Sharing information
• Workflow (Workflow)
  • Form-defined workflows
• FAX linkage (Fax)
• Schedule management (Scheduler)

• 2 servers
• 2,300 clients

• To establish a CSCW (Computer Supported Cooperable Works) environment by promoting the use of components of computer systems including Groupmax.
• To improve the efficiency of research and experiments