Toho Gas was planning to establish an information infrastructure starting with the purchase of 1,000 personal computers for their workers.
The goals for this infrastructure were:
Decreasing intracompany documents.
Promoting paperless work procedures in offices.
Toho Gas was planning to purchare and use groupware.
The goals for this groupware were:
Groupmax has a complete set of groupware feature so no in-house development is required.
Groupmax was adopted after competitive evaluation with Lotus Notes.
Groupmax places emphasis on schedule management.
Another maker's schedule management product had previously been introduced into some departments, but it was impossible to expand that product throughout the company.
Groupmax can use Japanese Kanji characters in managing addresses and schedules.
Groupmax displays organization structure in an easy-to-understand format.
To expand computerized business operations involving schedule management, e-mail, and bulletin boards from small-scale to large-scale usage.
To start computerized business operations by company officials (30-40 persons).
To provide a personal computer for each department, section, department manager, section manager and to start computerized business operations in a model user department.
To supply staff with personal computers for computerized business operations.
To study construction of workflow systems (Groupmax Workflow Version 2.0).
To use Groupmax Workflow Version 2.0 to construct workflow systems such as for handling business trip expenditures.
To study use of document and work-item management systems (Infoshare).
To decrease paper documents in the office by 75 percent.
