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Dear Steve,
This week George Wasaff, Allan Sommer, PriceWaterhouse, and I showed Rick= =20 Buy, Rick Causey, and Philippe Bibi the HP portal demonstration. Each=20 reacted favorably. We are scheduled to show Cindy Olson next week. Sound= =20 bytes below. =20 Philippe Bibi =01) 2/28/01 Philippe said, =01&I like this. Let=01,s get a proposal from PW.=018 =01&This portal initiative must be justified not on savings, but on=20 functionality. Savings is zero value. Soft savings are impossible to=20 measure. Bridge the firewall. Marie, Allan, and George put together a cos= t=20 analysis.=018 Rick Causey =01) 2/27/01 Rick said the HP portal, =01&hits the nail on the head. Let me know how it= goes=20 with Philippe, matter of fact I will try and attend tomorrow=01,s meeting w= ith=20 Philippe.=018 Rick Causey would like to attend the HP off site visit with Steve. Further= ,=20 he suggested if Philippe concurs, he would like Steve, Philippe and him to= =20 meet with Jeff Skilling to pitch the project. George Wasaff suggested he= =20 include Mark Frevert in this meeting.=20 Rick Buy 2/27/01 Rick had a favorable response to the HP portal. He sees the HP portal as a= =20 productivity exercise. =20 More Sound Bytes from Executive Sponsor Follow Up Meetings Philippe Bibi =01) 2/28/01 After PW reviewed a number of portal applications, Philippe said they were= =20 good but not difficult. He requested to see transaction process and single= =20 sign on applications. PW showed Philippe their Travel application. PW=20 emphasized this was the only way employees could schedule travel. =20 Previously, employees would call the 800 number and incur a ~$100.00 charge= . =20 The online portal applications reduced the charge to $12.00. PW emphasized Chrysler was spending $200.00 million per year in training. = =20 The portal provided a skills inventory application which resulted in reduci= ng=20 the training expenditures down to $100 million per year. Philippe could se= e=20 how this would be of value in a blue-collar environment but could not see t= he=20 value in our environment.=20 Philippe asked PW if they could demonstrate an application which was not=20 something shrink wrapped off the shelf. PW showed him their stock option= =20 application and the training application. =20 PW emphasized HP had 83 autonomous Business Units which needed to be united= =20 under this portal. Every day 90% of HP global employees access the portal.= =20 Why? The portal is the only way to access a number of job related=20 applications. =20 Philippe asked about ad hoc reports. He said Enron has a problem getting a= d=20 hoc reports. He said canned reports are not very useful. Further, he cann= ot=20 get a quick ad hoc report of all the consultants currently billing and at= =20 what expense. =20 Philippe said the ability to get in to SAP is a drawback. How did HP addre= ss=20 applications that were not web enabled? Content management tools like iCli= ck=20 and interwoven were used as delivery mechanisms for making enhanced=20 applications available via the web. Philippe said this is a vehicle to pull together travel, ibuyit, Paine=20 Webber, Benefits, facilities, aviation, conference/video calls. What about= =20 the guy who is doing trading, logistics, settlements, transactions with the= =20 pipelines? Could this portal provide for that person? Philippe sees the= =20 only benefit for this person would be the single sign on. =20 Philippe said, =01&Let me stress three things: 1) we have a series of=20 initiatives click@home, IM Task Force, Data Repository 2) Enron is not tha= t=20 disciplined. We don=01,t want to get in the middle of policing publication= of=20 information over the web (Per Clay, Interwoven allows other BU/Fus to=20 publish), 3) From an infrastructure perspective, the number of servers we= =20 run as far as web servers, we run them clustered.=018 This portal initiative must be justified not on savings, but on=20 functionality. Savings is zero value. Soft savings are impossible to=20 measure. =01&Bridge the firewall.=018 Marie, Allan, and George put togeth= er a=20 cost analysis. =20 Use PW as the catalyst. Philippe said we would need processes around security. Philippe would like= =20 to understand how HP did this. Philippe would like to see how to gap the= =20 bridges. He is in favor of taking customer applications and making them=20 available from a single sign on. =20 Philippe recommended Allan Sommer, George Wasaff and Marie Hejka get togeth= er=20 and come up with about 80% of the cost analysis information which otherwise= =20 might have been developed during the two day workshop. Philippe recommends= =20 stopping other projects and focusing on this project.=20 Rick Causey 3/01/01 Rick said the HP portal, =01&hits the nail on the head. Let me know how it= goes=20 with Philippe, matter of fact I will try and attend the meeting.=018 Rick Causey would like to attend the HP off site visit with Steve. Further= ,=20 he suggested if Philippe concurs, he would like Steve, Philippe and him to= =20 meet with Jeff Skilling to pitch the project. George Wasaff suggested he= =20 include Mark Frevert in this meeting.=20 Rick see a few hurdles 1) getting buy in from all the companies 2) getting= =20 buy in from Jeff Skilling 3) getting buy in from the technical side. =20 Also, noted is that Carly stopped 30 plus projects of web development to=20 focus on this effort. =20 The portal should include a forced information space to introduce new porta= l=20 applications. =20 Rick Buy 3/01/01 Rick had a favorable response to the HP portal. He sees the HP portal as a= =20 productivity exercise. How productive can this portal make Enron employees= ? =20 Rick sees the single sign on, single launch pad as valuable. PW reviewed t= o=20 Rick the value in cost savings 1) headcount reduction 2) hardware reduction= =20 3) duplicate site reduction.
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