otes isn't the only Lotus tool that Domino's is using to share information. The company also picked Lotus' Domino software for its intr
anet Web server, and not just because it liked the name.
The pizza company wanted to store data from different departments on the intranet, and make that information accessible to selected groups of users, including franchisees. For example, the server might store both the price Domino's pays for ingredients and the price it charges its stores. The company doesn't want store owners looking at Domino's purchase prices-but its distribution department needs to know both purchase and sale prices.
The Lotus software provides better security capabilities than most Web servers for selectively controlling access to sensitive data, says Paul Messink, Domino's manager of desktop systems. Messink also liked the Notes-based forms and agent capabilities for building business applications. Domino's hired Fry Multimedia in Ann Arbor and MicroAge of South-Eastern Michigan Inc. in Novi, Mich., to implement the site.
Several components of the intranet site have been implemented so far, including the Distribution
Product Database with ingredient prices and nutritional specs, product-handling procedures and portion charts, interactive purchasing forms, and a discussion group. The site also lets store inspectors fill out evaluation forms, with the data automatically synchronized with the pizza company's enterprise Informix database. Domino's uses Mayflower Sentinel, a utility that synchronizes the Informix and Notes databases. The same utility updates the intranet-based company directory from the human relations department's PeopleSoft database.
Eventually, Domino's plans to use the intranet to deliver an executive information system that can access all the enterprise data in the Informix database, which includes information about the operation and profitability of every store.
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otes isn't the only Lotus tool that Domino's is using to share information. The company also picked Lotus' Domino software for its intr
anet Web server, and not just because it liked the name.
