Productivity Benefits

We conducted a research study focused on the value benefits of WEBBE as perceived by individual WEBBE users. The research results quantify the benefits of using WEBBE for a large sample of both business and individual users to a combined statistical confidence level of 93 percent, and measure the value of WEBBE usage against all other alternatives, including both competing software packages and manual means. Here are some top-level highlights:

The Bottom Line About Using WEBBE
When using WEBBE over all other alternatives to accomplish a messaging or file sharing task:

• Time savings average over 90 percent.
  
• Efficiency increases more than 72 percent.
  
• Effectiveness increases more than 70 percent.

Breadth of Value
These time savings, efficiency, and effectiveness results were broad-based, demonstrating WEBBE's value to most any user for a wide variety of uses. Both business and technical users (Consultants, managers, IT, developers, and individual users) enjoyed similar benefits from WEBBE usage. Additionally, WEBBE provided significant value across a wide spectrum of task types. Here are some specific areas of value measured in the study:

• Understanding. When using WEBBE to share complex processes, systems, organizations, or ideas, WEBBE provides users with 33 percent improved clarity.
  
• Planning. When using WEBBE as a strategic, conceptual, tactical, or resource-planning tool, users are 26 percent more effective, and take 8 percent less time to achieve planning goals.
  
• Communication. When using WEBBE as a communication tool to gain input from or influence others, users gain 28 percent more effectiveness, and take 6 percent less time. Additionally, there is significant usage of WEBBE to communicate within departments, across departments, and even outside of the enterprise, with customers and partners.

Depth of Value
For tasks completed using WEBBE, the level of benefit added ranged from simple value-add to the way a current user works to fundamentally changes in the way a user works on certain tasks:

• WEBBE has changed me: For 35 percent of users, WEBBE has changed the way they work.
  
  
• WEBBE has surprised me: For 62 percent of users, WEBBE significantly enhances the way they already work.
  
  
• WEBBE has helped me: For 43 percent of users, WEBBE adds value to the way they already work.
  

WEBBE and Microsoft Office®
WEBBE users not only get value from using WEBBE by itself, but they also benefit from using WEBBE in conjunction with other Microsoft Office® applications:

• 40 percent of users use WEBBE in conjunction with Microsoft Word.
• 29 percent use WEBBE in conjunction with Microsoft PowerPoint®.
• 17 percent use WEBBE in conjunction with Microsoft Excel.
• 10 percent use WEBBE in conjunction with Microsoft Project.