07 April 2000
Internet collaboration technology from Cephren Inc. is enabling one of the world's leading builders, Bechtel Corporation, to design and build online grocer Webvan's (Nasdaq: WBVN) nationwide network of highly automated distribution centers. Cephren's web-based collaboration service, ProjectNet®, provides Bechtel's project teams—i.e. contractors, architects, engineers, subcontractors and suppliers—with the ability to share documents, collaborate, and communicate in real time. With ProjectNet, documents, including computer-aided design (CAD) drawings, are being shared instantaneously among the many firms involved in building each Webvan distribution center, eliminating the expense and confusion of delivering paper documents overnight.