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Build a Web site in a week; Sapient accelerates on-line business development with new Web in a Week program.


CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 27, 1995--Thanks to a new Web in a Week service offered by Sapient sa·pi·ent  
adj.
Having great wisdom and discernment.



[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin sapi
 Corporation, companies can now build a sophisticated marketing presence on-line that will allow them to achieve real business results in much shorter timeframes.

Sapient's Web in a Week program combines the company's unique methodology with an intensive, week-long rapid planning and development session to overcome the traditional obstacles associated with on-line projects.

The Web in a Week program is designed for companies that want to create a high-quality on-line presence, but do not have the knowledge or skills to develop effective Web sites on their own. Although a multitude of vendors can create and maintain Web sites for companies, Sapient is the only company that delivers a production-ready version of the Web site, which is fully upgradeable and maintainable by the client, as well as an on-line business strategy -- all in one week.

During the intensive Rapid Implementation Planning Operational planning associated with the conduct of a continuing operation, campaign, or war to attain defined objectives. At the national level, it includes the development of strategy and the assignment of strategic tasks to the combatant commanders.  (RIP) workshop, Sapient works hands-on with members of the customer's organization to design and develop their Web site. This cross-functional group of employees also provides on-the-spot feedback as the site is built. Changes are immediately implemented into the design. This iterative it·er·a·tive  
adj.
1. Characterized by or involving repetition, recurrence, reiteration, or repetitiousness.

2. Grammar Frequentative.

Noun 1.
 approach is one of the core principles of Sapient's methodology.

Case Study

Sapient recently completed a Web in Week project with Medical Strategies, Inc., a division of $8 billion Cardinal Health <includeonly></includeonly>

Cardinal Health (NYSE: CAH) is a premier, global healthcare company dedicated to making healthcare safer and more productive. Overview
Headquartered in Dublin, Ohio, Cardinal Health, Inc.
. Medical Strategies operates a kiosk-based information system that resides in over 1,600 retail pharmacies This article is a list of major pharmacies (also known as chemists and drugstores) by country. Australia
Pharmacies in Australia are mostly independently-owned by pharmacists, often operated as franchises of retail brands offered by the three major
 across the country. The company worked with Sapient to evolve the system -- which is the most comprehensive single source of consumer health care information worldwide -- into a high volume Web site.

Sapient is very successful at pulling members of a team together to define the business objectives of an on-line project, said Lisa Stein Stein , William Howard 1911-1980.

American biochemist. He shared a 1972 Nobel Prize for pioneering studies of ribonuclease.
, former vice president and general manager at Cardinal Health. With Web in a Week, they kept us focused on our purpose, so we quickly moved forward to the desired results. By the time we left, we had our Web site built, and a strategy for achieving our on-line objectives.

Availability and pricing

Web in a Week is available at Sapient's Cambridge, Mass., New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
, and San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden  locations. Pricing starts at $35,000 for the five days. Privately held Cambridge, Mass.-based Sapient Corporation works with corporations to design, develop and deploy mission-critical business solutions in record time at fixed prices. Sapient customers include Fortune 500 companies in investment banking, commercial banking, telecommunications Communicating information, including data, text, pictures, voice and video over long distance. See communications. , on-line services and communications, utilities, insurance, health care, manufacturing, transportation and retail.

Web in a Week

An example of Sapient's Web in a Week capabilities can be found at Medical Strategies, Inc.'s home page: http://www.healthtouch.com

For more information about Sapient Corporation's services: http://www.sapient.com

CONTACT: Jeffrey Dankey

Sapient Corporation

(617) 374-3662

jdanke@sapient.com
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