MCI / WorldCom Peachtree Solutions has been developing web-based sales force automation and process streamlining applications for the Marketing Communications division of MCI / WorldCom for a number of years. The solution outlined here focuses on a recent sales force communication project. Goals: Send a daily HTML email with attachments to the 15,000+ person sales force, split into eight discipline-specific newsletters Automate as much of the manual work done by the editorial staff needed to produce these daily emails Allow the editorial staff to work from multiple locations Create an extensible system that can grow and adapt as the sales force needs change Solution: Create a web-based "Daily News" news tool that: integrates with MCI's centralized document management system (Documentum) integrates with the MCI / Worldcom intranet secruity infrastructure automates the editorial review process automates the building of the eight separate HTML newsletters based on categorized content in the document management system provides a centralized management system for the eight newsletter lists automates the queuing and sending of the newsletters at a designated date and time Bottom Line: MCI was able to significantly reduce the man-time and number of employees necessary to produce a timely and effective communication vehicle for their sales force.