"Our goal is to create an enterprise portal that would drive a change in our business culture and increase shareholder value. Our portal will enable our plants to share best practices and monitor efficiency levels, a function management expects to result in higher levels of productivity. We needed to make sure that our critical Portal content does not remain passive and BackWeb's ProactivePortal offering is the solution that we are depending on to drive the profitability of our plants by dynamically alerting critical employees of those plants falling below their efficiency thresholds and accelerating their response to these changes."

Earl Newsome
Vice president and CIO
Owens-Illinois

Owens-Illinois is one of the world's leading manufacturers of packaging products. It is the largest manufacturer of glass containers in the United States, North America, South America, Australia, New Zealand, and China, and one of the largest in Europe. Approximately one of every two glass containers made worldwide is made by Owens-Illinois, its affiliates, or its licensees.

O-I also is a worldwide manufacturer of plastics packaging with operations in North America, South America, Australia, Europe, and Asia. Plastics packaging products manufactured by O-I include containers, closures, and prescription containers.