Emerson Motor Technologies, a division of St. Louis-based Emerson Electric Co., is the world's leader in electric motor development and production, manufacturing more than 320,000 electric motors each day. With some 13,000 employees at 24 plants worldwide, the business has realized that efficient internal communications and standardized self-service applications are key to optimum employee productivity.

Emerson Motor Technologies developed an intranet in 1994 for sharing engineering data and documentation. Over the years, the site evolved to fulfill additional employee needs, and in 1999, the organization began exploring opportunities for transforming this intranet from a data repository into a business productivity tool. To this end, the Emerson business sought an enterprise-wide portal solution.