Take, for example, a manufacturing organization trying to build the business case to invest in implementing software to track their internal carbon footprint.

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Among the ideas that have become reality: A product that helps remotely track the safety of school buses, improvements to the internal phone system and cost-cutting measures, such as reducing the use of overnight delivery for packages.

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Technically, it can be used to keep track of any sort of file, but not all lines of work can sustain having their internal documents posted in public.

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