Abstract: A system which allows identification of a consumer as belonging to a designated category and makes special offers available to consumers who are members of the designated category is described. The system comprises a database of offers accessible through connection by consumer operated computers upon authentication of consumer registration, an offer presentation module for controlling access to the database of offers and a consumer registration module allowing registration of a consumer for access to the database of offers. The consumer registration module allows registration of a consumer upon submission of identifying information provided to the consumer by a party who has identified the consumer as belonging to a designated category and used to identify the consumer as belonging to the designated category.

Abstract: A decentralized project management framework may be implemented to manage process tasks defined by various functional organizations within a company. The determination of which process tasks are required for a particular type of project is managed by these functional organizations. In addition, parameters of a process task, such as examples, links, explanations and supporting documentation, may also be managed by these functional organizations. As such, responsibility for and access to such process tasks may be allocated to individual functional organizations using a plurality of function-specific datastores. Each function-specific datastore stores process tasks and related parameters. A tollgate site server presents a user interface allowing a user to enter input characterizing a project and retrieves process tasks from the various function-specific datastores according to the related parameters.