Software used to assist in the collection of multiple sets of data in an automated, or technology enabled fashion (1) to facilitate the collaboration on documents related to vendor assessment, vendor selection, and shared services establishment processes including, but not limited to Requests for Information, Requests for Proposals, Compliance Requirements, Base Cases, Proposals, and Selection/Evaluation Criteria; (2) to facilitate collaboration on project related items such as project plans and tasks, issue logs, and calendars; and (3) to enable collaboration through the use of approval and review workflows, alerts, and the posting of news and announcements pertinent to the previously mentioned advisory services; computer software for use in project management; computer software for designing, creating, maintaining and accessing customized internal network sites and global communication network sites; and software for designing, creating, maintaining and accessing document management, authoring, storage and retrieval systems; software for document authoring, storage, retrieval, contention control, version history tracking, profiling, access control, and security; software for automatically notifying users when documents have been updated; software for meeting and event scheduling and notification and for posting announcements on internal network sites and global communication network sites; software for posting links to internal network sites and global communication network sites and global communication network sites; software for categorizing, searching and retrieving documents and data on internal computer networks