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I built a web application for a client a few years ago in the construction industry. They're a major-project general contractor--they build hospitals and malls and stadiums, things like that. They shepherd a massive network of subcontractors all across the country, literally thousands of cement or framing or electrical subcontractors. The way things have been done is with the lumbering, yellowing beast of a machine in the corner that can broadcast faxes overnight to thousands of fax machines in their subcontractors' offices, and receive ten or so faxes simultaneously, queue them for printing, etc. A nasty piece of work, but it's what that industry has used for decades.
We replaced it with a system that's entirely web and email. Subcontractors (we imported the database straight from the lumbering beast) are emailed when they're selected to bid on a project, log in and see details, submit their bid online, etc. It's taken off like crazy (enough so that I've had to expand the partition their database files live on twice). I think people are glad to be well shut of fax technology.
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