There are many different
categories of business software, from office productivity
suites to accounting to specialized applications.
Computer eCommerce focuses on creating custom business
applications to simplify business processes and lower costs.
We also design and develop business Web sites.
Internet or Desktop Based
What types of custom business applications are available?
Financial
Sales
IT
Warehouse
Internet
BI
Extranet
Intranet
When is custom software called for? When both of the below
conditions are present:
A) When 0ff-the shelf solutions don't fit the needs and
requirements of the company.
B) When the cost benefit analysis has shown to produce a good
return on investment (ROI).
Custom business applications have the potential to reduce the
number of employees required, to lower costs, and to increase
revenue for a company over the long term, and can provide
additional value and equity to the company.
Increase sales— Speed to market - Reduce labor— Technology
advantage over competition
Communication for relationship-building — Enable flexibility
in pricing and/or service specifications "What do you want the
project to accomplish for your customer?"
Here are some examples of answers we receive:
Better knowledge about your company products (e.g. product
catalog)— More timely information (e.g. financial or data
reporting) — Opportunity to save money (e.g. direct mail
circular)— Aggregation of information & data (e.g. process,
regulatory documentation, and/or compliance manuals)"Armed
with this information we can then define the project goals and
objective. What customer will the project serve? — Internal
staff or external customers?
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Costs:
Custom business software might run a company anywhere from a
few hundred dollars to over 100,000 depending on the
complexity and requirements.
Mobile & Wireless
Many companies are beginning to get comfortable with new
business opportunities made possible by the rise of wireless
computing devices. Wireless technologies are changing rules of
the game for business. Personal digital assistants like the
Blackberry and Mobile PC are gaining acceptance and
popularity. They allow access to information at your
fingertips when away from a conventional computer. The
information these contain can be linked to your comprehensive
business system for contacts, sales numbers, pricing,
inventory and other time sensitive information. This can give
instant good service to your clients and partners.
Wireless Web - WML & WAP
WAP-enabled phones are now commonplace but very few sites take
advantage of this fact with WML pages. If you need WML pages
to deliver news, information or just entertainment to your
visitors via their mobile phones. Allow your clients and
potential customers to view your web site on cellular phones,
pages and other wireless devices with Internet access. Need
your site coded for handheld devices? We can do that for you.
WAP empowers mobile users of wireless devices to easily access
live interactive information services and applications from
the screens of mobile phones.
Services and applications include:
e-mail and online address books
customer care
call management
unified messaging
weather and traffic alerts news,
sports and information services
electronic commerce transactions
banking services
directory services
WAP is still a new technology. Not every web-site will need or
want to be WAP-enabled, but the possibilities opened up by the
scope of WAP should not be underestimated.
Leading-edge companies are now gearing up to leverage wireless
networking technology to deliver tailored content to customers
that does not require those customers to visit their Web
sites. As a result, many of them are rethinking their Web
strategies.
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