Enterprise
E-Commerce Solutions
IS departments face monumental challenges as the
demand for information explodes and business moves
faster. Company mergers force fundamentally different
information to coexist. Users demand rapid and
flexible availability of information from outdated and
rigid proprietary systems. Until recently, the only
solution was expensive and risky system rewrites—or
full-scale IT migrations. Today the Internet offers
real alternatives: e-commerce on-line selling
environments, real-time links to customer and supplier
systems, streamlined procurement of commodities, and
integrated systems and data across organization lines.
However, Web-based computing must leverage a
corporation’s investment in its business
applications. Soft O Soft delivers the solution. We
understand mission-critical systems so your Web
e-commerce investments pay for themselves and create
significant returns on investment even sooner.
Benefits
Exploiting the e-commerce opportunities that the Web
provides brings the following benefits:
Organizations
experience a tremendous future cost savings as a
result of accelerating their distribution and
transaction channels The total cost of ownership of
the system is reduced.
An organization avoids the disruptions and the huge
costs involved in migration of critical business
processes. Unexpected perks emerge, such as
alternative management reporting, user community
access, and IT support and maintenance resources.
Solutions
The
structure of Soft O Soft's E-Commerce Solutions is
founded on an open-architecture approach that takes
advantage of off-the-shelf packages and custom
development. Soft O Soft E-Commerce solutions include
hardware, software, application development,
consulting, training, and support. They provide for a
phased entry into e-commerce.
You can -
Leverage
your corporation’s investment in its existing
business applications without having to modify, rehost,
or discard them, thus minimizing the effect on
productivity Build new interface layers
with minimal impact to the underlying business
Securely remove current boundaries of existing IT
legacy systems
Based
on our e-commerce experience, Soft O Soft has grouped
services with hardware and software, as needed, into
Solution Packs that address the most common needs of
companies making the transition to Web-based
computing.
WEB SELLING ENVIRONMENT gets your corporation on the
Web fast with the goal of achieving a quick return on
investment.
E-COMMERCE FOR ORDER FULFILLMENT integrates the orders
from the Web Selling Environment Solution Pack into
the mainstream of your order fulfillment system.
WEB ENABLEMENT FOR LEGACY SYSTEMS provides the means
to push internal data to a Web-based front end so
anyone with proper security clearance can have access.
E-COMMERCE FOR TRADING PARTNERS allows you and
selected close trading partners to link systems, thus
streamlining the supply channel between your company
and your suppliers.
WEB-ENABLED CUSTOMER RELATIONS provides your customers
with Web access to your support organization to
improve client satisfaction and capitalize on
additional post-sales revenue opportunities.
The implementation of any Solution Pack can be as
far-reaching as you need. Within each Solution Pack
are services tailored to your specific business needs
and environment. Each Solution Pack offers four key
services:
Road
map Assessment
Quick-Strike Pilot
Application Implementation and Deployment
Custom Education and Training
The
Soft O Soft Distinction
For
more than five years, Soft O Soft has provided Fortune
2000 companies with smart, affordable consulting,
development, and integration services. We’ve earned
a solid reputation in the industry for having the
professional staff, technical expertise, software
industry relationships, and experience necessary to
deliver e-commerce solutions efficiently and
cost-effectively.
Processes
Our
process of building an e-commerce solution is
evolutionary, not revolutionary, employing Soft O
Soft’s proprietary methodology, Genova. We begin by
determining a client’s greatest area of pain and
define a solution and implementation approach that
will return the greatest business value in the
shortest period of time.
Our
implementation process of divide-and-conquer is driven
by an in-depth understanding of our client’s
critical business and IT management demands. A phased
implementation approach provides a smooth transition
into production
An
e-commerce solution must provide measurable benefits.
Our Quick-Strike Pilot is designed to understand our
client’s business transactions and IT processes
before a total rollout. This implementation approach
delivers results in 90 days guaranteed, which reduces
cost and risk and ensures that we hit our client’s
overall business objectives on time and on budget
Parternships
Soft
O Soft has a Premier Partner relationship with IBM
Soft O Soft also maintains industry
relationships with such leading technology vendors as
Microsoft, Sun, Lotus, Tivoli, Dell, and Compaq. This
keeps us at the forefront of the dynamic technology
industry
People
We hire industry professionals who have proven their
ability in actual projects with hands-on development
experience in Web-to-host transaction applications
All projects are led by teams certified in products
such as IBM’s Net.Commerce, MQ Series, DB2, and
Lotus
Experience
Our
consultants and developers have participated in
numerous transaction and Web-based solutions.
Soft
O Soft provided the design, development, deployment,
and integration knowledge necessary to achieve a
rapid, successful business-to-business Web
point-of-sale solution for one of the world’s
leading computer peripheral manufacturers
For a leading electronic parts wholesaler, Soft O Soft
replaced a hardcopy system by creating an e-commerce
solution that places a Web front end on top of an
existing data store, giving the field sales force a
comprehensive configuration and pricing engine. The
system removed data inaccuracies due to time delays of
hardcopy information and gave the sales force the
ability to give customers complete pricing on the
spot, shortening the sales cycle while reducing cost
of sales and improving sales force productivity
Expertise
The
Soft O Soft business model is to work with vendors on
technologies early in their life cycle and then to
leverage derived skills to provide state-of-the-art
solutions for business customers.
