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Infomaster e-Commerce Objectives

As Internet is evolving rapidly in today's business world, many companies and Government organizations are taking the advantages of e-Commerce as a tool to improve their efficiency and competition in the market. There are many successful cases in companies and Government organizations that use e-Commerce to achieve important objectives. These objectives include:

To Reduce Overhead Costs

Government organisations could reduce overhead costs by eliminating human handling in such areas as data entry, mailroom sorting, document preparation and circulation. In addition, substantial cost savings can result from reduced error rates. These savings include savings in labour costs normally used to search for errors, and in lowered expediting costs. Furthermore, reduction of inventory costs through shortening order processing and delivery cycles, and generally lowering inventory levels. Lowered inventory levels result in corresponding reductions in carrying costs. Inventory costs can, in some businesses, account for as much as 90 percent of total product cost, so even modest reductions in this area can result in dramatic savings.

To Reduce Cycle Time

The need for Government organisations to transmit business information quickly is imperative in today's business environment. With business information exchange between Government organisations, electronic data can be sent and received 24 hours a day. Because electronic data exchange allows business to continue outside the normal business day, the turnaround time for a business transaction can be reduced from days to hours and, in some instances, to minutes.

To Increase Accuracy and Efficiency

More than 70 percent of manual data entry tasks originated from computer-generated documents. When Government organizations develop compatible electronic documents, data is never copied, re-keyed, or manually filed -- freeing employees for value-added activities. When used as a strategy to improve business processes, e-Commerce solution can eliminate tedious work and reduce the risk of human error. It can also enable Government organizations to move toward a paperless environment.

To Optimise Inventory

Managing inventory is a critical issue for any business. E-commerce solution can provide faster and more accurate information about inventory status. Replenishment can be driven by consumption. Future and changing needs can be quickly assessed and responded to without manual intervention or review, thus leading to improved inventory management.

To improve business relationship with trading partners

Setting up e-Commerce solution requires both trading partners to gain a better understanding of each other's business processes. Implementation involves the entire organization -- sales, marketing, manufacturing, logistics, information systems, finance, and customer service. It typically brings the people within these functions into contact with their counterparts in other organizations. E-commerce solution expands channels of communication and leads to better working relationships between the partners.

Infomaster e-Commerce Solutions

Infomaster has years of experience in developing e-Commerce solutions to solve the business information exchange situation of global organizations and local Government. Infomaster provides e-Commerce solution to organizations and Government including web services, automation server products and network services. The individual services and products are described as follows:

Secure Web Services

Infomaster provides InfoEC secure web services by 7x24 for organizations to participate the global electronic trading. Currently InfoEC has customers in US, Canada, Singapore, Taiwan, China and Hong Kong.
InfoEC web-based solution is designed to fulfil the web access needs of the global organizations. It allows buyers and suppliers to send and receive all the trading documents over the Internet without high investment in electronic infrastructure.
Our outsourced web-based solution allows organizations to connect to the XML or EDI-enabled trading partners without understanding the complicated processes and technologies behind. InfoEC provides an user-friendly Web Interface where organizations can complete the whole process of receiving and sending the trading documents only with simple operations. An email notification is provided for trading partner when document is received.
By using InfoEC web-based service, organizations can take the advantage of universal connectivity in viewing, receiving and sending the trading documents via the Internet in any locations and at any time.
Depending on the business requirements, the security level can be selected in the services with options of digital encryption, signing and verification.
Infomaster has extended these InfoEC web service and solution to Government organizations.

Automation Server Products

Infomaster developed e-Commerce solution to help organizations to automate paper based and manual process. The solution includes InfoEC services and ECTrade, ECGlobal and ECPortz server products that have the following specific features:

Easy-To-Use Modulus Design System

The Infomaster e-Commerce solutions are modulus design that includes ECTrade, ECGlobal and ECPortz server products to meet customers individual business needs. The products provide friendly user interface with easy-to-use, point-and-click and drag-and-drop functions for user to easily operate the system. All the complex technical parts are handled by the system and users are only to operate the system with simple steps.

Any-To-Any Delivery

The Infomaster solutions deliver multimedia information particularly electronic documents, images, pictures, and graphics, through Internet transport with special features of received acknowledgement, PKI digital signing and verification. The Infomaster solutions support many international standards such as XML, EDFACT, ANSI, X.509v3, PKCS12, JPEG, TIFF, etc.

Multi-Network Connections

InfoEC network services bridge the network connections of Internet, VAN, X.400 and SNA between buyers and suppliers. Suppliers may connect InfoEC just using Internet access. The other end of X.400, SNA or VAN connection is taken care by InfoEC network. For suppliers with office branches over different countries, the Purchase Order sent from buyers can be shared with branches through Internet. This can save substantial costs if branches are over different countries.

Hub Management

The design of InfoEC is not only for a single-office company but for multi-branch and multi-partner company in different countries. The communication module, ECTrade, provides a hub function to connect all branch offices through TCP/IP protocol. All the traffic of branch offices can be monitored and captured centrally by EGTrade server.

Multi-Platforms Support

Infomaster solutions support MS Windows NT, Windows 2000, XP, 2003, Linux and common Unix platforms.

Multi-Languages Support

Infomaster solutions support English, Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese languages.

XML and Acrobat Digital Signing

ECGlobal provides XML and Acrobat digital signing of electronic documents. When confidential documents are passed through Internet web or application, the contents of documents can be digitally signed in XML or Acrobat format.

Scalable System

Infomaster e-Commerce solutions support PC based to large scale UNIX based systems. In addition, the migration of a small PC system to a larger system is made easy as a lot of programs as such as EDI mappings are of no change. This saves the development costs and migration time.

For more information, please call (852)2319 2326 or email to sales@infomaster.com.hk