Business challenge The answer Expand the enterprise The technology Overview    - What can NetCore do    - Requirements
		BUSINESS CHALLENGE Your business has widely diverse needs for e-commerce. And you have heard from a variety of providers about just the right high-tech solution for your needs. But one thing is clear: business managers like yourself, not IT people, need the ability to analyze the effectiveness of e-business and manage it on a day-to-day basis. THE ANSWER The Ollwin Integrated E-Commerce Suite provides managers the infrastructure to build an effective online business. The AdminSite module, a set of browser-based tools, is designed to empower managers to easily create and manage online stores from anywhere in the world where there is Internet access. This means decisions makers within your organization will be able to quickly modify site content. And with features such as product catalogs, rule-based pricing management, sophisticated tracking and fulfillment, and statistics and reporting, NetCore includes the features you need most to put the customer at the center of your business. EXPAND THE ENTERPRISE NetCore is in step with your business. Empower your managers to close the loop with customers and partners by giving them both the decision support they need and the real-time feedback loop - the loop that enables them to be responsive to the ever-changing needs of customers and partners. By closing the loop, business managers offer highly personalized and relevant content to your site users. This converts browsers into buyers and ultimately impacts your company's bottom line. Ollwin delivers a comprehensive platform by fully integrating components within two modules: StoreSite and AdminSite. THE TECHNOLOGY To efficiently compete in the new economy, a high performance and reliable system is required. NetCore delivers robust e-commerce infrastructure with the flexibility, security, and scalability required for critical e-business applications: · Flexibility: Because NetCore's engine is based on cross-platform programming technology, it works with many web-hosting platforms, and allows flexible integration and interoperability with existing software within the enterprise · Security: NetCore provides authentication and security through digital certificates and strong encryption, ensuring sensitive information doesn't fall into the wrong hands · Scalability: NetCore's engine can be paired with a wide variety of database programs, and hold a product catalog virtually limitless in size. In addition, thanks to the browser-based AdminSite module, multiple people in your organization can manage the store, no matter where they are, as long as they have access to the Internet. NetCore is currently available including StoreSite and AdminSite for installation on NT or UNIX-based web servers. In Quebec, small and medium-sized businesses may benefit from a refundable tax credit of 40% granted by Quebec Industry and Commerce in order to encourage SMEs to adopt e-commerce solutions as part of their business processes. For more information, please call Ollwin International at 514-938-0009 (toll free 1-877-653-9641) OVERVIEW NetCore is an integrated e-commerce suite, a fully customizable business to consumer (B2C) electronic commerce product comprised of two main components: AdminSite and StoreSite. It has proven itself adaptable to a wide number of sectors whose presence are currently exploding on the Internet, such as consumer electronics, clothing, cosmetics, and travel. NetCore is a dynamic browser-based storefront development and management system that allows merchants to create online stores from anywhere in the world where there is Internet access. The browser-based administration interface provides access to an array of sophisticated tools to maintain catalogs, manage customer accounts, track order fulfillment, and create complex merchandising strategies. See all NetCore can do for your company and help you define how best to use it to meet and exceed your company's medium and long term goals in the internet marketplace. AdminSite is the store administrator's section of NetCore. It will offer you all the tools needed to manage and promote the NetCore solution and shape it to your company's vision of an Internet storefront, your only identity in this 30-million-user marketplace. StoreSite is the storefront section of NetCore users will navigate through. We will help you make your store customers experience the Internet in a unique way. What can NetCore do for you NetCore is your e-commerce solution: it will do all you can rightly expect from a storefront, and much more! Show a storefront to your image Your logos, colors and slogans are artistically displayed and fully integrated throughout StoreSite. This, combined to a visually appealing and logical browsing path, allows you to reflect your company's image of quality even through your web-store. Manage your product selection Log into AdminSite and control every product, bundle, or combo available on StoreSite. Import into your online product database files containing the list of products you wish to offer. Create special combos and allow your customer to choose the exact component of his combo. Build your own bundle of best-selling products and watch them go like hotcakes. Control your promotion pricing and special offerings AdminSite lets you to set your margins for all products while allowing specific products, categories, or brands to have a different pricing rule to set or comply to various market forces. You have the power to manipulate and shape your store's pricing towards your Internet strategy. Securely process your order payments You can choose to accept various payment methods from a host of available options: credit cards (MasterCard, Visa, American Express), personal checks, money orders, or Internet payment solutions (Flashecash, PayPal). We will integrate your selected payment methods into your NetCore so that orders are processed seamlessly for the customer. All they receive is an email confirmation of their order. Requirements NetCore may not require any upgrade/change of your current information systems. In fact, you may not even have to purchase any additional computing equipment or software! Hardware All you need to implement your NetCore solution are a web server, an application server, and a database server. Those servers do not have to physically be three different computer systems. You may wish to buy your own servers or to simply use our servers along with our hosting services at advantageous rates below industry average. Our co-location and hosting services will equip your web-store with the ultra-fast Internet connection and matching technologically up-to-date servers required to process a high volume of transactions while ensuring regular backups and continuous power support for it. In the event you choose to b buy your own servers, you can still host it at our location, or altogether host your servers somewhere else, the choice is all yours once your NetCore has been completely customized to your taste. The minimum requirement for a server is 256Mb of memory, a 500MHz processor, 9Gb of storage space, along with an Ethernet connection. Hardware exceeding the minimum requirement will improve response times and performances. Software The web server must be able to run one of the following: IIS, Apache, or I-Planet. The application server must be able to run one of the following: Apache Tomcat, Bea Weblogic, or IBM Websphere; and will require to run a Java Virtual Machine from JDK. The database server must be able to run one of the following: MySQL, PosgreSQL, Microsoft SQL, DB2, or Oracle. Ollwin International favors the open-source applications such as the FreeBSD platform and the Apache Tomcat and MySQL applications as they have faster evolution periods to take care of known bugs and loopholes while being very cost efficient for you. Compatibility Cross-platform NetCore is a cross-platform solution that uses the versatility of the Internet to your advantage. We can implement your NetCore in any of the following environments: Microsoft Windows NT or 2000, Linux 6.0 and higher, SUN Solaris's Unix, and FreeBSD 4.1 and higher. Current databases Provided that they are amongst the many types of database we support, NetCore allows you to transfer your current product databases to your web-store. You do not have to sacrifice your product line or incur high salary costs to re-input data into your NetCore solution, Ollwin will do it as part of your NetCore implementation!