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Quick
Reference Guide
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1. Link-2-Future:
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Portal is the first step in "Modern
Business Tool-Kit" in the 21st century Business environment.
Most businessmen are likely to adopt Portals for use
in different transactions, such as interfacing with
customers or suppliers or with employees on "self-
service" basis. They would soon be preferred to telephone
or fax interactions, being "Free of Manual Interventions"
and available on 24x7 basis (24 hours a day, 7 days
a week).
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While Web sites can only display
information, Portals can also receive, store and process
data. If a company intends to be E-Com enabled in
future, it needs Portals now.
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2. Many Benefits:
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The reasons for the preference to Portals (over web
sites) are the major benefits such as:
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a) Lower unit cost of transactions (by more than
50%)
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b) Up-to-date Information for decision making with
in the company.
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c) Customer reach wider in the "borderless world"
and with "24x7" access.
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d) Products/services range can be changed, without
having to "reprint"
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e) Delivery status can be monitored by customers
and company automatically.
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f) Audit trail as transactions can be traced to those
who handled it with in the company.
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g) Instantaneous and recorded electronic transactions
thus reducing paper work.
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Here is a check-list of IT solutions we could help you
with in 2003 (1423/24): Save money- Improve sales- Increase
profits - Reduce inventory & cost of purchase - Monitor
investments- Motivate staff to better performance -
Enter new markets and more. |
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Improve your web site by adding modern features, better
graphics and interactive features to ensure that there
is a good traffic. |
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You can have more than one web site and there is no
legal bar. In fact it is better to have more web sites
focused on a specific purpose to generate business,
all cross-referenced to each other. |
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Supply Portals help you reduce costs of purchase, get
speedy response from suppliers and lower inventory immediately.
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Subsidiaries and Investments Portals help you to see
online, to compare Key performance indices of various
companies and cash flows & ROI on as needed basis- daily,
weekly or monthly. |
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Customer portals help you service your existing customers
better, get new customers, enter new markets and monitor
your sales force. |
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Staff Intranet portals, help you to tap into the potential
of all your staff without extra cost and bring out the
best, they can offer. |
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E-vision portals help you to keep up-to-date with every
aspect of what is going on in your company without having
to read big reports. |
8)
Analysis portals help to find out "why" there are some
good and bad results, co-relating facts and figures
and answering "what if" queries.
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4. Time and Cost:
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These benefits result in more sales
and profits, with short gestation period. The cost
is low with simple portals starting from US$ 5,000
and increasing with complexity of business process
and better features for specific end-user needs. The
payback period is usually less than a year. A thumb
rule is, if a business has more than 50 staff, 5 offices
or 10 products or 20 suppliers or 100 customers or
US$ 1million sales per year, then it can benefit significantly
from a portal. Such portals can be implemented in
one week after design features are agreed.
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5. Type of Business:
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Portals can be designed for several
type of business, whether dealing in Products or services.
Even non-profit organizations can use a Portal. It
is a business necessity for companies, with several
customers, or suppliers spread over a number of places,
with large number of products, varying prices and
staff spread over several offices.
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6. Size of the company:
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Both big and small companies can
benefit from Portals for the simple reason it is "Data,
Process & Transactions" oriented. Size is only
one of the critical variables. The main benefit is
from automation of process and transactions, each
of which would incur a unit cost if done manually.
Portal is thus a single step capitalization of future
recurring transaction costs of personal, telephone,
mail, fax inquiries and follow-ups by company staff
& management.
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7. Single location outlets:
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Portal can be used even by single location outlets
if they have multiple customers or suppliers or large
number of staff.
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8. Cost of inaction:
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If your business does not upgrade from web site to
Portal, it not only loses an opportunity to get more
business but also helps its own competition.
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9. FREE Evaluation:
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It needs no specialized
knowledge of computers or programming. Parts of your
present business can be put on Portal and perform
better. Your present business can be evaluated for
Portal Devlopment, if you send us your details as
per form displayed by pressing this link: Quote
for Portal. We
will revert within 48 hours with a professional response.
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