Features

• No Technical Knowledge Required
• Scaleable and Secure
• Trade Any Transaction, File or Data
• User Interface Friendly
• Multiple Tier Interface
• Unparalleled Implementation Time
• Significantly Lower Cost
• Higher ROI
• Complete System out-of-the-box
• Total Systems Integration
• Fully Customizable

No Technical Knowledge Required

EzTrade is a complete integrated forms based e-commerce system. What exactly does this mean? It means that by installing the EzTrade Server software on your web server you will be able to begin e-commerce trading almost immediately. Is it really that easy? Yes. Thousands of companies worldwide have studied, developed and implemented e-commerce systems. Most of these implementations are customized solutions. Customized solutions usually are not overly cost effective nor do they have fast implementation times. They entail many hours of low level research and programming as well as require a high degree of skill and knowledge. All e-commerce trading systems share many similarities. Yet, again and again large corporations are paying consultants to re-invent the wheel, sorting out differences between technology, transports and integration methods. EzTrade handles all these details for you. You do not need to worry about authenticating trading partners or figuring out how you are going to get the transactions or data from one point to another . Neither will you have to worry about how to keep the data secure and process it once it is been received. EzTrade Server software does all this for you and more. All of the complicated programming tasks have been completed by the development staff at Systems Online. We believe in keeping this simple. Not only did we complete all the complicated programming tasks and put them in a box, but we also included a visual interface to make any tasks you need to perform easy to understand and implement.

Scaleable and Secure

EzTrade Server software installs on Microsoft's IIS (Internet Information Server.) This means that as your business grows your EzTrade Server can grow with you. If you are installing 1 server or a cluster of servers EzTrade will suit your needs perfectly. In addition EzTrade is designed to work over Secure Socket Layer ensuring that you data is always kept safe and secure.

Trade any Transaction, File or Data

EzTrade is an XML forms based full-format transport. What does this mean? It means that you can design XML transactions or forms that can contain any type of data or file. EzTrade forms have been designed to trade Sales Brochures, Warranty Claims, Sales Orders, EDI Transactions, Insurance Claims, Medical Claims, Survey Data, Parts Lists, Shipping Confirmations, Training Videos and more. When you create a form you decide what type of data it will contain. This means you can now automate the transport of any computerized data.

User Interface Friendly

Traditionally EDI and XML have not provided a user friendly method for people to view or understand the information that is being transported from one place to another. EDI and XML formats are designed so computers can understand what is being transferred back and forth, not people. EzTrade changes this. With the Visual forms based methods implemented by EzTrade, not only does your computer understand the data that is being sent, but you do too. By double clicking on a transaction you can automatically open it in the Forms View and see a human readable representation of the data that is being transferred. If you are looking at a sales order, it will look like a typical sales order on your computer screen. You forms can actually look exactly like the current paper form that you send and receive by fax now. You do not have to accept it on faith that the computer understands what is is doing, but you can view any transaction on your screen and understand what is actually occurring behind the scenes.

Multiple Tier Interface

In addition the forms based methodology allows you and your trading partners to interact with the e-commerce system on multiple levels. This is especially important when trading with partners who may not have the same level of automation or sophistication at their businesses. EzTrade makes it easy to trade transactions between automated computer systems, it also makes it very easy to trade with people too. Most systems do not allow people without automated business systems to simply fill in the fields on a form, create a transaction, and send it directly to your XML based e-commerce system, but EzTrade does and it is built-in. That means that both automated computers and people can easily generate transactions and send them directly to your business system using the EzTrade Client software. This is vital because the more trading partners you have, the lower your total cost of doing business. EzTrade can replace both fax and traditional mail and eliminate processing by empowering the human element to create transactions just like the automated computer systems do. Larger trading partners that have automated business systems can use the EzTrade Client software to generate the transactions without requiring human interaction or expensive translator programs. the best part is the EzTrade Client software is free.

Unparalleled Implementation Time

Because you are buying a complete e-commerce system in-a-box you can implement faster and cost effectively. Compared to traditional methods, with EzTrade you are eliminating over 90% of the requirements and steps in a large scale e-commerce project. And you end up with exactly the same end result. You do not need consultants for systems and needs analysis or design. There are no costly studies or pilot projects. You proceed directly to the installation phase and you are up and running in hours.

Significantly Lower Costs

By eliminating most of the requirements of a large scale project you are also eliminating the related costs. You are also better guarded against hidden costs and cost over-runs. By implementing a finished product, remove the likelihood of over-running your budget or ending up with a custom application that does not meet your needs. EzTrade is a fully customizable product. Depending on your needs you may decide to add some bells and whistles although EzTrade provides a complete set of feature rich tools for managing all aspects of you e-commerce system.

Higher ROI

Eliminating the cost allows you to realize a greater return on your investment. Not only is your investment significantly smaller, but it will pay for itself faster. The speed of implementing the EzTrade system provides an immediate avenue for you to realize your return. You wont start saving money weeks or months from now, you will start saving money immediately! Traditionally electronic commerce was only utilized by the larger players. This was due to the financial requirements to build and maintain an effective trading system. All this has changed. Now you can trade with large and small payers alike. recuperating your investment by streamlining more processes.

Complete System out-of-the-box

The mass of computer technology, methods and related information is huge and intimidating to most seasoned computer professionals. Business professionals and managers spend thousands of hours each day unraveling the technology mystery. Questions like:

• How will XML impact our business?
• What are the differences between XML ebXML and other standards?
• What transport methods are available?
• How do we integrate our systems?
• How do we ensure compatibility?
• Will these choices allow us to trade with everyone?
• What happens if the standards change.
• Who will support this?

are asked many times each day. With EzTrade Server the impact of making critical decisions is smaller, more localized with a significantly smaller impact. The typical concerns are:

• What will our forms look like?
• Who should be given rights to access the historical transactions?
• Which employees should be able to send or receive transactions?
• Can we really trade with anyone and send or receive anything?
• what transactions do we want automated?

With a complete system out-of-the-box you can concentrate on the areas that directly effect your business. Like how you are going to apply the tool, not be concerned with the design of the tool itself. Systems Online has already spent thousands of man hours in design and testing. We have added in features that make ease of use and flexibility a priority while keeping learning curves low. This includes features and capabilities that would not necessarily have added to a custom solution.

Total Systems Integration

The EzForms Designer and Mapping Wizards guide you through every step of the systems integration process. Intuitive interfaces direct you to the right choices while making your integration task manageable. EzTrade interfaces with the human element by providing human readable forms that display the transactions in an easy to understand form that looks just like your old paper documents. Computers also interface with EzTrade and can create transactions dynamically. EzTrade provides you with a system that integrates computers and people. ODBC compliant data-sources, flat files, WINDOWS, SAP, UNIX, and raw data and proprietary databases can all be integrated into your EzTrade commerce system.

Fully Customizable

EzTrade Server provides you with all the tools and software necessary for you to enable your forms based XML e-commerce system. Different business have different integration and transaction requirements while maintaining a similar base functionality. EzTrade Server helps you define your forms and transaction sets ensuring that trading meets your needs. You can use your existing or industry standard XML definitions as templates for your forms, or easily create new forms from scratch. Forms can easily look exactly like your existing paper forms, or take on and entirely new look, the choice is up to you. In the same respect there are literally hundreds of different databases that may be in use to maintain business systems data. The same applies to your trading partners. With the EzTrade Server and Client visual Scripting Wizards mapping forms and data into both your and your trading partners business systems could never be easier. Pointing and clicking defines complex data relationships and builds the required script protocols. In extremely rare cases user find that they have totally unique requirements. In these instances the scripting can be exposed to allow higher level, more complex operations that can perform any computing or data manipulation task.