EzParts Viewer Application

The EzParts Viewer Application is a self-contained commerce-enabled executable program that supports the Microsoft Windows platform. The application provides a feature rich environment for interacting with manufacturer parts and service data. All major features of EzParts are standard in the Viewer application.

Additional application features include the ability for dealers to integrate with their internal business system to insert purchase and sales orders, real time viewing of their internal business systems sales price and parts availability. The Viewer application can be integrated with manufacturer web services to provide Manufacturer real time pricing and parts availability information. Likewise built in ecommerce functionality can be configured to allow manufacturers to receive dealer purchase orders via web services or email.

Typically the EzParts Viewer application is distributed on CD or DVD with a copy of the manufacturer's data set. Multiple security models provide the ability to control access to the data set by specific users or in general. CD and DVD media can be designed to automatically expire on a specific date requiring the dealer to update according to the manufacturers policy.

Data updates can be delivered on CD, DVD or via the internet utilizing EzParts Remote Data Sync functionality.

EzParts Web Server

The EzParts Web Server Application provides all of the standard EzParts functionality making the parts and service data available over the Internet. No plug-ins or additional software is required. Common browsers are supported including Internet Explorer and Firefox.

The EzParts Web Server Application may be installed in-house by the manufacturers or by a third party web hosting provider. Additionally Systems Online provides hosting services from Miami based servers connected with bandwidth from Level3, Internap, WVFiber, IBasis, and Broadwing, with a network capacity of 2 Gbps.

In the case of third party hosting or managed hosting by Systems Online, the distributed topology capabilities of the EzParts Web Server Application allow real time data extraction of parts pricing and availability and customer billing and ship to data from the manufacturer's remote business system; as well as the ability to deliver eCommerce orders directly to that business system utilizing a variety of methods.

The EzParts Web Server Application is eCommerce centric. EzParts provides the richest shopping cart environment available for the parts and service supply/support chain. Please review our eCommerce section for complete details about the EzParts eCommerce capabilities.

Remote Data Sync

Remote Data Sync provides the ability for dealers and customers to utilize the EzParts Viewer application with media distributed via CD and DVD to acquire the latest updates to the manufacturers parts and service dataset via the Internet. Each dataset publication maintains a version stamp. Modifications to the dataset are internally tracked as they occur. Dealers can easily request an electronic update from within the EzParts Viewer Application.

Remote Data Sync is compatible with single workstation and network installations. This functionality eliminates the requirement for the manufacturer to continuously publish and ship CD and DVD media to their dealers for remote viewing.