Presenting your business information in an accessible and initiative manner a
difference to your market presence. Whether it is be your employees, suppliers,
or existing / prospective clients, having this information available 24x7 is not
only considered to be a valuable selling point, but a necessity in today's
digital and global marketplace.
Since its public and global emergence in the early 90's, the Internet has
transformed not only our personal lives, it has transformed the way businesses
communicate, collaborate and control their business operations.
The Internet has also had a wide impact on itself. At its inception, the
Internet was limited to large corporate enterprises, academic institutions and
was widely considered to be very public-facing. Now the Internet stretches it
influence directly into businesses, homes and to people on the move.
What are the options?
Ethos offers a wide variety of Internet-enabled services that can help your
business processes:
- Public websites
- Intranet websites
- Extranet websites
- Mobile websites
- Web services
- RIA (Rich Internet Applications)
Our experienced and fully accredited development and engineering teams employ
the latest technologies and standards to ensure that your websites are
accessible, visually compelling, responsive and integrated with your business
processes.
Public Websites
There are very few businesses that do not have a public-facing website - it
effectively is the new business directory. Advertising your products, services
and corporate information provides potential clients, investors and suppliers
with the ability to find out about your business at any time, any place.
Intranet Websites
Many businesses are starting to realise the importance of employing
enterprise-wide intranet systems (internally accessible websites). Information
is a valuable asset to any business, inheritently, people in your organisation
are even more valuable. Having a enterprise-wide intranet system (or internal
website) can have a positive impact on information collation, communication and
collaboration.
External Websites
Extranet websites are very similar to intranet websites in terms of the
potential for information collation, communication and collaboration. However,
extranet website tend to be a highly-secured point of contact for employees, key
clients and suppliers, that engages their needs with your business processes.
Clients can log-in and submit orders, view invoice history, view product
catalogues or make enquiries; Suppliers can interact with supply-chain events
such as new purchase requests, notify deliveries and alert your organisation to
events that otherwise would require frantic and ad hoc telephone communicaton.
Mobile Websites
Mobile websites can be offered as part of the experience of using a coporate
public or extranet website. It is often catered for people that are roaming such
as sales personnel and is catered for specific technology such as mobile phones,
PDA's, tablet PCs and notebooks. Typically, the roaming user is deprived of the
luxuries of high speed broad-band, therefore this type of website much be
catered to present only the information and functionality required.
Web Services
Web services are not visibly accessible by people, they are produced and
consumed by other IT systems. For example, a stock control system can be
configured directly with a supplier's ordering system to enable intelligent and
automatically re-ordering that can be integrated within business processes. This
type of website or service, saves valuable personnel time, resources and money.
RIA (Rich Internet Applications)
RIA is not necessarily a type of website however, it is a commonly used term to
describe websites that offer the user a rich experience. For example, websites
such as You-Tube, BBC and MSN offer imagery, video and audio to its everyday
user-base. This type of web application can be found within any of the types of
websites discussed thus far.
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For further information contact the Ethos sales team on +44(0)28 9044 5110 or email solutions@ethos-is.com