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AS/400 E-commerce
Software
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 E-mail
Can Be A Powerful E-commerce Technology
A significant part of numerous
organization's AS/400 e-commerce
initiatives has been Net400’s e-mail product, NetMail*400. Net400 has
always believed that e-mail can be a powerful enabling technology to accomplish numerous
business purposes other than just simple ‘Hi Fred, how are you doing?’ type
messaging. As valuable as person to person communication is, application to application
communication can be even more valuable to e-commerce.
There are fundamentally four different types of
communication that can be achieved using e-mail:
Net400 products enable all four of these different
types of business requirements. With the strongest set of Application Program Interfaces (
API ) in the industry, Net400
is leading the way in e-mail enabling applications for cost effective AS/400 e-commerce
solutions.
Most e-mail applications have concentrated on only
one of these, people to people. But the AS/400 is the host for corporate data and
applications that process that data. To miss out on the cost savings available by using
e-mail as an enabling technology is to ignore three fourths of the opportunities with
e-mail.
There are two important aspects to e-commerce:
 | Increasing Revenue |
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E-commerce contributes to
increasing revenue by reaching new customers electronically for marketing, catalog sales,
and other purposes |
| Decreasing Costs |
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Many companies are finding
that e-commerce’s primary value is to decrease operational costs. Numerous examples
exist where corporations are using e-commerce tools to reduce -
| customer support costs
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| order processing costs |
| information distribution costs |
| fax, telephone, courier and mailing costs |
| communication resources costs |
| and more |
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e-Process*400 is
a new e-commerce product initiative by Net400. It stems from our strong experience in the
AS/400 market and with e-mail specifically. The opportunities are very large and vary from
one company to another. But there is a common way to perceive all of them:
Any information that you now
communicate by voice, fax, mail or courier can now be e-mailed – faster, cheaper and
more productively!
Some examples of ways that Net400’s e-Process*400
can be used to complement your e-commerce strategy are:
| Inbound orders taken over the telephone, received by
mail or fax that have to be entered into an AS/400 terminal can be e-mailed directly into
your system. |
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| Order confirmations that are faxed or mailed can be
e-mailed . |
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| Delivery status reports that are faxed, mailed or
delivered by courier can be e-mailed from spool file reports or from your application
programs. |
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| Weekly sales reports that are delivered by courier and
usually late, can be e-mailed overnight to arrive when the data is still valid. |
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| Nightly updates can be e-mailed to customers, clients,
vendors, headquarters. |
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| Spool files can be electronically burst into separate pages and automatically e-mailed rather than manually burst and faxed or mailed. |
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| EDI files can be e-mailed to trading partners at no
costs. |
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| EDI files can be received and turned over to EDI
translators for processing at no costs. |
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| Agents can be linked to your AS/400 via the Internet
and e-mail used to distribute information to them at enormous cost savings. |
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| Web site marketing queries can be e-mailed direct into
your system for fulfillment and further processing. |
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These are not futures…. They are being done
today by a large number of Net400’s customers.
E-mail and the Internet are changing the way business
exchange information. But you don’t have to wait for tomorrow’s standards or
products. You can start today, economically, easily and efficiently.
In addition, Net400 still has the strongest green
screen e-mail system in the industry with more ways to integrate your users with your LAN
e-mail users, remote PC users, and Internet addresses than anyone else in the industry. e-Process*400 includes integration of
NetAPI*400
with the award winning
NetMail*400 and
NetSpool*400. To see some illustrations of how e-process*400 is being employed to accomplish a range of e-commerce
business purposes, review Net400's application
briefs.
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