MICROSOFT BUSINESS SOLUTIONS - e BUSINESS

COMMERCE PORTAL, COMMERCE GATEWAY and BIZTALK

e business

 

The Path to Profit

Serious business requires that you carefully plan how you apply technology. You need to choose your e-Commerce solution carefully and think about how it will integrate with your existing business solution.

How can an e-business strategy benefit your business?

Companies with an e-business strategy are naturally more open to do business.  The entire organisation focuses on the market and has greater visibility, more efficient collaboration and stronger relationships.  Opening up a business,  however, requires an extended ERP solution, which integrates the front-office  with the back-office system.

Customer Relationship Management and Supply Chain Collaboration allow customers, partners and employees to access system functions and information via a common browser interface.

You can use an integrated  e-Commerce solution to capitalise on the Internet and improve:

  • Efficiency. You can reduce costs by using Internet-related solutions to automate processes and by offering real-time self-service to employees, customers and partners
  • Responsiveness. You can seize new opportunities by taking advantage of common standards and the open platform of the Internet to pursue new geographic or demographic markets or product areas
  • Business relationships. You can strengthen ties with customers and vendors by collaborating electronically

Commerce Portal is an E-business and  Internet Commerce solution for setting up online product catalogues and automating order-entry processing via the Internet. Commerce Portal is completely integrated with Microsoft Dynamics NAV enterprise business solution and uses its business logic, which means that maintaining the information on your Web-site pages and processing orders requires virtually zero administration. Furthermore, everyday maintenance of your Web sites requires no special HTML skills.

Commerce Gateway offers a straightforward way for you to take advantage of business-to-business opportunities by:

  • Participating as a supply chain partner cost-effectively
  • Accommodating the changing requirements of any partner quickly
  • Using the BizTalk Server to orchestrate business processes smoothly, both within and between business organisations

Biztalk offers the capability as with Commerce gateway to simplify the supply chain.  More and more businesses are now needing to save costs in both the sales and purchase of there products and services, hence Biztalk can provide the electronic integration of businesses in many areas:-

  • Order acceptance, confirmation and processing
  • Automated Invoicing
  • Automated Purchasing
  • Internal application integration
  • Automatic data transfer

All of these e- solutions are directly integrated into Microsoft Dynamics NAV and can help to reduce the administration required in a  typical supply chain cycle. 

It can also assist in internal transactions between disparate systems, allowing data flow to happen instantaneously and for all systems to be centrally synchronised.