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Acta links back office to e-commerce with Data Platform

Johannesburg, 26 May 2000

Acta Technology, represented locally by Global Technology , has announced that it has signed up nine customers within days of announcing its eCommerce Platform.

The platform, designed to make back-office available for business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce, has attracted large enterprises from across the world.

Acta is set to meet the demands for a B2B data infrastructure, says, Johan CEO Global Technology BI.

"Acta is filling an important need that enterprises everywhere are just beginning to come to grips with as they execute their B2B strategy," says Van Jaarsveld. "The novelty of B2B has worn off, and the realities are now setting in. Enterprises need a highly scalable platform that can quickly deliver complex information needed for B2B decision-making."

The problem that many companies are facing, adds Van Jaarsveld, is that back-office systems are not designed to accommodate frequent online requests for "heavy data" - information on order history, order status, inventory status, and more.

"Back-office systems, by and large, do what they were meant to do extremely well, but they were not meant to handle frequent requests for the heavy realtime and historical data that businesses need to complete B2B transactions and intelligently manage their performance in B2B environments."

The Acta platform helps protect the back office from numerous queries. It consists of eCaches, a suite of packaged data caches that speed the delivery of back-office data in specific subject areas of e-Commerce and business intelligence, and ActaWorksRealTime, a data movement and management server. As a pioneer in the extraction and movement of enterprise resource planning (ERP) data, Acta has helped over 130 companies to liberate their back-office data to compete in the most competitive business markets.

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