AST Collaborative Solutions, a business unit of the AST Group, has announced that it will distribute IBM`s Start Now solutions for e-business, which will allow it to provide its small and medium enterprise (SME) clients with effective solutions for their business and e-business challenges.
The IBM Start Now solutions enable a business to manage and secure its Internet infrastructure, buying and selling over the Internet, analysing and understanding business data and improving productivity of mobile employees.
Developed by IBM, Start Now Solutions are built on IBM WebSphere, DB2 database software, Lotus and Tivoli platforms that are open, standards-based, scalable and reliable. Each Start Now Solution carefully integrates these multiple-brand technologies into a specific e-business solution, derived from a focus on real customer needs and business challenges, that can be customised to keep pace with a customer`s growth, expansion and acquisition needs.
Start Now Solutions also provide business partners with a recommendation of software and hardware configurations, instructions for proposing, implementing and extending a complete solution, tested implementation scenarios, ISV tools and financing options.
"With Start Now, our SME clients receive effective solutions from someone who understands their business and e-business challenges," says Barry Vorster of AST Collaborative Solutions. "That results in an appropriate solutions that fits the our client`s specific needs and provides all the benefits of e-business like new revenue streams, cost savings, access to new markets, and better business relationships up and down the supply chain. But best of all, they see positive cash flow quickly. And, because the solutions are both affordable and effective, they deliver ROI fast."
AST Collaborative Solutions will be distributing the following modules:
* Start Now Collaboration Solutions - extend and enhance Web sites with human interaction - based on Lotus Domino Application Server, Lotus QuickPlace, Lotus Sametime, Lotus Learning Space, WebSphere Translation Server, Lotus Translation Services for Sametime, and WebSphere Portal Extend.
* Start Now e-commerce Solutions - buy and sell over the Internet - based on WebSphere Commerce Professional Edition. Start Now Wireless Solutions - improve productivity of mobile employees - based on IBM Mobile Connect, DB2 Everyplace, DB2 Workgroup Edition, Lotus Domino, Domino Everyplace, Lotus Sametime, and Sametime Everyplace.
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