CapTech Technologies (Pty) Limited, as TopTier Software Incorporated Southern African technology partner, based in Johannesburg, is launching TopTier`s e-Business Integration Portal (e-BIP) software suite into Southern Africa.
Also termed the e-Business Unification Platform, it comprises the `next generation` of business tool that enables companies to unlock internally and externally stored information from disparate data sources, providing users with a single gateway to their personalised information needs to support effective decision making. We are calling it the "Information for Action" product.
"TopTier`s e-BIP provides the tools that engineer a real competitive edge, an advantage that transforms business processes and effectively promotes additional revenue generation and cost savings," says Matthew Ford, MD of CapTech Technologies.
"These opportunities end up with bottom line benefits and real ROI on the investment. Measured case study benefits realised 40% savings in back office costs and a 7 to 1 ROI through waste reduction programs, as examples of the benefits of information sharing and communication with firm performance measurement criteria combined within the portal."
"If you can use a mouse and are familiar with web based browser technology, then you`re ready for TopTier as a user, From the CEO of a multi disciplinary, multi business unit group of companies, to the point of customer contact personnel on telesales or the call centre, your required support information is in your workplace with TopTier," he concludes. TopTier Software Inc. is a US based corporation that has designed and packaged a unique and patented set of technologies that will revolutionise the way business is conducted in the future.
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TopTier Software builds Enterprise Information Portal solutions that provide end users a simple yet powerful way to search, collaborate, personalize, query and report on the information that they rely on every day. TopTier`s patented e-business platform technology converges established categories such as reporting, business intelligence, enterprise application integration and Web-enabling line-of-business applications. Incorporated in 1996, TopTier Software is a privately held company with headquarters in San Jose, California. TopTier Software currently sells its products and services through a direct sales force and business partners, licenses its technology through ISVs and OEMs, and works with a growing network of top systems integrators and VARs. TopTier Software`s largest and most-well known users include Ricoh, Nortel Networks (NYSE: NT), Herman Miller (NasdaqNM: MLHR), and SAP AG (NYSE: SAP).
"The `Enterprise Information Portal` concept is a refreshingly different view of using the wealth of information that already resides within every company or group of company`s current information system(s)," states Ford. He adds, " TopTier`s unique and patented `Hyper Relational Navigation Protocol` and the `Drag `n Relate` feature allows users to seamlessly navigate across traditionally disparate data sources, realising at last, the real benefit of correlating all the available business` information irrespective of the specific software package or database it resides in. Whether that data source be an ERP, CRM, HR, e-Commerce transaction system, structured or unstructured data, or data from the "world`s biggest library", if we have access to it, we can incorporate it into your portal!!"
Through it`s partner program, TopTier has already engineered integration templates for nearly all the major brand name software packages available today (this numbers in the hundreds), and covers all the popular data base products as well.
As a specific example the technology that drives the front end of SAP`s mySAP.com Workplace, is TopTier`s, developed through a joint venture with SAP. In addition, there are tools within the product that allow us to layer the TopTier Web Navigator over any data source, even if there is no available template. "As an example of TopTier`s strength," says Ford " we were able to complete a proof of concept model on top of the midrange business system "Solomon IV", within 4 days, without prior knowledge of it`s data structure!"
"Imagine that you can get access to whatever you need, in your timeframe, from any business system in any location and in your personalised format? That Workplace now exists!" asks Ford. He says that portal will become the de facto daily workplace of any decision maker or information user of the future. The digital dashboard/heads up display is here. Once users get to see that they will have all the information at their fingertips for instant retrieval, and/or on a pre-planned `push` basis, incorporating an `Alert` system that notifies target user groups or profiles of negative occurrences or problems that are about to arise, everyone in the corporation will want theirs to!
In addition there is an international library of pre written `iViews` available from IviewStudio, which are information views for a wide variety of packaged software, that TopTier users can subscribe to, which fast-tracks access to other TopTier customer`s portal content.
CapTech`s `Collaborative Commercial Community` model, based on TopTier`s unique technology, is available to support, measure and drive your transaction based e-commerce strategy through an extranet framework where collaborating partners share all relevant information in a super efficient and effectively controlled and secure environment, through their uniquely filtered portals, accessing each others business systems for mutual benefit.
Or you could simply mine the really useful information already residing within your internal business systems, with our unique single sign-on which logs you into all the business systems you have assigned access for, automatically maintaining all your access rights intact! "We have a comprehensive and systematic Implementation Methodology, planned and implemented by advance certified technicians, trained by TopTier Software Inc., to ensure delivery within the expectations of our customer, regarding quality and relevance of content, realisable benefits, elapsed time and cost,"
In South Africa, TopTier has already been sold and implemented into the heavy engineering and freight forwarding market segments, where it has astounded the individuals who have been exposed to it.
Ford adds "It`s ease of use (Just `Point, Click, Drag and Drop` sequence), time to train (Measured in a few hours, for end users!), time to install and implement (In action and effective within days to a couple of weeks - depending on portal content volume), has made an immediate and positive impact on our initial customers."
"Our customers are becoming our most effective sales personnel!"
Ford concludes that "Our vision is to make the most use of our unique technology, to allow our customers to not only rise above their competitors, but to create totally fresh and innovative ways of providing new and super efficient methods of delivering products and services to their markets."
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For more information on our product and services, or a complete and detailed white paper on TopTier`s Enterprise Information Portal, including facts on actual case studies to date, please view our website at www.captech.co.za