Mid-range Business Management Systems (BMS) vendor, Tetra Software, has added additional firepower to its BMS offerings with the addition of two new business software applications that make them one of the first BMS vendors to sell and trade over the World Wide Web.
The company has made a substantial financial investment and spent two years developing a new web initiative with the launch of Internet Order Taking Application(IOTA) - a software application that allows clients to place orders on companies on-line - and The Web Client, an application that makes its flagship package, Tetra CS/3, available over the Web as a packaged solution for the first time.
"This," said Mark Greatrex, Vice President Product Development at Tetra Software SA`s holding company, Tetra plc, "opens a whole new dimension for Tetra as one of the world`s leading mid-ranged BMS vendors - and for the BMS industry as a whole."
IOTA, one of the two new web-based initiatives - which allows the company`s implementation partners or clients to place an order in real-time on the web - was launched locally by Greatrex on a recent visit to the company`s SA subsidiary, Tetra Software SA.
"IOTA - which utilizes Informix, Oracle and SQL Server databases - is one of the first solutions of its kind in the BMS industry," said Greatrex. It allows our clients to enable their clients to place orders via the web for their product and services.
"The enquirer is able to place an order, in real-time, via the web, as well as receiving confirmation of his order electronically.
IOTA," said Greatrex, "is fully interactive and is developed for fully-fledged business-to-business e-commerce trading."
The obvious advantages are speed, ease of use, accuracy and convenience. "We believe this adds value to our product and service offerings and makes it easier for companies and implementation partners to do business with us - and with our clients. Besides placing orders companies are able to query the status of orders, do stock and price checks, as well as receive regular information updates of a company`s services and products.
"We are one of the first mid-range BMS vendors to enable businesses to order BMS system implementations or solutions on-line," said Greatrex.
The second new web initiative is The Web Client, a new business software application that makes Tetra the first mid-range BMS vendor in the world to make its flagship BMS solutions available on the Internet as a packaged solution.
This new solution cuts out an enormous amount of hardware and software spend that one would normally associate with the implementation and running of a fully-fledged BMS solution. This is because The Web Client can run off a single Web server, allowing full inter-branch connectivity.
One of the fundamental requirements is that the client is running an industry-recognized database, such as Informix, Oracle or Microsoft`s SQL Server.
The Web Client allows the user to run Tetra CS/3 on its Intranet without any degradation in flexibility or speed.
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Tetra, one of the worlds`s leading mid-range BMS vendors, boasts more than 8 000 sites around the world, has 13 offices, more than 300 employees and more than 60 reseller partners.
The company`s flagship product, Tetra CS/3, is a functionally rich mid-range BMS solution. Its configurability enables users to avoid nwanted complexity. It is business critical software which, hanks to its `ease-of-upgrade` enables the company`s clients to dopt new technologies while minimizing disruption to their usinesses and avoiding extensive re-training of users.
Because the product circumvents unwanted complexity by focusing on peed of implementation and ease of use, Tetra sets out to ensure hat its customers benefit from a rapid return on their investments.
After `going live` the design of Tetra CS/3 provides low cost of wnership, avoiding large, costly IT departments and facilitating pgrades.