WebView is an exciting web-based inventory view and edit product with an unprecedented level of customization capability. No one in the industry that we are aware of has such a flexible product as WebView.

Our focus in building WebView is to give virually unlimited control over who sees what, and our advantage derives from our strategic decision to separate the interface view from the database definitions that drive the relationships into your WMS database. Any database that supports SQL (structured query language) can be accessed with this product - Microsoft SQL, MySQL, Access, Oracle, Foxpro - pretty much any database you can think of! You can define what data fields get shown based on who gets to see what data items. This gives you total flexibility on user rights to fields, screens, filters and all the elements comprising the interface. Yet the software remains true to our goal of an uncomplicated design philosophy by separating the interface from the underlying data model. This translates into tremendously faster customization time.

This product can be configured to use your WMS ours in case you don’t currently have one. Our WMS has been deployed in over 300 warehouses and there hasn’t been a warehouse we couldn’t configure using our surprisingly powerful and simple WMS package.

We are very excited about this product and have the passion and commitment to assist you in your choice to embrace a component that will, without question, raise your status among your entire customer base. Let’s take a look at some of the benefits to a web-based inventory system. Note that while third party logistics needs are addressed, any business requiring inventory managment can benefit.

Web-Based: 100%

Benefits:

• Easy Deployment

• Tight Security Model

• High Visibility

• Improved Productivity

A web-native interface offers some critical advantages over the more traditional desktop application. Anyone with a web browser and proper credentials can use your system, but don’t let that scare you! Read on to find out why.

Easy Deployment

Easy deployment is possible because the majority of the programs install onto only one machine; the web server. Your staff never has to worry about configuring new machines or installing special access software for you or your customers. This also means that you can concentrate your buying power on one machine when your business grows, driving down ongoing hardware maintenance costs.

Tight Security Model

Your security worries are greatly reduced because we properly implement security on three fronts:

• Login Security

• Data Security

• Program Execution Security

Login Security means that users can only access the application when up to three layers of authentication are met:
A correct login and password are given.
A user id key is found. It can reside on a CD or on the physical machine.
The user is authenticated under Windows Authentication.

Data Security means that users cannot access your data directly…ever! This may come as a surprise when there’s so much news about hacking into people’s systems that reside on the net. We have ensured that no one, including your users and customers, are ever allowed access to your data; they only see a graphical representation of the data served up in a web browser. The application writes new or changed information back to the server. This does you one better than client-server systems, which by design, requires users to have certain rights into your database server so that data can be updated. Rock-solid security is one reason why web-enabled applications are becoming so popular. Users have no rights, no access, and no way into your data except what we allow them to change in our program

Program Execution Security means that the program cannot hang up the server or interfere with other running programs on your server, making it “server-safe.” Why? We chose to write our system using Microsoft’s next generation .NET platform, allowing us to write much safer applications. This product is driven 100% by Microsoft tools, ensuring that your investment is safe with a proven software leader.

Your IT department is welcome to learn more about this exciting broad-reaching technology.

High Visibility

Because WebView limits what each user sees and does, it gives you peace of mind while giving them what they want – access to their information. When your users are your own customers, this helps improve customer perception by allowing them a controlled way to interact with their inventory. With features such as email triggers based on a certain process completion and color-coding orders your customers entered, you'll want the higher visibility to add to your professional image.

Improved Productivity

Allowing people access to their own inventory and reporting tool reduces call traffic, which increases your staff's productivity while decreasing delays to your customers in the form of critical information they request. Because the system opens and closes access as precisely as a surgical instrument, and because almost everyone has a browser, you can redefine some of your more redundant in-house processes through this system, thereby streamlining your tasks.

System load can be managed centrally in your IT department. They can perform simple memory and CPU upgrades to your server, and they can even separate web processing from data processing using two servers, when demand exceeds your hardware resources. Further scalability can be achieved by using Microsoft SQL Server, which can subdivide the database among several database servers.

Enterprise-class facilities with hundreds of users can certainly benefit from the system scalability inherent in this design.

Adaptable Software

Inexpensive software comes with a hidden price: the cost of modifying all that code to fit your business model. The better inventory management systems plan for customization in the key areas that users typically request. The best systems allow for customization in a simple, standard way to ensure the most stable, cost-effective methods to give your exactly what you need. Since inventory operations vary on a number of contexts, we capitalize on that by ensuring that WebView can similarly vary on these same contexts. These include:

• your individual facilities

• groups of users

• individual users

• customers

• inventory product categories

• inventory product items

WebView capitalizes on context and uses it at every level in the system to dynamically adapt based on who's the viewer and what type of information they are viewing. This expedites the inevitable customizations process that is needed in these areas to match your unique business processes. About 80% of customizations occur in these areas, for which WebView is well-suited. consequently your time-to-delivery (and cost) is substantially reduced

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Flexibility

WebView represents a small class of products that break previously held beliefs and conceptions about what is possible. You might even consider it a bit revolutionary! It is important that the software you choose to both view and edit your inventory can adapt to fit your business needs exactly. One product, one central resource, yet each group of people who use it see the slice from the perspective that makes the most sense to them. And when they view certain data, they view it from the perspective that makes the most sense for that type of data. Everyone benefits.

Friendly, Rich Application Look and Feel

Let's take searching. For your standard web product - type in your search data, hit the “Submit” button (submit to whom?), and hope to see your data, never mind how to navigate it. For Webview - type what you are after...just start typing, and it brings you to the row most closely matching your request. Or you can locate a column and type a few characters underneath its heading in our Matchbox window, and the relavent data appears immediately. You get a smooth, easy interface that everyone can enjoy using.

Matches Your Business Needs

Targeting specific customer service needs and customer needs means more business for you. Our advantage is how we accomplish this. We can change what is seen, and what can be done, not just based on who’s using the system, but on what data they are looking at, such as what customer, what product group, what item, what warehouse it resides in. Other vendors do allow some level of content-matching appropriate to the viewer, but in order to tightly couple your exact business needs to the data being viewed, they will require custom coding, which a) is expensive, b) non-standard, and c) makes upgrading more difficult. The level of business process matching our software can be configured to do, out of the box, is unrivaled in the supply chain industry.

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