SouthWare NetLink™

Browser Interface to your SouthWare® System

Link Your Business to the World of E-Business

Intrigued by the Internet but aren't sure if it's profitable for your business to get "on-line"? Would you be interested in a way you can easily allow your customers, vendors, employees, and other business partners to use Internet technology to see data and submit data to your business in a safeguarded manner?

With SouthWare NetLink™, that's what you get! SouthWare NetLink is a revolutionary tool that lets you provide simple and controlled browser-based network access to your company data files. It can be used for Internet, intranet, and extranet applications.

Many businesses today are wrestling with the concept of doing business over the Internet. E-commerce (receiving sales orders) is one application that can make sense in this environment. But the larger concept of E-business has much more potential value to most businesses. For example, if your customers could not only submit orders but could quickly check account balances, check status of orders, submit service requests, review product history, report changes of address, request product literature, and many similar functions in a "self-serve" environment, you could strengthen your relationship with them and lower costs at the same time. And you may give similar options to your suppliers, employees, and others.

SouthWare NetLink™; works with existing technology in the SouthWare Excellence Series™; to provide a comprehensive e-business solution. You may easily publish any of your business data to authorized users and receive data back from them that is validated before updating your files. You can customize every aspect of your e-business site, and there are many features you can customize yourself without hiring expensive help.

Your Business Gets the Best of Two Worlds:

Since NetLink is tightly integrated with the SouthWare Excellence Series™ you can get the best of the two computer worlds:

For high-volume processing of business information you get the power, speed, control, and built-in sophistication of SouthWare's mature business applications running on your internal system. Your day-to-day work is not hindered by the limitations of browser-based access.

You and your partners can use Web browsers to access selected data and send data to be updated using the "stateless" transaction-based mode of intranets and the Internet. You are working with the same data file formats as the standard applications, so your data can be on-line if you wish.

Key Features:

Easy Set UP

  • Works "out of the box" for SouthWare users
  • Works with standard SouthWare data files

Flexible Server Configuration

  • Portable to any Server that supports CGI
  • User-defined directory structure
  • Allows live or off-line data
  • Supports single or multiple company files

Comprehensive Order Entry Function

  • Order shopping cart is saved until order si submitted
  • Provides defaults and pricing per customer
  • Catalog lookup
  • Easy add/change/delete of line items
  • Numerous options to show item pictures, notes, and discount from List Price
  • Optionally supports SSL encryption for secure transmission of data

Data Extract via SouthWare ReportMate™

  • Any data available in ReportMate may be included in a request
  • Option for browser table formatting


Controlled Data Access

  • Valid requester logins
  • Security masking per requester and request
  • Data access limited to fields you include in a request - no - free-format data requests
  • Session info links each request to a valid requester login
  • Automatic Time Out for sessions
  • Optional Logoff function

Unlimited Customizable Request Types

  • Numerous pre-defined requests
  • Option to create requests for any data or requester type
  • Customizable HTML templates provide "look" for each request page - easily edited via HTML editor or text editor.
  • Numerous standard variables and unlimited user-defined variables to extract data

Data Input via SouthWare ImportMate II™

  • Receive form data as importable data files
  • Validation to ensure data integrity
  • Allows interactive or batch (off-line) update

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