WEBLAND - Your Roadmap to E Commerce Success
E-Commerce has evolved from consumers conducting basic transactions on the Web, to a complete retooling of the way partners, suppliers and customers transact. Now you can link dealers and suppliers online, reducing both lag time and paperwork. You can move procurement online by setting up an extranet that links directly to vendors, cutting inventory carrying costs and becoming more responsive to your customers. You can streamline your financial relationships with customers and suppliers by Web-enabling billing and payment systems.
Business Services/ Technology Management
Webland professionals will review your current network and workstation set-up and provide you with the neccessary tool to begin the proccess. The first steps in crafting a plan are assessing current network requirements and considering how your business will change over time. Webland provides:
Significant reduction in current cost of maintaining IT infrastructure
Improvement of current IT service levels
Immediate response
Instant solutions
Focus on core business and functions
A guarantee of price, quality, productivity and service
Access to new technologies that enhance business performance
Webland’s partnerships with leading technology vendors
Webland procures hardware and software from Ingram Micro, Tech Data and other leading distributors of computers servers and network gear. Including Dell, IBM, Cisco and Fortinet.
Many Webland customers create online business to augment and grow their existing business. Recent research indicates online commerce will grow at an even faster pace. The worldwide internet population will hit 1.07bn in 2005, according to Computer Industry Almanac, up from 934m in 2004. A boon to business that operate online, this kind of growth creates more opportunities for business that operate online. Researchers expect e-commerce in America to grow 14% annually through 2010; three to four times faster than the economy. Growth in Europe is predicted to average 33% annually through to 2009.
Improving business-to-business (B2B) infrastructure will power Europe's online trade to €2.2trn ($2.75trn) in 2006, with France , Germany and Britain accounting for almost two-thirds of activity. More stunning: by 2008 China will account for half of all B2B e-commerce in the Asia-Pacific region with total revenues of $1.29trn and a cumulative growth of 81%. India 's growth through to 2008 is even higher, at 83%.
America's growing population of online shopping households, combined with site improvements by retailers, will see business-to-consumer (B2C) e-commerce account for 12% of total retail sales; or $316bn - in 2010 (up from 7% in 2004). Sales of home products, clothing and computer hardware and software will lead the way.
With an evolving search site A9.com (combining the best of Google and Kartoo), Amazon is joining the group of internet superpowers - MSN, eBay, Google and Yahoo! Each strive not just to be portals, search sites or shopping malls, but also places to get anything done online.
The future is online!
Mark Slipp is available for additional information at info@webland.ca |