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Last Update : June 7, 2011
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“The commercial playing field has opened up to more people in more places on
more days in more ways than anything like it ever before in the history of the
world. This is what I mean when I say the world has been flattened ... creating
this new global playing field for multiple forms of collaboration.” |
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– Tom Friedman |
The World is Flat: - A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century
Collaborative network as an association between communicating nodes makes a
significant difference when the entire process is carried out to advance
capacities and strategic values of available computing resources. Collaborative
networks can be utilized to meet industry challenges in order to build trust and
accelerate processes with rich and reliable communication. The benefits of
collaborative networks are manifold. Access to content, real time working on a
process, user generated content, reduced data assimilation cost, live connection
with people, facilitation of innovation, active monitoring, control panel for
managing distributive tasks etc.
THE NEW BUSINESS CULTURE
The recent times have spawned a new business culture, the one without boundaries
and now it is possible for people in one part of the world to sell goods to
other parts of the world without spending a penny on setting up a physical
showroom or recruiting a global sales force.
CONVENIENT AND REMOTE BUSINESS TRANSACTIONS
Even though, the brick and mortar model of business continues to flourish in the
form of hyper marts, entertainment complexes, trade shows, etc, simultaneously
a silent revolution is taking place wherein people need not travel physically to
remote locations for promoting their business. Business can now be transacted
with a click of the mouse. Though the birth of ecommerce took place sometime back,
its significance in the form of cutting costs across the enterprise has been
realized quite recently.
B2B COLLABORATIONS, GONE VIRTUAL
Business to Business collaborations have gone virtual; leading to the demise of
the fax machine and tons of paperwork. Information is now available on the fly
and on request anytime, anywhere. It is estimated that US online retail sales
business would reach above $250 billion mark in the next few years. It is also
predicted that in the near future UK’s online sales will reach a quadruple mark
as compared to the past and the net global online trade is fast approaching the
trillion dollar mark.
SOFTWARE AS A COLLABORATIVE MEDIUM
Industry watchers predict that by the turn of this century almost all forms
of collaboration would be done via a software or using online process. This
would save a company millions of dollar in travel, infrastructure and promotion
cost. An explosion of new collaborative tools is taking place with almost all
major software vendors bringing out multiple versions of Business to Business
and Business to Client tools. This is leading to diversification of sources and
duplication of efforts which can be avoided.
USING SOA TO CHANGE THE WAY WE DO BUSINESS
We at NetAlter Software Limited (NSL) have realized the importance of the
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) model in bringing about a profound change in
the way we do business. It aims to leverage existing internet wide technologies
in saving social as well as business cost to millions of users and thousands of
organizations.
ACTIVE COLLABORATION
One way NetAlter System plans to execute this is by introducing innovative ideas
in connecting people, devices and business functions in a secured and trusted
global network; one which promotes active collaboration and encourages
development of similar models.
Simplifying Business Collaboration
Business collaboration is a very complex procedure and the aim of NetAlter
System is to simplify this. For this the NetAlter System would offer the
following functionality;
- P2P Information Discovery: Peer to Peer dynamic discovery of information
including business and product listing
- Maintenance of Unique Identity: Unique identity for individuals and
organizations and publication of their detailed and accurate metadata background
information
- Integrated Artificial Intelligent Search: Integrated Artificial
Intelligent Search will
enable speedy retrieval of relevant and current information thus saving enormous
amount of time on online research. This is made possible as in NetAlter System
information is stored in database format and categorized in clusters on the
basis of ontological and taxonomical classification.
- Intellectual Property Protection: More robust protection of Intellectual
Property by enabling comprehensive auditing of usage of products and services.
- SOA Deployment: Deployment of Service Oriented Architecture for seamless
interaction between heterogeneous software and business models.
- Client Applications as Web Services: Availability of Thin/Smart/Rich
Client applications in the form of web services which are available on demand.
- Software Module Verification: Verification of all software modules as
free from malicious code or content by implementing internet wide application of
highly encrypted product and package keys.
- Communication Tools Integration: Implementation of integrated communication tool such as
Email, Messaging, VoIP, Online Audio/Video Conferencing, etc. can be administered at the enterprise level.
- Client-to-Client Virtual Network: Form virtual network with your
clients, dealers, agents and vendors without installing and
implementing expensive, enterprise level business software. The NetAlter Service
Browser is available free to individual users and business users to deploy user
specific modules on more user friendly and cost effective license fees.
- Developer-to-Developer Collaborative Network: Developers can collaborate
with other developers and offer solutions directly to NetAlter subscribers by
using multiple types of license models.
- Organized form of Cyberspace: NetAlter would bring a more organized form of
internet to make available businesses an avenue for targeted advertising and
promotions thus offering a faster return on their investment.
- Trusted Business Platform: A virus free and spam free environment is a
trusted platform that business can depend on without worrying about non
availability of resources or information due to malicious intent.
- Democratic Supercomputing Grid: Implementation of democratic
Supercomputing Grid based on idle processing time of their employee's computers will
allow businesses who spend an enormous amount of monies on research to leverage
this facility for their R&D labs. Companies can sell or barter unused Grid CPU
cycles to other companies.
NetAlter would enable organizations to pool their IT resources so that it is available to everyone within the organization; thus saving cost both in terms of new purchases and maintenance of new systems.
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