Foundation's perspective on eBusiness integration: value via enhanced communication and collaboration.

The opportunity

A world of opportunities has just begun to open via the Internet, and will reach out dramatically from where it stands today. Potential customers who may barely decipher the language on your website, still recognize your logo, trust your brand name and reputation, and are looking to the web as the means to do business with you.

The challenge

At the same time, the web has created electronic gateways through all enterprises traditional sale territories, and business-as-usual will simply add up to opportunities lost.

Foundation recognizes the enormity of these challenges, as pivotal as the introduction of electronic computing, broadcasting, the telephone and telegraph.

Far more than a new set of solutions for the IT Department, Internet-enabled business practices will bring fundamental changes to every aspect of the organization, redefining your relationships and the value you bring to your customers, suppliers, employees and community.

Just a few years ago, companies were surprised, and forced by competitive pressures, to recognize themselves as a link in a much larger supply chain. And even before they fully responded to that new business environment, along came the Internet.

Almost overnight, the Web became your corporate showcase, redefining your brand power, customer loyalty, supplier relationships and employee expectations. Nor is it just another merchandising storefront any longer. The Web quickly became a primary engine for transaction processing and collaboration, both within the enterprise, and outward to a galaxy of trading partners.

At Foundation, we understand the fundamental power of the Internet as a communications and collaboration medium, and how to use its technology to create strategic opportunities for our clients.

eBusiness integration involves core processes and technologies that extend throughout the enterprise and its trading universe:

Market and brand development, demand analysis and product lifecycle management. Customer-facing initiatives to attract, engage, retain and service market share Supplier collaboration and relationship management.

Manufacturing strategic, tactical and operational planning and deployment, including multi-channel and virtual organizations.

Order fulfillment, distribution and logistics planning and execution.

Financial management, including enterprise performance management, within the organization and externally among its exchange partners.

Human resources solutions, including personnel administration, employee self service, continual training and empowerment.

eBusiness integration encompasses an entire spectrum of:

Foundation offers extensive experience in these key technologies and their underlying computing environments. We can help you develop and enhance a fundamental eBusiness strategy, implement it rapidly, and integrate it with core legacy assets.

Your eBusiness initiative defines how your organization faces the world, and how it faces you. Let us contribute our experience and commitment to success to your advantage.

eIntegration Services: Connecting the Enterprise

With the explosive growth of the Internet, the IT Manager has been faced with more choices, and more complexity, than in all previous generations of distributed computing technology:

• Demands for real-time data retrieval and recording.
• Duplicate, redundant database management for web transactions.
• Dynamic swings in traffic volume management and load balancing requirements.
• Complex integration data connectivity between disparate ERP systems among trading partners.
• On the fly foreign language, customs processing and currency conversions

Stringent demands for scalability, reliability, portability and security.

New open cross platform standards for eCommerce:

OBI, EDIINT, BusinessTalk etc.

Legions of new choices for middleware, messaging, data warehousing, networks, web & mail servers, OLAP, automated workflow and more.

Foundation keeps you ahead of the Enterprise Application integration curve by making the investment in emerging technologies for you. By continually retraining our technical analysts in web-based applications, interface and database solutions, and partnering with key web-based application, database, messaging and integration developers, we free your resources for mission-specific responsibilities.

Foundation provides full design, development, testing, documentation and ongoing support services including:

• system and infrastructure design
• capacity planning
• hardware selection; logistics architecture
• data migration; co-location planning
• transaction processing; load balancing
• security design
• Oracle, Sybase, Informix database administration