Having a functional and effective website in place is the first step in harnessing the power of technology and the internet. The next, most necessary step is to assess whether the website is assisting its users, who may be dealers, distributors, collaborators, or customers, interface efficiently with the main company or organization. This step is the vital link in utilizing a website optimally by taking it beyond its premise of providing information into a dynamic product. Website's can and should be able to grow businesses, expand network and access and ultimately go a step beyond marketing to actually generating revenue.

CSI offers a range of web application solutions to provide the same.

E-COMMERCE ENABLEMENT

The internet has the potential to add a new dimension to businesses and therefore to sales. This potential goes beyond the need to expand resources by investing in manpower or infrastructure. Website's can be enabled with e-commerce and/or e-business functionality, which work to conduct business efficiently and swiftly by using the internet as a seamless platform.

Customers are then empowered with the ability to order and purchase products off the website, armed with comprehensive information about the products. To cater to some pre-existing perceptions of web-based transactions not being as safe due to unknown source verification, CSI provide the latest software encryption technologies such as 128-bit Secure Socket Layer (SSL) and global standards-based credit card processing systems.

CSI offers you all the requisite elements to make your website e-commerce enabled. These include:

• Development of Product/Services E-catalogs
• Shopping Cart Development
• Secure Payment Gateway Integration
• Order Placement and Confirmation
• Shipment and Delivery Status
• Inventory Tracking and Management
• Shopping Alerts through e-mail or SMS
• DATABASE-RELATED; Collection & Querying

This is yet another application functionality that would be of immense use for your business. Integrating your website with a back-end database can help in offering a spate of value-added services to your visitors, customers, business partners etc. Be it in terms of specific queries demanded by your target audience or then collection of vital visitor-related information - all this is possible through database integration. Data collected from visitors can be coded and sorted to suit specific business needs - for example, demographic and psychographic profiles of your visitors, buyer interest, buying propensity etc. Thus data collected can be translated into actionable business information.

If on the other hand, you are an entity that offers directory-based information services, or a company whose products or services require detailed trouble-shooting or FAQ support, then database integration is absolutely vital to your website.

CSI has the required experience, expertise and skill-sets for developing, maintaining and updating your database - be it any of the universally used packages and programming environments including MySQL, Oracle, PHP, ASP etc.

DATABASE-RELATED; Collection & Querying

This application works by integrating the website with back-end database that can help in offering a spate of value-added services to your visitors, customers, business partners etc. From specific queries demanded by your target audience to the collection of vital visitor-related information; all this is possible through database integration. Data collected from visitors can be coded and sorted to suit specific business needs; for instance, demographic and psychographic profiles of your visitors, buyer interest profiles, buying propensity records etc. The collected data then become a rich source that can be translated into actionable business information.

On the other hand, if you are an entity that offers directory-based information services, or a company whose products or services require detailed trouble-shooting or FAQ support, database integration is absolutely vital and all the more essential to your website.

CSI has the required experience and expertise for developing, maintaining and updating your database. These include the universally used packages and programming environments including MySQL, Oracle, PHP, ASP etc.

Key Benefits

• Customer Profile
• Customer Tracking
• Directory Services
• Data Collection
• Querying