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Internet
Solutions
If your company is planning to remain competitive into the
next century, it must take advantage of and leverage the Internet
as a primary business tool. From simple e-mail to online transactions
and corporate extranets, the Internet is changing the way
everyone does business. Fountainhead's Internet solutions
include the following:
Website Design
Your company's World Wide Web presence does not have to be
a mirror of its static advertising brochures. Text and graphics
are only the groundwork in designing a Web presence. You see,
the Web is a truly dynamic medium, capable of relaying your
message to the public through sound, video, animation, virtual
reality and many more interactive elements. It is not a static
document that must go back to print when a word, idea, product
or service is changed. It's an active, evolving extension
of your business that adapts to meet your changing needs.
Fountainhead's Web Design solutions can help your small or
medium business tap into new markets, promote new specials,
disseminate press materials, cut communication costs and facilitate
purchase orders. There are at least 20
good reasons to put your business on the Web,
and if you are still not sure why Fountainhead should be your
choice in partners, please
take a look.
E-commerce
E-commerce refers to publishing a Website to market, sell,
or buy goods and services online. It can be as simple as a
static Web site with an e-mail address and company information
so that customers can contact you. It can mean creating an
online catalog with a toll-free telephone number for calling
in orders.
Fountainhead can design more comprehensive complete online
catalogs with the ability not only to receive, but also process
online orders. Complete solutions incorporate similar front-end
features as simple solutions. And they also allow for back-end
processing. We can integrate your online catalog and order
processing with any exportable database.
Routine operations such as tax calculations, inventory management,
and shipping can also be automated. Complete solutions typically
include more design templates, payment methods, reporting
capabilities, cross-selling and up-selling functions, and
integrated database capabilities.
Website Hosting
For those companies who are not ready to host and maintain
their own Website in house, we can do it for you.
Just think of us as your virtual landlord. But instead of
renting expensive office space to house your business, we
rent economical space on our Unix based servers to host your
company's Web site, keeping it operational & open for business
24x7x365.
Our network hosting connectivity consists of one T-3 from
MCI, one T-3 from UUNET, one T-3 from SPRINT and an FDDI connection
to Mae-West in the California HUB. That is plenty of redundancy
and equates to 99% uptime.
E-mail
E-mail allows you and your staff to communicate with each
other and the outside world. Whether it's down the hall or
around the world, email allows you to make quick contact with
the people who are most important to your business.
E-mail can be handled directly through our remote hosting
server or we can set up your email to run on a local mail
server right inside your office. This decision should be based
on budget, number of users and future growth estimates.
Intranets
Think of an Intranet as your own private sector, an internal
Web site protected from any outside visitors. Its sole purpose
is to boost productivity by helping each of your departments
access shared, company sensitive information and internal
E-mail through a friendly browser based interface such as
Netscape or Microsoft Internet Explorer. This takes the guesswork
out of knowing where a server is located or how to access
it.
Intranets can stretch across a single network segment, a building,
or all the offices within your company. Fountainhead can build
your Intranet from the ground floor up, or provide you with
a very cost effective hardware solution to administer it in-house.
Remote Access and Telecommuting
A new model of the workplace is taking shape and your small
or medium business must be prepared. Soon your office will
no longer be contained within a structure. Instead it will
be mobile and the workplace will become any place with an
Internet connection and computer.
Your company must be ready and able to provide remote access
to its mobile employees and telecommuters for data, email
and other network resources.
Key Benefits
- Valuable tool for recruiting and
employee retention.
- Saves office space by providing the
ability to work from home.
- Ability to access internal data from
outside the workplace.
- Boosts employee morale and productivity.
Extranets
Extranets provide your company with an extension of its own
network or a concurrent connection to suppliers, partners,
and key customers. Using the Internet your company can create
secure pathways between its extranet partners, thus, providing
access to specific company information and building closer
business relationships.
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