Ironside introduces Ironside Quick Start, a rapidly deployable e-commerce solution - New Products - Product Announcement

Information Superhighways Newsletter, Feb, 2002

Ironside Technologies Inc., a provider of supplier-focused business-to-business e-commerce solutions for the manufacturing and distribution markets, announced the availability of Ironside Quick Start, an easy-to-deploy, low-cost, real-time order management solution for organizations looking for immediate e-commerce results. With an implementation cycle of days, not months, Ironside Quick Start offers a powerful B2B e-commerce solution that provides a clear upgrade path to Ironside's fully integrated product suites.

Ironside Quick Start features robust customer facing applications such as order entry, order status, product inquiry, and advanced features such as product information and searching, customer item restrictions, customer specific pricing, product alert messages, user maintained passwords, advertising banners and browser applications. The Ironside Quick Start system also provides key internal facing applications: order update that allows a business to update order fulfillment information; sales rep order entry that helps with customer selection; and customization abilities that help manage user profiles, support browser applications and logo, and allow currency and language choices.

Operating on a Windows 2000 server, Ironside Quick Start also facilitates import, export and maintenance routines for the upload, storage and retrieval of customers, products, pricing and orders data via an intuitive, easy-to-use administrative console. These routines minimize the maintenance requirements of the system and enable mass updates through the use of industry standard utilities such as Microsoft Excel. Ironside Quick Start is an ideal solution for organizations that want an Internet-based ordering system for their customers.

The Ironside Solution offers a modular set of suites that include order management, marketing, content management, logistics, customer service, vendor management and finance suites. The suites automate key business processes and enable suppliers to connect to upstream trading partners with direct, real-time integration via browsers, wireless devices, e-marketplaces, e-procurement systems and now any trading partner's enterprise system.