It's a plain fact: Entrepreneurs need a handle on technology--everything from hardware and networking to executing transactions in cyberspace. The following glossary of terms, care of O'Reilly Media, aims to give entrepreneurs and their non-tech employees the vocabulary to make smart technology decisions and purchases, communicate more effectively with in- house information technology staff and, ultimately, please their customers.
e-Commerce Services
eCommerce Design
Welcome to the eCommerce revolution. More than 750 million consumers are on-line, over 1.6 trillion dollars was spent last year and in three years on-line sales will quadruple. With statistics like these, is your company ready to take advantage of this phenomenal growth?
Whether your organization has already started an eCommerce initiative or is just getting its feet wet, Sousmar 2.0 can help you assess what is most appropriate for your situation and create a plan of action. We will work with you to create a game plan to help your firm best utilize web technology to achieve its goals. These goals depend on the individual company, but may include cutting costs, increasing efficiency, enhancing revenue, driving growth, or pursuing other objectives.
Our eCommerce services take a broad view of the possible uses of web technology in helping a business integrate the advantages and address the possible threats of web technology as part of its overall business strategy.
A shopping cart is a software component that presents a company's online products for sale. A simple shopping cart allows the purveyor to upload their product information (name, price, description, etc.) and enables web surfers to select items for later check-out.
For customers with advanced requirements from their shopping cart, Sousmar 2.0 can develop a custom shopping cart solution tailored to specification. For clients with simpler needs, we can customize and configure an off-the-shelf shopping cart product.
A merchant account allows a business to accept credit card and other forms of payment online. Sousmar 2.0 is well versed with integrating a wide variety of merchant accounts and payment gateway software systems.
An SSL or Secure Sockets Layer certificate is a protocol that allows the transmission of sensitive data over the Internet. SSL certificates are commonly used when sending credit card and other financial information. If an individual were to intercept SSL encrypted data en route to its destination, the data would look like gibberish. Sousmar 2.0 is very experienced at integrating SSL certificates from a wide variety of vendors such as Verisign, Thawte. In addition, Sousmar 2.0 will analyze your web server and operating system for common holes that hackers could potentially exploit.
