Jacques,
In my experience, end users don't care so much about the template as
they do about actually just using it.
Shop owners understand the value of attractive shop fronts and routinely
pay experts to revamp and improve them.
This is not the issue.
Reducing overheads is.
The costs of using any tool have to be balanced against the benefits
that tool can bring.
What I'm looking for is a solution to a problem more and more businesses
are currently facing.
Accounting systems, POS systems, ecommerce systems, client contact
systems, warehouse management systems - all legacy systems with
significant investment in staff trained to run them - all costing more
by the minute - all supplied with a vested interest in not talking to
the others.
It's a nightmare in desperate need of some kind of sweet technical fix.
Ian
Jacques Le Roux wrote:
Ian,
Sorry I did not resist to tell this story.
AFAIKR Sage handle the web side but it's a rather poor templating dedicaced to
end-user. I see that as marketing only. The end-user
may change some colors here an there, etc. but at the end he comes with a
rather poor eCommerce site. So it's a sort of appealing
"make it yourself' but wich IMHO finish with something not really usable at
all. On the other end letting end-user doing itself this
part of work is certainly a key of what you are looking for (people like to be
independent, specially businness people). I believe
that with today state of art it's something beyond our reach (at a reasonnable
price I mean).
Client-server architecture is bad when it comes to communicate between at least
2 shops for instance (not even speaking of complex
architectures). Hence they offer batch solutions, not really fancy and not much
reliable too (there are other drawbacks of course,
specially in complex cases).
Jacques
From: "Ian McNulty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
More importantly, Sage's failure to handle the Web side is news to me.
Why is client-server architecture so bad? And how does OFBiz do it better?
Ian
Jacques Le Roux wrote:
Ian,
Sorry I did not resist to tell this story.
AFAIKR Sage handle the web side but it's a rather poor templating dedicaced to
end-user. I see that as marketing only. The end-user
may change some colors here an there, etc. but at the end he comes with a
rather poor eCommerce site. So it's a sort of appealing
"make it yourself' but wich IMHO finish with something not really usable at
all. On the other end letting end-user doing itself this
part of work is certainly a key of what you are looking for (people like to be
independent, specially businness people). I believe
that with today state of art it's something beyond our reach (at a reasonnable
price I mean).
Client-server architecture is bad when it comes to communicate between at least
2 shops for instance (not even speaking of complex
architectures). Hence they offer batch solutions, not really fancy and not much
reliable too (there are other drawbacks of course,
specially in complex cases).
Jacques
From: "Ian McNulty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
More importantly, Sage's failure to handle the Web side is news to me.
Why is client-server architecture so bad? And how does OFBiz do it better?
Ian
