Bill, The customer wants most likely wants us to be able to integrate information via multiple platforms, web based systems, email based systems and satellite communications systems to remote vehicles and locations.
Steve > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bill > Downall > Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 11:19 PM > To: RBASE-L Mailing List > Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Request for input > > > On Wed, 12 Feb 2003 23:01:00 -0500, Steve Breen wrote: > > >We would like to know what the capabilities of your software > >programs are: Primarily R:Base, Oterro and Tango stressing > >integration capabilities. In addition what are its general and major > capabilities. > > Steve, > > What do they mean when they say integration capabilities? That's an > overused word that means lots of different things to lots of > different > people. > > I had a client actually giggling this week over one kind of > integration: > The monstrous DOS applications they have been using for years, and > the smaller Windows applications they have been using for fewer > years, both showed immediately the data that was entered through the > internet by their customers, including credit card payments. (I TOLD > them that's what we were doing, but somehow, seeing it happen still > tickled them.) > > Another R:Tango application is automatically sending and receiving > files from and to big financial institutions (files in such a > format that the > people there still call them "tapes." At least they don't call them > "cards."). R:Tango is "integrated" with an SSL FTP Client, > with lots of > batch processes, with Windows COM objects that help R:Tango > manage incoming and outgoing faxes, with backups, with email. > > You can put ASP code or XML code directly into your R:Tango > application files. > > The total hours of effort we put into such things seem to be way less > than they are used to, from their own programmers and IT departments > working with other products <grin>. > > My next goal is to try to get R:Tango to convince RBG7 to print some > of those incredibly easy PDF file reports, and then have R:Tango > present them to the browser client. Not there yet, but we're working > on it. > > Bill
