RE: E-commerce Architecture

Joel.

While I agree with you while we speak of pure AS/400 deployment, I don't
agree with the original question since the outsourcing will no doubt take
place on a PC with an SQL DB running cold fusion.  There is no easy way to
integrate that.

Which is why I suggest sticking with the things that you are familiar with,
and learning what else the AS/400 can do for you (ie web serving).

I have too many examples of projects that went bad to believe anything else.

Brad


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joel Fritz [mailto:JFritz@sharperimage.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2000 11:20 AM
> To: 'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'
> Subject: RE: E-commerce Architecture
> 
> 
> I don't think outsourcing has to work that way.  If it's clear who is
> providing a service to whom and who is _paying_ for the 
> service, you should
> be able to make it work reasonably well--no worse than interfacing to
> packaged software.  In our case the packaged software happens 
> to be the
> order entry system we developed in house.  With on line 
> ordering you're
> always at the mercy of people being able to key in amazingly 
> odd stuff, but
> "trained" order entry people can usually find ways to beat 
> your validation
> scheme too.  
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Reger, Bill [mailto:breger@levitz.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2000 7:46 AM
> > To: 'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'
> > Subject: RE: E-commerce Architecture
> > 
> > 
> > Brad,
> > 
> > I find your E-commerce experiences frightening!  We were 
> > thinking that we
> > would be giving our requirements to the outsource group and 
> > they would work
> > with us to design mutually beneficial interface layouts ... 
> > layouts that
> > they could happily provide, and interfaces that would give us 
> > the discrete
> > data we need.
> > 
> > By the way, we are definitely planning to incorporate the 
> > sending back of
> > order status information to our customers.  Customer service 
> > to me is THE
> > number one benefit that the web will provide (besides the possible
> > revenue!).
> > 
> > If I'm understanding you're experiences correctly, we won't 
> > have the chance
> > to influence the outsource group to work with us?  Am I 
> > getting this right?
> > Frightening!
> > 
> > Bill
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