?According to brief description of your system, we think that its functioning is the same as the functioning of our sub-system Oracle E-Business Suite ? iStore?.? (Quoted out of the reply from Oracle)
There is a great difference between the terms ?TO POSSESS INFORMATION? and ?TO USE THE INFORMATION, YOU POSSESS?. This difference is obvious for businessmen and for the management. The programmers do not see it. The task of a programmer (Oracle, SAP, and Columbus) is to provide you with the maximum amount of information. It doesn?t matter that you don?t need most of it. They do not care how you will be processing this information. They do not know that the information is to be filtered and compared to other information (like various pricelists and brands for example). And you should be able to compare it as fast as possible, because you?ve got a great amount of consumers and suppliers.
Finally, the businessmen have to pick the needed information up manually. And they have to compare the assortment manually ? one item by one - which takes a lot of time. (When starting Axapta in ?Technosila? it didn?t contain any filters at all). This problem is common for all the developers of corporate systems, where all the staff consists of programmers and there are no businessmen to consult them. (including SAP, Oracle, Columbus). This is an irretrievable mistake.

The businessman should be able to obtain minimum of information about the state of the market, which should be short and valuable. It will help a businessman to make the most effective decisions (maximum profits with minimum risks and losses). This should be provided by your corporate system. And this is already provided by my corporate system. I am a businessman and I provided it with maximum of commercial possibilities forward.

That is why neither of the programmers from SAP, Oracle or Columbus will be able to make a similar system. But they will be able to copy it (if we have a deal).

What about the sub-system Oracle E-Business Suite ? iStore? That is a pure VIRTUAL programmer?s meccano. Unlike my system, it cannot be visually demonstrated to a businessman or a manager. In theory, it allows to hold many e-shops and obtain a big amount of information. But it has no idea about how to process this information (this option is not provided by the programmers). It is IMPOSSIBLE to add any commercial possibilities to these meccanos. (Technosila and Eldorado are still trying). So it happens that all the required information goes directly to the garbage. It can?t be used without processing, and the processing is not provided by the programmers.

Please visit http://pavel.ubicon.ru/ or detailed comparative description of my system.

Yours respectfully, Pavel Karpov (general director and the developer of http://www.technobazar.ru/ ) (tel. 985 766 67 87)

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