Sample Registration Application

Sample Product Directory Application

Everyone's been talking about using the Internet as an information store, but until recently information retrieval via the Net has been a static process: Visitors to a Web site view preconstructed Web pages, whose contents don't change until someone manually updates them.

But what if your application involves masses of information, and each visitor to your Web site wants to see a small slice of that information? Do you pre-create thousands of Web pages, each with a view of a different slice? Or is there a better way?

New tools now allow the construction of dynamic Web pages: Each visitor can interact with your Web site to produce a display created on the fly. With this capability, intriguing possibilities arise:

• Conference and trade show registration can occur on line: Visitors can fill in a registration form and receive instant feedback on their registration, both on-line and via email. They can also access ancillary services, such as hotel registration, and can alter their registration data on-line if you allow them to. The advantage to them: Instant accessibility to services. The advantage to you: Painless capture of key data in an ODBC-compliant database, immediately ready for additional back-office processing. To check out an example application, click at left.

• Directory updating can also occur on line. If you maintain a directory of products or services that must be updated regularly, you know how difficult the task can be. Whether the data is internal to your firm or belongs to many different firms, the task of getting each record periodically "refreshed" can be daunting. Doing the process on line reduces potential headaches by a tremendous factor. To check out an example application, click at left.

• Catalog querying becomes totally interactive. If your key product data already resides in an ODBC-compliant database, we can construct an internet front end that allows potential customers to zero in on precisely the subset of that data in which they're interested. (And if you don't have a database, we can first specify and build one for you.) After viewing that data set, they can (if you wish) order directly on-line. Or they can request additional information, which the querying process can automatically email to them. And ultimately, they can also (if you wish) query the status of existing orders. Advantage: Potential customers see precisely what they need -- no more, no less. And you service their needs much more efficiently than you would by responding to their queries with preprinted data sheets and postal mail.