The Internet-Enabled AdSystem
Connect your distributed offices and computers via the Internet.
The Virtual Enterprise
In today's business environment, companies are no
longer confined to a single corporate office. The virtual enterprise
uses phones, email, voice mail, cellular phones, fax machines and
computers to distribute employees to locations where they work best.
Until now, connecting these off-site computers to the
home office's advertising information system has required expensive
dedicated lines or long-distance dial up connections. AdSystem with the
AdContact IP option offers an inexpensive alternative; connecting your
distributed computers via the Internet.
The Internet is your Virtual Private Network
AdContact IP allows you to use the Internet as your
own virtual private network, providing access to your advertising
database to sales reps and employees in remote locations. Using
AdContact IP your offsite sales reps and offices can connect to the
company's advertising information system using an inexpensive Internet
connection.
They'll be able to call up accounts, check the status
of contracts and insertion orders and log their phone calls and
contacts. They can check their daily reminders and enter new customers
and prospects. They can submit orders. They can view sales reports, run
sheets, invoices and payments, subject to the user privileges you have
defined in AdSystem.
Platform Independence
Because AdContact IP is browser-based, any computer
with a compatible browser can access the data. Your offsite reps can be
using PC's or Macintoshes to access your system.
Real Time Data Entry
All database transactions occur in real time. There is
no synchronization delay such as you would find with a replicated
database. This means that all changes appear instantly in the company's
database and are available to all users on the network.
Distributed Data and Central Control
AdContact IP offers your company better control of
valuable information. By maintaining your database in the home office
you can control who has access to the information and ensure that it is
backed up regularly. There is no fear of losing valuable information
because somebody's laptop computer is misplaced or stolen.
Security
AdContact IP offers built-in security to ensure that
your valuable data isn't subject to attacks by hackers. All users of
AdContact IP are subject to a login that checks their user name against
the users you have defined in AdSystem. This user name determines the
information that can be viewed and changed by the user. In addition to
this built-in security, you can secure the web server hosting AdContact
IP and determine which users can access the data and whether additional
passwords are required.