(Left) Angkor Wat The epitome of Khmer architecture, Angkor Wat was the greatest Angkor temple built by Suryavarman II in the 12 century. At its height, Angkor Thom (the city of Angkor) had over a million residents. It was, however, without adequate defensive structure, and depended solely on its army for protection. When the might of Angkor waned, the Siamese (now Thailand) invaded and took the city in the 15 century. The city was completely abandoned within a year, to be reclaimed by the jungle. Its people dispersed into the surrounding area.

Misguided dependency on a single solution guarantees its crumble. A good IT solution takes into consideration the defensive frameworks, network infrastructure, servers capacity, and finally, the solution itself.

	What we provide...	What it is...
	Information Architecture	The underlying framework of a solution derived from client's existing business process, may entail integration with legacy hardware and/or software
	Purpose-built Software	Customization of an existing program or complete software development from the ground up, for the purpose of fulfilling one or more specific needs
	Advanced Networking	Linking multiple branches in geographically different area with or without wires
	Fault-Tolerant Server	Seperate functionality of a server to provide optimal performance and reliability by load-balancing and clusterizing
	High Availability Data Storage	Reliably and speedily obtained data that are automatically backup or replicated locally or regionally
	Rich media Presentation	Packaging of information that are delivered digitally from web site, corporate profile CD-ROM, press kit, digital name card

Information Architect

For the sake of simplicity, if we can consider the audience of your business to comprise of your suppliers, your staffs, you customers, all of whom we will generically refer to as "users", then it can be said that there are two sides to a viable business: the business (purple) and the users (green). Between the two is your process, your facade, the interaction pane, or -- in an increasing computerized world -- your computer system (blue).

Good Architecture

A good software architecture is the foundation of a software that works for you, with a clear structure and componentized functionality that meet your immediate need, while retaining flexibility to grow with you.

With multiple point-of-entry, multiple delivery platforms (PDAs, desktop PCs, notebook PCs, remote PCs), a smooth interface that allows your audience and your business to interact effectively.

As illustrated by the figure on the right, there are multiple paths (black triangles) your users can take to reach you:

An internal finance department user may interact with your business via the finance section (left-most blue panel), which provides 10 functions (green cylinders).

Your sales & marketing user may interact with your business through the center panel, which provides only 7 functions, and those functions may or may not be the same as what the finance user sees.

You may also wish to provide your customer user with direct access to certain part of your business information, such as stock availability or shipping status.

Poor Architecture

In comparison, a defective software is one that has illogical layout, confusing interaction points, intertwined code with insufficient room to grow.

Now your user is confused. Does he or she interact with your business as an accountant or salesperson? Can the same function be accessible by everybody, but becomes restricted depending on the user type?

Can she or he switch role half way through?

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Purpose-built Software

We don't just build software that track your inventory, products, transactions with customers, suppliers, manufacturing resources; we built them for a purpose: to suit your day-to-day operation, not the other way around.

Better still, since the software is built to your specification, its flow will largely mirror an existing operation which your users are already familiar with, thus minimizing your training cost.

We derive our solution to your business problem by compartmentizing the requirements into categories, and deduce a set of functions to perform one or more specific tasks that allow your business and your users to interact more effectively.   TOP

Advanced Networking

Rich media Presentation

The use of multimedia is about effective communication. We can help you build a simple web presence, a full transactional ebusiness system, online (Internet dynamic HTML or Flash-based) or offline (CD-ROM based) corporate presentation for share holders.

Take something as simple as this web page you are currently reading. How long does it take to for this page to load? Does it serve the purpose it was designed for? Most users are still connecting to the internet at 56kbps or less. If a page takes longer than 10 seconds to load, it is ineffective. If it takes more than 30 seconds, it is practically useless.

If you already have a web site, you may want to try our content streamlining process, where we can dramatically speed up your users access to your site.

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Firewalls,
Routers,
Switches