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Com China launched its new Web Site |
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Our globalised economy is getting more and more connected, systems and solutions need to be integrated and synchronised with supplier's and customer's systems and solutions. Since communication and integration plays an ever greater role in business reality, the Web 2.0 principles were developed. These principles provide an integrated framework and standardised communication platform, which makes it easy to integrate and exchange data. Com China launched its new web site in September 2007, which was developed applying the Web 2.0 philosophy.
Our new web site is integrated part of Web 2.0, it communicates with various news services and exchanges information with our users. It is developed on basis of the Content Management System Joomla, which provides the framework for Com China specific components and content. The components can be activated based on a defined set of rules according to our requirements. The open architecture of Joomla offers great opportunities for an easy adding of functionality to a later point of time.
We added newsletter and blog functionality to our web site since these tools enable us to communicate with our customers in a direct and efficient way. We restructured the content and provide it in a clear way and we translated the whole content -except the sector news- on our site in our three target languages English, Chinese and German. The sector news will be published mainly in English and updated several times a week.
We will add further functionality to our web site. The integration of functionality of our XIRON SCM system is already in the planning and design phase. By providing shipment and trip information in real time to our customer through our web site, we will increase our service grade significantly.
Our site is hosted in Germany utilising an awarded ISP. We implemented an Apache web and MySQL database server as platform for our site. This architecture provides a highly scalable and safe environment. |