Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Actra SellerXpert Data Sheet

ACTRA SELLERXPERT

INTERNET COMMERCE APPLICATION FOR
C
ORPORATE SELLING


Goods and services traded between companies over the Internet will reach over $100 billion by the year 2000. To remain competitive as electronic commerce purchases outpace growth in traditional ordering channels, manufacturers, distributors, and service providers are driven to implement Internet order-taking with full transaction processing capability.

As part of the Actra CommerceXpert family of Internet Commerce solutions, Actra SellerXpert delivers results quickly for a substantial return on investment. Its integrated catalog, ordering, payment, and structured messaging capabilities provide a complete application framework to satisfy current and future commerce needs. Providing a higher level of customer service, Actra SellerXpert increases revenue and lowers operating costs.

 

A COMPREHENSIVE, FLEXIBLE
A
ND HIGH PERFORMANCE
APPLICATION FOR
EXPANDING CORPORATE
SALES AND MARKETING
C
HANNELS TO THE INTERNET

Actra SellerXpert enables a rapid
implementation through its powerful
combination of personalized
catalogs and order management,
customer templates, Java site
administration, system loading
tools, sample data and default
business rules.

Built-in customization and integration
capabilities allow Actra SellerXpert
to support all your trading partner
requirements with one high-
performance application architecture.


FEATURES OVERVIEW

  • Heighten brand awareness
    and product differentiation
    with interactive, award-winning
    catalog technology
  • Personalize service for each
    trading partner
  • Shape application behavior
    and appearance using
    intuitive tools
  • Leverage existing investments
    in enterprise business
    applications
  • Analyze purchasing patterns
    on demand using situation-based
    report objects
  • Support mission critical
    operations with enterprise-level
    back office functionality
 

INTELLIGENT ORDER MANAGEMENT
At the heart of Actra SellerXpert lies a customer-specific sales order processing engine. It understands individual buyer and seller relationships. Based on who is ordering, what is being bought, and contract terms and conditions, the system guides the customer through the buying experience.

INTERACTIVE PRODUCT CATALOGS
Fully customizable storefronts and dynamic product displays allow you to take advantage of Internet merchandising capabilities. With a choice of search methods, your customers find the right product the first time using any product classification method.

CONFIGURABLE BUSINESS LOGIC
Business rules provide a simple way to tailor Actra SellerXpert functionality and keep pace with industry changes. You can influence the behavior of each screen, button and function by interactively changing preferences or integrating external procedures.

FLEXIBLE PRESENTATION
Actra SellerXpert allows you to build a site that reflects your unique business personality while maintaining valuable brand image. Through the use of sample designs, you can get started quickly and continue to change your site to meet individual customer needs.

HIGH-PERFORMANCE ARCHITECTURE
A secure, industrial strength framework underlies the Actra SellerXpert application. Its object-oriented, standards-based Internet architecture ensures that performance levels keep up with your business growth and peak usage.

 

 

 

 

 

Internet and Extranet Solution for Self-service Customer Ordering that Fits Your Application Environment




ORDER MANAGEMENT
  • Browser-based Sales Order
    creation from catalog or
    order form
  • Contract pricing with discounts,
    allowances, charges and
    promotions
  • Sales tax calculations based
    on product and shipping
    information
  • Shipping point and carrier
    selection for freight calculations
  • Product availability for
    inventory management
  • Automatic order status updates
  • Repeat orders and multiple
    orders in progress

PRODUCT CATALOGS

  • Rapid product identification
    using keyword search, hierarchical
    browsing and parametric search
  • Data loading and maintenance
    using electronic data interchange
    (EDI), text, spreadsheets,
    proprietary formats or manual
    data entry
  • Online graphical authoring for
    product classification and
    catalog design
  • Personalized views with
    customer-specific pricing
    and terms
  • Multimedia support for text,
    graphics, audio, video and
    attached specifications

MEMBERSHIP AND PROFILE
MANAGEMENT

  • Customer-managed delegation
    of user privileges
  • Secure name and password
    sign-on
  • Digital certificates for
    optional authentication using
    X.509 self-issue or third
    party certificates

PAYMENT SERVICES

  • Invoice, cash and credit
    payment methods
  • Authorization, capture and
    validation of credit and
    purchasing card transactions
  • Secure credit transactions using
    SSL encryption
  • Support for multiple merchants
    and payment processors
  • User-defined, batch capture
    processing schedule
  • Automatic daily summary report

BUSINESS RULES

  • Over 200 pre-configured
    business parameters
  • Separation of system
    behavior and application data
  • Run-time evaluation and
    conflict resolution
  • Pre-loaded domain tables
  • Menu and tree-driven Java
    administration interface

REPORTING SYSTEM

  • Browser-based report
    viewing and printing
  • Embedded graphs, charts,
    cross-tabs and hyperlinks
  • Access control on pre-formatted,
    option-driven reports
  • Graphical report creation
    and customization tool
  • Object oriented report
    building to reuse components
  • Scheduling, versioning and
    batch processing
  • Demand paging and
    multi-threaded viewing


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Actra SellerXpert's HTML and Java templates simplify implementation and customization.

INTEGRATION WITH
ACTRA ECXPERTÔ

  • Data transmission over public and private networks Supports ANSI ASC X12, EDIFACT, UCS and many other public and user-defined standards
  • Graphical tool for any-to-any mapping and translation
  • Legacy communications with batch scheduling to interface with mainframe, UNIX or NT
  • Document storage, tracking services and task management
  • Support for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) and Secure Multi-purpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME)

SECURITY

  • Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) for point-to-point data communications
  • RSA password and credit card encryption
  • X.509 digital certificates
  • Application server separate from web server

ACTRA COMMERCEXPERT ARCHITECTURE

  • Java and HTML interface
  • Support for Netscape ONE (Open Network Environment)
  • Object oriented using CORBA and Internet Inter-ORB Protocol (IIOP) as the platform-independent object messaging protocol
  • Multi-threaded using Netscape Application Program Interface (NSAPI) for concurrent processing
  • Distributed, modular components within an extensible architecture
  • Central definition of data attributes and graphical user interface (GUI) fields
  • Standard and consistent data element storage, data-driven application flow and JavaScript use
  • Database independence
  • Runtime monitoring, audit and logging, backup and archiving capabilities
  • Staging environment to test major functions and incrementally migrate changes to production

INTEROPERABILITY

  • Support for Open Buying on the Internet (OBI) v1.0 compliance
  • Open, published C++ APIs
  • Actra BuyerXpert complementary solution for buyer-managed Internet requisitioning and workflow

SUPPORTED PLATFORMS AND SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

  • Operating System: Sun Solaris 2.51
  • Memory: 256 MB recommended
  • Disk Space: 3 GB recommended

HOW TO REACH US
Web: http://www.actracorp.com
Email:
info@actracorp.com
Phone: (888) 706-2600 or (408) 542-3183
Mail: 601 Caribbean Drive, Sunnyvale, CA 94089, USA