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VILLAGEMALL®
Champions
e-Business for Small to Medium Sized Companies
VillageMall
TradePoint programme will enable affordable adoption of e-business
standards to a wider technology trading network
Brisbane,
Australia,- October 2001 - VillageMall®, the
premier provider
of Web-based applications for small business, today launched its
tradepoint programme. This
initiative ensures the affordable implementation and adoption of
e-business standards and services for small business, thereby
allowing them the same trading opportunities available only to
large organisations. VillageMall is working to create and
implement, open e-business standards, that can be readily used by
any business to form a common trading network.
Until
tradepoint, many e-business initiatives have been out of reach for
small companies and developers, because of the vast resources
required to implement these complex activities. "Many of the
organisations involved have a vested interest in keeping these
activities overly complex and out of the reach of small
business." said Charles Moore, Managing director of
VillageMall. Some of these initiatives have membership fees that
range from US$1,000 to over US$35,000 per year, and have produced
specifications that are not deployable by any small business
without major expenditure on third party products or
services.
"Small
business operators, do business each and every day, this is how we
survive, the processes are not complicated and the solutions must
be simple and affordable. We have placed TradePoint specifications
in the public domain, established free test services, and plan to
release freely available code to support these specification to
all small business and developers. This is the only way we can
level the playing field for small business owners and
operators." commented Charles Moore.
Established
in May 1999, VillageMall supports Australian small business will
the release of VillageMall TradePoint programme.
About TradePoint
TradePoint
is dedicated to the collaborative development and rapid deployment
of open Internet-based business standards, that are suitable for
deployment and use by small business as part of a trading
network.
TradePoint
opens
up this ‘next generation’ e-business to all small businesses
which in turn helps to build a ‘network effect’, where small
business can trade with other suppliers, and with their own
customers, to really enhance the value of their VillageMall
investment. TradePoint specifications are available here.
Sign-up
as part of the VillageMall TradePoint program today.
About
VillageMall
VillageMall
is a pioneer,
in developing secure
next generation Internet
applications for small
business.
VillageMall
is a privately held company, founded in 1999 and is headquartered in
Brisbane, Australia.
For more information please email info@villagemall.com.au
or visit the company Web site at www.Villagemall.com.au.
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