IBM 7.2.1 manual Retail/Sales Force Automation NetSetGo, Retail/Easy of Use Penn State

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Retail/Sales Force Automation: NetSetGo

Sales Force Automation Application tied in with retail store point of sale and Lawson accounting system

DB2E database

DB2E sync server

DB2 UDB

on WinCE/

on WinNT

on AS/400

Compaq IPAQ

"seconds"

"less than a minute"

 

1.Salesperson takes order and verifies 2. Order forwarded from PDA;

item in stock;

immediate fulfillment

76,000 SKUs to choose from.

 

Benefits: Fewer errors, Faster delivery, Sales productivity

Retail/Easy of Use: Penn State

Penn State Center for Advanced Information Technology

Used DB2 Everyplace in second year college class - students created a 'store' that can be accessed from a Palm device to order or check order status

Use DB2 Everyplace on Palm OS; Sync Server on NT

"We were amazed that DB2 Everyplace was a full function database, yet had a small footprint and ran on an handheld device...And the Mobile Appplication Builder was fantastic - led students through a point and click programming process and automatically created the C code for the Palm..."

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IBM 7.2.1 manual Retail/Sales Force Automation NetSetGo, Retail/Easy of Use Penn State