E-Business Solutions

Web Sites with dynamic database interaction
Transaction-Based Services
Collaborative E-Solutions
Portals/Content Management
Development, Integration and Deployment Services
Network-centric Software Solutions


BGND's e-business solutions empower organizations to expand and enhance their relationships with customers, suppliers, and other constituents. For commercial clients, BGND solutions can contribute to revenue growth. For governmental and not-for-profit organizations, BGND allows certain cost reductions to provide greater financial flexibility. BGND builds stable, secure, scalable, and cost-effective eh-business solutions.

Web Sites with Dynamic Database Interaction
BGND understands the need to provide customers and prospects with current information about products and services. Using industry standard database technology and proven technology, a Web site can deliver specific content dynamically. BGND offers personalization, tracking, metrics, and feedback services. These allow a BGND client to understand customer needs at a fine level of detail. BGND provides browser based tools to allow authorized users to maintain data in the client's database or to schedule automated functions in response to changing business conditions. BGND codes Web pages to provide optimized indexing by Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo to help attract qualified prospects to the Web site.
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Transaction-Based Services
BGND focuses on transaction-based Web services. Clients can select from a full range of search, taxonomy and categorization, presentation, and maintenance tools. BGND's eCommerce system supports shipping and tax calculation as well as user authentication. We also provide full transactional security as well as the necessary programming interfaces to send and receive financial data between a client's application and credit card processing companies and PayPal.
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Collaborative E-Solutions
Our collaborative e-solutions leverage BGND's deep experience with Web-based data aggregation. A client is able to define vendors, agencies, or individuals who can interact in a BGND collaborative space. In a shared service, BGND includes additional data extraction and product categorization tools to its standard e-commerce toolkit. BGND's extraction tool allows for automatic updates of information bases containing data about prices, product availability, and service offerings. BGND's categorization tool accommodates either a customized or standard taxonomy of product and service types across vendors.

BGND's system allows a customer to expose a cohesive view to each members' customers. The system allows prospects or partners to compare, differentiate, and select the specific set of services and products that best meet their particular requirements. Implementations of this BGND system includes full transactional support: authentication, security, shipping and tax calculation as well as integration with financial or governmental institutions.
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Portals/Content Management
Many BGND clients require point-and-click access to data held in different systems often in incompatible file formats. BGND provides a wide range of content management, data normalization, and information aggregation services. BGND uses stable, proprietary software. BGND's software can be tailored to meet the specific information requirements for browser-based, point-and-click access to an organization's information. With the BGND portal approach, users are able to search, aggregate, categorize, and summarize massive quantities of data from different sources. The BGND system can access information repositories from multiple, public and private, secure and insecure databases.

BGND uses a portal to provide access to specific services or automated services. These "portlets" reduce the time and frustration associated with traditional laundry lists of hyperlinks and standard page elements such as a search box. BGND delivers a portal of portals without requiring its customers to modify its present enterprise applications. We accommodate a client's data and make access intuitive, eliminate the expensive clicking and hunting process common to most portal systems.

BGND helps customers define specific services for specific users of the portal. BGND personalization technology allows an authorized user to see a specific set of functions and have access to specific information assets. These customized views allow a user to access work-related information and services. Clutter is eliminated and work flows accelerate.

BGND's portal / portlet approach provides a customer with metrics about user behavior. These data enable fine-grained budget control, defining budgets, more accurate requirements definitions, and a tool for optimizing specific work processes. An added plus is the option for maintaining surveillance of activity within the portal.
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Development, Integration and Deployment Services
BGND implements solution designs. Our development and integration services customize or develop IT solutions, assets, and processes and then integrate those solutions, assets and processes with established infrastructure and processes. Our development and integration package includes three segments: application development services, integration services, and deployment services.

BGND's detailed design, implementation and information technology management services link customized or off-the-shelf applications. Linkages can be made within a Web services or proprietary framework such as SAP R/3, Oracle, or Microsoft enterprise frameworks. BGND's services include project planning, project management, requirements definition, detailed design, and implementation of application programming interfaces.

BGND's application development services create new functionality for customers' developed or packaged applications. BGND can integrate internal and external business processes. These services include conversion applications to run on different platforms or architectures. For legacy applications, BGND implements technology that leaves legacy applications in place while enabling other systems to gain near real time access to the data in a legacy system.

BGND's deployment services support the implementation and roll out of new applications or infrastructure, including hardware and software procurement as well as configuration, performance tuning, staging, installation, troubleshooting, and inter operability testing.
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Software Solutions
BGND provides stable software solutions following best practices for high demand, mission-critical systems. BGND's practices ensure reliable, scalable systems from project inception through requirements definition, prototyping and specification through build, unit test, final acceptance testing, customer training and ongoing maintenance. BGND delivers systems on time and within budget.

BGND's engineers are skilled in the use of a broad set of industry-standard Web technologies, including J2EE, ASP, and XML among others. BGND is experienced in building object-oriented applications that run on all common application servers and integrating them with Oracle, SQLServer, DB2, Informix, or open-source databases. Delivered applications run on Linux/Unix as well as Microsoft operating systems.

BGND's systems are designed to that customers manage them. BGND specializes in managed services. BGND hosts a client's application at BGND's secure facility. BGND offer a full suite of Business Process Management and Infrastructure Management Services. These range from troubleshooting to assuming responsibility for a client's information technology and systems operations.
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