Index: openacs-4/packages/ecommerce/www/doc/ecommerce-for-mbas.adp =================================================================== RCS file: /usr/local/cvsroot/openacs-4/packages/ecommerce/www/doc/ecommerce-for-mbas.adp,v diff -u -r1.4 -r1.4.8.1 --- openacs-4/packages/ecommerce/www/doc/ecommerce-for-mbas.adp 22 May 2003 14:49:34 -0000 1.4 +++ openacs-4/packages/ecommerce/www/doc/ecommerce-for-mbas.adp 31 May 2005 23:13:20 -0000 1.4.8.1 @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
If your imagination is limited, you can think of this as - "Amazon.com in a box". Is is it impressive to do everything that + "Amazon.com(2002) in a box". Is is it impressive to do everything that Amazon does? Not really. Ecommerce is a fast-moving field. Packaged software always embodies last year's business ideas. The interesting thing is how quickly one can extend an open-source @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
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in MBA-speak @@ -78,18 +78,23 @@ fax, email, and Web)All interactions logged into same Database - table; inbound ACS 3.4.8 - email handler (Perl script); call center staff sit at - Web browsers and use the @package_name@ admin pages + table by call center staff who sit at + Web browsers and use the @package_name@ admin pages; It is possible that + inbound emails can be supported, but this has not been recently confirmed. + See http://www.arsdigita.com/doc/email-handler + (via archive.org) an ACS 3.4.8 email handling perl script. Note that incoming emails may be better + handled by a method used in the OpenACS forums package that imports email. No + support is available for incoming email to this package. +- CRM +Customer Relationship Managemement (CRM) Write custom rules for standard ACS 3.4.8 - CRM module (to be ported...) + href="http://web.archive.org/web/20020228064957/http://www.arsdigita.com/doc/crm">http://www.arsdigita.com/doc/crm + (via archive.org) a standard ACS 3.4.8 CRM module (to be ported...)@@ -146,25 +151,24 @@ XML-enabled -Use the nsxml module for AOLServer +Use the XML features supported by OpenACS. Bottom line
-If a closed-source ecommerce package doesn't do exactly what you - want, you're out of business. If the company behind a closed-source +
If a closed-source ecommerce package does not do exactly what you + want, you are out of business. If the company behind a closed-source ecommerce package goes out of business, so will you. If the company behind a closed-source ecommerce adopts a different "business - model", you're screwed.
+ model", you are screwed. -If you're even tempted to adopt a commercial ecommerce system +
If you are ever tempted to adopt a commercial ecommerce system from a company other than IBM, Oracle or SAP (three enterprise software vendors that seem likely to be around for awhile), read the - iCat story towards the end of Using the - ArsDigita Community System + iCat story; See http://www.arsdigita.com/asj/using-the-acs (via archive.org) toward the end, a section entitled "ACS versus Commercial Packaged Closed-Source Systems." +
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