[India] Network Solutions to set up e-commerce concept centre

["Irfan Khan" <KhanIA@super.net.pk>]

Network Solutions to set up e-commerce concept centre

R Subramanyam 
BANGALORE 19 JULY 

BANGALORE-based Network Solutions, an enterprise-wide network 
integration company is setting up an e-commerce proof of concept 
centre. 

"With e-commerce increasingly becoming the buzz word, there is a 
whole lot of confusion on e-commerce products and service offerings 
and implementation strategies to be adopted. 

"The proof of concept centre will address these issues," said Mr 
Vijay R Mysore, director, worldwide business development, Network 
Solutions. 

Besides a range of e-commerce solutions from the Germany-based 
Netlife, whose products are distributed in the country by Network 
Solutions, the centre will showcase e-commerce applications developed 
by its partner companies. "Investing in an e-commerce infrastructure 
is expensive. Customers can use the infrastructure at our centre to 
get a feel of how e-commerce solutions can work and benefit them, 
before committing their resources on setting up their 
infrastructure," he said. 

Parallely, Network Solutions strategy, said Mr Mysore is to set up a 
portal site, which companies can use to conduct their e- commerce 
business. 

"It will not be a portal in the real sense like Yahoo and others. Our 
portal will provide support mechanism such as secure payment 
infrastructure. It will also offer applications, like for instance a 
brokerage application, which can be outsourced." 

The company is in talks with banks and credit card providers to 
create a payment gateway for its portal. "Apart from companies, 
Internet service providers can also use our portal to offer e-
commerce services to their customers," he added. 

Network Solutions will offer products, hosting, consultancy and 
implementation services for e-commerce. It is also exploring the 
possibilities of offering its portal as a value added service to 
ISP's who can then co-brand it. It plans to use content and service 
providers as its distributors to bring customers to its portal site. 
Mr Mysore said that Network Solutions will use its Q Link service to 
enable companies to be e-commerce ready. Network Solutions' Q Link is 
a set of tools and services that helps companies link their legacy 
applications residing to disparate networks to the Internet. 

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