Recently Coined, yet already clinched, the expression “ e-business is business” speaks the truth.

Contrary to popular opinion, e-business is not synonymous with e-Commerce. E-Business is much broader in scope, going beyond transactions to signify use of the Net, in combinations with other network technologies and forms of electronic communication, to enable any type of business activity.

Few concepts have revolutionized business more profoundly thane-Commerce. E-Commerce is changing the shape of competition, the speed of action, and the streamlining of interactions, products, and payments from customer to companies and from companies to suppliers.

Infocraft provides total solutions starting from web design to efficiently manage e-business.

Web 2.0 Portals

Web 2.0 is a concept, an approach to developing web solutions wherein the emphasis is on enabling the active participation and interaction among people. The idea is to allow people to become active contributors to websites. Web 2.0 refers to a perceived second generation of web-based communities and hosted services which aim to provide a better collaboration and sharing between users. It relates to a transition of websites from isolated information silos to interlinked computing platforms.

Some of the technologies and tools that allow the user to do more than just retrieve information include the following:

• Social Networking: It provide a forum for like minded people to meet and interact with each other such as MySpace, Facebook, Flickr etc

• Blogs: It provides users with an easy mechanism to publish content on the web.

• Rich Internet Applications: Provide a more interactive and dynamic browsing experience to the users by using technologies such as AJAX, Flash etc.

• Social Book-marking: It allows users to classify and store a list of resources collated from all over the web.

• Viral Marketing: Websites that follow the web 2.0 techniques and practices attract greater exposure resulting in an increase in site traffic.

The features of Web 2.0 are as follows:

Empowering Users: Web 2.0 applications provide facilities for users to create, publish and share content over the web.

Networking: Web 2.0 applications enable the creation and promotion of online social networking communities.

At Infocraft, we make use of a host of technologies and techniques such as AJAX, CSS etc to develop Web 2.0 applications.

Database Integration

Database integration can be defined as process that provides the ability to access data stored in relational and non-relational systems such as DB2, SQL Server etc. At Infocraft, we offer the broadest range of data integration options that will help you to store and directly access data in operational systems.

We offer to build dynamic database driven websites and applications. In database driven websites the content is stored separate from the layout and business logic. In dynamic websites, pages are generated on-the-fly. When a page is requested, the data is fetched from the database and displayed to the user. Our database integration service consists of: setting up the database, developing interfaces to store, access and finally manipulate the data.

At Infocraft, we make use of SQL Server and MySQL as the database layer in the web/application development architecture.

Some of the advantages that our database integration services offer include the following:

Easy Administration and Maintenance: Websites having integrated databases can be easily administered and maintained by clients themselves. Users can simply update and manage the websites through the interfaces provided.

Greater Interactivity: Database driven websites offer more interactivity and flexibility to the users. Various interactive elements can be incorporated with the web pages, which in turn, can be personalized by individual users.

Easy Layout/Design Changes: In database driven websites as content is stored separate from the layout, it is easier to make design and layout changes.

Scheduling: Database driven websites also provides the facility to schedule the display/removal of various items on the website. In this case administrators can store the publishing and expiry date for an item in the database and on the basis of the dates defined, the application will display/remove the item from the website.

At Infocraft, we also offer our database migration services wherein we offer to migrate databases from Microsoft SQL Server to Oracle and vice versa.. Database Migration involves the moving of the data stored in one database to another database. We offer migration from one platform to another enabling an application to support multiple database platforms.