Electronic Business Services from Colebridge.Net

Exchanging information using Electronic Business approaches is providing substantial benefit for a wide range of organisations. With our expertise in providing these solutions, Colebridge.net can help you to leverage benefit from the approach. and by choosing us as your partner - you support the work of the Colebridge Trust.

Electronic Business Solutions

What is Electronic Business?

Electronic Business is the name given to the use of the Internet and associated technologies to transform business processes by exchanging business related information between companies and the customers, suppliers and partners.

What are the benefits of Electronic Business?

Electronic Business solutions reduce cost, speed up processes making companies more reactive to customers and improve data accuracy. Think about the time taken, effort involved and risks to data integrity involved in printing a purchase order, faxing it to a supplier and having it input as a sales order into the supplier's system and then think about doing the same as a straightforward computer to computer transmission. And think about the benefits of having a customer enter their own orders into your systems.

Is it all about Orders and Invoices?

Not at all, many companies have completed successful Electronic Business processing orders and invoices alone, but others have derived substantial benefit with systems adding further information such as estimates, plans, drawings, schedules and/or process data.

Are Electronic Business projects worth doing?

Some companies have reduced the cost of operating a process to as little as 30% of pre-implementation levels whilst taking weeks off their cycle times and paying back their investment in well under a year.

It all sounds easy, is it?

Technically, it is straightforward. However, as with most IT Projects, the pitfalls are in the planning and management. There have been plenty of Electronic Business project failures because expectancies have been mismatched, data flows have not been analysed fully, staff acceptance has not been engineered and projects have not been managed in a structured way.

How can Colebridge.net help?

With the experience of Electronic Business that we can bring to a project, we can help at all stages, complementing your own management team. At the strategic level, we can examine your processes and advise on potential Electronic Business initiatives. At the feasibility stage, we can advise on the viability of a proposal. We can provide guidance on change and project management to help you win staff commitment and keep a project under control. We can undertake process analysis and solution design work to maximise the benefit of your investment.

How will the Colebridge Trust benefit?

Colebridge.net is a not for profit enterprise, but is operated on a commercial basis. Our profits are used to support the ongoing work of the Colebridge Trust for the community of North Solihull.