PowerHouse Web
Arthur Kogan
akogan@westpac.com.au
Wed, 27 May 1998 11:09:45 +1000
Hi Bob,
I read the article below and am very enthusiastic about applying PH WEB in
creating e-commerce applications. With this in mind I have a question.
How is security of information handled over the network between the the user's
PC and our WEB Server? For example, the client may need to enter their Credit
Card details. These will need to be encoded before being transfered over the
net. If all the processing is done on the server, how can we "program" this
encoding on the WEB page before the info is sent? Will we have to do this
outside PH?
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CEOs slow to
adopt e-commerce
By Stan Beer
Australia has fallen way behind leading Asian and
European countries in the adoption of e-commerce by
business and the Federal Government is partly to blame,
according to a key technology adviser to US President
Mr Bill Clinton.
Mr Randall Whiting, the CEO of CommerceNet, a global
non-profit e-business research organisation, said that
while the US led the way in e-commerce, Japan,
Singapore, Malaysia and Scandinavian countries were
also well ahead of Australia.
Mr Whiting, a key e-commerce policy strategist for the
White House, was in Melbourne yesterday to host an
e-commerce seminar.
He said Australian CEOs had not got the message that
commerce on the internet was a central business issue.
"In the US, Scandinavia and the leading Asian countries,
the respective governments are standing up next to
industry and playing a key role in the promotion of
e-commerce," he said.
"The US Government is spending hundreds of millions on
e-business and internet infrastructure."
According to Mr Whiting, the Australian Government's
e-commerce efforts paled by comparison and funding was
inadequate.
"In Australia, the Government needs to up the ante and
play a bigger role. There is a great opportunity for them to
participate in investment programs aside from IT
infrastructure development projects.
"In Australia, there is not as much venture capital as in the
US so the Government needs to reassess e-business
funding and spend more."
Mr Whiting said that despite Australia's high internet
penetration, companies have failed to adopt the net as a
fundamental part of business.
"Wherever you go in Australia, you find that most
company presidents can't stand up and say 'e-commerce
is part of my business plan'," Mr Whiting said.
"They still think it is an issue that their IT managers should
handle.
"By contrast, at any CEO forum in the US, you'll find that
most CEOs and senior managers are thinking about and
discussing e-commerce issues.
"This is not a technology solution to be sold to IT
managers."
"In Japan, an e-commerce seminar will attract hundreds of
CEOs while in Australia it's hard to get a senior manager
to come.
"Japanese companies are starting to link their supply
chains through the internet, enabling customers to enter
bids and proposals via e-commerce.
"For Australian companies to take advantage of the
internet, they really need to get their feet wet – not simply
put up a web site."
Mr Whiting contrasted the level of e-commerce capability
in Australian and US businesses, using the banking
industry as an example.
"While Australia's largest bank has two
128-kilobit-per-second connections used mainly for web
surfing and e-mail, Wells Fargo has 20
45-megabits-per-second lines and an executive
vice-president directly overseeing its e-commerce
programs.
"These days I never write a cheque. Instead, I track all my
accounts and make all payments over the internet."
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Regards,
Arthur Kogan.
Deskin, Bob wrote:
> We're all very excited about PowerHouse Web. You use QDESIGN (a new
> version 8.2x) to generate HTML template forms along with your screen.
> The template form can be modified with HTML editors such as Microsoft's
> FrontPage or Macromedia DreamWeaver, as long as the PowerHouse tags we
> insert are maintained. At the execution side, PowerHouse Web consists of
> 4 components that let you go from the user's browser to the screen
> itself. Results are presented as HTML forms. The user will be able to
> add new data, search, modify and delete. We've even got DESIGNER
> procedures.
>
> So far there's been a press release and a SupportLink article (very high
> level). We're demoing for the first time at the user conference in
> Atlanta in June. There'll also be a white paper available at the user
> conference and posted to our web site. I won't be able to post it here
> because of it's size and graphic requirements. It won't be a pure text
> document.
>
> I can't get into a lot of details just yet partly because of time and
> partly because we're still fine-tuning the model. Stay tuned for more.
>
> Bob Deskin
> Senior Product Advisor bob.deskin@cognos.com
> Cognos Inc. (613) 738-1338 ext 4205 FAX: (613) 228-3149
> 3755 Riverside Drive P.O. Box 9707 Stn. T, Ottawa ON K1G 4K9 CANADA
>
> > ----------
> > From: Arthur Kogan[SMTP:akogan@westpac.com.au]
> > Sent: May 26, 1998 4:50 AM
> > To: 'powerh-l@lists.swau.edu'
> > Subject: Re: Cognos Support and Powerhouse 8
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > just rejoined the list after 2 months absence and see that I have
> > missed the
> > news on "PH WEB". Can someone please re-post it or e-mail me direct.
> >
> > Much obliged,
> >
> > Arthur Kogan
> > Westpac Financial Services
> >
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