Jul, 2001 : Strategic Profits Provides Telus With E-Biz Services


📅 - Strategic Internet Investments Incorporated, today announcedthat Strategic Profits Inc. (strategicprofitsinc.com), is partnering with Telus (telus.com) to provide websitedevelopment, eCRM customer support and PayPaq secure online payment servicesfor the Telus BizEssentials suite of e-commerce products.

"This partnership enables Telus to use the power of the Internet to deliverthe best customizable and integrated e-commerce solutions available toCanadian businesses," said Mark Schnarr, executive vice-president, TelusVentures. "Focused on meeting the growing needs of small-to-medium-sizedbusiness customers, Telus is offering the BizEssentials suite of eCommerceproducts to make it easy and affordable for businesses to sell online."
"This is an example of our alliance in action,'' says Darren Entwistle, President and CEO of Telus. "Through SPI, Telus is able todeliver affordable, high quality Web development services, responsive andknowledgeable customer support, and secure online payment processing totheir small to medium-sized business customers."
SPI are providers of e-commerce and e-philanthropy solutions since 1994 andsecure payment services since 1997.
True to the nature of the open source movement, SolidSpeed has released thesoftware for these new products via the Web, at http://www.fezhead.org.
Solidspeed says their FEZ-Probester is easy to implement Web siteperformance measurement software that is embedded in a Web site's HTML. Itprovides end-to-end measurement of Web site performance, that measures andreports actual user download times. Other Web measurement solutions attemptto simulate users, creatingadditional site load and failing to match the distribution of traffic forthe site being measured.
With SolidSpeed's FEZ-Director, a global site selector, (or global loadbalancer), Web site administrators can implement multi-site versions oftheir site through mirroring, caching, and multi-homing. FEZ-Director isunique in that it offers a purely software-based site selection systemssolution that runs on all flavors of UNIX and Windows and is easilyinstalled, configured, maintained, and updated. As such, FEZ-Director iswell suited for incorporation into 3rd party content server packages.
FEZ-Director uses real-time measurements of latency and packet loss alongwith DNS and http redirection methods to direct users to the best ofmultiple Web site mirrors or caches.
Zona Research recently reported that $4.6 billion per year is lost due tousers abandoning slow Web sites. The Boston Group said that 48 percent ofWeb visitors would leave prematurely because a site is running too slow.

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