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OASIS Internet
The Internet as we know it today is a vast network with major potential. There
are countless companies trying various applications on the Internet in hopes of
finding profitability. To date, for the most part, most applications are not
profitable. As such, the Internet is seen in its infancy with many types of
development being attempted trying to find the right mix of both opportunities,
application, and electronic interfaces.
Currently, one of the widest uses for the Internet is the use of a transport for
electronic mail messaging. There are many applications in this area that are
being attempted. The best known is electronic mail; however, many other
transactions are being tried such as banking transactions, shopping
transactions, etc.
The shopping transactions probably have the most amount of money invested in
them. Through other on-line services like Prodigy, and American On-line, many
attempts have been made to make the electronic shopping a success with much
profitability. To date, the largest example is the Prodigy system, which has put
10 years and over one billion dollars into its effort. This has yet to see
profitability although it is deemed successful in its current endeavors.
Dynamic Solutions 2000 is looking to establish itself as a premier billing
vendor for the Internet type services. Whether the services be telephony,
shopping, e-mail, voice mail, downloading of information such as video catalogs,
download of both video and sound tracks, Dynamic Solutions 2000 has built an
application to be able to handle all areas. The first is the capability of being
able to rate a message no matter what type of message it is; to be able to
reformat that message and rate it in whatever way the client wishes. This has
complete flexibility to be able to do a simple rating per minute, word, page, or
to do complex telephony type rating. Also, it has the ability to instill usage.
The OASIS system (Operations And Support for Integrated Systems) is flexible
enough to enable a company to respond to users’ demands with the ability to
change or modify existing service plans or establish new ones.
Marketing must be taken into consideration. Marketing plans such as giving
discounts for current users in available through the OASIS Internet system.
Tiered discounts can be established so that as clients use the system more and
more, discounts can be achieved. The system is flexible enough to allow
marketing groups to design and implement new marketing plans based on their
schedule, thus allowing them to concentrate on business issues rather than
technical issues.
Depending on the capabilities of the client system and the type of billing that
is to be done, messages can be included on a bill. Charges for access plans
which take the form of monthly recurring charges are also capable. This is where
we would have a fixed charge for a particular plan so that someone could
actually utilize the system without being charged each time. Limits could be set
and as those limits are met, reduced rates could be applied for any time that
was over the allotted plan total.
A monthly recurring charge could also be set up for tiering. If the subscriber
to the service had others within their company that were to also to use the
service, tiering could be provided so that if there were multiple accesses from
the same company, then a discount could be given.
The system is also capable of applying payments from several different services
including on-line credit card with credit card authorization and check. Any
other type of one-time charge or credit is also within the realm of capability
for the OASIS Internet system. The system is designed to be fully automated.
Transactions can be established based on the interface to the Internet that the
client has built so that users can actually set themselves on the system and set
up their own payment plans and passwords and begin use of the system. This, of
course, would have some tailoring involved in order to interface to the client’s
Internet software. All tables and pricing are set up to be updated in real-time.
As changes are made, they will immediately go into effect or can be set up to
take effect at a future date.
The purpose of the Dynamic Solutions 2000 Internet system is to be able to
provide an interface to a client’s Internet system where billing can be
performed in multiple ways incorporating not just the charges of bills, but to
help support marketing efforts to instill loyalty and help generate additional
usage from the users of the system. Billing can also take usage information into
account and bill accordingly giving tiered discounts and other types of
discounts to promote usage. If multiple services are being utilized and
marketed, plans can be established to do cross promotional discounting whereas
one heavy of one service may get discounts to try another.
Dynamic Solutions 2000 will work with any of our clients to help support their
marketing plans and efforts and welcomes new ideas in the hopes of generating
additional usage for our client systems. Dynamic Solutions 2000 strives to be a
partner, helping support each of its clients rather than merely a vendor who
delivers a software package and then goes away. It is our view at Dynamic
Solutions 2000 that the client must be supported after the sale, that they be
able to bounce ideas off of the developers of the support systems.
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