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Grow Sales Without Growing Costs Let your channel and customers order your goods and grow your business without growing your costs by adding more staff, more processes and more software. Easily Handle Orders Easily handle ordering, pricing and merchandising rules and deliver product options and pricing based on who is ordering in a custom buying experience. Fully Integrate With Existing Systems Fully integrate to back office systems and remove the need to re-key order data eliminating errors, time and additional costs. Replace Costly Systems Replace costly, inaccurate and manual order processing with a standardized, cloud-based e-commerce experience; or replace expensive e-commerce solutions from your ERP. Realize Immediate Value Deploy your solution quickly with no capital expense. Your solution delivers documented cost take out and sales growth without adding to your overhead. Cloud-based since inception, our technology advantage provides substantial cost benefits.
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Page 1: Ecommerce for Manufacturing & Distribution

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Agenda

• About Four51• The Solution

– As is– To be– OrderCloud in action

• Our Technology• Our Services

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About Four51 Customer example: Burroughs Payment Systems• Established in 1999

• Supporting more than– 37,000 catalogs– 17 Million Users– 3,000

Distributors/Suppliers

• Deployment within weeks

• Robust technology

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The OrderCloud solution

• Simplifies complex ordering processes of your products from your channel.

• Reduces costs associated with ordering.• Delivers a unified, online ordering experience to your

growing channel.• Support for configurable and variable products• More cost effective than ERP based solutions from Oracle,

SAP etc. • Fully integrated with existing office systems.

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The process today

Complex channel of resellers with variable pricing schedules and merchandising/purchasing rules.

Orders placed and received by systems that may include

• call centers • sales reps

(manual) • mail or fax

Systems not fully integrated back office requiring rekey into other systems resulting in:

• higher costs• increased errors• more time for fulfillment.

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The process tomorrow

Allow your channel to order from one, central place.

Deliver b2b e-commerce that simplifies complex ordering requirements by managing purchasing, merchandising and pricing schedules.

Present products and prices to your resellers based on who they are.

Because Four51 cloud commerce integrates seamlessly with your internal systems orders move from request to fulfillment quicker and without error.  Plus, free up personnel assigned to manage order processing and save money.

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OrderCloud in action

• Burroughs Payment Systems needed a solution to– Support worldwide sales– Support configurable and consumable

product lines– Process orders for multiple kinds of

purchasers with complex purchasing, pricing and merchandising rules

– Be cost effective and deeply integrated– Convert from Oracle iStore

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OrderCloud in action

• Burroughs Payment Systems received a solution that

– Delivered easy product management from multiple admin roles

– Provided automatic ordering to provide discounts for recurring shipments

– Supported Cross Sell/ Up Sell– Showed specialized pricing based on buyer sign on– Created customized site messages based on buyer sign

on– Integrated with all back office systems for inventory and

supply chain management– Saved $100,000s monthly

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OrderCloud in action

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Our technology

• Private cloud model with robust hardware, virtualization technology and multiple data center facilities delivering unparalleled performance and reliability.

• Four51owns and manages all equipment allowing for– Near infinite flexibility in architecting and

implementing solutions– Advanced environment security

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Our technology

• PCI compliant since 2008– Monthly penetration tests by our security

partner, Qualys

• Data center facilities are SSAE 16 Type II compliant – Allowing Four51 to deliver 99.99% uptime over the past

10 years– 99.9995% uptime in 2012 (just 3 minutes of unplanned

downtime– Uptime guaranteed via Service Level Agreement

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Our technology• Four51 infrastructure has no single point of failure and

utilizes some of the most cutting edge technology including:

– Database mirroring technology with automated failover capabilities– Continuous Data Protection (CDP) backup architecture – System virtualization technology– Intelligent, adaptive network security appliances– Multi-homed application architecture

• Together with our key technology partners, Four51’s infrastructure has been delivering comprehensive SaaS technology for over 12 for everyone from the smallest client to some of the largest sites for over half the Fortune 500.

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Our approach

• Pre sale: Assessment and Solution Design• Post sale: Implementation and Project

management• Reseller/Dealer/User training• Integration Support & Project Management• Ongoing solution management• Managed moves, adds and changes• Service Level Agreement

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Let’s get started.


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