Corpmart.com Limited, a leading Application Service Provider (ASP) in Asia Pacific, and IBM China/ Hong Kong Limited, the world’s largest information technology company, announced today to join effort in organizing a seminar “Strategies for SMEs to start the e-business” on 19 June, 2001 at 1/F., Lecture Theatre, HKPC Building, 78 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon. The seminar aims to provide more information to Small-to-Medium Enterprise (SMEs) about e-business planning, and on how to seize the e-business opportunity by outsourcing applications to the right service providers and etc.
“Nowadays, SMEs desire to achieve a competitive edge in the rapidly-changing e-market by putting their businesses online. However, most of them have limited resources and capital to build and maintain an IT infrastructure for their e-business operation. Compared to large enterprises, SMEs seem to be in a disadvantageous position to capture the benefits brought by the waves of technology advancement,” said Wallace Ng, CEO of Corpmart.com Limited.
“Now, SMEs can rely on an ASP as their stepping stone to e-business. We will provide a full picture to SMEs and let them know how to choose the right e-business applications. ” Ng said.
In this regard, Corpmart is joining with IBM and other 2 service providers, MartPOWER (e-Marketplace) and SpeedLink (Internet Service Provider) to organize the “Strategies for SMEs to start the e-business”. In the seminar, these companies will analyze the trend of e-business development and the importance for corporations to choose the right service providers to implement their e-business strategies. There will also be some demonstrations of ASP application and e-Marketplace to show corporations how they can use these tools as their competitive weapon.
The seminar will be divided into 2 sessions. In the first session, James Wong, Account Manager of SpeedLink Limited, will start the seminar by giving an “Internet Market Overview” to provide SMEs with a general picture on e-business development. It will be followed by a presentation by Patrick Hui, Business Development Director of Corpmart.com Limited on “Adopting ASP Solutions for Greater Business Success”. After that, Stanley Chik, Consultant, e-Factory, Hong Kong Productivity Council, is also invited to have a speech on the topic “e-Business (ERP) in Management Perspective – Transforming the way to do business”.
In the second session, Richard Choi, Channel Development Manager of PCCW Business e-Solution,will open the topic “Open Up Unlimited Opportunities with e-marketplace”. Afterwards, Eddy Chan, Product Manager of eServer x-Series of IBM China/ Hong Kong Limited is invited to conclude the seminar by talking about “IBM eServer x-Series Technology”. Participants of the seminar are sure to gain useful and first-hand information on starting and developing their e-business from this series of talks by leading IT professionals.
In order to encourage SMEs to attend this seminar, special offers will be available for all participants as follows:
A free .com/. net/. org domain name
A free IBM Personal Computer by subscription to Corpmart service plan
Special discount on the subscription to VPN Broadband services
For more details, please visit our web site http://www.corpmart.com/. To enjoy to the above offers, please fill in the online registration form at http://www.corpmart.com/en/member
For any further information about the seminar or the special offers, please send email to marketing@corpmart.com or contact us on (852) 2344 1000.
