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Right from the start, I-Media has considered that technological
mastery of its production tools as a decisive competitive
advantage.
That's why over the last ten years, I-Media has continually
invested in its information and transmission systems
to achieve this result.
- Extra-high performance transmission systems
At the nerve centre of our business, these systems
perform individualization, distribution, and tracking
of all your messages. Faced with the issues of high volume
(several million messages a day), priority (fitting in several
hundred operations at the time), individualization (ability
to insert up to 256 variable fields in a message), mixedness
(combination of various message formats), I-Media immediately committed
itself to a development that would ensure :
- Very high scalability.
- The ability to cope perfectly with increased loads.
- Complete technological independence from the manufacturers
and operators.
- Full control of operating costs.
- The ability to integrate new distribution media.
I-Media software, written in C and working under Windows NT,
is organized in the form of interoperating modules. This technology
makes the addition of new functions extremely easy.
- A robust, efficient information system
Using client-server architecture, built around a cluster of
Oracle 8i servers and Access 97/2000 front ends, the information
system runs the whole operation:
- Hosting and handling of customers' databases.
- Operation processing.
- Production management.
- Dispatch monitoring.
- Consolidation of dispatch logs.
- Invoicing.
- Sales activity monitoring.
- Commercial administration.
The information system has a downstream interface with the
transmission tools and an upstream interface with our accounting
tools. It is used by all the company's employees and gives
complete real time access to all the information. Developed with
a view to optimizing production tasks, it automates almost
90% of the processing. It was developed in house by our engineers
and has been managed since 1994 by our I.T. Manager, Mr. Jacques
Boinot. It is the object of continuous upgrades and is continually
being adjusted to meet new internal as well as external demands.
The choice of Oracle 8i as a platform has enabled I-Media
to implement a very efficient extranet. Each customer account
can be accessed in its entirety by the customer concerned;
every item can be consulted (operations in progress, dispatch
reports, historical dispatch records, invoices, databases,
messages sent, etc.). The company extranet is accessible via
www.imedia-production.com and works on an ASP model, enabling
clients to enter their routing orders directly by Internet.
I-Media receives over 90% of its orders through this channel.
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