The system is built on a Windows NT Server platform, hosted by the Windows NT Server Internet Information Server and browsed by Microsoft Internet Explorer. Information is stored in a SQL Server database, and can be easily integrated into other legacy databases. Importantly, the EQOS system can be hosted on many servers, giving suppliers the ability to upload and download information to and from the system. EQOS Administrator, which is the main program for building and deploying applications, has been developed using Microsoft Visual Basic® development system. EQOS also has a Web-based version of Administrator that allows users to build and deploy their own collaborative applications. And the e-commerce functionality, utilizing the dynamic data collected, is provided by Microsoft Site Server 3.0 Commerce Edition.
In the future, EQOS may build the Microsoft Commerce Interchange Pipeline (CIP) technology into the solution. The CIP, a significant feature of Site Server 3.0, Commerce Edition, is a simple system for enabling application-to-application interchange of structured business information using the Internet, e-mail, or third-party EDI Virtual Added Networks (VANs). The CIP provides a standard method of sharing any type of business-critical data over any network among businesses.
EQOS Managing Director Mike Quinn says, "We're employing very clever technology between trading partners, which doesn't require either company to change their core systems. Rather, it pulls information from legacy databases. EQOS gives Sainsbury's the opportunity to do new things without going back and recoding their old systems."
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