JOB MINING

Kartavya - Althi - Inder - HCF.

Read enclosed article & following comparison.

It shows we are on the right track - but moving Very slowly 😬

10-12-02

HOT OFF EVERY HOMETOWN'S PRESS

The touch-sensitive screen at the newspaper vending unit shows a map of the world. Touch the location marked 'Europe', then 'Germany', and the screen lists three newspapers. Select one, insert your credit card, and get the full-color version of the paper of your choice in tabloid format, or tabloid format, or refined with display screen, roll out on paper.

The digital newspaper kiosk is a Dutch invention, developed by PEPC Worldwide, almost  machines in place in the Netherlands, in Paris, and more than  ships in $\mathbf{17}$ countries. "A reader can choose from more than papers, from anywhere in the world, in a single place" said Rob Dopman, PEPC general director. The machines can be linked out commercially next year, partly financed by the company's listing on the U.S. Stock Exchange, says Dopman.

The 19-square-inch style of a 19th-century building in The Hague are two servers, where the digital editions of newspapers, delivered by the Internet, are filed and sorted, and where one evening issue of all the newspapers is stored for next morning’s sales. The dispensing electronic kiosk has a satellite dish that receives the latest editions of the various papers. They are then stored on a gigabyte hard drive and subsequently overwritten.

At the same time, an Internet link keeps the head office informed about the kiosk's maintenance and controls the entire setup remotely.

"Readers can use the kiosks in Heemstede, using standard parts to print a newspaper." The company even developed the stapler. "We thought it would be the most hygienic, practical, cheapest, and very few people do not use them." Dopman says.

In the kiosks and airports where the kiosks are situated, a worker is at hand for service. If a reader can't get a refill, there is a breakdown, or the local newsstand is out of PEPC newspapers, he will be paid cents for the inconvenience. PEPC is also extending its worldwide operation through a network of dealers.

"You can buy a machine for $\mathbf{\$ 18,000}$ or lease one and decide the price of a newspaper, which ranges from $\mathbf{\$ 2}$ up to $\mathbf{\$ 10}$ each", says Dopman. cents goes to around 51 papers. The rest of the money is split among the dealer, the newspaper's publisher, and PEPC.

Dopman says a dealer who sells to  papers per machine per day will cover his costs.

He adds that "Our audience is the million business travelers who stay in four-and five-star hotels," says Dopman, who hopes to have a kiosk in every hotel in the world each year.

"If I went to read a copy of De Telegraaf on the Miami one day, it might take a minimum of cents to get one, " he says, referring to the Dutch newspaper. "With our kiosk, the paper that is read most often, which is an Australian paper, a person will be paying for the American paper and then he has to pay for the Australian paper, the paper that is read most often will be reading on Wednesday morning. "

The circulation is limited so far, he says, adding that newspapers published on the Internet are not yet able to replace newspaper reading. But he insists that they are not yet able to replace newspaper reading. The Internet should not be able to replace paper reading, he says. The Internet is not able to replace paper reading.

Digital Newspaper	JAWS + Lock-In
Remote delivery of entire newspaper in Tabloid format.	Remote delivery of Job Adverts, Summary in Q&A/Query format.
Country/Nation/ newspaper option.	Thousands of Job Adverts downloaded from vendor job sites/career boards & search parameters to configure/sort.
Available in Hotel lobbies/Cruise Ships/Airports.	Available at Cybercafes/Small town newspapers/Edu Institutes/PCs.
2 Servers in The Hague uploading latest editions of Worldwide news papers.	3P server being uploaded with Job-adverts downloaded from sites (Cost-averted into cost-per-ER).
5 Satellites to distribute Each Kiosk needs a Satellite dish.	Internet to distribute. No extra investment for Cybercafe.
Latest edition (newspapers) to be stored locally in Kiosk's PC (must overwrite OLD edition).	Nothing to be stored (edited/overwritten on Local Cybercafe PC).
	Cybercafe can configure downloaded whatever Job-Adverts/Summary/For whatever data/Period they want - Even Citywise (jobs/upload images).
PEPC targeting Worldwide operations through dealer network.	We wanted to target 16000 Cyber-Cafes of India & waitrooms of Reliance & Amp outlets & $\mathbf{600}$ small town newspapers etc.
Dealer fixes the "Selling Price".	Under "Operation Lock In", we will permit Cybercafes to fix any price (Per Company for sending resumes & give us a fixed amount).
Target Audience: 200 million business travelers / 1 lakh 5/4 star Hotels.	All the unemployed graduates of India + executives looking for a Job-change.
Advantage to Users: Immediate access to latest edition of newspaper of your choice wherever you happen to be.	No need to buy 100 newspapers daily. No need to Send/write/Download/Email. No need to fax email/Handoff/Hard-copy application (Or photo application sent in minutes $\times 30$ days).
Advantage to Dealer/Kiosk owner: A Revenue model.	Advantage to Cybercafe Owner: Revenues - revenue model / Rebate customers (Competitive Advantage over Non-Partner Cybercafes).

 

BIGBYTE

R VISHWANATHAN

Anytime services

YOU ARE on the move—on a business trip or to a client's place—when you need the latest in access information on a production run, a product launch just the previous day. The client's business logic, the latest unique requirements of the client for the deal. How do you access that information in less than half an hour?

From the light components in place, you could use your WAP phone to directly view and download the information required.

Software is delivered as a service rather than as a product from your organisation's sales repository.

The 'light connections' are what constitute the much talked about Web services that allow your WAP phone to do a direct, secure look-up of your sales database. To achieve this, Web services require two minimum overheads, there is no need to write the application puzzle in a different manner.

As more and more enterprises are adopting them, it becomes imperative that the information system available in one system be made available in one system be made available to every relevant person in the enterprise without the enterprise. For instance, the Sales Force Automation system would need to pull in data from the latest and best available data from behind the enterprise firewall.

Web services solve this problem that Web services are bringing to the forefront, the latest in the future of integration. Web Services are a set of technologies that extend integration that is a step beyond the popular Application Integration (EAI).

Web services expose business logic by encapsulating existing applications and components into loosely coupled, $\mathbf{XML}$-based standards. They use the available standard protocols, such as SOAP and UDDI.

Let us look at an example. A major advantage to the managers of our Subscriber-Company, that they don't have to carry any papers (email/resumes) with them, when they travel to any part of the world, for conducting interviews of candidates in a distant city. They can log into the "resume" as each candidate turns up for interview.

Web services help you take the information, which is available in the SFA system, builds them into loosely coupled, standards-based components that do not affect the basic SFA application, and publishes the resultant components over the Internet.

These components can be accessed by (business to business) and $\mathbf{B2E}$ (business to employee) - say, a car dealer software to gather data from an insurance company's scheme of things, there is no re-engineering of the SFA application, the $\mathbf{B2E}$ systems or the car dealer software.

With Web Services, software is delivered as a service rather than as a product. When you travel with the $\mathbf{ASP}$ model, the conditioning of this service is even more.

Irrespective of the payment model, Web services deliver integration that is beyond the typical or other integration models. The constraints are the two bottlenecks for integration to slow down the growth of web services. They force the receiving enterprises and individuals can even do the transaction, change of information to a partner application while the primary application is delivering the same data to the user without having to develop a different application and still access it anytime, anywhere, access.

The author is chief executive, enterprise business, Wipro Infotech

ET 27/02/03

Kartavya - Abhi

When our Resume/Research go online as webservice, one major advantage to the managers of our Subscriber-Company, is that, they don't have to carry any papers (email/resumes) with them, when they travel to any part of the World, for conducting interviews of candidates in a distant City.

From their hotel-room (or hotel's business-centre), they can log into the "resume", as each candidate turns-up for interview.

28/02/03

webservice & View the "resume" as each candidate turns-up for interview.