Solutions That Fit Our Customers
Orion Group has had experience building both secure business to business sites as well as consumer-based commerce sites. We can provide a total online commerce solution including design, development, hosting and integration to provide your customers and business partners with a compelling and convenient purchasing experience. Orion Group hosts our customer's sites on UNIX-based hardware with state of the art development tools and security. For our customers who wish to host their sites within their own facilities, as a Hewlett-Packard channel partner and system integrator, we can supply the best of breed hardware, software and services to make the process a success. We base our solutions on industry standard platforms like Windows, Unix, Linux and Mac OS X in order to provide scalability, flexibility and ease of integration with your current accounting and distribution systems. Most of all, we listen to you. The cornerstone of any commerce site developed by Orion Group is that it meets the needs of you and your customers.
What Are the Options?
Building an eCommerce solution is typically a balancing act between cost and functionality; however, you can have the best of both worlds. Orion Group offers you the option to pursue either a flexible, custom solution from the ground up or to start with a rich, full-featured framework to save your company money and reduce development time. For maximum flexibility and scalability Orion Group recommends a Java solution built on a web application server environment. For full functionality at the lowest cost Orion Group develops on top of the osCommerce framework in PHP. Both solutions are rock solid and platform independent preventing you from being boxed into expensive hosting situations down the road.
What Are the Advantages?
Each approach has its advantages. To help you distinguish between the tools a list of the key advantages of each is included below.
Orion Group Pre-built eCommerce Solution
- Full featured - everything you need and more for online retail
- Extremely cost-effective - most of the time consuming work has already been done
- Fast development cycle
- User friendly, both from a user and a maintenance perspective
- Can be hosted easily on virtually any platform
- Modular for easy incorporation of new features
- Customizable with the PHP language to any degree needed
Java and a Web Application Server Environment
- Complete Enterprise environment scalable to any situation
- Absolute flexibility
- Ideal for Business-to-Business interoperability
- Orion Group frameworks to speed the development cycle
- Can be hosted easily on Sun Certified Java Platforms
What About Security?
Orion Group utilizes the industry standard SSL (Secure Socket Layers) encryption for all web pages/sites that contain sensitive information such as credit card numbers or personal information. Our hosting services are all protected behind firewalls and run on one of the most bullet-proof systems today - UNIX. Anti-virus protection software and constant, automated monitoring round out our security measures.
What About Integration?
Getting information about your products and services on the web is the first big step, but it doesn't stop there. For a truly integrated solution, real-time connections to data such as order entry and inventory are required. Orion Group has over 15 years of experience with systems and database integration. The web development tools and databases we utilize run on multiple platforms and provide us with solutions that can integrate with most any in-house system. We can analyze your business needs and develop a cost effective and efficient solution.
What's the Next Step?
Similar to building a house, a quality eCommerce solution starts with the development of a strategic blueprint or plan for the site. This plan includes items such as online goals, your customer(s) profile, hosting options
 and many more important decisions that need to be addressed. We would like to help you take that first step. Orion Group has developed an in-depth electronic commerce questionnaire. It is designed to assist you in thinking through the many facets of an online commerce project from design to implementation. Please click the link below to fill out the questionnaire online or view/print a PDF version. As always, please contact us at sales@ogse.com or (574) 233-3401 to find out how we may be of service to you.
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