One of the largest German retail companies approached MicroDoc to review the design and architecture of their new e-commerce site. Up to this point the site was implemented using PHP but suffered from performance and extensibility problems. The first step for the new solution was to redesign the backend layer which was moved to a J2EE standard application server.

Support for platform-independent browser clients using IBM Web Services

With more than 1200 installations, the Bäurer "b2" product family (b2industry, b2trade, b2wincarat and b2power) is one of the leading Enterprise Resource Planning solutions for mid-size industries in Central Europe.

In the current economic climate in Germany, few businesses are expanding, and many IT budgets are frozen. However a significant new development is the privatization of Labor-sector job brokering. The task of successfully and cost-effectively matching out-of-work citizens to available jobs has previously been performed almost exclusively by the German Federal Department of Labor. The report of an independent commission in 2002 pointed the way to a future where this system is at least partly privatized, and the re-elected Schroeder government has pledged to implement this proposal. This will open up a tremendous potential for new business in information technology.

MicroDoc established business relations with IBM in 1995. IBM products are used by MicroDoc customers in various scenarios and MicroDoc supports a variety of IBM products with custom software and service offerings.

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