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The coming of spring fosters a new start and we at Capris feel privileged to be your partner and would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your business. Our commitment remains un-waivered. We will continue to be a client centric business partner that operates on the traditional values of customer loyalty and trust.

Lately we discovered that many of our clients do not have a complete understanding of all the products and services we provide. We did start off primarily as a web/application development company, but since then we have evolved into much more.

For example, customers who only host with us, know us primarily as a hosting company. The same applies to customers for whom we did development work, they are unaware that we host and maintain applications as well. In fact Capris is a one-stop shop where web applications are built, maintained, hosted and optimized.

We offer a number of other ancillary services such as search engine optimization, credit card payments processing, site facelifts, standalone database optimization and development. Take some time to visit our new site at www.capris.com; we’ve made the site more informational and functional.

Our desire is to continually grow and enhance our relationships. As they say, there’s no better customer then the one you have right now! Let us explain how we can assist you with other areas of your web experience to improve traffic, graphic appeal, or embed functionality to support e-business.

If we can assist you with any of the services or products we offer, please call us first!

A couple of months ago we had the opportunity to revisit much of the applications built since we started in the web business several years ago. In many cases we noticed that even today, prospects are asking for applications that are in many cases 70 to 85 % functionally similar or identical to applications already developed.

Considering that financial restraints are always a factor with start-up initiatives, it may be more cost effective for clients to purchase applications off the shelf and use them as is. In this scenario, clients may also consider customizing off the shelf products to completely align product functionality with their specific requirements.

This approach is also practical for clients facing time restraints. For example the competitive pressures of launching a shopping cart application may be a more pending priority then waiting to develop a custom one. Buying something already built reduces the deployment time but may not completely address all business needs. In this case, the option of investing a fraction of the full development cost into an application already developed product may satisfy the 15 to 30 % gap in functionality.

Trends indicate that a business purchasing software "off the shelf" is usually experimenting and gauging success on a fairly aggressive timeline with limited expectations. If the online venture proves successful, development of custom applications is commissioned to address those gaps in functionality that off the shelf or pre-packaged products do not.

Businesses engaging in the development of custom online applications from scratch are investing in a longer-term strategy that is typically part of a strategic business plan with longer timelines and several key success factors. For example, in many cases larger online retailers are content to sell at lower margins with the objective of gradually increasing market share - and over time increased market share secures presence and market visibility.

Listed are some of the applications developed over the years that are ready for prime time. These applications are in production today, and have withstood the test of time. Please give us a call for further information and pricing. »

Fused Commerce:
The Capris Fused Commerce product provides a complete and self-contained order-processing environment. This database driven online store provides mutli-level product categories where each product has the ability to belong to more than one category. The product comes in a wide array of optional features and can be purchased or utilized under an ASP arrangement. The product is currently operational in an number of production environments and may be purchased in any of six different versions starting from the most basic to the most complex such as points redemption and rewards modules for loyalty based incentive programs. Multi currency as well as bi-lingual versions are available.

Stats4You.com:
Suitable for ISP's, hosting companies,and enterprise wide networks this state of the art web site statistical reporting and monitoring application will provide you and your customers with the information you need to determine the overall penetration level of your sites. Important statistics such as pages tracked, total visitors by hour and by weekday provide the data required to initiate site optimization efforts. Reports are generated in an attractive and easy to read graphical format. The product can be offered at different plan and rate structures, i.e. Basic or Professional Plan. Visit our www.Stats4You.com, and see what additional value you can bring to your customers today. Brand the product under your company name and away you go!

Shopping Cart Applications:
If you're ready to sell your products online, Capris can get you there in a hurry. We offer off-the-shelf unbranded simple shopping cart applications that require very little in the way of additional development. In most cases all that's required is embedding the application to your site and setting up a payment interface through our already running www.ChargeGateway.com service.

Online Poll and Survey Applications:
Web ready and easy to propagate online, publish your custom surveys online through an easy client interface. This module permits the traditional "Yes" or "No" responses as well as multiple-choice selections.

Portal Modules:
Brand your own portal! Why develop expensive portals from scratch? Capris offers vertically aligned portal templates with or without commerce support. Already developed portals include professional, manufacturing, and conservational. In many cases these templates will satisfy 80 % of your requirements - and that makes it worth buying!

Timecard and Project Time Recording:
If you're looking for a simple but effective online based timekeeping system for your employees or project team, let us show you Time Tracker! You'll be surprised how easy these modules can integrate into your existing infrastructure or run as a standalone application. Its rich and easy to use reporting engine will provide up-to-date time and project information online as well as provide a historical view of project and employee based time/billing entries.

is a browser based staffing and recruiting solution. Its intuitive design simplifies the details of staffing and recruiting into simple step-by-step procedures designed to integrate your efforts while increasing the efficiencies of the screening and recruitment process. Turbo staff is sold as a standalone product or can be delivered to your organization through our Application Service Provision model.

Grocery Store Catalogue and Shopping Carts:
Looking to build a grocery store shopping application online or maybe populate an existing one? Our grocery store database consists of over 30,000 digitized product images waiting to populate your application. We would also be happy to run and maintain this database on your behalf!

The Capris Call Management System (CCMS) provides automated call handling and elaborate reporting with single step data inputting, supported by fast and easy to use radio buttons. A number of screens are used to record call data such as caller, address, province, sector, and new/return caller together with many others. If you have a need to efficiently manage or automate your call center operations through a browser based application, call us today for more information - you'll be surprised at how cost effectively this can be achieved!

Since Capris is in the web development business, we see day in and day out how much time and care our customers take into ensuring their site contains the content, the right look, feel and most importantly the right level of marketing bells and whistles! Having a great looking and functional web site is great and is always the first step towards gaining online loyalty and popularity, but if your site is not easily found, its like keeping a beautiful convertible in your garage on a hot day!

Search engine optimization is also known as search engine positioning. Search engine marketing is the art of increasing your web site's visibility in the major search properties across a strategically defined set of keywords and phrases that apply to products or services offered on your site. Traditional search engine optimization services include the following:

The potential for companies marketing their products or services online is enormous. The web is growing at an exponential rate. There are currently in excess of 5 billion web documents, increasing at a rate of roughly 7 million per day. Every single day web users utilize the major search properties to launch over 400 million queries for products and services or just to get information. So unless you're doing something to make your web appear more visible than the millions of others competing for attention, your site will be no more prominent than a single star lost among a vast universe!

Capris search engine optimization service employs a powerful and proven strategy that brings immediate results. We will ensure that traffic to your site is targeted, qualified and ultimately productive. We will offer unique insights into the best online branding practices to help propel your site to the top of the search engines and to the forefront of your customer's minds.

Please visit our www.WebInformers.com site for further information or call us at (905) 507-8151. Its time to make the most out of your web investment and start realizing the ROI you know you can achieve.

Carr Mclean Ltd.

Carr McLean Ltd. approached Capris in April 2005 with the single minded goal of revamping its current website and shopping cart. They wanted to be able to offer their customers an all inclusive shopping experience. This shopping experience was to include an advanced ecommerce system with customer registration, secure login, and other customer-specific features through which the new system would store default discount, tax, and shipping information for each individual consumer based on their previous purchase order history. The launch of the revised website was scheduled for October 2005 and David Hatherley, Vice-President of IT/eCommerce of Carr McLean has reported that "The Shop Fast feature is getting a lot of use by our customers and a couple that I have spoken with truly appreciate it."
Carr McLean Ltd. is a Canadian owned and operated distributor of supplies, furniture, and shelving for libraries and archives to Customers across Canada and around the world for more than 46 years.

http://www.carrmclean.ca

Crossey Engineering Ltd. (CEL)

The Capris Group has recently completed work on CEL's website redesign project. The new site features a complete re-design of the graphical elements for CEL's old website, as well as offers CEL access to a wealth of automated functionality such as job posting and career management, survey administration, portfolio management and an image manager that allows CEL to update its website on a continual basis via an easy to use backend adminsitration panel. The graphical website has been integrated such that the dynamic and advanced features mentioned are powered by a database driven backend that can update the website in real-time or with a delayed time factor.
Founded in 1963, Crossey Engineering Ltd. is a multi-disciplined consulting engineering firm with more than 100 employees, offering electrical, mechanical, lighting, controls and commissioning engineering services to its prospective clients.

http://www.cel.ca

Genuine Health USA

Genuine Health, the Canadian nutritional supplement company best known for its product greens+, has now launched an e-commerce site for consumers in the United States. This new Capris-built website is available only to non-Canadians so as to avoid competing with their own Canadian retail customers. The US e-commerce website features fully automated order processing and returns plus unique product pages with informative and easy-to-read content. Genuine Health hopes to build the business in the US via the use of public relations and their spokespeople - health and fitness expert Crystal Andrus and renowned researcher Dr Alan Logan.

http://www.genuinehealth.com

eBodi.com
The world's most comprehensive health and fitness resource is now live! eBodi Inc. engaged Capris in a large scale health & lifestyle online application which consists of four distinct segments that work together to offer a cohesive plan for optimal health, nutrition & exercise for an individual. The engine features consist of databases of nutritional values and breakdowns of RDI values based on individual health conditions and combined with appropriate exercises together with over 650 exercise videos as well as motivational stimulation. The engine also features 'white label' capability to be utilized by franchisee or sublicensed environments.

Capris was involved in the planning, development and hosting of the application. The system uses Capris' ChargeGateway.com service for real time credit card processing & membership renewals, while traffic reporting and metrics is provided by Capris' ServerStat engine.

http://www.ebodi.com

It's been a tough year, but we are starting to see some signs of life, more particularly with small to medium size businesses. Most of these companies have already invested in some form of web presence. They are now beginning to see that although shaky 18 to 24 months ago, web based commerce is becoming a necessity rather than a luxury. Whether its buying goods or services over the Internet, booking appointments, requesting information, booking flights or cars or buying theater tickets, most of us now feel comfortable with the Internet as a viable and secure method in procuring products or services.

A boom in online consumer buying can also be attributed to the growing use of broadband links. Now all of a sudden, wherever there's cable – there's high-speed Internet access. E-business can be conducted from business to business or from business to consumer. In a B2B environment, businesses have set up formal arrangements where bilateral functions such as procurement of goods, logistical information, customer service and financial transactions can be conducted over the Internet in a secure, fast and reliable manner displacing many of the time consuming traditional methods of using faxes, phones and the mail system. In many cases, these e-commerce enabled sites are functionally integrated into much bigger and complex corporate IT systems, so when for example a procurement function is taking place between two companies, the inventory, scheduling, shipping and accounting systems are all updated dynamically making the system truly real time.

In the business to consumer (B2C) market segment retailers provide goods and services via shopping cart applications that run parallel on the client's web site. Capris has developed several of these carts in various industry verticals and also offers payment clearing services for credit card based purchases. If you are contemplating offering shopping cart functionality on your site, or potentially building a smaller site that just sells goods, please give us a call. We can offer of-the-shelf products, or we can build a custom module to suite all of your needs.