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Project profiles - round 8
The projects funded in Round 8 cover a range of regional and national initiatives. Many of the projects have a specific focus on small to medium sized enterprises (SMEs).
Secure Mobile Business Solutions for Small Businesses
This project will make available to small businesses in Ipswich and surrounding districts new technologies and business processes allowing them to use their mobile phones Short Messaging Service (SMS) or personal computers connected to the web to validate and process credit card payments anytime anywhere.
The potential benefits for SMEs will be:
- an improved level of service to customers and an increased business flexibility including the ability to conclude financial transactions in the field;
- improved business efficiency by reducing paperwork and improving cash flow by rapidly concluding each transaction at the point of sale resulting in fewer bad debts; and
- This process will provide on-line, real time authorisation and processing and reduce the exposure to fraud and post-event repudiation associated with credit card payments without compromising client security.
ITOL Funding: $80,000
Contact: thinking@1am.com.au
Development of a Detection System for Online Banking
This project will enhance the security of e-Business transactions by developing a prototype of an anomalous Behaviour Detection System. The system will be designed to detect and contain abnormal behaviour in an on-line banking environment. Once security protocols have been breached the system will profile and monitor transactions to track and limit intrusion by unauthorised users.
One of the project's overall objectives is to improve SME confidence in online banking. The initial analysis phase of the project will contain an extensive review of how SMEs use internet banking and the profiles of such usage so that anomalous behaviour can be readily identified. SME transaction patterns are believed to be significantly different to those of larger businesses.
ITOL Funding: $109,300
Contact: sgodinho@neuragenix.com
Best Practice E-Catalogue Management for Suppliers
This project will develop a best practice approach that will help suppliers reduce the cost and complexity of establishing and managing a dynamic electronic catalogue.
This project aims to demonstrate that a supplier can create and maintain a single master catalogue and publish it for different buying systems. An e-catalogue could then be published once but read by multiple buyers, using different applications, reducing the imposing burden of costs associated with recreating product information.
The project will be based around three different e-procurement scenarios, each with different requirements for making suppliers' catalogues available to buyers. Linking the three scenarios will be a documentation and analysis process that will provide a framework for analysing the requirements for catalogue creation and maintenance.
ITOL Funding: $199,800
Contact: chad.gates@ara.com.au
Collaborative B2B for SMEs in the Mining Industry
This project aims to provide an integration solution for SMEs that provide goods and services to the mining industry with the tools to cost-effectively participate in international electronic market places that are increasingly shaping the supply chain for the global mining industry.
The project aims to provide the B2B infrastructure to allow the exchange of transactional data, documents and messages between SMEs and their larger, e-Business enabled trading partners. It will also allow them to interact with smaller trading partners which have a low level of e-Business capability.
The project will develop a single integrated electronic and manual transaction solution and demonstrate the significant business benefits to SMEs of the back-end integration of B2B trading.
ITOL Funding: $185,000
Contact: rthompson@xmlyes.com