CEBIT PRESS RELEASE  3 March

BusinessRadar: emarketplaces + multimedia ecatalogues + trust building and ranking.
A new business cooperation model is emerging in Europe driven by the ultimate business technology.
Every moment European companies connect to internet in order to look for products, prices, sellers, buyers .
But they hardly find what they search, unless they get connected to specialized sources, such as emarketplaces or e-catalogues.
Furthermore they are not satisfied from larger anonymous demand/offer systems like the great American and Chinese E.marketplaces.
The principal barriers they suffer are the high number of online sources , their unfriendly and differenced interface, the lack of trust in performing transactions.

BusinessRadar provides easy access to hundreds online sources for trade leads and implements a scheme that builds trust among users.

That technology has been recently developed and released by Stelnet.com, an Italian company involved since 1994 in business technology and international cooperation for SMEs .
The European Commission, has placed great emphasis in policy actions on the critical role of innovation in ensuring European businesses stay competitive in the global economy. At the same time, competitive pressure provides powerful incentives for companies to continuously engage in innovation and R&D. Thus, innovation, competition and competitiveness are closely intertwined.
The ultimate edge Stelnet.com tecnologies are the result of the innovation projects funded by the Research and Innovation schemes from Italian and Sardinian Regional Research development boards.

By Business Radar you have an unique access point , a simple procedure to submit your business profiles and catalogues, a validation system that gives you “trust ranking” and facilitate online partnerships among the companies who interact in the platform.

All the members of the European Business Cooperation Networks (Euro Info Center members, active member of BRE – BC Net) have access to the Business Radar as certified partners and users: their profiles have a first class trust ranking.
International Chambers of Commerce are welcome, as well as business development agencies.
Companies can insert as many business profiles and catalogues as they want, it is free.
They also provide trust ranking to the other companies they deal with.
Users will pay a cheap fee only when they view valuable data and when accessing the trust ranking system.
Stelnet.com has its headquarters in Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy and is present in all the region of Italy with a Franchised Network with 55 Infobrokers.
That Cooperation model driven by BusinessRadar is now in its expansion phase.
Distributors for Business Radar and Master Franchisees for Franchised Scheme are wanted in alle the European Countries.
You can find Stelnet.com at Cebit at Hall 9, Stand B09
Special display: Italien Pavilion.

Info
www.stelnet.com
www.businessradar.it
Rosario Vargiu ross@stelnet.com  tel +39 070 503093

Abstract BusinessRadar is a new e-marketplace siystem designed and realized with a strong attitude to data exchanging between third parties emarketplaces and with an extremely friendly user interface. It has been conceived for SME’s. BusinessRadar uses web 2.0 concept and architecture. BusinessRadar has a multingual user interface and can be easily ported on different systems. Details BusinessRadar is an emarketplace system. The BusinessRadar core is an automatic system for feeding-in and feeding-out. Data come from sources that have a direct or networked agreement with Stelnet.com and from public available data. The data are controlled about consistency (contact, phone, fax, email, website). The gathered data have always time information (expiry date, post date) . A system of quality ranking is based on a new trust building model. Multilingual. All the contents are in english language. All the messages of the user interface are in separated message banks depending on language. In this way it is really easy and fast implementing new languages. The billing system is based on prepaid method . There are no subscription fees and the user pay for each lead- profile or company-profile view. Categorization. BusinessRadar has no (or poor) industrial category classification. The search is based on a strong thesaurus system. It works like a TAGGING system for every kind of product or service. WEB 2.0 . All data can be redistributed or gathered via WebServices. Depending on the level of user data flows via standard web 2.0 like SOAP, WSDL and RSS.