E-Business Solution for ASUKABOOK
Asukanet Co., Ltd. is based in Japan and has been creating digital photo products for Japan’s professional photographers since 1995. Asukanet is a worldwide leader in the imaging and printing area for professionals and is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Market. Cando realized the European websites and the central order system for Asukanet.
Under the brand ASUKABOOK Europe, more than 26 countries and several distributors are served by the new system. The state-of-the art e-business solution covers complex business processes from production to end-user self care, reflecting the multi-language, multi-currency and multi-vendor environment. Especially the EU specific regulations with its tax and VAT requirements for both business and consumer clients, was a challenge when implementing the shop part.
The new solution replaced the former US system, which was not suited well for the complexity and needs of the European market. Since 2008 the new ASUKABOOK Europe websites and e-business platform is running smoothly and grows continuously.
Customer: Asukanet Co. Ltd.
Keywords: Website CMS, E-Business Solution, E-Shop, Production Interface, Finance Interface, Marketing Tools, Translation Tools, Multivendor Support (whitelabling),
Technology: Custom Development, Open Source, PHP, mySQL, AJAX, Flash
