Ligna Launches New Site Powered by FURNISHWEB

Ligna Furniture's new public website is powered by FurnishWEB.

Storing their photos in the Photo Library not only makes them easy to manage it automatically resizes and exports them for use on their public website. Eliminating the need to upload high-res photography for customers to download and then upload and resizing the images for their public site.

Exporting the product information from FurnishWEB allows their public website to always be in sync with their product catalog. Product updates are transfered to the public website automatically from FurnishWEB.

If you would like more information on how FurnishWEB can help automate your public website don't hesitate to contact us.

FurnishWEB makes Business Easier for A.R.T

A.R.T. Furniture To Open East Coast Warehouse

“Our advantages, which now include the ability to mix up to five collections in one container from China, the warehouse capabilities on both coasts, and the option for retailers to check stock online and monitor their shipment status through FurnishWeb, make it easier to do business with A.R.T,” Sibbick said. “These logistics capabilities complement the many quality features and benefits, such as our superior finishes, that have made our collections so successful.”

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FurnishWEB in Furniture Today.

Our very own Barry Welch was interviewed about technology in the furniture industry, read about it in the current issue of Furniture Today.

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Q: What do you see as the most important issue in 2008 as it relates to your business, and why?

"I'm probably not alone in being anxious about the economy in 2008. Increasing inflation, declining housing sales and a decrease in consumer confidence have created an environment of apprehension. In addition, there is a profound element of change within the furniture industry. Manufacturers are becoming distributors, retailers are becoming importers, offshore suppliers are becoming wholesalers and big discount stores are selling furniture as a commodity. Given this economic climate, many furniture companies are responding by pulling back new expenditures, especially investment in technologies.

"Our challenge in 2008 lies in identifying organizations that are interested in finding the opportunities inherently created in times of change: opportunity to analyze and streamline systems and procedures; opportunity to promote and retain their best and brightest people; opportunity to form new relationships and alliances. By focusing on our customers' needs and our users' ideas, we can contribute to their success. Our experience developing Web-based applications for the furniture industry concentrates on providing key data and collaboration tools for sales representatives, buyers and customer service workers. Existing clients are well aware that our flagship program, FurnishWEB, saves them time and money, but identifying new clients that have the vision to make the investment in this environment is certainly a challenge."

Barry Welch, president, Internet Databases

Welcome Ligo Products

Ligo Products Selects FurnishWEB

Blacksburg, VA (November 12, 2007)

Internet Databases is proud to announce that Ligo Products has selected FurnishWEB to satisfy their sales force collaboration requirements. The extranet system, FurnishWEB, pushes the manufacturer’s critical order and product information to the internet making it available to password protected users online.

According to Kenneth Huang, vice president of operations, the company’s goal is to make doing business with Ligo Products as easy as possible for its customers. “FurnishWEB helps us accomplish this by providing a state-of-the-art service that streamlines the sales support functions and it is very easy to use. By logging into a secure account from the Ligo Products website, sales representatives can explore a wide range of data that until now was only accessible through the corporate office.”

FurnishWEB is a furniture industry web service designed to automate the sales and customer service functions for furniture manufacturers and importers. FurnishWEB makes critical information available online by linking to data such as orders, customers, invoices, and inventory from back-office accounting packages. By invitation, sales representatives have self-service access to their associated data; eliminating the need to make a phone call, send a fax, or email the factory.

“Customer service phone calls, order acknowledgement mailings, producing and emailing sales reports; these processes are time-consuming and the data can get stale,” says Mr. Huang, “but using FurnishWEB, our sales force can access timely and accurate information anytime, anywhere via the internet.”

“We are very excited to add Ligo Products to our growing list of clients, “ says Barry Welch, President of Internet Databases Corporation and creator of FurnishWEB. “The furniture industry is changing rapidly and FurnishWEB is proving to be a fabulous tool for manufacturers looking for ways to work more effectively in this new environment.”

ABOUT LIGO PRODUCTS – Ligo Products has been one of America’s leading importers of solid wood furniture during the past 15 years. Founder and president, Dr. S. S. Lee, began importing furniture from Thailand in 1989. Since that time Ligo’s product line has grown to include casual dining, occasional tables, barstools, and game sets. Ligo’s warehouse facility is centrally located in Mokena, IL and has 350,000 square feet of storage and assembly space.

ABOUT INTERNET DATABASES - Internet Databases of Blacksburg, Virginia is a custom web development company that has been serving the furniture industry since 1999. The internet software provider develops custom solutions that enhance customer relationships through business-to-business transactions, sales force automation, online catalogs, and online order processing. FurnishWEB is an order management extranet targeted at domestic furniture manufacturers and importers. The subscription-based application has features that include online order entry and status; product information and inventory status; photo library and sales and management reporting.

For more information visit www.furnishweb.com or contact a representative at info@furnishweb.com.

Welcome Somerton Home Furnishings

Somerton Home Furnishings Goes Live on Internet Databases’ FurnishWEB Solution

Blacksburg, VA (October 20, 2007)

Internet Databases, a leading furniture industry web development company, announced that Somerton Home Furnishings has implemented Internet Databases’ FurnishWEB sales support, order management, and customer service solution. With FurnishWEB, Somerton will improve order fulfillment, empower their sales representatives, and increase customer satisfaction.

“It was an easy decision to provide our sales representatives with online product and inventory data”, says operations manager Rita Ho. “Having this knowledge along with order and invoice reporting only helps us better serve our customers.”

With FurnishWEB, Somerton will also take orders via the web. This will allow the manufacturer to take domestic and container orders 24 hours per day. “FurnsihWEB’s OrderPad is a simple and convenient way to speed up the order entry process and reduce keying errors,” says Rita Ho.

“We are excited to partner with a strong company like Somerton Home Furnishings and we look forward to helping the company continue their success”, says Barry Welch, President of Internet Databases

ABOUT SOMERTON HOME FURNISHINGS – Somerton Home Furnishings of Corona, California is a case goods importer and the U.S. marketing arm of Chinese manufacturer Kingstone Furniture. Somerton sells bedroom, dining room and entertainment furniture at medium prices.

ABOUT INTERNET DATABASES - Internet Databases of Blacksburg, Virginia is a custom web development company that has been serving the furniture industry since 1999. The internet software provider develops custom solutions that enhance customer relationships through business-to-business transactions, sales force automation, online catalogs, and online order processing. FurnishWEB is an order management extranet targeted at domestic furniture manufacturers and importers. The subscription-based application has features that include online order entry and status; product information and inventory status; photo library and sales and management reporting.

For more information visit www.furnishweb.com or contact a representative at info@furnishweb.com.

Welcome A.R.T. Furniture

A.R.T. Furniture Launches FurnishWEB Extranet

Blacksburg, VA (September 27, 2007): Internet Databases, a leading furniture industry web development company, is pleased to announce that A.R.T Furniture has launched the order management extranet FurnishWEB. FurnishWEB is a monthly subscription service that offers powerful sales automation and customer service capabilities in a simple, easy-to-use package.

“We are pleased with our new association with the industry web service”, said CEO Ed Grund of A.R.T. Furniture, “We see FurnishWEB as supporting our future.”

The FurnishWEB system publishes product and order information, stock availability and other reports online in a secure environment which allows A.R.T. Furniture’s sales force and customers to proactively answer their own inquiries on orders and inventory, thereby improving response time and accuracy. “FurnishWEB will assist our sales and customer service teams in accommodating our continued growth” said Mr. Grund. “Our sales representatives are very enthusiastic about the order entry and email collaboration aspects of the program. And we’re already improving our communication during the sales and order process”.

“We are very happy that A.R.T. Furniture chose to implement FurnishWEB”, says Barry Welch, President of Internet Databases. “Their sales management and sales representatives have an infectious enthusiasm for improving communications. They have been great to work with”.

ABOUT A.R.T. FURNITURE - A.R.T., a four-year old company with twenty full collections of furniture, appeals to upper moderate to better furniture retailers. The company, headquartered in Ontario, California, has a new 40,000 square feet showroom in High Point and also a permanent showroom in World Market Center in Las Vegas.

ABOUT INTERNET DATABASES - Internet Databases of Blacksburg, Virginia is a custom web development company that has been serving the furniture industry since 1999. The internet software provider develops custom solutions that enhance customer relationships through business-to-business transactions, sales force automation, online catalogs, and online order processing. FurnishWEB is an order management extranet targeted at domestic furniture manufacturers and importers. The subscription-based application has features that include online order entry and status; product information and inventory status; photo library and sales and management reporting.

For more information visit www.furnishweb.com or contact a representative at info@furnishweb.com.

A-America

BRIDGEWATER, N.J. and BLACKSBURG, Va., March 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Apprise Software, Inc., a leading provider of integrated ERP and supply chain management solutions for consumer goods distributors, and Internet Databases, a leading internet software provider focused on developing custom solutions for the home furnishings industry that enhance customer relationships through business-to-business transactions, sales force automation, online catalogs and order processing, announced today that A-America, Inc. has integrated its ERP application - Apprise(R) Distribution - with Internet Databases' FurnishWEB application to achieve improved sales efficiencies and enhanced customer service levels.

Headquartered in Seattle, WA, A-America is a leading importer and distributor of home furnishings for the bedroom, dining room, and home office. For over 30 years, A-America has had a history of profitable growth providing quality home furnishings, at competitive prices, to specialty and large chain furniture retailers throughout the United States and Canada. In a highly competitive market, A-America has been able to reduce costs, increase efficiencies, and deliver improved service to customers by consistently focusing on operational improvements.

A-America faced the challenge of needing to empower its representatives with improved access to real-time information on dealers, inventories, and pricing so they could sell more efficiently and provide better service to customers, without risking the security of its data that could come from providing representatives with access to its core ERP application. "A new representative told us about FurnishWEB, and we were excited to learn how easily it could be integrated with Apprise Distribution," said Kurtis Beach, information systems manager for A-America. A-America utilizes an automated daily update to share data between Apprise Distribution and FurnishWEB, giving representatives secure, real-time access to only the relevant information they need. "Our data remains secure, and we have a way to communicate real-time, accurate information to our representatives," continued Beach. "As a result, since its launch at the Las Vegas Market in January 2007, we've seen improved sales efficiencies, increased sales, and higher levels of customer service."

Apprise Distribution utilizes Web services to expose data elements for interoperability with external systems. Customers can easily integrate it with other applications utilizing Web services, ODBC connections, and/or an EDI interface. In addition to inventory and pricing information, Apprise Distribution and FurnishWEB can be further integrated to share additional data for extended application use, including order entry, order tracking, and invoice reporting. Extensive standard and customizable reports are available through both Apprise Distribution and FurnishWEB in a variety of formats and outputs.

"We are pleased to be working with Apprise Software to jointly provide tightly integrated solutions that meet the needs of the home furnishings industry," said Barry Welch, president of Internet Databases. "Together, we can offer customers a true beginning-to-end solution that will help them improve operating efficiencies and increase profitability."

"Through the integration with FurnishWEB, we are able to help our customers extend the value of their Apprise Distribution application to their representatives, without risking their data security," said Jeff Broadhurst, president of Apprise Software, Inc. "We look forward to continuing to work with Internet Databases to provide customers with leading industry-tailored solutions that deliver business performance improvements and a quick return on investment."

About A-America, Inc.

Headquartered in Seattle, WA, A-America is a leading importer and distributor of home furnishings for the bedroom, dining room and home office. For over 30 years, A-America has had a history of profitable growth providing quality home furnishings, at competitive prices, to specialty and large chain furniture retailers throughout the United States and Canada. In a highly competitive market, A-America has been able to reduce costs, increase efficiencies and deliver improved service to customers by consistently focusing on operational improvements. For more information about A-America, Inc. please visit http://www.a-america.com.

About Apprise Software, Inc.

Founded in 1984, and with offices in North America and China, Apprise Software, Inc. is a leading provider of enterprise-wide software solutions for mid-sized consumer goods distributors. Leveraging the latest technologies - such as Microsoft(R) .NET, wireless warehouse solutions, and RFID - along with industry best-practices, Apprise Software provides consumer goods distributors with global solutions that meet their unique business requirements while delivering reduced costs, improved efficiencies, enhanced revenues and profitability, and a quick return on investment. For more information about Apprise Software, Inc. please visit http://www.apprise.com.

RiversEdge

RiversEdge Implements Online FurnishWEB Application

Lynchburg, VA Manufacturer Subscribes To Order Management Extranet

Lynchburg, Va, March 21, 2007 – RiversEdge is proud to introduce their association with a state of the art web service application called FurnishWEB. The system pushes the manufacturer’s critical order and product information to the internet making it available to password protected users online. Providing product and order information, stock availability and other reports to sales reps and RiversEdge dealers allows them to proactively answer their own inquiries on orders and inventory, improving response time and accuracy.

“FurnishWEB will take us to the leading edge with the state of the art format that displays live accurate data with only the touch of a button,” says Wayne Willis, Systems manager for RiversEdge Furniture. By logging into a secure account from the RiversEdge website, sales reps and dealers can explore a wide variety of information that until now could only be accessed by the corporate office. Linked to RiversEdge’s current enterprise software system, FurnishWEB imports the required dealer, order and inventory data at scheduled times during the day, and has the ability to export new customer orders back into the main RiversEdge database. This allows dealers and reps to view information such as inventory and order status directly, providing better customer support.

“We are very excited to add RiversEdge to our growing list of clients, “ says Barry Welch, President of Internet Databases Corporation and creator of FurnishWEB. “The furniture industry has made rapid changes from a primarily manufacturing environment to a more distribution-oriented model. FurnishWEB is proving to be a fabulous tool for manufacturers looking for ways to work more effectively in this new environment.”

ABOUT INTERNET DATABASES - Internet Databases of Blacksburg Virginia is a custom web development company that has been serving the furniture industry since 1999. The internet software provider develops custom solutions that enhance customer relationships through business-to-business transactions, sales force automation, online catalogs, and online order processing. FurnishWEB is an order management extranet targeted at domestic furniture manufacturers and importers. The subscription-based application has features that include online order entry and status; product information and inventory status; photo library and sales and management reporting.

For more information visit www.furnishweb.com or contact a representative at info@furnishweb.com.

Furnishweb Turns 1

Furniture Industry Extranet Gains Eight Manufacturing Clients In One Year.

BLACKSBURG, VA (PRWEB) March 9, 2007 -- FurnishWEB, an order management extranet, finished its first year with a total of eight manufacturing clients including Bassett Mirror, RiversEdge, Pulaski Furniture and AAmerica. These clients represent over 900 users and more than 600 furniture retailers who search for product and order information 21,000 times a month and download over 16,000 photographs. FurnishWEB is an internet application that allows manufacturers, sales representatives and furniture retailers to share relevant product and order information via password protected access to the website.

"We are very encouraged by the success of our first year," said Barry Welch, president of Internet Databases, the parent company of FurnishWEB. "We attribute our growth to several things. The furniture industry is a rapidly changing environment and manufacturers are looking for ways to manage these changes. The old business model is no longer effective and technology provides the solution. Our employees love technology, but what distinguishes us is our thorough understanding of the furniture business. This has allowed us to create an incredibly powerful tool, in a deceptively simple package. The result is a product that our users are selling for us," he said, explaining that nearly all of their clients are the result of referrals.

FurnishWEB has plans to build on these early gains by extending the feature set and has recently launched a new release. FurnishWEB 3.0 added accounts receivable functionality as well as enhancements to the photo library. "Our goal is to provide manufacturers with a system that allows them to more effectively manage the sales cycle."

About FurnishWEB and Internet Databases
Internet Databases of Blacksburg Virginia is a custom web development company that has been serving the furniture industry since 1999. After creating several large, custom dealer extranets and recognizing the demand for common business requirements, they developed FurnishWEB, an off-the-shelf product. FurnishWEB is a subscription-based application targeted at domestic furniture manufacturers and importers, and has features that include online order entry and status; product information and inventory status; photo library and sales and management reporting.

To learn more, please visit www.furnishweb.com or call 540.443.9250.

FurnishWEB Reflects Well on Bassett Mirror

“It was a good investment,” says Spencer Morten regarding the decision to subscribe to the internet product that extends select back office data to the web in a secure environment. The CEO of the leading ....

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Intercon partners with new web service application

Intercon is proud to introduce their new online back-office system available just in time for the Las Vegas Winter market. Powered by a state of the art web service application called FurnishWEB, the online back-office system provides order entry, order management, product information, stock availability and other reports ...

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