intelliChoice
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intelliChoice is a fully customizable, event driven web browser
add-in that automatically performs price comparisons
when a matching product is found against your product data
as a user surfs the Internet. Information can be displayed
in either a slide out panel, a toolbar, or as pop-up 'bubble'
from the Windows Task Bar.
intelliChoice is a great tool to boost your businesses
revenue by increasing the visibility and accessibility
of products and services available from your business. Product
data, or any other information you wish to show, can be pushed
to the client using intelliChoice, whether it be your members
or clients. This application can also be a good medium for
your business to constantly deliver promotional, highly targeted
and relevent messages.
Figure 1 - intelliChoice displaying product prices relevant
to what the user
is viewing on the internet.
intelliChoice can provide your business with exciting new
ways to generate revenue! intelliChoice can greatly benefit
businesses such as price comparison sites, online retail
sites, and other e-commerce sites that sell products and services.
"In August alone, more than 21 million online consumers
flocked to shopping comparison sites to research products,
prices, and merchants,"
Source: Nielsen/NetRatings - October 2003
"Price is a dominant factor in consumers'
preference of online retailers to purchase from."
Source: Channel Intelligence, Inc. - March 2003
Benefits to your business:
- Returns customers / members back to your siteresulting
in an increase in commission / referral revenue
- An additional medium to communicate promotional
messages to customers / members
- Increased visibility and accessibility of your products
and services
- Provide new ways to generate revenue - premium,
paid merchant listings
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Figure 2 - intelliChoice can be tailored to the branding
of a price comparison site
to deliver price comparisons and even targeted advertising
to customers. 
Figure 3 - Even with the panel closed customers will recieve
price alerts via the Windows Task Bar 'bubble' alert.
Technical Overview
intelliChoice is a high performance and robust Web Application
that runs in our SurfAssist framework
and utilizes our Page Query Web Service
technology. intelliChoice performs real-time price comparisons
on a range of different products over a range of different
domains, consuming additional ASP.NET web services to query
3rd party/external XML data feeds on the products it discovers
via the Page Query Web Service.
High levels of performance are achieved with the help of extensive caching and fast XML/XSLT transformations for page rendering.
intelliChoice is a Microsoft ASP.NET Web Application running on Microsoft Windows Server 2003 that uses a Microsoft SQL 2000 database and an XML file repository for data storage.
Supported Operating Systems: Windows 2000, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows NT, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP.
Features
- Pluggable business rules and application logic allow for custom needs depending on application events etc
- External user defined/configurable data access support
- Automatic product price comparisons while browsing
- Product cache system
- Independent browser/session state management
- Manual product search
- Live sites listing
- Most popular products
- Browsing history
- Product promotions
- Tell a friend Emailer
- Help module
- Panel can be closed - customers/members will still receive alerts via message bubble on taskbar (flexibility)
- Utilizes SurfAssist
- Utilizes PageQuery Web Service
- Compatible with Free Text Analysis Web Service
Benefits
- Easy to deploy - the system is deployed automatically via a web page
- Functionality - Performs automatic and manual searches for product price comparisons and other related functions from one convenient window within a web browser
- Automatic detection of failures - switches to alternate servers
- High performance, scalability and reliability
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