FAQ's: Take some time to browse through our list of Frequently Asked Questions. There is a good chance you might be able to save some valuable time if your question has already been answered.

• What is E-commerce and how can it help my business?
• Why should I host my web site at an ISP?
• What is Co-location?
• What is DSL, and how can I get it?
• What is Web-to-Host connectivity?
• What is Web Based data warehousing?
• What is Business Intelligence?
• What is Application Service Provider (ASP)?

E-commerce refers to web sites ability to quickly and easily allows you customers to purchase products over the Internet. E-commerce helps to improve you company image by showing that you are up to date technologically as well as increased sales potential because of the vast new market that it opens. You will literally have the ability to sell you products to anyone in the world. 

The costs involved with owning and operation you own web server can be great. By hosting your web site at an ISP you do not need to make the initial investment in hardware and software to build the web server, as well as the on going maintenance involved with keeping the server running twenty four hours a day seven days a week. To host your own server you would also need a large pipe to the Internet and again this can be very costly. We as an ISP are able to spread these costs over many customers and leverage the ability of the servers. 

Businesses that need to have a large scale web site with optimum performance and security want to have their own server. But, locating that server at your place of business requires a very large very reliable connection to the Internet. By co-locating (housing) your server at our location our huge connection to the Internet is used thus reducing your cost of ownership and increasing performance. We also provide maintenance services such as changing backup tapes on a regular basis. 

DSL is a low cost high performance connection to the Internet. Small to medium size business that need a fast Internet connection, but do not rely on it 100% for their business can benefit greatly from installing a DSL line. It will provide an always on fast connection to the Internet at a fraction of the cost of installing a Frame Relay or T-1 line. 

Gone are the days of special communication adapter cards, X-25, Datex-P and the like. Web to Host allows you to use standards access hosts without installing any other software. If the web browser is up and running and you have access to a website in the Intranet, Extranet or Internet, the host application is also available.

Most companies today are "data rich" and "information poor," as their ability to manipulate data and deliver information lags far behind the growth rate of the data.
Data warehousing and the Internet are the two key technologies that offer potential solutions for managing corporate data. Data warehousing liberates information, and the Internet makes it easy and less costly to access information from anywhere at anytime.
The data warehouse is a subject-oriented, integrated, nonvolatile; time-variant collection of data organized to support management needs. The purpose of a data warehouse is to facilitate managerial decision-making.

To enable organizations to gain competitive advantage, knowledge workers need to have access to relevant comprehensive information and analysis tools to make better decisions, faster.
GCS implements its solutions to help organizations understand customer buying patterns, identify sales and profit growth opportunities, and improve overall decision making. Business intelligence solutions enable decision-makers to be more effective by:
· Minimizing the time required collecting all relevant business information. 
· Automating the assimilation of the information into personalized intelligence. 
· Providing analysis tools for making comparisons and making intelligent decisions. 
· Closing the loop from decision to action

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