System Selection
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A Single-user PC Version of SPEC 2000
The simplest SPEC 2000 system is a single-user PC system. This gives you the facility to send and receive SPEC 2000 messages and will fulfil all your trading partner SPEC 2000 requirements.
You will require a PC and printer with a modem attached or Internet access via your LAN or Internet Router, linking you to the ARINC, SITA or Multilink EDI's Message Portal network. Messages will arrive through the modem or Internet, be validated by the SPEC 2000 software and be printed onto paper. You will then handle the message in exactly the same way as a message arriving by fax or post until the point where a response has been determined.
You will then need to complete a formatted message screen within the SPEC 2000 software and send the message across the ARINC, SITA or Multilink EDI's Message Portal network to your trading partner.
When you purchase a single-user PC version of SPEC 2000, you can upgrade to a LAN version at any time by only paying the difference in the two net prices. This allows your company to get to know SPEC 2000 and the benefits it can bring on a small scale, then develop the system at the pace which suits your organisation.
Benefits of a single-user system
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Fulfils all your trading partner requirements. |
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Low-cost set up. |
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Allows you to get to know SPEC 2000 on a small scale to see how your organisation benefits from SPEC 2000 before investing in a more sophisticated system |
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Requires only one PC and modem (or Internet Access depending on Network VAN) |
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Ideal for smaller organisations who only have one or two people handling SPEC 2000 transactions |
Multi-user LAN Version of SPEC 2000
We have a Local Area Network (LAN) version of SPEC 2000, available as a 2-6 user licence, 7-12 user licence and 12 plus user licence. One ‘gateway' PC links you to the network but each person on the LAN can have access to SPEC 2000 software to view and send messages. The gateway PC is linked to a printer to produce hard copies of the messages. The server holds master copies of the customer and/or supplier databases and message summaries so they can be backed up as part of your normal backup routine.
Each user on the LAN can be assigned individual SPEC 2000 access rights, giving you the capability of only allowing certain users to send certain messages, or limiting the functionality available to them.
The LAN version of SPEC 2000 will run on any network that can share files - e.g. Windows, Pathworks etc.
You can upgrade to a host integration system (SPECCOMM Plus) at any time, which is the natural path to expand SPEC 2000 as it reduces the extra element of manual intervention.
Adding SPECCOMM Plus to your LAN version of SPEC 2000 will cost no more than implementing SPECCOMM Plus in one step? When developing your SPEC 2000 system, you will never lose your initial investment.
Benefits of a multi-user LAN
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Allows expansion from a single user system as needs develop. |
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Enables more than one person to handle SPEC 2000 transactions at individual workstations. |
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Allows SPEC 2000 to be utilised on a LAN by more than one department within the organisation from different offices on the same site. |
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Eliminates need to share a SPEC 2000 terminal. |
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Requires only one ARINC/SITA Network or Multilink EDI's Message Portal connection. |
Host integration – linking SPEC 2000 to
your main computer system
For the complete automation of SPEC 2000, we have developed SPECCOMM Plus to feed messages directly into your main computer system, thus eliminating manual input.
SPEC 2000 software receives SPEC 2000 messages from ARINC, SITA, Internet or Multilink EDI's Message Portal and validates them. You can choose to either send the message through SPECCOMM Plus to your main computer system or keep the messages locally at PC level.
There are two options on how to transfer the message:
Direct transfer into the host
If your host uses a compliant database (MS SQL, Oracle, Informix, Sybase, Ingres, DB2, mySQL, MS-Access, ODBC, etc), SPECCOMM Plus will read or write SPEC 2000 messages directly into your database.
Multilink EDI's SPECCOMM Plus Query Builder.
Creating an ASCII file for the host to pick up and integrate
If the host does not use a compliant database, SPECCOMM Plus can take a SPEC 2000 message and map each field into the ASCII format that your main computer can understand. It will then deliver the ASCII message into a directory either within the main computer system or the PC for the main computer system to pick up and use. Your main computer system will then drop the responding ASCII file into another directory for SPECCOMM Plus to pick up and translate back into SPEC 2000 format and pass to the SPEC 2000 software for validation before being sent across the network to your trading partner.
A representation of a flat file is shown on the right in the above screen and fields from the SPEC 2000 message are dragged and dropped into their new position. Blank Padding characters can be added where required. When non-mandatory fields are received empty, empty field blank padding characters can be added or default data can be added to empty fields.
General Overview
SPECCOMM Plus allows you to choose which messages you wish to integrate with your main computer system. You can integrate any combination of messages and then, once you are happy with the way they are functioning, integrate further SPEC 2000 messages. SPECCOMM Plus allows you to build your integrated system at a speed that suits you.
There is no risk of anyone outside your organisation accessing your main computer system as SPECCOMM Plus merely offers the information to your system and it is up to you what your system does with it.
Your trading partners will be unaware that any change has taken place in the way you operate SPEC 2000 – apart from the fact that your speed of response will quicker, and easier and more efficient for you.
Download the SPECCOMM Plus
Information Pack:
(PDF Document - 510kb) http://www.spec2k.com/download/32SPINF2.pdf
Adding SPECCOMM Plus to a single-user PC version or multi-user LAN version
Many SPEC 2000 users are finding SPECCOMM Plus the natural path to expand SPEC 2000 as it reduces manual intervention.
Adding SPECCOMM Plus to a single-user PC, multi-user LAN or client/server versions of SPEC 2000 will cost no more than implementing SPECCOMM Plus in one step. You will simply be adding an additional facility.
When developing your Multilink EDI SPEC 2000 system you will never lose your initial investment.
The benefits of SPECCOMM Plus
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SPECCOMM Plus is the only main application link enabling direct file transfer into a number of leading databases |
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SPECCOMM Plus is the only main application link enabling heterogeneous queries |
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SPECCOMM Plus minimises the impact on your main computer system |
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SPECCOMM Plus minimises implementation time |
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SPECCOMM Plus reduces the systems expertise needed to integrate SPEC 2000 |
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SPECCOMM Plus minimises future systems maintenance |
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SPECCOMM Plus ensures you maintain control of your in-house systems |
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SPECCOMM Plus gives you the power to design a system to meet your individual requirements |
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SPECCOMM Plus enables you to build your system at a speed that suits you |