These already include SA's first SET banking system and McCarthy Retail's ground-breaking Website. It already confronts us daily from supermarket purchases to ATMs. Cellular phones and the Internet are now entering this playing field. Business faces external challenges of servicing customers, building relationships electronically and mining client data baskets. At the retail commerce and financial service levels, client data- bases, once the preserve of card issuers, will be an open playing field.
Databases stem from the contact point with the client.
It all makes Prism a worthy member of the top IT company log and one likely to continue capturing much investor interest. Softline in many respects treads a parallel path to Prism's. Much depends on Softline's success in transferring its real world technology into the new virtual world. The business is automatically and fully integrated into back-office accounting systems. Still making the top company grade in terms of market capitalisation, Comparex has waned in terms of its market rating.