Web-based Data Services for Product Definition, Asset Management and Investment Recovery

Dynaprice.com, Inc. is a New Jersey-based application services provider. It does the data processing for managing, redeploying, promoting the sale of, and selling used and surplus equipment and supplies. Its economical data services are delivered over the web to desktop and portable PCs used by its clients and require no in-house computer hardware, software, licenses, web hosting, or technical staff support.

Dynaprice was formed in 1999 to develop and market data services worldwide to professional stocking dealers in used equipment, to the Investment Recovery units of Fortune 500 companies, and others. Its clients currently include:

Fortune 500    Companies: AT&T DuPont Infineon AG (Germany) Lockheed Martin Nestle Purina Target Texas Instruments   Stocking Dealers for Used Equipment:   Manufacturers: AECI Catalyst Equipment Capovani Brothers Material Management Resources   Upstate Semi Parts First Nano Technology Stainless Design Concepts

Dynaspecs:  Metadata Management and Application Builders for Product Specifications

We joined ECCMA to bring our distinctive technology for building networked, multi-client data services with shared product description specifications into the world of NATO and industrial data standards.

We already standardize detailed, product specifications across the secure in-house and public websites of all our clients, line up standardized product descriptions for comparison in multi-client marketplaces for buyers on the web, and continually evolve product description metadata used within varied, client-customized business systems.

The diagram at right shows the technical architecture of our Dynaspecs facilities, which were designed from the beginning to support varied clients over the web.


An object-oriented product-description and operations design database -- the Dynaspecs Library with shared and client-specific segments -- drives automated application builder programs to generate customized, client-specific business applications. Those applications are delivered over the web from a central "web service" operated by Dynaprice, but can include linked subsystems that operate internally to each client, effectively behind their firewalls. (Our subsystems for internal redeployment of surplus assets operate this way today.) For each client, multiple subsystems can be networked together; for the collection of separate clients, multiple marketplaces can be assembled offering over the web collations of product data from them all.

We believe that the planned evolution of legacy FIIG-based Defense Logistics systems into frameworks based on web services supporting multiple National Coding Bureau and commercial-firm systems will drive toward an implementation that shares many characteristics of the systems we operate for our clients today:

	Easy web interface for managing product description metadata across multiple user groups;
	A central, multi-user, controlled-access website for building, editing, authorizing and evolving product description metadata;
	Immediate, automatic propagation of metadata changes to live instance data at multiple client locations;
	Application builders for sharing metadata and live instance data over the web within highly customized asset management and trading systems for multiple clients;
	Application builders for marketplaces using standardized product descriptions from multiple sources;
	Type-specific product-oriented search engines, product instance deduplication facilities, and use of multiple identities (manufacturer, OEM, distributor) for parts;
	Easy interfaces for XML data exchange and commercial ERP, inventory and similar systems.

We believe this is especially true of NATO demilitarization systems, whose functionality overlaps our established capabilities in asset management, redeployment, sales promotion and sale.

Dynaprice is working with ECCMA and ECCMA Member firms with greater experience in Defense Logistics and commercial systems interfacing to strengthen its already-proven data services and qualify them for use in applications beyond its established position in the investment recovery market.

For more information...

For more information and links to several of our web marketplaces and public client websites, please go to www.dynaprice.com.