| | 1.2 Demand 16. Mission is Any Number Of Locations | | |
---|
1.2.16. Mission is Any Number Of Locations: | Customer demands for localization are continually growing, but frequently undocumented. Users demand that their own local language and terminology is professionally supported. Users demand that their own local currency is professionally supported. Users demand that they can work from any location and not only when in the office. Users are demanding the ability to sign-in when on vaction or travelling in a different country. | Application services are provided for the benefit of users and must not inhibit a user from doing their normal work in the way that best suites their local need. |
Business Requirement: | The number one business requirement is for Localization where any authorized user is able to access business data in their local language, using their local currency and from any location in any country. When a person is not able to do business in one location that they can in a different location for any reason, then the number one business requirement becomes Localization. | Localization means application service support for: | * any (European right-to-left) language. | * multiple currencies with means to reconcile back to a base currency. | * time zones in any country. | * multiple branch office locations. |
6. Localization: | Support is provided for most human languages in the world. UTF-8 is the HTML language encoding deployed used to match all user requirements. While some people are very good at using other languages, each company has a duty of care to ensure that staff are given the correct tools to do the job. Where a person was asked to work in a language that they were not fully conversant in, then any errors they make may be classified as due to the company not providing adequate facilities. | Companies have a duty of care to provide staff with application services that are suitable and relevant for each local language, currency and timezone. |
All approved countries and locations: | Support for a selected set of countries and office locations is implemented with data control security to issolate office data and to reject anything from unauthorized countries. People may be authorized to work from an office location and may be authorized to work from a home or roaming locations. |
All approved countries and locations: | User sign on is implemented with many layers of identification and security to keep authorized users safe and to blacklist any criminal actions. |
Multi-Currency: | Financial Application services automatically support multiple-currencies. A base currency code of GBP, USD or EUR must be defined, but then conversion between currencies is built into management information reports. |
All approved countries and locations: | User sign on is implemented with many layers of identification and security to keep authorized users safe and to blacklist any criminal actions. |
User Profile: | Each user profile defines the users preferred language - management information and business documents can be selected in any human language. | Each site profile defines the sites base currency - management information and business documents can be selected to show any selected currency. |
Multiple Language Support: | All Western languages using a left-to-right latin (Windows-1252 and ISO-8859-1) alphabet are supported for normal HTML web pages. | This means a Western keyboard with A to Z, a to z and 0 to 9 with a few symbols are supported by all computers and smart phones. | Most European vowel symbols are included in ISO-8859-1, but a different alphabet such as Greek is not included. |
Latin-1 Language Support: | 01. English. | 02. American. | 03. German Deutsch. | 04. French Francais. | 05. Spanish Espanol. | 06. Portugeese Portugues. | 07. Italian Italiano. | 08. Dutch Nederlands. | 09. Belgian. | 10. Danish Dansk. | 11. Norwegian Norsk. | 12. Swedish Svenska. | 13. Swahili. | 14. Malay. | 15. Indonesian Bahasa Indonesia. | 16. Icelandic. | 17. Finnish. | 18. Faroese. | 19. Glaician Galego. | 20. Catalan Catala. | 21. Basque. | 22. Afrikaans. | 23. Polish Polski. | Many hundreds of countries are supported including Western Europe, Sub-Saharan Africa, Austro-Asia, North and South America. International business, telecommunications, computing, aviation and freight is conducted using the Latin-1 character set. |
|
|