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Background

QuestNet Ltd is the flagship business of QI Ltd, a multinational conglomerate with diverse business interests around the globe. Emerging from the success of QI subsidiary GOLDQUEST International Ltd, a world leader in numismatics, QuestNet was established to support the fast-growing network and customer base of the QI group of companies.

Through a successful network marketing approach, QuestNet provides services and support to Independent Representatives (IRs) and retail customers of the QI group, now totaling over 1,400,000 in more than 189 countries, through the sophisticated medium of e-commerce and a high-powered data processing centre.

Currently, QuestNet distributes numismatic products from GOLDQUEST, vacation memberships from Quest Vacation International, telecom products from Quest Technologies and financial solutions from Quest Financials.

The company is supported by an extensive network of representative offices in Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Taiwan and the United Arab Emirates, and a wholly owned subsidiary in India.

QuestNet represents the culmination of seven exciting and wonderful years of growing together with a dynamic team of Independent Representatives (IRs) and Customers who recognized that QuestNet has the best products and opportunity in the world. Since the launch of their great company that began as GoldQuest on the 8 September 1998, QuestNet has been committed to its mission.

QuestNet is evolving, as have its customers. Under the leadership of Mr. 'Ganesha' Kurt George Rocco Rinck, QuestNet has been transformed into a truly global network marketing company with a multi product platform that has:

• Multinational presence
• Solid financial standing
• Headquartered in Hong Kong
• Products marketed in over 189 countries worldwide
• A unique income opportunity supported with training,
• motivation and rewards for sales achievements
• People friendly, results oriented and ready to help partners

Microsoft .NET Architecture Based on Windows Server 2003

Adapting to change has always been important to business success. Today, however, change seems more rapid than ever. Companies merge, markets shift, competitors develop new products, and customers demand change, all with unprecedented speed. In today's business environment, staying ahead means continuously adapting to change—and making change work in your favor. To do that, business leaders need IT systems that support and enable their strategic decisions.

Today, more than 70 percent of their transactions are completed over the Internet, and GoldQuest expects turnover of $250 million (U.S.) this year.

GoldQuest's challenge was to strengthen its leadership position by continuing to make the best use of technology advances. To do so, it has standardized on Microsoft .NET as its development platform and systems architecture.

Solution

To host its mission-critical e-commerce operations, GoldQuest has deployed Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0 on a Microsoft Windows Server™ 2003 Enterprise Edition platform. GoldQuest's eStore handles between 3,000 and 10,000 transactions per week, with an average of 200 customers concurrently using the e-commerce facilities.

Benefits

With IIS 6.0 on Windows Server 2003, GoldQuest has improved productivity, customer service, and return on investment. Richard E. Zinkiewicz, Director of Finance and Chief Reputation Officer of GoldQuest International Limited, cites three main benefits of the .NET infrastructure:

It is a good fit with GoldQuest's .NET application environment. It offers enhanced system security and stability.

Ease of administration.

At the heart of Microsoft Visual Studio® .NET is the new and improved Microsoft .NET Framework, which provides improved scalability, security, and performance for rapidly building and integrating Web services and applications.

Combining the robust platform of Windows Server 2003 and the productivity in developing applications using Visual Studio .NET, the in-house development team of GoldQuest was able to complete the build-out of the eStore portal in less than three months. It also had experience using Web services for the GoldQuest payment credit card gateway.