With the alliance, the telco giant is targeting to sign up 250,000 SMEs by the end of 2003, said its chief executive Md. Khir Abdul Rahman.
"In the first 10 months since the launch of Netmyne 1, we raked in some RM7 million in revenue and signed up 3,000 SMEs. As we enhance the contents and add on a variety of applications in Netmyne 2, we expect the revenue from this ASP service to increase multifold," Md. Khir added at the launch of Netmyne 2 here today.
The first phase of Netmyne 2 will consist of four packages--Netmyne Corporation and Netmyne SME which will be made available to corporate customers end of November 2000; as well as Netmyne Scholar and Netmyne Home by end of next year.
Future service enhancement will include applications for sales force automation, customer relationship management, financial accounting, supply chain management and human resource management.
Charges for these services will be based on monthly per-seat and will include software upgrades, security, training, customer support and data storage and backup.
Customers, Md. Khir claimed will be able to have cost savings of between 60 to 70 percent in comparison to what they would be paying if they were to come up with their own Web sites and manage them.
Telekom Malaysia, he added, will also be looking at maximising the potential of wireless networks to deliver these services which will be rolled out by middle of next year.
"Later in 2001, business users will also be able to keep in touch with their most important information while on the go through devices such as Microsoft's Pocket PC and Smart Phones," he said.
Under the alliance, Microsoft will provide joint development and marketing efforts, product and support professionals as well as expertise from the Microsoft Partner Solution Centre labs for the development of future services, products and testing.
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