Symphox

As the corporate information era is getting more complicated day after day, an enterprise not only can expedite the execution of commercial application program through the high-speed network, but the integration and application of information becomes an index of an enterprise’s competitiveness. How to lower cost and improve efficiency by the power of information integration becomes the operational goal of many enterprises this year.

Symphox, a member of Lin Yuan Group, has been putting up its effort on the ISP and IDC information integration service and seeking for better growth has established a quality management procedure complying with international ISO. A R&D department was set up to invest more efforts on local Internet service quality and financial information integration technology.

Looking back at 2002, Symphox completed the whole island VPN construction for the largest local insurance company and provided Taiwan merchants with the MPLS VPN services in three places between the Strait. Both of the videoconference system integrated services and e-Mall had quite a good result, and were welcomed by many customers. In 2002, the number of Symphox’s corporate users were close to 200, and the revenue was about NT$460 million.

Looking into the future at 2003, Symphox’s core business will continue providing financial network platform integrated service, including value-added services such as network hardware planning, network surveillance, security control mechanisms, and network resource integration, etc. and will also aggressively work with the telecommunications industry of the Mainland for the virtual private network (VPN) in three places between the Straits to provide better quality and multifunctional value-added services. In the meantime, Symphox also made the first step in the e-Commerce area, and will integrate the resources of 6 million insurance accounts to officially introduce the Cathay Mall www.istore.com.tw/istore/index.jsp for external business operation. The expected growth of revenue in 2003 is over 30％.

Under the full support of Lin Yueh Group, Symphox will be able to provide a reliable Internet information integrated service for small to mid-sized enterprises. Symphox will increase 20％ investment in the budgets for staff training and product R&D to pursue better service quality. In the future, Symphox’s R&D team, directly under the supervision of the General Manager, will develop superior backup at different locations and remote storage surveillance services and lower the costs for small to mid-sized enterprises and focus on its own business operation. In the meantime, Symphox will expand the R&D team and make a more positive arrangement for the information integration market as Taiwan merchants are entering into the market of three places between the Strait.