DEMP – Distributed Electronic Marketplace

In today’s rapidly changing world, the greatest success is achieving by those companies  that  use the latest techniques as an instrument of growth. Following its mission to move the cutting-edge technologies into market,  Institute of Physics (IOP)  , National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NASU) , has  launched in operation the Distributed  Electronic Marketplace or DEMP.

The DEMP is design to have three levels: front-end,  middle, and back-end.

The central part of the front-end is our official   e-marketplace  – IOP^2B

IOP^2B is an acronym that stands for IOP to Business. Our electronic marketplace will serve customers all round the world and give them  24 x 7 hours support. The  DEMP’s front-end includes also the number of  various branches, particularly  at Alibaba.com , at TwFTA.com , etc. each of them targets the specific market niche.

The  middle-level of the DEMP  is represented by  our Electronic  Technology Transfer Office or e-TTO.

The back-end is formed by our Knowledge Sharing & Collaborative Platform  (utilizing  various Virtual Team Space tools) that  allows the  e-TTO to share custom requests  withing  the best professionals  of our organization in synchronous, semisynchronous and asynchronous ways and, consequently to engage them, virtually at the speed of light,  in the customs’ problems solving.

DEMP  gives  an access to a broad range of knowledge-intensive products developed in Institute of Physics , NASU : modern cryostat systems, laser micromachining products, plasma based techniques, pyroelectric products, holographic products, IR-censors, etc.

To facilitate  the endeavor of business companies in finding the best hi-tech products in the market , IOP^2B blog will keep everyone abreast  of the latest developments relevant to  IOP’s activity.

Benefits of DEMP

With the obligatory announcement of DEMP launching out of the way, let us take a look at some of its benefits.

There are four major benefits for customers to use our DEMP system:

• Innovative and/or providing  decision support to customers
• Easing access to and interaction with the subject-matter experts from our Institute
• Increasing quality of services
• Saving time and money to get products/services urgently needed

In any e-marketplace, people are the crucial  ingredient. None of the customers’ needs can be fulfilled without people who are willing to share their expertize and knowledge and whom customers are willing to trust. This is a specially true for e-commerce. DEMP allows to keep the trust level high and the sharing effective.