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IT Businesses Seek Opportunity at HK Expo
The Asian IT Expo 2001, opened Wednesday in Hong Kong, become a must-see for many IT professionals, corporate and business leaders to seek new business opportunities and explore the latest trends in the industry.
"I have participated in the expo in the last two years and found this kind of exhibition really helped promote the sale of my products," said Steve H.W. Chung, director of Visonmax Limited, a company engaged in producing digital cameras.
The expo, the 12th in its history, is Hong Kong's biggest solution show, and attracts 212 exhibitors from Australia, France, Denmark, Germany, Hong Kong SAR, Italy, Japan, South Korea, the Chinese mainland, Singapore, the United States, China's Taiwan, and so on.
Highlights of this year's expo include E-commerce, Mobile Commerce, Enterprise solutions, Application software, Broadband, Internet, E-security, E-learning and training.
In an exhibition area of 100,000 square feet, leading suppliers, including PCCW, Pacific Supernet, Hong Kong Article Numbering Association, Chevalier, ET Network, Diyixian.com, Palm, Guji Deutsche Telekom AG and Europe's largest telecom provider, made their appearance.
Exhibitors tend to introduce products and solutions more concrete and practical in order to cater for the need of the end- users, which is made apparent that many exhibits on display are tailor-made for small and medium enterprises which aim at sourcing cost effective measures to enhance productivity.
Macro System Limited initiated DAS-The Key Against Data Crisis as the main theme at the expo, focusing on how to implement DAS in Internet security management, and its main clients are SMEs.
Some companies favored mobile commerce products and displayed at the expo marketing hardware, the CRM software specially designed for property agents to develop relations with clients, and e-maps.
Amid the gloom over IT prospect and the global economy slowdown, many exhibitors admitted their sales are not as booming as one or two years ago. "Companies are now more reluctant to buy new IT products," said Faye Chan, senior consultant with Brio Technology.
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