Netscape CommerceXpert Applications to Support XML to Enable Collaborative
Business Processes
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., March 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Netscape Communications
Corporation (Nasdaq: NSCP) today announced that it will integrate
comprehensive support for XML across its portfolio of e-commerce applications.
This process is enabling business customers to harness the benefits of XML to
streamline interoperability between companies to better manage their commerce
foundation in the Net Economy.
Continuing its ongoing support for open standards, Netscape is leveraging
XML, a common language for doing business on the Internet, to build real
business solutions for fast, flexible interactive communications. Support for
the XML language is a key ingredient to Netscape's e-commerce strategy that
will enable new cross-company business models. Netscape's implementation of
XML will support e-commerce transactions, business processes and catalog
exchanges.
The XML standard is designed to facilitate the exchange of online data and
be flexible to fit the individual needs of an enterprise. The language
provides a medium to identify Web content such as text and pictures so that it
can be read automatically.
The Netscape(R) CommerceXpert family of packaged applications enable
Internet commerce exchange, corporate procurement, online selling and customer
information services. Netscape CommerceXpert products that are scheduled to
support XML include Netscape(R) BuyerXpert, Netscape(R) ECXpert, Netscape(R)
SellerXpert and Netscape(R) TradingXpert.
"Netscape maintains strong leadership among IT vendors in providing
flexible e-commerce solutions, and a recent IDC report ranks Netscape first in
the industry for total sales of electronic commerce applications in 1998,"
said Steve Savignano, senior vice president and general manager of Netscape's
Application Products Division. "With Netscape's new XML strategy, we will
continue to lead the industry in providing customers with best-of-breed
solutions for competing and communicating in the Net Economy."
"XML is a foundational step for companies to align their business
processes and improve interactions with partners and customers, and RosettaNet
is working to define the common XML-based standard from which the IT community
can build its e-business infrastructure," said Fadi Chehade, chief executive
officer of RosettaNet, a consortium of IT supply chain partners working
together to define industry standards for their business-to-business
electronic commerce processes. "Netscape's XML support will clearly help to
drive standardization of software applications in order to facilitate
cross-company electronic commerce."
The Netscape CommerceXpert solutions are expected to use XML to facilitate
management of cross-company business processes between trading partners. For
example, ECXpert and TradingXpert allow companies to send and receive data
transmissions over the Internet, an Intranet or an Extranet in an encrypted
manner. Using XML as the enabling technology, customers can integrate
ECXpert's or TradingXpert's communications features with other industry
defined processes to build their own e-commerce structure.
Netscape's Internet procurement and selling solutions are expected to
support XML-based catalog exchanges, allowing both enterprise buyers and
suppliers to conduct communications with all partners on one flexible standard
to streamline processes and dramatically cut costs. Using the XML language,
companies can increase the number of suppliers and customers with which they
interact to expand business relationships, increase catalog content and help
drive revenue.
Netscape Communications Corporation is a leading provider of software and
services for businesses that want to transform the way they create and keep
customers in the emerging Net Economy. The company offers a full line of
enterprise software solutions, professional services, and a leading Internet
portal to help companies build, buy, or outsource Internet applications that
drive revenue growth, build customer loyalty, and create new levels of
business efficiency. Traded on Nasdaq under the symbol NSCP, Netscape
Communications Corporation is based in Mountain View, California.
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