Rendition Makes Store-in-Store Selling Possible for B2B Commerce
SAN JOSE, Calif., April 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Patkai Networks
(http://www.patkai.com), a leading provider of infrastructure software for enabling
buyers and suppliers, today announced general availability of Patkai
Rendition(TM) at Web Services World / SD 2001. Using a Web services model,
Patkai Rendition enables companies to deliver dynamic and real-time
customer-facing applications directly to target customers through online sales
channels. With Rendition, manufacturers can deliver dynamic catalogs, dynamic
pricing, advisors and configuration guides at the point of decision through
any online channel. When buyers make the right product decisions, sales
support and customer service costs are lower for all channel members.
Using Rendition, companies can deliver a real-time rendition of their
sell-side applications to business partners while maintaining authenticated
and secure interactions. Only Patkai enables companies to publish existing
applications -- complete with presentation and business logic -- so that
business partners can embed these processes within their own systems. Existing
integration solutions are expensive, difficult and don't address
customer-facing applications.
"Rendition addresses the first demonstrated business need for Web
services," said Ranjan Das, CEO of Patkai. "Sell-side B2B collaboration
requires security, dynamic business rules and the ability to integrate
business processes. Patkai is the first to identify the success factors and
our customer traction demonstrates that Rendition is executing on the promise
of B2B collaboration and the real-time enterprise."
Business Critical Solution Beyond Services Infrastructure
Patkai Rendition is vendor-neutral, and can create interactive Web
services from custom and packaged commerce applications. Based on the
emerging Web services architecture standards SOAP and XML, Rendition directly
complements and extends the Web services offerings from major eBusiness
platform providers such as Microsoft (.NET), IBM, HP (e-speak), Oracle
(Dynamic Services) and Sun (ONE). Using Rendition, companies publish limited
and controlled sets of applications as Web services and their business
partners subscribe to the service. The application is locally available and
centrally served, maintained and updated.
The Rendition Suite includes the complete set of tools needed to capture
and package applications, distribute services to business partners, and scale
runtime environments between service publishers and service subscribers.
Rendition Lowers Costs and Resolves Channel Pain Points
-- Enables buyers to make faster, easier and more accurate decisions based
on manufacturers' selling applications at the point of sale
-- Simpler buying process with complete information, less confusion and
fewer product support inquiries
-- Everything buyers need for self-service and self-selection with the
right information at the right time to choose the right product
-- Enables suppliers to move to more sophisticated store-in-store selling
with real-time applications such as dynamic catalogs, dynamic pricing,
sales advisors and product selectors for online channels
-- Makes channels more effective and lowers customer support costs with
educated and informed customers -- differentiation on services instead
of price
-- Scalable Web services model for publishing to large numbers of channel
partners that do minimal integration and can preserve individual
entitlements
Pricing and Availability
Still in public preview, Rendition is generally available in April 2001.
Contact sales@patkai.com for pricing and licensing information.
System Requirements
Patkai Rendition runs on the Sun Solaris, Microsoft Windows NT and
Microsoft Windows 2000 server operating systems.
About Patkai Networks
Patkai is a venture-backed startup leading B2B collaboration through
sell-side innovation. Businesses selling complex products in competitive
markets use Patkai Rendition to deliver real-time customer facing applications
as Web services throughout their sales channel and business partner networks.
Strategic partners include Siebel and Inventa, a major eBusiness systems
integrator.
NOTE: Patkai and Patkai Rendition are either registered trademarks or
trademarks of Patkai Networks, Inc. in the United States and/or other
countries. The names of actual companies and products mentioned herein may be
the trademarks of their respective owners.
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Related links:
http://www.patkai.com
CONTACT:
John Fomook of Patkai Networks, 650-342-3501,
ext. 219, or jfomook@patkai.com, or info@patkai.com
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