MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Sept. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- In a move that establishes
it as one of the leading providers of the industry's most complete Internet
procurement offering for enterprises and service providers, the Sun-Netscape
Alliance (Alliance) today unveiled its Strategic Internet Procurement solution
with support from its major customers and business liaisons (see related press
release). The announcement details the strategy and products that customers
need to make Internet procurement a reality and redefines the emerging
Internet procurement market.
The Alliance also announced key enhancements to its Strategic Internet
Procurement products including Netscape(R) BuyerXpert 3.0 and a new catalog
subscription service for business operations available through the Alliance
Supplier Network.
"The Alliance is driving the evolution of a global commerce network by
providing the enabling software to enterprises and service providers," said
Steve Savignano, senior vice president and general manager for the
Sun-Netscape Alliance e-commerce applications division. "Internet procurement
will have a dramatic impact on the enterprise through significant cost savings
and streamlined procurement processes. Hosted procurement services offered
through our service provider partners will be instrumental in connecting
buyers and suppliers to leverage new market models enabled by the Internet."
To date, the Sun-Netscape Alliance has helped hundreds of enterprise
customers move their businesses on-line, and it provides the portfolio of
products and services to help companies compete in the Net Economy. The
Alliance portfolio of e-commerce applications also has been enabling service
providers to host outsourced e-commerce solutions and facilitate Internet
e-commerce transactions between buyers and suppliers longer than any other
vendor in the industry.
The Alliance's Strategic Internet Procurement strategy continues this
momentum, providing customers and partners with the business model to realize
the dramatic cost savings and potential new revenue opportunities provided by
electronic procurement.
The elements of the Alliance's successful strategy include clearly
identifying itself as an application software vendor, providing a
comprehensive solution dedicated to open standards for business-to-business
e-commerce, offering a portfolio of enhanced products and services that
customers can benefit from today, and leveraging its experience as the largest
dedicated e-commerce software provider to enterprises and service providers.
The Alliance's Strategic Internet Procurement offering includes Netscape
BuyerXpert, the Alliance's newly enhanced web-based procurement application,
the Commerce Integration Suite for ERP and legacy system integration,
Netscape(R) ECXpert, the Alliance's application for enabling commerce
transactions, Supplier Extranet, the Alliance's solution including Netscape(R)
TradingXpert and Custom Netcenter(R) for enabling a portal for encrypted
information exchange and collaboration with any size trading partner, and
hosted procurement services through the Alliance Supplier Network including
its new catalog subscription service for business operations. All products
are part of the Alliance's iPlanet portfolio of e-commerce applications.
Netscape BuyerXpert 3.0, also unveiled today, is a full-featured web-based
procurement application. Key new features of this product include the
capability for multi-supplier requisitions with "prior purchase order
viewing," internationalization, a re-designed, intuitive and customizable HTML
end-user interface and enhancements for improved order-receiving functionality
and advanced workflow. The product is shipping today.
"IDC's report on the Internet procurement market ranks Netscape first in
the industry for total sales of Internet procurement application licenses in
1998, and the Sun-Netscape Alliance is continuing this momentum with today's
announcement," Savignano said.
About the Sun-Netscape Alliance
America Online, Inc. and Sun Microsystems, Inc. formed the Sun-Netscape
Alliance to provide easy to deploy, comprehensive enterprise and e-commerce
solutions and services to business partners and other companies competing in
today's Net Economy. The Alliance product portfolio provides customers with
the industry's most scalable, integrated infrastructure software and a family
of production ready e-commerce applications. The products are offered on the
industry's most widely available product platforms, including DEC, HP, IBM,
Linux, SGI, Microsoft Windows, and Sun. The alliance software product
portfolio includes: messaging and calendar, collaboration, web, application,
directory, and certificate servers. The Alliance also offers a family of
production-ready applications for e-commerce, including commerce exchange,
procurement, selling, and billing.
About America Online, Inc.
Founded in 1985, America Online, Inc. (NYSE: AOL), based in Dulles,
Virginia, is the world's leader in interactive services, Web brands, Internet
technologies, and e-commerce services. America Online, Inc. operates: two
worldwide Internet services, America Online, with more than 18 million
members, and CompuServe, with approximately 2 million members; several leading
Internet brands including ICQ and Digital City, Inc.; the Netscape Netcenter
and AOL.COM portals; and the Netscape Navigator and Communicator browsers.
Through its strategic alliance with Sun Microsystems, the Company develops and
offers easy-to-deploy, end-to-end e-commerce and enterprise solutions for
companies operating in the Net Economy.
About Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision, "The Network is The
Computer(TM)", has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW)to its
position as a leading provider of high quality hardware, software and services
for establishing enterprise-wide intranets and expanding the power of the
Internet. With more than $11 billion in annual revenues, Sun can be found in
more than 150 countries and on the World Wide Web at http://sun.com .
NOTE: Netscape and the Netscape N logo are registered trademarks in the
United States and other countries of Netscape Communications, a subsidiary of
America Online, Inc. Sun, Sun Microsystems, iPlanet, The Network Is The
Computer and the Sun Logo are trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the
United States and other countries.
SOURCE Sun-Netscape Alliance
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