SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- ExpenseVision, the premier
outsourced procurement management service, and the Sun-Netscape Alliance
(Alliance), one of the leading providers of e-commerce and infrastructure
software solutions, today announced that they are teaming up to provide
Internet procurement management solutions as part of their strategy to offer
customers competing in the Net Economy a better way to control and reduce
their business costs. The announcement also distinguishes ExpenseVision as
one of the Alliance's single largest buyers of its software for strategic
Internet procurement.
ExpenseVision will leverage the Alliance's iPlanet(TM) e-commerce
applications and hardware from Sun Microsystems to build the platform from
which it will offer its web-based, outsourced procurement management services
to business customers.
"After thoroughly researching the marketplace, we found the Alliance's
iPlanet software to complement our needs on scalability and extensibility,"
says Jeff Helfer, ExpenseVision's chief executive officer. "The Alliance's
team quickly understood our company's needs and our vision for the future of
Internet procurement. This relationship truly benefits our customers and
their employees by combining world-class procurement expertise with a strong
technology infrastructure."
ExpenseVision has developed an easy-to-use system that provides its
customers' purchasing requisitioners with category-specific methods for
obtaining indirect goods and services that can be customized to fit the
customers' specific business rules. The Alliance's solutions will allow
ExpenseVision to serve hundreds of business customers while their employees
requisition goods such as office supplies or services such as temporary
administrative staffing. The ExpenseVision application built on iPlanet
software will significantly automate and streamline what is today a
labor-intensive and paper-based procurement process.
"The Sun-Netscape Alliance is providing the enterprise software solutions
to power the Net Economy," said Carol Montgomery-Adams, vice president of
product marketing for the Sun-Netscape Alliance e-commerce division. "Through
relationships with industry leaders like ExpenseVision, the Alliance is
providing the industry with a wide range of hosted commerce and communications
services to help customers quickly move the best of their business processes
online."
ExpenseVision will leverage the Alliance's e-commerce applications,
including iPlanet Netscape BuyerXpert, iPlanet Netscape ECXpert and iPlanet
Netscape TradingXpert, to allow customers to outsource nearly all of the
solutions required to operate and Internet procurement model. Companies will
be capable of communicating online with employees, partners and suppliers and
accessing ExpenseVisions' procurement best-practices to stay competitive in
the Net Economy.
ExpensiveVision will host the managed procurement solutions on
enterprise-scale servers from Sun Microsystems. The hosted platform is
designed to be scalable, reliable, and provide mission-critical high
availability.
About ExpenseVision
ExpenseVision provides companies with the tools and services to answer the
question, "Does the right person buy the right stuff from the right vendor at
the right price?" ExpenseVision is the premier provider of outsourced
procurement management services. The company provides customers with
sustainable, bottom-line savings by integrating category-specific sourcing
expertise, web-based procurement technology, the company focuses on serving
mid-sized companies in a broad range of procurement categories. The company's
headquarters is in San Francisco, Calif. For more information on
ExpenseVision and its services, please visit the web site at
http://www.expensevision.com.
About the Sun-Netscape Alliance
America Online, Inc. (NYSE: AOL) and Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW)
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., 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. 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, the Sun Logo, iPlanet and The
Network Is The Computer are trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United
States and other countries.
SOURCE Sun-Netscape Alliance
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CONTACT:
Kristen Hyland of Sun-Netscape Alliance,
650-937-6053, or kristenh@netscape.com; or Serena Satyasai of
ExpenseVision, 415-658-5236, or serena@expensevision.com
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