2WAY Corporation and Viador Partner to Enhance Customers' Portal Experience; Alliance Will Enable Portal Managers to Gather Feedback Via the Web.Business/High-Tech Editors SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 28, 2000 2WAY Corporation, developer of interactive Web communications applications, today announced that it has formed an alliance with Viador Inc.(TM) (Nasdaq:VIAD VIAD VESA Image Area Definition ), the number one enterprise portal See corporate portal. company. The alliance allows companies to create an information exchange with customers, partners and employees that not only pushes information out, but also gathers information from important constituents using a company portal. 2WAY Corporation's 2WAY Interactive System will enable enterprise portal managers to gather real-time feedback from customers, partners and employees. "2WAY's software is an ideal complement to our E-Portal Suite, providing our customers with a tool which gathers useful feedback from their constituents," says Steve Dille Steve Dille(b. March 16 1945) is an American politician in the Minnesota State Senate. He is currently a member of the Republican Party of Minnesota. Background Dille was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1945. , vice president of worldwide marketing, Viador Inc. "2WAY Interactive System provides a way for companies to communicate with their constituents and react accordingly, making more efficient and better informed decisions." In an age when a company's presence is defined by its Web site, intelligent information exchange is vital. Corporations build portals to communicate their initiatives to their constituents, but they need an effective way to measure interest in those initiatives. The 2WAY Interactive System enables companies to gather feedback on new initiatives and products, strategic alliances or corporate acquisitions. The platform gathers information from customers, employees, partners and prospects through a series of dynamic HTML (1) A general term for (HTML pages) Web pages that are customized for each user; for example, returning different values from a search. Contrast with a "static HTML" page, which is the same for all users. See dynamic Web page. pages, designed and deployed by business managers. The information is compiled and reported in real-time giving companies access to the most accurate information regarding the opinions of their constituents, enabling them to respond to individual customer needs. "Viador is in the business of making information accessible," says Tim Carlsen, vice president of business development at 2WAY Corporation. "The company's portal software helps companies communicate with partners and employees. Coupled with 2WAY Interactive System, Viador can turn static information into two-way conversations by gathering feedback that will facilitate better information exchange and allow companies to give constituents necessary information and increase productivity. Together we offer complete information solutions." About 2WAY Corporation Founded in 1996, 2WAY Corporation is headquartered in Seattle, WA. The company is focused on enabling corporate enterprises to gather real-time feedback over the Web. The company's latest-generation product, the 2WAY Interactive System(TM), allows businesses to present, collect, analyze, and share information with large Web-based constituencies. 2WAY Corporation is privately held and received funding from H&Q Venture Associates, Voyager Capital and Adobe Ventures among others. For more information, visit the 2WAY Corporation home page at www.2WAY.com. About Viador Inc. Viador Inc. (Nasdaq:VIAD), the number one enterprise portal company, is helping corporations leverage their information and technology assets to gain business advantages. Viador and its Viador E-Portal Suite solution have already received significant industry recognition and awards, including CIO's WebBusiness 50/50, CrossRoads 2000 A-List, DCI's Excellence in Business Information, Federal Computer Week's Top 10 Companies to Watch list, IBM's Solution Showcase Award, and being named to the InfoWorld 100. Viador's innovative technology is used by customers including 3Com, Charles Schwab, Federal Aviation Administration Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), component of the U.S. Department of Transportation that sets standards for the air-worthiness of all civilian aircraft, inspects and licenses them, and regulates civilian and military air traffic through its air traffic control (FAA), IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Lucent Technologies, Nortel Networks, Shiseido, Sprint PCS (1) (Personal Communications Services) Refers to wireless services that emerged after the U.S. government auctioned commercial licenses in 1994 and 1995. This radio spectrum in the 1. and Xerox. Viador has strategic relationships with leading consulting and E-Business companies including Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Deloitte Consulting, SAP and ACS (Asynchronous Communications Server) See network access server. . Viador is headquartered in Mountain View, Calif. For more information, call 650/645-2000 or visit the Web site at www.viador.com. 2WAY and 2WAY Interactive System are trademarks of 2WAY Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Viador, the Viador E-Portal Suite, Viador B2B (Business to Business) Refers to one business communicating with or selling to another. See B2B e-commerce, B2C and B2G. B2B - business to business E-Portal, Viador Sage, Viador Information Center, Viador Gateway, Viador Sentinel, Viador PageBuilder, Viador PortletBuilder, Viador Portlet A small window on a portal page. Portlet technology allows a portal page to be customized more quickly either internally by the development team or by the end user. Portlet technology can come as an adjunct to a portal server or as optional interfaces to ERP applications. , Viador E-Portal Framework, and the Viador PDK PDK Phi Delta Kappa (professional organization for teachers) PDK Portal Development Kit (SAP Enterprise Portal) PDK Peachtree-Dekalb Airport (Atlanta, GA, USA) , are trademarks of Viador Inc. of Mountain View, California For the census-designated place, see Mountain View, Contra Costa County, California. For other places called "Mountain View", see . Mountain View is a city in Santa Clara County, in the U.S. state of California. The city gets its name from the views of the Santa Cruz Mountains. . All other products or company names mentioned are used for identification purposes only, and may be trademarks of their respective owners. |
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