Acta And STC Partner to Provide Multi-source Data Platform for B2B eCommerce.Business Editors/High-tech Writers Customers to Gain Superior Performance With Rapid and Frequent Access to Essential 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 Data From Back-office Systems MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 1, 2000 Acta Technology, Inc., and STC STC Supplemental Type Certificate (FAA) STC Society for Technical Communication STC Subject to Change STC Surf the Channel (website) STC Sound Transmission Class STC Singapore Turf Club (Nasdaq: STCS STCS SVM (Service Module) Thermal Control Subsystem STCS Signalling and Train Control System (railways) STCS Self-Tuning Control System STCS Senior Chief Sonar Technician (Naval Rating) ) today announced the intent to co-market their solutions, which will allow customers to rapidly and frequently access mission-critical data from multiple back-office systems for business-to-business (B2B) integration. The alliance between Acta, the first and only provider of a business-to-business eCommerce platform for data caching caching - cache , and STC, the leading global provider of eBusiness Integration (eBISM) packaged solutions, will help customers achieve instant click-speed access to the data they need for B2B eCommerce, while protecting the performance of their enterprise systems. "As a proven leader in eBusiness integration, STC will help to give our customers a rapid integration solution between their front and back office systems, with the flexibility to choose best-of-breed software packages," said Carol Mills Baldwin, President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. for Acta. "Together, we will offer a comprehensive B2B solution for customers needing constant and frequent access to pre- and post order information." The alliance will combine the strengths of the Acta eCommerce Data Platform -- designed to make enterprise resource planning See ERP. (application, business) Enterprise Resource Planning - (ERP) Any software system designed to support and automate the business processes of medium and large businesses. (ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer. ) data rapidly available for B2B eCommerce -- and STC's e*Xchange eBusiness Integration(TM) Suite -- designed to enable real-time, end-to-end business process integration and trading-partner management within and among enterprises. Complementing STC's suite, Acta's technology will enable customers to access back-office data through caches -- without impacting the production environment for each query. "Frequent demands for enterprise information characterizes most data-intensive B2B environments," said Harry Gould, Vice President, Global Alliances for STC. "STC provides a comprehensive solution for eBusiness integration, and with Acta's new technology, will be able to reduce the need to directly impact an enterprise's production environment -- enabling superior performance and increased reliability of our customers' eBusinesses." Acta's recently announced data platform consists of the ActaWorks Data Server and eCaches(TM), packaged data caches that speed the delivery of back-office data in specific subject areas of eCommerce and business intelligence. About STC STC (Nasdaq: STCS) is the leading global provider of eBusiness Integration (eBISM) solutions with its flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. , e*Gate(TM) Integrator (1) In electronics, a device that combines an input with a variable, such as time, and provides an analog output; for example, a watt-hour meter. (2) See systems integrator. . e*Gate enables the accelerated deployment of true eBusiness integration with unprecedented performance and reliability. Additionally, with e*Xchange(TM) Integrator, STC provides a true end-to-end solution (jargon) end-to-end solution - (E2ES) A term that suggests that the supplier of an application program or system will provide all the hardware and/or software components and resouces to meet the customer's requirement and no other supplier need be involved. Compare: turn-key solution. that enables organizations to realize the true value of eBusiness. Since shipping its first product in 1991, STC has successfully integrated more than 1,200 customers worldwide in a variety of industries. STC is headquartered in Monrovia, Calif., with marketing and sales headquarters in Redwood Shores, Calif. For more information, please visit www.stc.com. About Acta Technology, Inc. The Acta eCommerce Data Platform is the first and only solution designed to make enterprise data B2B eCommerce-ready across all channels in the networked economy. With Acta's highly scalable data platform, enterprises can maintain a real-time, online dialogue with customers and partners -- providing them the critical information they need for transactions and business analysis. Acta partners with leading vendors offering enterprise resource planning (ERP), front-end eCommerce, and eAnalytic solutions. The company's 140+ customers include 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) , Hewlett-Packard, Chevron, Shell, Monsanto, and other leaders in the Global 1000. Headquartered in Mountain View, CA, Acta has international offices in London, Frankfurt, Paris, Stockholm, the Netherlands, and Zurich. Sales and partnership inquiries should be directed to Acta's toll-free phone number 1-888-613-3282. For more information, visit the company's Web site at http://www.acta.com. Notes to Editors: Acta and eCache are trademarks of Acta Technology, Inc. All other product and company names mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners. |
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