Acta Extends National Seminar Tour: "Closing the eCommerce Gap"; Forrester Research, Intershop and SupplyPoint.com Join Acta to Help Companies Prepare for B2B Trading Networks.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers PALO ALTO Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 14, 2000 Acta Technology, Inc., a leading provider of enterprise data-caching solutions, announced today that it will extend its popular seminar series, "Closing the eCommerce Gap." Designed for executives and IT managers in eBusiness and decision support, the seminar reviews industry-leading solutions that enable companies to leverage data from their back-office systems for 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 trading communities and other data-intensive eCommerce sites. Also participating in the seminar are Forrester Research Forrester Research is an independent technology and market research company that provides its clients with advice about technology's impact on business and consumers. Corporate facts
Internet research is the practice of using the Internet, especially the World Wide Web, for research. ; Intershop Communications, Inc., a leading global provider of eCommerce software applications; and SupplyPoint.com, a provider of eBusiness supply-chain management solutions. Acta devised the seminar in response to the growing demand for integrated B2B eCommerce solutions and the recent emergence of B2B trading communities. Interest in these communities is driving the need for rapid access to real-time data Real-time data denotes information that is delivered immediately after collection. There is no delay in the timeliness of the information provided. Some uses of this term confuse it with the term dynamic data. locked away in back-office systems. "To get the most out of B2B, you need to be able to deliver the heavy data that resides in back-office systems -- pre and post-order data such as order status, billing status, inventory, etc.," said Phil Brotherton, VP of eCommerce for Acta. "And the delivery and access to that data has to meet the demands imposed on all busy Internet environments. Access to B2B content has to be rapid, scalable, 24X7, and XML-enabled. This seminar has pulled together an experienced team of professionals who can speak to these and other challenges posed by B2B." The content of the seminar itself has been expanded to create an all-day event. Following a morning education session, Acta, Intershop and SupplyPoint.com will work with attendees on developing action plans for their B2B eCommerce programs. In addition, Forrester Research will select several attendees for private sessions on preparing for business in B2B trading communities and other B2B eCommerce environments. "Developing a custom action plan for each participant is a unique offer that will enable the participant to move quickly ahead through the eCommerce morass into eCommerce success," said Brotherton. Originally planned as a four-city tour, the seminar will now be held in eight additional cities: March 21, 2000 Hyatt Regency St. Louis @ Union Station St. Louis, MO March 22, 2000 Doubletree Hotel @ Allen Center Houston, TX March 24, 2000 Four Seasons Hotel Dallas, TX March 31, 2000 Hyatt Regency Princeton Princeton, NJ April 13, 2000 Westin Santa Clara San Jose, CA April 25, 2000 Westin Harbor Castle Toronto, Canada April 27 Phoenix, AZ (location tbd) April 28 The Ritz Cleveland, OH May 16, 2000 Hyatt Regency Atlanta Atlanta, GA For registration, call 1-800-866-3434. About Acta Technology, Inc. Acta Technology, Inc., the leader in enterprise data caching, provides Internet data infrastructure for eCommerce and business intelligence. The Acta e2e(tm) (enterprise-to-eCommerce) product suite helps companies liberate their information assets from back-office systems for more profitable and enduring business relationships. For internal business intelligence, Acta sells RapidMarts(tm), a set of pre-configured data warehouses for business analysis in areas such as sales, costs, accounting, human resources The fancy word for "people." The human resources department within an organization, years ago known as the "personnel department," manages the administrative aspects of the employees. , and inventory. Acta is an active member of the SAP Complementary Software Program (CSP (1) (Certified Systems Professional) An earlier award for successful completion of an ICCP examination in systems development. See ICCP. (2) (Commerce Service P ) and PeopleSoft Global Alliance Program. ActaWorks, the award-winning data movement-and-management platform, has been certified by PeopleSoft, and the Acta SAP BW interface has been certified by SAP. Acta's customers include Chevron (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : CHV CHV canine herpesvirus. ), Guinness, Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE: HWP HWP Height (and) Weight Proportionate HWP Half-Wave Plate HWP Highway Patrol HWP Height Weight Proportional HWP Hewlett-Packard Corporation (stock symbol) HWP Hydrolyzed Whey Peptides ), 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) (NYSE: IBM), Monsanto (NYSE: MTC mtc - A Modula-2 to C translator. ftp://rusmv1.rus.uni-stuttgart.de/soft/Unixtools/compilerbau/mtc.tar.Z. ), Shell Chemical Company, and other Global 1000 companies. Acta is headquartered at 1001 Elwell Court, Palo Alto, CA 94303, and has international offices in London, Frankfurt, Paris, and Amersfoort (the Netherlands). 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. RapidMarts and e2e are trademarks of Acta Technology, Inc. All other product and company names mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners. NOTE TO EDITORS: The Names `Hyatt Regency St. Louis @ Union Station' and `Doubletree Hotel @ Allen Center' should appear with an at sign between `Louis' and `Union' and `Hotel' and `Allen'. These symbols may not transmit properly in all systems. |
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