Adero and Intershop Partner to Accelerate Global E-Commerce.Business/Technology Editors BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 20, 1999 Adero, Inc., the leader in global Internet content distribution, application and e-commerce services and Intershop Communications, Inc., the world's leading provider of sell-side electronic commerce software, today announced a partnership to accelerate global e-commerce. Per terms of the agreement, Adero will deploy Intershop enfinity, Intershop's next generation e-business software, worldwide across Adero's Intelligent Network (AIN). Intershop will also offer AderoWorld Service(TM), Adero's flagship content distribution offering, to its e-commerce customers to provide a rapid, secure and reliable global e-commerce solution. Adero provides global content and commerce distribution services, enabling businesses to engage in enhanced global e-commerce. The Adero Intelligent Network delivers content and commerce services from intelligent nodes that are local to the customer. Adero's commerce nodes will be networked globally, so consumers can benefit from a speedy browsing and buying process no matter where the consumer or the business is located. Intershop enfinity is the first complete XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. and Java(TM) 2 platform-based, sell-side e-business application that offers the enterprise market advanced selling features, closely integrated with existing business systems, while providing the flexibility to grow with rapidly changing e-commerce business models. AderoWorld Service will distribute the heavy processing load associated with e-commerce transactions, and will intelligently route browsers and buyers to the nearest available node. "Intershop enfinity allows Adero flexibility to support our customers' diverse needs for global distributed e-commerce," said Al Fink, vice president of marketing at Adero. "We are excited about this partnership between Intershop and Adero because it results in tangible benefits for online businesses and consumers worldwide," said Jim Demetros, vice president of sales at Intershop. "The advanced content management of AderoWorld Service combined with Intershop enfinity's Sell Anywhere, Integrate Everything capabilities increases speed and convenience of online shopping." About Intershop Intershop Communications, Inc. is the world's leading provider of sell-side electronic commerce software for complete business-to-business and business-to-consumer solutions. Intershop customers include many of the world's largest telecommunications companies and commerce service providers such as Alta Vista See AltaVista. (World-Wide Web) Alta Vista - A World-Wide Web site provided by Digital which features a very fast Web and Usenet search engine. As of April 1996 its word index is 33GB in size. , BCE BCE abbr. 1. Bachelor of Chemical Engineering 2. Bachelor of Civil Engineering BCE Abbreviation for before the Common Era. Emergis, Bell South, Concentric, Deutsche Telekom Deutsche Telekom AG (ISIN: DE0005557508, FWB: DTE, NYSE: DT, LSE: DEU, TYO: 9496 ) (abbreviated DTAG) is a telecommunications company headquartered in Bonn, Germany. It is the largest telecommunications company in Germany and in the EU. , France Telecom, Go2Net, Mindspring, PSINet, Swisscom, Telecom New Zealand Telecom New Zealand (NZX: TEL ASX: TEL NYSE: NZT) is a Wellington, New Zealand-based telephone company and, through its subdivision Xtra, an internet service provider. It has been run as a publicly-traded private company since 1990. , and Ticketmaster Online-CitySearch. Major corporations have chosen Intershop as their enterprise e-commerce application including Bosch, Canon USA, Celestial Seasonings Celestial Seasonings is a tea company based in Boulder, Colorado, United States that specializes in herbal tea but also sells green and black tea (as well as white and oolong blends). They account for over $100,000,000 in Herbal Tea Blends Sales in the United States annually. , Coram Healthcare, Electronic Arts, Hewlett-Packard, Mercedes Benz Mercedes Benz expensive automobile and status symbol. [Trademarks: Crowley Trade, 368] See : Luxury U.S. International, NatWest and Silicon Graphics. To date, Intershop is the global e-commerce leader with more than 60,000 licenses sold. Founded in 1992, Intershop is headquartered in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden with offices in the U.S., Germany, France, Australia, Canada, Brazil, Hong Kong Hong Kong (hŏng kŏng), Mandarin Xianggang, special administrative region of China, formerly a British crown colony (2005 est. pop. 6,899,000), land area 422 sq mi (1,092 sq km), adjacent to Guangdong prov. , Sweden and the United Kingdom. For more information, call Intershop at 1-800-736-5197 or send e-mail to sales@intershop.com or visit www.intershop.com About Adero, Inc. Founded in 1998, Adero provides a global turnkey service that enables companies to create a rapid, consistent, and reliable Internet experience for online customers anywhere in the world. AderoWorld(TM) Service is a cost-effective solution for global e-Commerce companies, enabling rapid deployment of Web content, distributed applications and e-Commerce services, through the strategic placement of intelligent nodes in local markets around the world. Adero's network of intelligent nodes and patent-pending GeoTraffic(TM) Manager technology allow companies to overcome the complexities of building and managing infrastructures in foreign markets, as well as allow companies to reap the benefits of improved Web site performance and custom-tailored content. AderoWorld Service has over 40 strategically placed intelligent nodes in 28 countries, including Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Finland, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Israel, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, Norway, Singapore, South Africa South Africa, Afrikaans Suid-Afrika, officially Republic of South Africa, republic (2005 est. pop. 44,344,000), 471,442 sq mi (1,221,037 sq km), S Africa. , Spain, Sweden, South Korea, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, and the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . Adero, Inc., is a venture-funded company headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts “Boston” redirects here. For other uses, see Boston (disambiguation). 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