Air2Web and Vitria Team to Make Enterprise Systems MCommerce-Ready.Business/High-Tech Editors LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 20, 2000 Air2Web, the leading Mobile Internet Refers to gaining access to the Internet using a lightweight, handheld device. See Mobile IP, PDA, smartphone and mobile TV. Platform provider, and PricewaterhouseCoopers, the world's largest professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. organization, are working with Vitria (Nasdaq:VITR VITR Vitria Technologies (stock symbol) VITR Visible and Thermal Infrared Radiometer ), a leading integration server provider, to provide integration support to business customers. Vitria's customers use their BusinessWare solution to seamlessly connect major enterprise software systems, such as 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. ), Customer Relationship Management (CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. ) and Supply Chain Management (SCM (1) (Software Configuration Management, Source Code Management) See configuration management. (2) See supply chain management. ) systems. Air2Web will use its Mobile Internet Platform to solve the special requirements of adapting data for use in a wireless environment, and use Vitria's BusinessWare integration server to ensure seamless interoperability of this data with other systems. PricewaterhouseCoopers, is a strategic partner of Air2Web, which is a leading integrator of the Vitria platform. Air2Web will build solutions using the Air2Web/Vitria technology, thus allowing customers to wirelessly access their enterprise systems and mobilize business processes. "By integrating with Vitria, Air2Web will become one of the first to supply mobile Internet access to all the major enterprise applications," said Sanjoy Malik, Air2Web 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. . "The wireless environment is going to change the enterprise software ecosystem. Combining our leading wireless platform with Vitria's integration sever will produce a joint solution which will enable companies to further extend the value of their IT systems." SAMPLE APPLICATIONS -- With the Air2Web/Vitria platform sitting on the front-end of a company's ERP system, a plant manager could confirm the status of his product inventory from anywhere and from any device. -- Coupled with a CRM solution, the Air2Web/Vitria platform will allow a company's sales force to wirelessly check the history of a longstanding customer. -- Air2Web/Vitria will enable a line manager to receive mobile alerts on his or her two-way pager -- and input instructions back to the system on that same pager. "By combining Air2Web's flexible wireless platform with our integration server, enterprise software users are going to have access to critical business information anytime, anywhere and from any digital device," said Mark Hill, senior vice president of marketing and business development for Vitria. "Air2Web shares our commitment to open standards Specifications for hardware and software that are developed by a standards organization or a consortium involved in supporting a standard. Available to the public for developing compliant products, open standards imply "open systems;" that an existing component in a system can be replaced and the wireless 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 world." About Air2Web Air2Web, based in Atlanta, is the leading Mobile Internet Platform provider. Air2Web's 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. request/response-based platform allows for the easy integration of wireless capabilities in enterprise applications. Through the XML interface, an application can incorporate blended media interactions including data, speech recognition and text- to -speech conversions. Additionally, applications based on the Air2Web platform work with all the various protocols, networks and devices that make up the complex wireless environment. Air2Web provides state-of-the-art application hosting with day-to-day applications management and continuous support. Air2Web's customers include UPS, ING Barings, Lexmark International, Bass Hotels & Resorts, NetBank, Digital Insight, DotsConnect, TotalSports, and other leading media, finance, travel, transportation, and eCommerce companies. For more information about Air2Web, please visit http://www.air2web.com About Vitria Vitria Technology, Inc. is a leading integration server provider. Vitria BusinessWare integrates applications and automates mission-critical business processes within and across the extended enterprise, reducing time to market, shortening lead times, lowering operating costs, and increasing customer satisfaction. Vitria is a publicly traded company publicly traded company A company whose shares of common stock are held by the public and are available for purchase by investors. The shares of publicly traded firms are bought and sold on the organized exchanges or in the over-the-counter market. (Nasdaq:VITR) based in Sunnyvale. For more information, call 408/212-2700, visit the company's Web site at www.vitria.com or send email to info@vitria.com. About PricewathouseCoopers The Management Consulting Services practice of PricewaterhouseCoopers helps clients maximize their business performance by integrating strategic change, process improvements and technology solutions. Through a worldwide network of skills and resources, consultants manage complex projects with global capabilities and local knowledge, from strategy through implementation. PricewaterhouseCoopers (www.pwcglobal.com) is the world's largest professional services organization. Drawing on the knowledge and skills of more than 150,000 people in 150 countries, we help our clients solve complex business problems and measurably enhance their ability to build value, manage risk and improve performance in an Internet-enabled world. PricewaterhouseCoopers refers to the member firms of the worldwide PricewaterhouseCoopers organization. |
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