Alliente and Requisite Technology Partner to Create and Manage Suppliers' E-Catalogs.Business Editors COLORADO SPRINGS Colorado Springs, city (1990 pop. 281,140), seat of El Paso co., central Colo., on Monument and Fountain creeks, at the foot of Pikes Peak; inc. 1886. It is a year-round resort and a booming military, technological, and commercial city. & WESTMINSTER, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 12, 2000 Requisite Technology: Alliente Offers Complete E-Procurement Solutions Using Requisite's Catalog catalog, descriptive list, on cards or in a book, of the contents of a library. Assurbanipal's library at Nineveh was cataloged on shelves of slate. The first known subject catalog was compiled by Callimachus at the Alexandrian Library in the 3d cent. B.C. Creation and Content Management Tools Alliente Inc., a Business Service Provider (BSP BSP Bromsulphalein, a dye used in the study of liver function. See also sulfobromophthalein clearance test. ) managing end-to-end indirect e-procurement solutions, and Requisite Technology, Inc.(TM), a provider of catalog creation and content management solutions, today announced a partnership in which Alliente will offer Requisite's tools and services to create e-catalogs quickly and accurately for suppliers. To augment Alliente's resources and e-procurement solutions, Requisite becomes an Alliente preferred provider of content management services and tools. Alliente will provide suppliers around the world with access to Requisite's eMerge content management toolset, content creation services and Requisite's Unifying Structure (RUS)(TM), a standard for organizing catalog content across many suppliers, industries, software platforms and languages. Catalogs built in RUS can be loaded into the Ariba 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 Commerce marketplace platform as well as all other e-commerce solutions managed by Alliente. Alliente's e-procurement solutions are implemented in 17 countries in the Americas, Europe and Asia. Global customers include Hewlett-Packard Co., Agilent Technologies This article needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Alone, primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of this article are not sufficient for an accurate encyclopedia article. Inc. and Lucent Technologies. Outsourcing catalog creation to Requisite will allow Alliente to bring suppliers into its e-procurement exchange quickly and easily. Requisite's catalog content creation and management tools allow suppliers' current catalogs to be unified into e-catalogs that are easy to maintain and for buyers to navigate. "Requisite is a market leader in catalog content creation and management, which complements Alliente's efforts to facilitate supplier enablement Supplier Enablement is the process of electronically connecting suppliers (or other trading partners) to a company's supply chain. Supplier enablement is achieved when suppliers of goods and services are connected to a company's back-office systems to exchange critical business and build trusting relationships with quality suppliers," said Greg Spray, 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 Alliente. "As Alliente's outsourcing model expands, seamless supplier side coordination will be critical to maintaining the best services, process efficiencies and aggregated pricing for our customers." The success of e-procurement relies heavily on suppliers' ability to develop standardized standardized pertaining to data that have been submitted to standardization procedures. standardized morbidity rate see morbidity rate. standardized mortality rate see mortality rate. catalogs that can be quickly searched and easily updated to keep up with demands of online buying. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Torrey Byles of Granada Research, "One of the critical components of automated purchasing is this whole area of product information content -- getting catalogs from suppliers." "Alliente has an advanced business model and the enterprise leadership to propel e-commerce enablement through our growing RUS user base," said Barbara Mowry, chairman and CEO of Requisite Technology. "Together, we will combine our expertise to more tightly link supplier and buyer organizations around the world in B2B e-commerce (Business to Business Electronic-COMMERCE) Refers to one business selling to another business via the Web. See e-commerce. ." About Requisite Technology Requisite Technology enables e-commerce companies to organize product and service information for consistent Web-based finding and buying. Headquartered in Westminster, Colo., with operations in Toronto and London, Requisite's solutions are deployed on desktops in more than 15 countries. Find out more at www.requisite.com. About Alliente Inc. Alliente Inc. is a leading Business Service Provider (BSP) offering indirect e-procurement solutions for Global 2000 companies. Alliente offers enterprise services -- such as implementation, consulting, catalog order management, non-catalog procurement, supplier management and e-enablement, and payment services -- to manage complete procurement processes. Benefits include faster time-to-savings for customers, more efficient procurement processes, lower prices for purchased goods and services In economics, economic output is divided into physical goods and intangible services. Consumption of goods and services is assumed to produce utility (unless the "good" is a "bad"). It is often used when referring to a Goods and Services Tax. , and improved strategic impact. Alliente, a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. spun out of Hewlett-Packard Company in February 2000, currently provides e-procurement services to thousands of global users in 17 countries. Crosspoint Venture Partners, rated by Forbes magazines as the top venture firm from 1997-1999, is a primary investor. For more information about Alliente Inc., visit our Web site at www.alliente.com. Note to Editors: Requisite Technology, Requisite's Unifying Structure (RUS) and eMerge are trademarks of Requisite Technology, Inc. All other trademarks, products or service names mentioned herein are the trademarks of their respective owners. |
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