Alventive, Inc. and HP to Provide Innovative Design-to-Order Solutions for B2B Manufacturer Networks.Business Editors and High-Tech Writers SANTA CLARA Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif. and 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)--April 18, 2000 Manufacturers Can Now Participate in a True Customer-Centric Design Process Alventive, Inc., a leading provider of Online Design Communities, and Hewlett-Packard Company today announced a customer-centric strategic alliance to build and deliver Design-to-Order solutions for Business-to-Business (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 ) customers involved in discrete manufacturing Fabricating products by assembling components and subsystems into larger systems. The automated assembly line is the prime example of discrete manufacturing such as in the making of automobiles, household appliances and computer systems. . The solutions will be delivered through the Alventive Online Design Community, a portal powered by HP's leading e-services solutions, providing manufacturers with a secure and robust solution for improving the speed and productivity of designing, delivering and supporting new products. Alventive's Online Design Community and Application Services See ASP and Web services. Suites, also announced today, will enable customers and other stakeholders Stakeholders All parties that have an interest, financial or otherwise, in a firm-stockholders, creditors, bondholders, employees, customers, management, the community, and the government. to have significant input into the design of new products. Manufacturers, their suppliers, partners, channels and customers can collaborate and accelerate the product design and delivery process. The solution enables community participants to collaborate, overcoming boundaries of geography, technology, or proprietary software. In this alliance, HP becomes the preferred partner supplying the technology infrastructure for Alventive's Online Design Community. HP will provide server, storage and software technology, including security, network and systems management software, for the portal infrastructure. Alventive's solutions will be optimized to take advantage of HP's industry-leading VISUALIZE graphics workstation technology for local and distributed visualization capabilities. "Next generation portals are a key element of our e-services vision, and HP is making a strategic commitment to work with Alventive because we believe this company will provide an excellent e-service to manufacturers," said Nick Earle, president of HP's E-services.Solutions organization. "Alventive's Online Design Community fulfills the key need to design products quickly in a secure way within a community on the Internet." In addition to providing a highly available, secure and scalable technology foundation for the Online Design Community, HP will also license Alventive's Application Services Suites and the Alventive Application Server for delivery as complete solutions to networks of customers and suppliers. The innovation in Alventive's Online Design Community will extend the input into product design to the whole enterprise and the supply chain. It will enable participation in design to extend beyond engineering and into marketing, sales, service and support. Most importantly Adv. 1. most importantly - above and beyond all other consideration; "above all, you must be independent" above all, most especially , it will enable the involvement of the person who matters most in the design process-the customer. "HP is a company committed to innovation in collaborative e-services strategies and solutions, which makes this alliance strategic for both companies," said David Tiley David Tiley (born 1960) is a convicted British murderer. He murdered his disabled fiancee Susan Hale and, a week later, her carer Sarah Merritt at Ms Hale's flat in Southampton in March 2007. Susan was last seen alive on 5 March and their bodies were found on 15 March. , 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. of Alventive. "Alventive's Design-to-Order approach provides an Internet-based service targeting a market opportunity yet unrealized and addresses an important and growing market segment for creating and delivering one-to-one products and services." "Demand for B2B solutions is high, and we wanted to work with HP in this venture because HP is a leading provider of secure, scalable Web infrastructures," said Tiley. "It has the systems performance and graphics technologies that can support the extended, distributed nature of the Alventive Online Design Community." About HP Hewlett-Packard Company -- a leading global provider of computing and imaging solutions and services for business and home -- is focused on capitalizing on the opportunities of the Internet and the proliferation proliferation /pro·lif·er·a·tion/ (pro-lif?er-a´shun) the reproduction or multiplication of similar forms, especially of cells.prolif´erativeprolif´erous pro·lif·er·a·tion n. of electronic services. HP announced that it will spin off 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. and distribute its shares of Agilent on June 2, 2000 to HP shareowners of record as of May 2, 2000. Agilent consists of HP's test and measurement, semiconductor products, chemical analysis and healthcare solutions businesses. HP has 85,400 employees worldwide and had total revenue from continuing operations continuing operations Parts of a business that are expected to be maintained as an ongoing segment of an overall business operation. Income and losses from continuing operations are reported separately if any segments have been discontinued during the of $42.4 billion in its 1999 fiscal year. Information about HP and its products can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.hp.com. About Alventive Alventive, a B2B company, enables manufacturers to realize the benefits of creating and delivering one-to-one products to their customers through an Online Design Community. Utilizing Alventive's Design-to-Order solutions through its Online Design Community, manufacturers extend dynamic participation in the innovation and delivery of products to their suppliers, partners, channels and customers. Alventive is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA, with offices throughout 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. and Canada. For additional information, please contact Alventive at 408/969-8000 or at www.alventive.com. |
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