Amalto Technologies Announces the Release of the b2een Solution.b2een Solution Enables Large Corporations to Onboard All Their Suppliers in Electronic Exchanges, Regardless of Their Size PARIS Paris, in Greek mythology Paris or Alexander, in Greek mythology, son of Priam and Hecuba and brother of Hector. Because it was prophesied that he would cause the destruction of Troy, Paris was abandoned on Mt. & SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- Amalto Technologies today announced the release of b2een solution, a revolutionary approach to enabling the exchange of electronic documents between large corporations and their network of suppliers, regardless of their size. b2een combines a light web 2.0 client software and a SaaS solution to manage the validation, transformation and routing of transactional documents between the trading partners. b2een does not require any technical setup for the suppliers and yet provides a secured transport mechanism of encrypted and digitally signed documents. 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. Jean-Pierre Foehn foehn (fān, Ger. fön), warm, dry wind that occurs on the leeward slopes of a ridge of mountains. The term was originally applied to a wind of the Alps but is now used as a generic term for all winds of this type. stated, "Amalto brings a new way of enabling exchanges of electronic documents like orders and invoices to the vast majority of suppliers that have not been included in supplier enablement programs so far, by leveraging very innovative technologies never before used 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 exchanges. Because of the cost and complexity of enabling 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. or EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) The electronic communication of business transactions, such as orders, confirmations and invoices, between organizations. Third parties provide EDI services that enable organizations with different equipment to connect. transactions for small enterprises, large organizations have focused their e-procurement or e-invoicing projects on strategic suppliers only, those representing a large percentage of their spend. This approach prevents harvesting the full benefits of digital exchanges as manual processes must be maintained for small suppliers. Amalto's b2een solution allows the B2B communities to break that glass floor for the first time and brings value and ease in the process both to large enterprises and to suppliers." Amalto is currently deploying b2een solutions in the Oil and Gas industry allowing transformation of CSV invoices into PIDX PIDX Petroleum Industry Data Exchange format and in the publishing industry allowing transformation of XBITS documents into Ariba cXML format. Amalto customers include large, multi-nationals such as Quadrem in the supply-chain sector, Total and BAPCO (Business Applications Performance Corporation, El Dorado Hills, CA, www.bapco.com) A non-profit organization founded in 1991 that provides a series of SYSmark brand benchmarks for testing software in the PC client/server and laptop environment. It also has a benchmark for battery life. in the petroleum industry, Rio Tinto Minerals and Imerys in the mining and natural resource sector, BNP Paribas in financial services and many more. About Amalto Amalto is a leading provider of data management solutions for the enterprise including innovative products like the b2box, a software appliance enabling end to end B2B electronic exchanges for mid tier companies. Amalto has a strategic partnership with Ariba to enable supplier back-end integration through to the Ariba Supplier Network. More information is available at www.amalto.com. |
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