Arrow Selects Extricity Software to Provide Business-to-Business E-commerce Solution Based On RosettaNet E-business Standards.Business Editors MELVILLE, NY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 19, 2000 Arrow Electronics Arrow Electronics NYSE: ARW is a Fortune 500 company headquartered in Melville, New York. This company specializes in products and services of electronic components and computer products. , Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :ARW ARW Air Refueling Wing ARW Advanced Research Workshop ARW Associated Resume Writers ARW Army Ranger Wing (Irish Special Forces) ARW American Revolutionary War ARW Angle Random Walk ARW Aeroelastic Research Wing ) has selected Extricity Software, Inc. to implement a comprehensive business-to-business e-commerce e-commerce, commerce conducted over the Internet, most often via the World Wide Web. E-commerce can apply to purchases made through the Web or to business-to-business activities such as inventory transfers. solution based on the RosettaNet standards. RosettaNet is the leading industry standards body and consortium focused on delivering pre-defined business-to-business interface processes for the IT and electronic components supply chain industries. "RosettaNet provides the standards and structure our industry needs for highly integrated business-to-business e-commerce," stated David Westmoreland, Arrow Vice President and Chief Information Officer. "We chose Extricity Software to implement a comprehensive, standards-based business-to-business e-commerce solution to help us realize an increase in significant efficiencies and cost savings while also providing higher service levels to our customers and supplier partners," added Westmoreland. Extricity Software is a leader in providing business-to-business e-commerce software for Global 2000 companies and is rapidly becoming the de facto standard Hardware or software that is widely used, but not endorsed by a standards organization. Contrast with de jure standard. de facto standard - A widespread consensus on a particular product or protocol which has not been ratified by any official standards body, such as ISO, for leading companies that have committed to making the global use of RosettaNet's e-business process a reality by February 2, 2000. Using RosettaNet's Partner Interface Processes (PIPs), these leading companies are defining how business processes are conducted over the Internet between members of the IT supply chain, which include manufacturers, distributors, resellers, and end users. In addition, Extricity Software recently announced the availability of a complete software solution, Extricity AllianceInteract for RosettaNet that enables companies to easily and rapidly implement RosettaNet e-business standards. Extricity AllianceInteract for RosettaNet provides support for the RosettaNet Implementation Framework, as well as pre-configured, graphical models In probability theory, statistics, and machine learning, a graphical model (GM) is a graph that represents independencies among random variables by a graph in which each node is a random variable, and the missing edges between the nodes represent conditional independencies. of RosettaNet PIPs. It also provides end-to-end process viability, full PIP auditing and analysis capabilities, support for a wide variety of firewall configuration and security policies, and the ability to integrate with enterprise applications and middleware Software that functions as a conversion or translation layer. It is also a consolidator and integrator. Custom-programmed middleware solutions have been developed for decades to enable one application to communicate with another that either runs on a different platform or comes from a systems. Extricity Software, Inc. is the premier provider of comprehensive, packaged business-to-business software solutions. The Extricity AllianceSeries Family of XML-based e-commerce solutions allows Global 2000 companies to dramatically improve their efficiencies and competitiveness by leveraging the Internet to automate To turn a set of manual steps into an operation that goes by itself. See automation. critical business processes and the flow of information between partners, customers, and suppliers. Arrow Electronics is the world's largest distributor of electronic components and computer products, with 1998 sales of $8.3 billion. Headquartered in Melville, New York Melville is a hamlet and census-designated place in the town of Huntington in Suffolk County on Long Island, New York, in the United States. As of the 2000 census, 14,533 people resided there. , Arrow serves as a supply channel partner for more than 600 suppliers and 175,000 original equipment manufacturers and commercial customers through more than 200 sales facilities and 26 distribution centers in 35 countries. Detailed information about Arrow's operations can be found at www.arrow.com. |
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