AtHoc Joins BEA Star Partner Program To Provide BEA-Ready Active Portal Solution with Enterprise Alerts.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers BURLINGAME, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 25, 2002 AtHoc, Inc., a leading provider of enterprise communication and alerting software, today announced that it has joined the growing list of companies in the Star Partner Program of BEA Systems BEA Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: BEAS) is one of the major companies developing enterprise infrastructure software. BEA makes middleware, products that help software run on top of databases. , Inc., one of the world's leading e-business infrastructure software companies. The AtHoc(TM) Active Portal is a BEA-ready(TM) solution proven to maximize enterprise portal See corporate portal. ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). by accelerating the adoption and increasing the usage of portal-based enterprise applications and services. "AtHoc's solution is a valuable addition to any enterprise portal, and therefore we are excited to have AtHoc as a member of the BEA BEA - Basic programming Environment for interactive-graphical Applications, from Siemens-Nixdorf. Star Partner program," explains Robert Duffner, director of product marketing at BEA Systems. "We are actually using AtHoc's software for our sales and marketing portal because it allows us to be pro-active in getting important information and resources to the sales force through powerful alerting capabilities. At-Hoc delivers unquestioned productivity gains and ROI as direct result of integrating the AtHoc software." With the implementation of AtHoc, BEA's product marketing team can now instantly alert its field sales reps with breaking news and the latest product information without requiring the employee to first return to the corporate intranet in order to view the information. This alerting process saves significant time and enables the sales rep to more rapidly respond to market changes. The AtHoc Active Portal suite comprises Enterprise Alerts, Portal Toolbar A row or column of on-screen buttons used to activate functions in the application. Many toolbars are customizable, letting you add and delete buttons as required. Toolbars may be fixed in position or may float, which means they can be dragged to a more convenient location in the and a Management System. Collectively, these products give companies the ability to trigger timely response to critical events even when users are away from the portal. The AtHoc software enables organizations to substantially increase employee productivity levels, improve user satisfaction with the e-business applications and facilitate greater communication and knowledge transfer throughout the organization. "We are excited to extend the value of BEA's WebLogic products by making the resources from enterpise portal quicker to find and more valuable for everyone." said Ly Tran, co-founder and vice president of business development at AtHoc. "The enterprise portal has become an important medium for conducting business in today's business Today's Business is a show on CNBC that aired in the early morning, 5 to 7AM ET timeslot, hosted by Liz Claman and Bob Sellers, and it was replaced by Wake Up Call on Feb 4, 2002. environment. Yet, in many cases, the potential value of the portal is not fully realized because usage and adoption remain low. Our software addresses this fundamental problem, and we are delighted to have BEA validate To prove something to be sound or logical. Also to certify conformance to a standard. Contrast with "verify," which means to prove something to be correct. For example, data entry validity checking determines whether the data make sense (numbers fall within a range, numeric data our solution as a customer as well as a technology partner." As a member of the BEA Star Partner program, AtHoc will receive an array of benefits in marketing, sales, training, education, and technical development. BEA Star members are systems integrators An individual or organization that builds systems from a variety of diverse components. With increasing complexity of technology, more customers want complete solutions to information problems, requiring hardware, software and networking expertise in a multivendor environment. , independent software vendors and application service providers building e-business solutions on the BEA WebLogic A software suite from BEA Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (www.beasys.com) that is used to deploy Web and SOA applications. The core product is BEA WebLogic Server, a J2EE application server. E-Business Platform(TM) to help make their customers Internet-ready and future-proof. About AtHoc, Inc. AtHoc, Inc. is a leading provider of enterprise communication and alerting software that helps companies increase the adoption and usage of their enterprise portals and e-business applications. The AtHoc(TM) Active Portal suite gives businesses the unique ability to stay in touch and interact with users even after they leave the portal environment. Through the use of desktop alerts and a portal toolbar, businesses pro-actively bring applications and content from the portal to users. A proven complement to enterprise portal solutions, AtHoc Active Portal suite delivers a significant ROI to customers who want to substantially increase employee productivity levels and time savings through their portal and e-business applications, or enhance profit opportunities in the enterprise-to-enterprise environment. More information about AtHoc's products and services can be found at http://www.athoc.com. Note to Editors: BEA and WebLogic are registered trademarks of BEA Systems, Inc. BEA WebLogic E-Business Platform, BEA WebLogic Server, BEA WebLogic Commerce Server, BEA WebLogic Personalization Custom tailoring information to the individual. On the Web, personalization means returning a page that has been customized for the user, taking into consideration that person's habits and preferences. Server, BEA WebLogic Collaborate, and BEA WebLogic Business Process Integrator (1) In electronics, a device that combines an input with a variable, such as time, and provides an analog output; for example, a watt-hour meter. (2) See systems integrator. are trademarks of BEA Systems, Inc. All other company and product names may be trademarks of the company with which they are associated. |
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