Awards.com Goes Live in 43 Days with OpenOrders' Order Processing Software; OpenOrders Manages Back-End Order Management and Fulfillment for New Online Awards Product Site.Business/Technology Editors NEWTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 22, 2000 OpenOrders, Inc., the leading developer of dynamic order management and fulfillment software for e-commerce, today announced that Awards.com's e-commerce storefront has gone "live" with OpenOrders. OpenOrders, which was implemented in less than two months, provides the site with multi-channel order processing, inventory and warehouse management fulfillment. Awards.com is the Internet's first "superstore" for awards, recognition and motivational products. "To be successful, Awards.com needed a dynamic engine able to instantly integrate fulfillment, inventory and warehousing management, pricing and merchandising rules, 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. , 1:1 marketing and provide multi-channel support - all at the same moment," said Michael Hamilton Michael Aubrey Hamilton (5 July 1918 – 3 July 2000) was a British Conservative Party politician. Hamilton was educated at Radley and University College, Oxford. He was a director of Royal Exchange Assurance and of Army & Navy Stores. , President and Co-Founder of Awards.com. "OpenOrders' software met all these requirements, and was quickly implemented with no customization. Now, our site has the functionality required to effectively deliver on products ordered by our customers through multiple channels, such as the Web and telephone." OpenOrders is an industry-leading provider of complete order management and fulfillment software for e-businesses, direct marketers, catalog companies, call centers, fulfillment houses A fulfillment house is a company specializing in fulfillment services. Fulfillment house overview Fulfillment, also known as order fulfillment or product fulfillment and service bureaus. The firm provides e-commerce companies with a comprehensive back-end order processing and fulfillment system that can be quickly deployed with few or no customizations. "When we first selected OpenOrders to manage the Awards.com superstore's order processing and fulfillment, we knew we needed a highly responsive, state-of-the-art order processing system," said Tim Sixtus, Chief Technology Officer of Awards.com. "Now that we have gone live, we have real proof that OpenOrders was able to quickly meet all of our needs with an open architecture that required no customization." "OpenOrders is very enthusiastic about working with Awards.com," said Jonathan Katz
About OpenOrders OpenOrders, Inc. is a leading developer and provider of dynamic order management and fulfillment software for e-commerce. OpenOrders software enables its customers to easily connect existing web sites to OpenOrders systems, and integrates all order processing needs such as order entry, inventory allocation and warehouse management. It also seamlessly manages the complexities of print-on-demand and one-to-one marketing applications. OpenOrders' unique scalable and open architecture systems operate on PC-based Windows 98 or Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. , UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). , and LINUX. Open Orders' customers include e-business, direct marketers, catalog companies, call centers, fulfillment houses and service bureaus in diverse industries nationwide. OpenOrders' customers include ADP (1) (Automatic Data Processing) Synonymous with data processing (DP), electronic data processing (EDP) and information processing. (2) (Automatic Data Processing, Inc., Roseland, NJ, www.adp. , AIP AIP acute intermittent porphyria. AIP Acute intermittent porphyria , Convergys, John Hancock, SkyMall, and Stew Leonards. Sample companies being served through these organizations include Hollywood.com, Merrill Lynch Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. (NYSE: MER TYO: 8675 ), through its subsidiaries and affiliates, provides capital markets services, investment banking and advisory services, wealth management, asset management, insurance, banking and related products and services on a global basis. , Microsoft, Nike, Solomon Smith Barney Smith Barney is a division of Citigroup Global Capital Markets Inc., a global, full-service financial firm, that provides brokerage, investment banking and asset management services to corporations, governments and individuals around the world. , and US Cellular. For more information about OpenOrders, please visit our web site at www.OpenOrders.com. About Awards.com Awards.com provides the most comprehensive selection of custom recognition, awards, trophies and motivational products and editorial content via its web site (www.awards.com) and mail-order catalog. The company offers thousands of products and complete personalization facilities on site at its Lyndhurst, NJ headquarters. |
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