Bain & Company Welcomes New BainNet Members Com Tech, Cisco, Fort Point Partners, Oracle and UPS e-Logistics.Business Editors BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--September 18, 2000 New alliance members enhance Bain's global ability to implement e-commerce strategies and provide access to best-of-breed technology solutions for clients Bain & Company, a global business consulting firm Noun 1. consulting firm - a firm of experts providing professional advice to an organization for a fee consulting company business firm, firm, house - the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments; "he worked for a , announced today that five new members have joined its BainNet alliance. Cisco Systems “Cisco” redirects here. For other uses, see Cisco (disambiguation). Cisco System,Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO, HKSE: 4333 ) is an American multinational corporation with 54,000 employees and annual revenue of US $28.48 billion as of 2006. and Oracle join for the Italian market; Com Tech, a member of the Dimension Data group, the world's largest independent network services provider, joins in Australia; UPS e-Logistics, a provider of comprehensive supply chain management services for e-commerce businesses and Fort Point Partners, the eSelling(TM) Internet services firm, become members in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. . BainNet is an alliance of market leaders dedicated to providing new technology-based strategies to its clients throughout the world, including Europe, Asia, Australia, South Africa South Africa, Afrikaans Suid-Afrika, officially Republic of South Africa, republic (2005 est. pop. 44,344,000), 471,442 sq mi (1,221,037 sq km), S Africa. , and the Americas. BainNet will provide Bain clients with best-of-breed talent and expertise in business strategy and cutting edge technologies necessary to stay ahead of the competition and create shareholder value. "We are very excited about the expansion of BainNet," said Steve Berez, Vice President of e-commerce at Bain & Company, responsible for the BainNet alliance globally. "The addition of Cisco and Oracle in Italy, two of the best Internet networking and software companies, Com Tech in Australia and UPS e-Logistics and Fort Point Partners in North America greatly enhance the benefits the alliance provides to Bain clients worldwide. We will continue to expand BainNet by adding world class members over the coming weeks." BainNet is Bain & Company's latest initiative, complementing the global activities of Bain's e-commerce practice, bainlab - its incubator incubator, apparatus for the maintenance of controlled conditions in which eggs can be hatched artificially. Incubator houses with double walls of mud, a fireroom, and several compartments each holding about 6,000 hens' eggs were developed in ancient times; the and accelerator - and eVolution Global Partners, a venture capital and services firm formed earlier this year by Bain, in partnership with Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Beyers and the managing partners of Texas Pacific Group. "In today's increasingly competitive environment, it's critical for us to minimize our clients' search time for the best partners and to ensure that the firms selected to implement a strategy are able to work together effectively. Access to these top companies, that can work seamlessly together, will lead to fast, successful implementation for our clients," added Mr. Berez. "The members of BainNet are among the very best companies in their fields." BainNet is comprised of alliances across a wide range of software and service capabilities covering all major industries and world regions. Members include: ArsDigita Corporation, a developer of open-source software and custom solutions for collaborative commerce that support enhanced business-to-business and business-to-consumer online communities; Cysive Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : CYSV), a premier builder of custom e-business systems; i2 Technologies, the leader in supply chain management and intelligent eBusiness; NetCel360, a leading pan-Asian e-Business Service Provider (eSP); and XUMA XUMA eXpertensystem UMweltgefaehrlichkeit von Altlasten , a "custom" application service provider (ASP) that offers a build-to-order approach for e-businesses functionality. For the latest information on BainNet, please visit http://www.bain.com/bainnet. About Com Tech Com Tech Communications (a member of the Dimension Data Group) is Australia's leading end to end Internet development company and networking 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. . Com Tech focuses on the following markets: multiservice networks, operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. , messaging and interactive services (Online/eBusiness, Call Centres). Within these business units, Com Tech provides pre and post sales support, consulting, maintenance and project management services. Com Tech Communications currently employs over 1000 people. The company's founder and Chairman, David Shein, attributes Com Tech's growth to `legendary customer service and high level of staff satisfaction'. Additional information is available on the Internet at www.comtech.com.au. About Fort Point Partners Fort Point Partners is the premiere consulting and systems integrations company focused exclusively on developing and implementing eSelling(TM) solutions for the Global 1000. eSelling is Fort Point Partners' proprietary approach that focuses technology to drive profitable revenue across all channels. Fort Point Partners has been engaged by more than 50 businesses including Hewlett-Packard, BlueLight.com, Kaplan, J. Crew and Promon IP. Fort Point Partners is headquartered in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , with offices in Chicago, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of and Munich. Its venture partners include Accel Partners, Baker Communications Fund, L.P. and Meritech Capital Partners. Fort Point Partners can be reached at http://www.fortpoint.com or 415-395-4400. About Oracle Oracle Corporation provides the software that powers the Internet. Headquartered in Redwood Shores, California Redwood Shores is an upscale and desirable [1] waterfront neighborhood on the San Francisco Peninsula in California. It is located on the eastern edge of Belmont, but is actually part of incorporated Redwood City. , Oracle is the first software company to develop and deploy 100% Internet-enabled enterprise software across its entire product line: database, application server, the e-Business Suite of enterprise business applications, and application development and decision support tools. In Italy, Oracle is present since 1993 with 5 branches, with more that 700 employees. For more information visit http://www.oracle.com/it. About UPS e-Logistics UPS e-Logistics, a subsidiary of United Parcel Service United Parcel Service, Inc. (NYSE: UPS), commonly referred to as UPS, is the world's largest package delivery company, delivering more than 15 million packages[1] a day to 6.1 million customers in over 200 countries and territories around the world. , Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : UPS) and the first business to be incubated by UPS e-Ventures, provides integrated, end-to-end supply chain management services to ensure the rapid launch and growth of e-commerce businesses and dot-com divisions of established companies. Based in Atlanta, UPS e-Logistics services include warehousing, inventory management, order fulfillment Order fulfillment (in BE also: order fulfilment) is in the most general sense the complete process from point of sales inquiry to delivery of a product to the customer. Sometimes Order fulfillment , transportation management, customer care and returns processing. More information is available at www.e-logistics.ups.com. About Bain & Company, Inc. Bain & Company is one of the world's leading global business consulting firms, serving clients across six continents Six Continents is a large retail PLC in UK which split into Six Continents Retail known as Mitchells and Butlers plc. The hotels and soft drinks business of Six Continents PLC is now known as InterContinental Hotels Group PLC. . It was founded in 1973 on the principle that consultants must measure their success by their clients' financial results. Bain's clients have outperformed the stock market three to one. With headquarters in Boston and offices in all major cities throughout the world, Bain has worked with over 2,000 major multinational and other corporations from every economic sector, in every region of the world. As a complement to its strategy consulting practice, Bain has established bainlab, an active incubator and accelerator of Internet companies, which brings to bear Bain's intellectual property and execution capability in identifying and building Internet businesses. For more information visit www.Bain.com and www.bainlab.com. |
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