BellSouth Announces Digital Office Service for Small Businesses.Business Editors & Technology Writers ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 4, 2000 Company Will Offer Online Platform of Small Business Productivity Tools BellSouth Corporation (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :BLS See Bureau of Labor Statistics. ) today announced plans for BellSouth Digital Office Service, which will include a customized version of Biztro(TM) Inc.'s Business Operations Business operations are those activities involved in the running of a business for the purpose of producing value for the stakeholders. Compare business processes. The outcome of business operations is the harvesting of value from assets Platform(TM) and will provide its small and medium-sized business customers a suite of online business productivity tools. BellSouth also recently announced an equity stake in Biztro, serving as an investor in the company's third round of external funding. With the addition of the new services, BellSouth Digital Office will offer back-office productivity tools, which give small businesses the ability to increase the efficiency of their administrative activities and decrease the time burdens associated with paper-based, back-office management. The platform, developed using the Biztro business operations infrastructure technology, will launch later this year and will include applications from best-of-class service providers that help companies manage such functions as benefits, payroll and human resources The fancy word for "people." The human resources department within an organization, years ago known as the "personnel department," manages the administrative aspects of the employees. functions, and will continue to add features over time. BellSouth is committed to helping its customers succeed, and this system will allow small businesses to enhance their administration, thereby allowing more focus on core business activities. Access to BellSouth Digital Office will be through a direct URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. to be named at the launch of the site, as well as through links on the BellSouth Small Business home page at www.smlbiz.bellsouth.com. "BellSouth Digital Office is another example of the value-added services we provide to our more than 1.2 million small business customers," said Joe Baker, president of BellSouth Small Business Services. "We are excited about how Digital Office will enable our customers to simplify their daily operations and allow for better communications, all of which creates the potential for increased productivity and efficiency of small business operations." "BellSouth is extremely influential in the small business market, providing a range of leading-edge telecom services and Internet applications," said Navin Chaddha, chairman and chief executive officer of Biztro. "This is a very promising relationship for Biztro as it extends our reach with small businesses, which will further strengthen our market position." About BellSouth BellSouth is a $26 billion communications services company. It provides telecommunications services, Internet, data and e-commerce applications, wireless communications wireless communications System using radio-frequency, infrared, microwave, or other types of electromagnetic or acoustic waves in place of wires, cables, or fibre optics to transmit signals or data. , cable and digital TV, and online and directory advertising to more than 40 million customers in 18 countries worldwide. About Biztro, Inc. Biztro, Inc., headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif., was founded in March 1999 to address the fastest-growing segment of the 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 eCommerce and eServices marketplace: small business. Biztro is transforming the way small businesses run their operations by integrating leading service providers into its powerful Business Operations Platform, which dramatically increases small business buying power Buying Power The money an investor has available to buy securities. In a margin account, the buying power is the total cash held in the brokerage account plus maximum margin available. Also referred to as "Excess Equity. and improves back-office administration. Biztro distributes its Business Operations Platform through a network of strategic partners. Biztro's supplier partners, key to Biztro's business model, include best-of-class companies in various industries that service the small business market. Biztro is funded by leading organizations, including Andersen Consulting, Bank of America
Bank of America (NYSE: BAC TYO: 8648 ) is the largest commercial bank in the United States in terms of deposits, and the largest company of its kind in the world. , BellSouth, SOFTBANK Venture Capital and Marsh & McLennan Capital. For more information, visit http://www.biztro.com or contact Biztro public relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most at pr@biztro.com. Biztro, and Business Operations Platform are trademarks of Biztro, Inc. |
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