BellSouth Selects Vitria BusinessWare eBusiness Platform; Vitria Welcomes BellSouth As Largest Customer To Date.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 7, 2000 Vitria Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq:VITR VITR Vitria Technologies (stock symbol) VITR Visible and Thermal Infrared Radiometer ), a leading eBusiness platform provider, today announced that BellSouth (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :BLS See Bureau of Labor Statistics. ) has selected Vitria BusinessWare(R) as its eBusiness platform. Vitria's platform is designed to enable more efficient business processes for BellSouth and its customers, reducing costs and time-to-market. &uot;We are very excited about our agreement with Vitria for our underlying eBusiness infrastructure,&uot; said Fran Dramis, Chief Information and E-commerce Officer, BellSouth. &uot;Vitria's BusinessWare technology will be key to our continued, rapid expansion into the world of eCommerce, enabling our customers with increased efficiency and satisfaction.&uot; BusinessWare is part of BellSouth's company-wide eCommerce initiative for year 2000. The software suite will support BellSouth's internal infrastructure, as well as enable eBusiness for both its consumer and business customers. &uot;We are pleased that BellSouth has chosen Vitria BusinessWare as their eBusiness platform. We welcome BellSouth as our largest customer to date, and, once deployed, this will be the most comprehensive solution,&uot; said JoMei Chang, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. and President, Vitria. &uot;As the only company that provides an end-to-end eBusiness platform to automate To turn a set of manual steps into an operation that goes by itself. See automation. all core business processes, we are well positioned to help companies like BellSouth realize new levels of operating efficiency and customer service, with the speed and productivity needed in today's competitive marketplace.&uot; &uot;Vitria's BusinessWare product will enable a consistent integration of information across BellSouth's various operations. Having this capability will both enhance customer service and improve internal efficiency,&uot; said Rick Liddell, Executive Director for Information Technology, BellSouth. About Vitria Vitria Technology, Inc. is a leading eBusiness platform provider. Vitria's eBusiness platform, BusinessWare, automates mission-critical business processes across the extended enterprise, reducing time to market, shortening lead times, lowering operating costs operating costs npl → gastos mpl operacionales , and increasing customer satisfaction. Vitria is a publicly traded company publicly traded company A company whose shares of common stock are held by the public and are available for purchase by investors. The shares of publicly traded firms are bought and sold on the organized exchanges or in the over-the-counter market. (Nasdaq:VITR) based in Sunnyvale, California Sunnyvale ([sʌniveil]) is a city in Santa Clara County, California, United States. It is one of the major cities that make up the Silicon Valley. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 131,760. . For more information, call 408/212-2700, visit the company's Web site at www.vitria.com, or send email to info@vitria.com. About BellSouth BellSouth (NYSE:BLS) is a $25 billion communications services company. It provides telecommunications Communicating information, including data, text, pictures, voice and video over long distance. See communications. , 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, directory advertising and publishing, and Internet and data services to more than 37 million customers in 20 countries worldwide. NOTE: For more information about BellSouth, visit the BellSouth Web page at http://www.bellsouth.com. Also, BellSouth news releases dating back one year are available by fax at no charge by calling 1-800-758-5804, ext. 095650 or write: for Atlanta releases 1155 Peachtree St., N.E.; Atlanta, GA 30309-3610 and for DC releases; 1133 21st St., N.W.; Suite 900; Washington, DC. This press release includes forward-looking statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. that are subject to risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those referred to in the forward-looking statements. Such factors include, but are not limited to, risk as related to market acceptance of Vitria's product, deployment delays or errors associated with these products, hardware platform incompatibilities, reliance on a limited number of customers for a majority of revenue, need to maintain and enhance certain business relationships with system integrators and other parties, ability to manage growth, activities by Vitria and others regarding protection of proprietary information, release of competitive products and other actions by competitors, Year 2000 problems Year 2000 problem, Y2K problem, or millennium bug, in computer science, a design flaw in the hardware or software of a computer that caused erroneous results when working with dates beyond Dec. 31, 1999. and economic downturns in either domestic or foreign markets. These forward-looking statements are generally identified by words such as &uot;expect,&uot; &uot;anticipate,&uot; &uot;intend,&uot; &uot;believe,&uot; &uot;hope,&uot; &uot;assume,&uot; &uot;estimate&uot; and other similar words and expressions. Note to Editors: BusinessWare is a trademark of Vitria Technology, Inc. All other names may be trademarks of the companies with which they are associated. |
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