Beyond.com Partners With Trilogy to Offer Business Customers an On-Ramp to Online Buying.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 1, 1998-- Largest Internet-Based Electronic Software Superstore su·per·store n. A very large retail store that stocks highly diversified merchandise, such as groceries, toys, and camera equipment, or a wide variety of mechandise in a specific product line, such as computers or sporting goods. to Deliver Trilogy A company founded in 1979 by Gene Amdahl to commercialize wafer scale integration and build supercomputers. It raised a quarter of a billion dollars, the largest startup funding in history, but could not create its 2.5" superchip. Buying Chain for Fast, Easy Online Buying Beyond.com (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 :BYND), formerly software.net, and Trilogy Software, Inc., today announced a multi-faceted partnership to introduce a comprehensive e-commerce solution to businesses. The joint effort teams Beyond.com with Trilogy Buying Chain, the first broad-market product allowing business buyers to realize the benefits of electronic commerce. Beyond.com and Trilogy have adopted an extensive partnership, including joint marketing and distribution, to provide companies with fast, easy online buying. Buying Chain: A Better Way to Buy As the world's largest online software superstore, Beyond.com (www.beyond.com) allows customers to purchase boxed software and to download To receive a file transmitted over a network. In any communications session, "download" means receive, and "upload" means send. The download/upload often implies a big/little scenario, in which data is being downloaded from the "big" server into the "little" user's computer. software from a simple and secure sell-side commerce site. By partnering with Buying Chain, Beyond.com will provide corporate customers with an easy-to-use, buyside application that completes the commerce equation and enables them to buy online. Alan DeClerck, vice president of worldwide sales at Beyond.com, said "Trilogy Buying Chain allows us to provide an end-to-end e-commerce solution for small to mid-tier businesses, giving them a fast, easy way to buy from Beyond.com and other online suppliers. Until now, it has been difficult for businesses to take advantage of the millions of dollars in products and services sold online -- Buying Chain offers the perfect solution for businesses ready to buy over the Internet." Access to Over 100 Product and Service Suppliers, Tens of Thousands of Products By partnering with Trilogy, Beyond.com joins a growing list of over 100 Buying Chain-enabled suppliers. Buying Chain business users have complete access to Beyond.com's software product catalog catalog, descriptive list, on cards or in a book, of the contents of a library. Assurbanipal's library at Nineveh was cataloged on shelves of slate. The first known subject catalog was compiled by Callimachus at the Alexandrian Library in the 3d cent. B.C. of over 30,000 products, with real-time pricing and availability. In addition, companies can create customized catalogs in Buying Chain based on the products at Beyond.com. Buying Chain enables business customers to make purchase requests for Beyond.com products and automatically route these requests through internal approval channels before ordering. Through the partnership with Beyond.com, Trilogy is opening the doors for Buying Chain business users to the largest on-line software superstore. "We are excited to add Beyond.com to the Buying Chain community of suppliers," commented Naren Nath, vice president of Trilogy, indirect business unit. "Our companies share a common vision in which every business can take advantage of the ease and real-time benefits of electronic commerce; together Trilogy and Beyond.com are providing businesses an on-ramp to online buying." Pricing and Availability: Free 30-Day Trial Companies can download Buying Chain for a free 30-day trial over the Buying Chain Web site (www.buyingchain.com) and Beyond.com's Web site (www.beyond.com/showcase/trilogy.htm), and start purchasing immediately from Beyond.com and others. In order to ensure all companies can participate in Internet commerce, Trilogy is offering Buying Chain at a breakthrough price point. A company with 100 users can download the software for $995, for up to 500 users the software is $4,995, and an unlimited license is available for $9,995. About Trilogy Software, Inc. Trilogy Software, Inc., the largest private software company focused on the front office, is a leading provider of sales, marketing, and business-to-business electronic commerce applications. Hewlett-Packard, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Whirlpool Corporation Whirlpool Corporation (NYSE: WHR) is the world's leading manufacturer and marketer of major home appliances,with annual sales of approximately $18 billion, more than 73,000 employees, and more than 70 manufacturing and technology research centers around the world. , Allegiance allegiance, in political terms, the tie that binds an individual to another individual or institution. The term usually refers to a person's legal obligation of obedience to a government in return for the protection of that government, although it may have reference Healthcare, and Lucent, use Trilogy's patented software to achieve new levels of profitability, customer satisfaction and competitive advantage by changing the way their products are bought and sold. More information on Buying Chain can be found at www.trilogy.com. More information on Trilogy can be found at www.trilogy.com. About Beyond.com Beyond.com Corporation is a leading, online reseller An organization that sells hardware and software to the general public. Resellers purchase products from software publishers and hardware manufacturers. of commercial, off-the-shelf software to the government enterprise, corporate and consumer markets. Visitors to the company's online store (www.beyond.com) enjoy a comprehensive selection of software backed by customer service and competitive pricing. Approximately 30,000 software stock-keeping units (database) stock-keeping unit - (SKU) /skyoo/ (rarely seen expanded) A common term for a unique numeric identifier, typically in a database. Originally this was used only for products, but has spread in usage. Compare with UID for sense development. (SKUs) are available for online purchase with more than 3,300 SKUs available for immediate, electronic delivery, including software from such major publishers as Adobe adobe (ədō`bē): see rammed earth. adobe Handmade sun-dried bricks formed from a mixture of heavy clay and straw found in arid regions. , Lotus, Microsoft, Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. and Symantec. The company has established strategic marketing alliances with American Online, Inc., Excite, Inc. and Netscape Communications Corporation (company) Netscape Communications Corporation - (Formlerly "Mosaic Communications Corporation", MCC) A company set up in April 1994 by Dr. James H. Clark and Marc Andreessen <marca@netcom. . Beyond.com trades on the Nasdaq under the symbol "BYND". Note to Editors: Trilogy and Buying Chain are trademarks of Trilogy Software, Inc. All other trademarks and tradenames are the property of their respective owners.
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