Beyond.com Unveils Redesigned Website: Online Shopping Boutiques Cater to Individual, Business and Government Customers.SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 15, 1999-- Internet software superstore Beyond.com(TM) (Nasdaq:BYND) today unveiled a redesign of its website that is profoundly easy to navigate and offers a broad selection of software and hardware to cater to the company's increasingly diverse customer base. "What we have created are online boutiques on our website at http://www.beyond.com that cater to the software and hardware needs of the specific customers who shop at Beyond.com," said President and Chief Executive Officer Mark Breier. The redesign features: -- Shopping Boutiques for Individual, Business and Government customers that showcase software titles by category. The Individual tab highlights those software titles that are popular with individual buyers and sorted by category (e.g., Games; Kid Zone; Hobbies; Graphics and Multimedia; Communications), while the Business tab highlights software titles and other areas of interest to enterprises such as Volume Licensing, Hardware, software Publisher Showcases and Services. The Government tab is accessible exclusively to shoppers accessing from government and military domains. -- A Hardware Boutique that features connected organizers, handheld computing devices, printers, digital cameras, storage input devices, multimedia devices, networking storage devices and scanners. The company believes that, increasingly, customers want the added convenience of buying hardware for their various computing devices where they already buy software. -- Buyer's Guides on various hardware products are now featured on the Beyond.com website to help customers choose the hardware best suited to meet their needs. -- Powerful new Search and Advanced Search capabilities to help customers find software and hardware products by name, manufacturer or category. About Beyond.com Beyond.com sells commercial, off-the-shelf software to the government, enterprise, corporate and consumer markets, offering its customers a better place to buy software. Visitors to the company's online store http://www.beyond.com enjoy a comprehensive selection of software backed by customer service and competitive pricing. Beyond.com offers more than 1.6 million software and other digital products, including 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) for online purchase from such major publishers as Adobe Systems Adobe Systems Incorporated (pronounced a-DOE-bee IPA: /əˈdoʊbiː/) (NASDAQ: ADBE) (LSE: ABS) is an American computer software company headquartered in San Jose, California, USA. Inc., 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) Corp., Lotus Development Corp., Microsoft Corp., 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. Inc. and Symantec Corp; hardware; computing devices; and digital images in different file formats, including jpeg, gif and mpf through a strategic marketing alliance with IMSI IMSI International Mobile Subscriber Identity IMSI International Microcomputer Software, Inc. IMSI International Mobile Station Identity (now International Mobile Subscriber Identity) IMSI Idaho Maximum Security Institution . The company has established strategic marketing alliances with America Online See AOL. Inc., CNET (body) CNET - Centre national d'Etudes des Telecommunications. The French national telecommunications research centre at Lannion. Inc., Compaq Computer Corp., Excite@Home, HP Shopping Village, Road Runner/ServiceCo, Yahoo! Inc. and ZDNet. Additionally, Beyond.com offers software publishers, hardware manufacturers and systems OEMs e-commerce solutions including publishers transaction processing Updating the appropriate database records as soon as a transaction (order, payment, etc.) is entered into the computer. It may also imply that confirmations are sent at the same time. Transaction processing systems are the backbone of an organization because they update constantly. , physical and electronic 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 , customer support, site design consultation, marketing support and reporting. The company has applied for federal registration of the marks BEYOND.COM and BEYOND DOT COM dot com - com . Beyond.com Corporation trades on the Nasdaq National Market under the symbol ("BYND"). More information on the company can be found in the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"). |
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