BizProLink to Use BroadVision's Enterprise Business Portal Applications to Power Largest Network of Industry-Specific Business Content.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers REDWOOD CITY Redwood City, city (1990 pop. 66,072), seat of San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1868. Manufactures include commmunications, electrical, electronic, and medical equipment. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 5, 2002 Industry Leading Personalization Custom tailoring information to the individual. On the Web, personalization means returning a page that has been customized for the user, taking into consideration that person's habits and preferences. Features Available to 43 Vertical Industries BroadVision, Inc. (Nasdaq:BVSN BVSN Broadvision, Inc. (stock abbreviation, AMEX) ), the leading provider of enterprise business portal applications, today announced that BizProLink Corporation, the leading provider of industry-specific content and web services (1) Loosely, any online service delivered over the Web. Such usage appears in articles from non-technical sources, but not in IT-oriented publications, because definition #2 below describes the correct use of the term. , will utilize BroadVision(R)'s corporate portal An internal Web site (intranet) that provides proprietary, enterprise-wide information to company employees as well as access to selected public Web sites and vertical-market Web sites (suppliers, vendors, etc.). and content management applications to power the BizProLink network of personalized industry-specific portals. BizProLink (www.bizprolink.com) offers the largest business network of industry-specific content, services and web based Coming from a Web server. See Web application. tools serving 43 vertical industries including Finance, Construction, Marketing & Advertising, 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. , Healthcare, Retail, Law, Industrial & Manufacturing, Real Estate, Auto, Telecommunications, Government and many more. BizProLink also powers more than 30 private-branded affiliated sites -- and provides content to a number of top online destinations -- including AOL's Careers and Work channel and Netscape's Netbusiness -- providing users with leading industry-specific content and web based tools. BizProLink's portability allows its industry-specific content and tools to power any Internet site, with enhanced levels of functionality for BroadVision powered sites. Having specialized in content aggregation and privately branded portal creation/management tasks through a customized set of tools built with the BroadVision One-To-One(R) Enterprise(TM) application platform, BizProLink will now leverage BroadVision's out-of-the-box portal applications to enhance their offering and increase market penetration Noun 1. market penetration - the extent to which a product is recognized and bought by customers in a particular market penetration - the act of entering into or through something; "the penetration of upper management by women" . The use of BroadVision's portal applications will offer business owners and professionals more flexibility in tailoring their personalized interface, information, and functionality needs, while allowing BizProLink to continue to enhance the content aggregation and cross-vertical integration, within the One-To-One Enterprise application foundation. Combining content from different vertical communities to create unique business professional home pages is a service not readily available from any other company at this time. BizProLink's use of BroadVision's portal technology across its entire network of industry communities provides business users immediate access to a complete range of expanded benefits. Users can pull content specific to any occupation from virtually anywhere on the BizProLink network quickly, and easily create individually tailored, occupational home pages. For example, someone in the Hospitality industry might be interested in information from the Food & Beverage, Hospitality and Travel communities. Additionally, users can select from a wealth of general business resources to help perform their daily job functions and combine all of the relevant content and services into one unique home page. This push of functionality to 'portal engines' will offer the ultimate business user a higher level of self-service, and BizProLink with a more intelligent and personalized content engine. BizProLink will speak at BroadVision's Inner Circle event in Washington, D.C. on June 7, 2002 about how BroadVision's personalization capabilities, and business driven management model, enables BizProLink to identify and aggregate content & tools from (and to) multiple industries. The flexibility in content organization, cross-industry applicability and presentation, has enabled a time to market that has given them a strategic advantage over all of their competitors. "BizProLink selected BroadVision's technology because of its flexibility, breadth and depth of functionality," said Steven Sponder, 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. of BizProLink Corporation. "BroadVision enables BizProLink to power 43 vertical industries with valuable business content and empowers users to personalize the content they view from different vertical sectors, creating a unique experience for each individual user." "BroadVision's portal and content management applications are a great fit for enterprises like BizProLink who have a need for personalization and strong content management capabilities," said Sandra Vaughan, senior vice president of marketing for BroadVision. About BizProLink BizProLink Corporation is the leading distributor of industry-specific Web services and content. The Company provides a suite of 400 industry-specific online business tools tailored to serve professionals in 43 industry sectors. BizProLink private labels it's hosted solution for the world's leading media, financial, technology and telecommunications companies. Key partnerships include AOL (A division of Time Warner, Inc., New York, NY, www.aol.com) The world's largest online information service with access to the Internet, e-mail, chat rooms and a variety of databases and services. Inc., Monster.com, ADP (1) (Automatic Data Processing) Synonymous with data processing (DP), electronic data processing (EDP) and information processing. (2) (Automatic Data Processing, Inc., Roseland, NJ, www.adp. , 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) , Oracle, 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. , Siebel Systems Siebel is a brand name of Oracle Corporation. Siebel Systems, Inc., founded by Thomas Siebel in 1993, was principally engaged in the design, development, marketing and support of CRM applications. and BroadVision. For more information, contact 954/714-4500 or visit www.bizprolink.com. About BroadVision BroadVision's (Nasdaq:BVSN) enterprise business portal applications create immediate business value by transforming the way organizations do business -- moving relationships to a personalized, self-service model that enhances growth, reduces costs and improves productivity. Leading global companies use BroadVision as the basis for their enterprise business portal initiatives -- using the web and wireless devices to unify and extend an enterprise's applications, information and business processes to serve its employees, partners and customers in a personalized and collaborative way. For more information about BroadVision, Inc., call 650/542-5100, email info@broadvision.com or visit www.broadvision.com. BroadVision , BroadVision One-To-One, and BroadVision One-To-One Enterprise are trademarks or registered trademarks of BroadVision, Inc. in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and other countries. |
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