BizProLink.com And CertifiedMail.com Agree To Offer Secure Online Electronic Document Delivery Across Network of 124 B2B Communities.Business Editors SPRINGFIELD, N.J. & BOCA RATON Boca Raton (bō`kə rətōn`), city (1990 pop. 61,492), Palm Beach co., SE Fla., on the Atlantic; inc. 1925. Boca Raton is a popular resort and retirement community that experienced significant industrial development in the 1970s and 80s. , Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 12, 2000 Internet's Largest Aggregator of ASP Services for Businesses Announces New Partner CertifiedMail.com, (www.certifiedmail.com) the premier provider of secure Internet and wireless document delivery and BizProLink.com, (www.bizprolink.com), an Internet Business Service Provider (iBSP) Network supporting the daily needs of businesses within 124 industry sectors, today announced that they have signed a strategic partner agreement. Together, BizProLink.com and CertifiedMail.com will offer businesses direct access to secure electronic document delivery solutions without the need to download any special software. BizProLink.com (www.bizprolink.com), an Internet Business Service Provider (iBSP), is building the Internet's largest and most scalable network of business services across its portfolio of 124 industry-specific Communities-of-Commerce. All 124 BizProLink Vertical Communities begin serving end-user businesses in Q4 2000. "CertifiedMail's proven Secured Electronic Transaction Solutions will benefit BizProLink's business users who need to send highly sensitive Adj. 1. highly sensitive - readily affected by various agents; "a highly sensitive explosive is easily exploded by a shock"; "a sensitive colloid is readily coagulated" documents and business communications," said Steven R. Sponder, Founder and 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.com. "The service in all 124 of our 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 web communities will offer a new level of security and tracking that traditional e-mail lacks." "CertifiedMail.com offers One-Click Protection for your e-mail by fully integrating with MS Outlook, Outlook Express and Lotus Notes Messaging and groupware software from IBM Lotus that was introduced in 1989 for OS/2 and later expanded to Windows, Mac, Unix, NetWare, AS/400 and S/390. Notes provides e-mail, document sharing, workflow, group discussions and calendaring and scheduling. . It is very simple for non-technical users, eliminating the need for PKI (Public Key Infrastructure) A framework for creating a secure method for exchanging information based on public key cryptography. The foundation of a PKI is the certificate authority (CA), which issues digital certificates that authenticate the identity of , certificates and key rings," said CertifiedMail.com President and CEO Mahesh Muchala. "No special software is needed and you need not be a cryptography expert. We are pleased to bring this service to BizProLink.com, the premier Internet Business Service Provider." CertifiedMail and BizProLink are helping drive explosive growth in the B2B e-Commerce (Business to Business Electronic-COMMERCE) Refers to one business selling to another business via the Web. See e-commerce. market and the application service provider (ASP) market. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a recent Forrester Research report, "Almost 60% of small to medium-sized businesses expressed interest in outsourcing apps with minimal customization needs in the next three years. Fueled by new pricing models, network-centric apps, and extended service offerings, the apps hosting market will balloon to $11.3 billion by 2003 - representing one-fourth of all apps purchases." About CertifiedMail.com Springfield, NJ-based CertifiedMail.com, founded in September 1998 by experts in the field of data security, is the premier provider of secure Internet and wireless document delivery. CertifiedMail.com's Web-based service www.CertifiedMail.com and packaged server system CertifiedMail Server(tm) are applicable across all industries, with particular appeal to those companies or professionals conducting business on the web, which involves the exchange of confidential or sensitive information with proof of both delivery and opening. About The BizProLink.com Business Services Network BizProLink.com owns and manages the Internet's largest and most scalable portfolio of Industry-Specific .com sites. By providing essential online business tools and e-Procurement services, BizProLink.com enables small and medium businesses to maximize profitability by reducing costs and increasing efficiencies. Each industry-specific portal function as a business user's default Home Page and important first "point-of-contact" for companies within the same industry. BizProLink continues to build its infrastructure applications within its portfolio of 124 Communities-of-Commerce, to provide ASP's with a mass audience of highly targeted business users. It will begin serving end-user businesses in Q4, 2000. BizProLink.com, Inc. is a VC funded company founded by former MSN (1) (MicroSoft Network) A family of Internet-based services from Microsoft, which includes a search engine, e-mail (Hotmail), instant messaging (Windows Live Messaging) and a general-purpose portal with news, information and shopping (MSN Directory). (Microsoft Network) content partners who launched one of the web's first B2B e-Commerce companies in 1995. To date, BizProLink has established strategic relationships with 32 of the web's leading content, technology and ASP companies, including: BroadVision, Inc. (Nasdaq: BVSN BVSN Broadvision, Inc. (stock abbreviation, AMEX) ) Business Wire, CNET (body) CNET - Centre national d'Etudes des Telecommunications. The French national telecommunications research centre at Lannion. Investor (Nasdaq: CNET), MapQuest (Nasdaq: MQST), AccuWeather, TSCentral, BizBuyer, NationTaxOnline, SierraCities.com (Nasdaq:BTOB), Verio (Nasdaq:VRIO VRIO Virtual Reality Input Output ) and CertifiedMail.com. |
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