Bizee Portal Site Includes Virtual Private Network.Bizee.com launched a new web portal See portal. site aimed at businesses yesterday, including a free secure communications service using virtual private networking technology. Rockville, Maryland-based Bizee's portal covers 24 vertical market industries, and offers a mixture of free and paid-for content, along with business-to- business communications and simple prourement applications. Bizee has signed a deal with Germantown, Maryland-based V-One Corp for its SmartGate VPN (Virtual Private Network) A private network that is configured within a public network (a carrier's network or the Internet) in order to take advantage of the economies of scale and management facilities of large networks. technology, which enables 168-bit Triple DES See DES. (cryptography) triple DES - A product cipher which, like DES, operates on 64-bit data blocks. There are several forms, each of which uses the DES cipher 3 times. Some forms use two 56-bit keys, some use three. The DES "modes of operation" may also be used with triple-DES. encryption, and is using it for BizeeRFP, its first application. BizeeRFP is a request for procedure application. In the future, Bizee promises simple enterprise resource planning See ERP. (application, business) Enterprise Resource Planning - (ERP) Any software system designed to support and automate the business processes of medium and large businesses. over the portal, a front-office application designed to hook multiple buyers up to sellers, and aimed at smaller suppliers who haven't got their own ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer. systems. Bizee uses the Oracle 8i database running on Sun Microsystems Inc servers to run its service, and AboveNet Communications Inc for bandwidth, redundancy and other services. Its site is customizable by users, and includes original content. It plans additional news, information and e-commerce products, along with tools and expert systems for business users. |
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