Bluetrain.com Selects Vitria to Build Trading Partner Network for Internet-based Application Delivery.Business/Technology Editors SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 9, 2000 Industry's first provider of Internet-based collaborative applications will use Vitria's ebusiness platform to deliver cost-effective networked computing to the desktop Vitria Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq:VITR VITR Vitria Technologies (stock symbol) VITR Visible and Thermal Infrared Radiometer ), a leading ebusiness platform provider, today announced that Bluetrain.com, a leading provider of hosted Internet applications, has selected Vitria's ebusiness platform to form an electronic community with ISP's and other channel partners to deliver its industry leading collaborative application service, Passport, via the Internet. The Passport application currently provides group collaboration See collaborative software. functions such as email, calendaring and document management, and Bluetrain plans to integrate third-party partner solutions to ensure seamless communication across multi-vendor vertical applications, including sales automation Sales Automation - Sales Force Automation , 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. , purchasing, and others. Bluetrain delivers its service by partnering with CLECs, Telcos and ISPs, significantly enhancing the existing services that these providers can offer to their small and midsize business customers. They will use Vitria's ebusiness platform, BusinessWare, to bond electronically with these partners, enabling automatic, real-time, secure exchange of information and transactions between Bluetrain's systems and their electronic community. By linking their Vitria-based trading network to other hubs, exchanges and trading partners, Bluetrain will be able to provide these expanded services much more quickly than previously possible, due to BusinessWare's ability to leverage a variety of business-to-business ecommerce standards including XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. , and its ability to automate and manage the flow of information and transactions across the entire value chain. There are benefits to all parties involved: Bluetrain gains quicker and broader access to new partners and users, the ISP's increase the value of their service offering, and customers gain wider choice of value-added services through their existing provider. "Vitria's ebusiness platform allows us to quickly build new partner relationships for provisioning, delivery and service, leveraging the huge growth in adoption of DSL DSL in full Digital Subscriber Line Broadband digital communications connection that operates over standard copper telephone wires. It requires a DSL modem, which splits transmissions into two frequency bands: the lower frequencies for voice (ordinary and other related services," said Jack Weixel, 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 Bluetrain.com. "It also sets the basis for future expansion into new applications, services and customers as we continue to drive Internet based application access to customers through Service Providers". "Bluetrain's business is an excellent example of what can be achieved using the Internet to provide new value through a network of partners," said JoMei Chang, CEO and president of Vitria. "We are delighted that Bluetrain has selected Vitria to help them achieve their vision going forward since it is such a complementary fit with our ebusiness platform and existing network of service providers in their target space. We look forward to helping Bluetrain exploit this tremendous opportunity." Gartner Group (company) Gartner Group - One of the biggest IT industry research firms. Address: Connecticut, USA. anticipates that the groupware Software that supports multiple users working on related tasks in local and remote networks. Also called "collaborative software," groupware is an evolving concept that is more than just multiuser software which allows access to the same data. market will top 50 million users by the end of 2000, while International Data Corporation (IDC) estimates that there will be 133 million corporate intranet users by 2001. However, most companies cannot afford the expense of developing solutions in house, and Forrester Research Forrester Research is an independent technology and market research company that provides its clients with advice about technology's impact on business and consumers. Corporate facts
About Bluetrain.com Bluetrain.com provides the only enterprise class communication and collaboration application delivered via the Internet. Located in Walnut Creek, California Walnut Creek is a largely affluent suburb several miles east of Oakland in Contra Costa County, California, USA, in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area. While not as large as the neighboring Concord, Walnut Creek serves as the business and entertainment hub for the , Bluetrain.com delivers large company power and flexibility on a small company budget. The company hosts groupware for a wide range of customers including restaurants, design agencies, and software companies, Bluetrain.com' innovative products and services have attracted high-profile hardware, database and software partners. Detailed company information may be found at www.bluetrain.com or by calling 877.362.4212. About Vitria Vitria Technology, Inc. is a leading ebusiness platform provider. Vitria's ebusiness platform, BusinessWare, automates mission-critical business processes across the extended enterprise, reducing time to market, shortening lead times, lowering operating costs operating costs npl → gastos mpl operacionales , and increasing customer satisfaction. Vitria is a publicly traded company publicly traded company A company whose shares of common stock are held by the public and are available for purchase by investors. The shares of publicly traded firms are bought and sold on the organized exchanges or in the over-the-counter market. (Nasdaq:VITR) based in Sunnyvale, California Sunnyvale ([sʌniveil]) is a city in Santa Clara County, California, United States. It is one of the major cities that make up the Silicon Valley. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 131,760. . For more information, call 408/212-2700, visit the company's Web site at www.vitria.com, or send email to info@vitria.com. This press release includes forward-looking statements that are subject to risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those referred to in the forward-looking statements. Such factors include, but are not limited to, risk as related to market acceptance of Vitria's product, deployment delays or errors associated with these products, hardware platform incompatibilities, reliance on a limited number of customers for a majority of revenue, need to maintain and enhance certain business relationships with system integrators and other parties, ability to manage growth, activities by Vitria and others regarding protection of proprietary information, release of competitive products and other actions by competitors, Year 2000 problems Year 2000 problem, Y2K problem, or millennium bug, in computer science, a design flaw in the hardware or software of a computer that caused erroneous results when working with dates beyond Dec. 31, 1999. and economic downturns in either domestic or foreign markets. These forward-looking statements are generally identified by words such as "expect," "anticipate," "intend," "believe," "hope," "assume," "estimate" and other similar words and expressions. Note to Editors: BusinessWare(R) is a trademark of Vitria Technology, Inc. Bluetrain.com(tm) and Bluetrain.com Passport(tm) are trademarks of Bluetrain.com, Inc. All other names may be trademarks of the companies with which they are associated. |
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