Boots Selects SeeBeyond eBI Platform for New eCommerce Website; Digital Wellbeing to Use SeeBeyond Solutions to Enable Supply Web and Streamline Business Processes.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers LONDON & REDWOOD redwood: see sequoia; brazilwood. redwood or sequoia Coniferous evergreen timber tree (Sequoia sempervirens) of the family Taxodiaceae, found in the fog belt of west-coastal North America. SHORES, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 26, 2001 SeeBeyond (Nasdaq:SBYN), the leading global provider of eBI (eBusiness Integration) solutions, today announced that it has been chosen as the eBI platform for a new eCommerce site being launched by Digital Wellbeing Limited ("Digital Wellbeing"), a joint venture between The Boots Company PLC and Granada Media. Launching in March 2001, Digital Wellbeing will offer both an informational and transactional-based interface together with an interactive digital television channel. The new site will use SeeBeyond's eBI platform to connect the digital web channel with the enterprise supply web, streamlining businesses processes and guaranteeing the fastest possible delivery of real-time information and customer orders on-line. It is seen as the flagship eCommerce site for Digital Wellbeing and is positioned to be one of the most high profile websites in the UK for consumer health products. "Digital Wellbeing required a robust integration platform that could not only tie internal systems from our UK operations together, but link us to our customers, suppliers and partners," said Carolyn Park, head of Technology, Digital Wellbeing Limited. "We are selecting proven eBusiness tools that will help accelerate our growing use of advanced web technology to streamline business processes and enable a more rapid time to market." Customers accessing the new channel from home will receive the secure delivery of information, services and products. In addition, the site will give customers the ability to choose the access method to the service with which they feel most comfortable -- be it television, personal computer or laptop Same as laptop computer. laptop - portable computer and, as they develop, mobile and palm top devices. Using SeeBeyond's eBI suite, the new website will bring together core merchandise and supply chain systems in addition to integration with in-house enterprise systems. As an interactive eCommerce site, data will be required from third-party fulfillment ful·fill also ful·fil tr.v. ful·filled, ful·fill·ing, ful·fills also ful·fils 1. To bring into actuality; effect: fulfilled their promises. 2. , warehouse and logistics systems to create an end-to-end supply web, managing processes such as vendor managed inventory Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) is a family of business models in which the buyer of a product provides certain information to a supplier of that product and the supplier takes full responsibility for maintaining an agreed inventory of the material, usually at the buyer's and available to promise. The SeeBeyond e*Gate(TM) Integrator (1) In electronics, a device that combines an input with a variable, such as time, and provides an analog output; for example, a watt-hour meter. (2) See systems integrator. platform will serve as the site's digital nervous system, seamlessly managing the large amount of data flowing between SAP R/3 and supplier and partner logistics systems. SeeBeyond's integration platform delivers a fast, seamless flow of data encompassing all core systems, significantly reducing transaction costs Transaction Costs Costs incurred when buying or selling securities. These include brokers' commissions and spreads (the difference between the price the dealer paid for a security and the price they can sell it). and improving response times -- ultimately enhancing customer satisfaction. The system is being deployed using a net-centric architecture at participating hosts throughout the UK. "Leveraging the interactive and one-to-one nature of the Internet, true eCommerce can deliver significant benefits to retailers and dramatically transform relationships with their customers and suppliers," said David Bennett, vice president and general manager of EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) Refers to that region of the world. For example, one might see products packaged differently for the UK, EMEA and Asia Pacific markets. for SeeBeyond. "In addition, with seamless integration An addition of a new application, routine or device that works smoothly with the existing system. It implies that the new feature or program can be installed and used without problems. Contrast with "transparent," which implies that there is no discernible change after installation. of an eBusiness solution, companies can reduce supply chain costs while expanding existing and targeting new markets. With SeeBeyond's proven, scalable eBI technology, Boots can harness the power of the Internet to offer the most high profile website in the UK for consumer health products." About Digital Wellbeing The partnership of Boots and Granada Media brings together two powerful and complementary sets of strengths:
-- Boots is the UK market leader in health and well-being with
1,400 UK stores, 13 million weekly customers and 12.4 million
Advantage Card holders. Boots has in-depth market knowledge of
the health, beauty and well-being sector, extensive product
sourcing and buying power and the UK's most trusted retail
brand. The new business will be extensively promoted through
Boots retail network and its customer communications,
including the Boots Health & Beauty magazine, the largest
women's interest magazine with a two million circulation.
Boots current online transactional presence, boots.co.uk, will
be absorbed within the new service. Boots already sponsors a
30-minute television programme, The Interactive Health Show,
produced by Granada Media, which is broadcast across ITV's
Northern England regions.
-- Granada Media is Europe's leading commercial TV production
company, ITV's largest company and a co-owner of ONdigital,
the world's first digital terrestrial platform. It has a range
of new media businesses, award-winning content creation
skills, extensive talent relationships, advertising sales and
sponsorship expertise. Granada Broadband was set up in July
2000 to create new media businesses through identifying strong
affinity groups driven by powerful common interests and
developing alliances with existing brands in key sectors.
Since launch it has formed new media joint ventures in the
football sector with Liverpool FC and Arsenal FC.
About SeeBeyond As the leading global provider of eBI(TM) (eBusiness Integration) solutions, SeeBeyond (Nasdaq:SBYN) enables the seamless flow of information within and among enterprises in real time. The SeeBeyond eBI Suite offers a rapidly deployable and infinitely scalable infrastructure for application integration, business-to-business connectivity and business processes optimization optimization Field of applied mathematics whose principles and methods are used to solve quantitative problems in disciplines including physics, biology, engineering, and economics. . SeeBeyond has more than 1,400 customers worldwide, including ABB n. 1. Among weavers, yarn for the warp. Hence, Noun 1. ABB - an urban hit squad and guerrilla group of the Communist Party in the Philippines; formed in the 1980s , ABN Amro ABN AMRO Algemene Bank Nederland-Amsterdam Roterdam Bank (Dutch bank) , Allstate Insurance Company, Barnes & Noble.com, Bausch & Lomb, BHP BHP blood hydrostatic pressure; the pressure exerted by the blood cells and plasma in the capillaries. , Daimler-Chrysler, DuPont, Florida Power & Light, Fluor Daniel, General Motors, Hewlett-Packard, Pfizer and Sprint. Key global business and technology consulting partners include Accenture, EDS (Electronic Data Systems, Plano, TX, www.eds.com) Founded in 1962 by H. Ross Perot (independent candidate for the President of the U.S. in 1992), EDS is the largest outsourcing and data processing services organization in the country. , Computer Sciences Corp., Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, KPMG KPMG Klynveld Peat Marwick Goerdeler (accounting firm) KPMG Kaiser Permanente Medical Group KPMG Keiner Prüft Mehr Genau (German) KPMG Kommen Prüfen Meckern Gehen Consulting, PricewaterhouseCoopers and answerthink. Software partners include BroadVision, Onyx onyx (ŏn`ĭks), variety of cryptocrystalline quartz, differing from agate only in that the bands of which it is composed are parallel and regular. Software, Oracle, SAP and 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. . SeeBeyond has global headquarters in Monrovia, Calif. and sales and marketing headquarters in Redwood Shores, Calif. For more information, please visit www.seebeyond.com. Note to Editors: eBI and e*Gate are trademarks of SeeBeyond Technology Corp. All other trade names are the property of their respective owners. |
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