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BroadVision Generates Significant Momentum in Canada; BroadVision Drives Success With New Customers, Partners and New Office.


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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)--Aug. 16, 2000

BroadVision(R), Inc. (Nasdaq:BVSN BVSN Broadvision, Inc. (stock abbreviation, AMEX) )(Neuer Markt:BDN BDN Borland Developer Network
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), a leading worldwide supplier of personalized e-business applications, today announced its increased presence in Canada marked by an extensive collection of new customers, strategic partnerships, and the establishment of new offices in Vancouver and Toronto.

BroadVision has signed numerous customers across several industries in Canada including agriculture, financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject.
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, retail, technology, telecommunications and travel. Customers representing these industries are Air Canada, Budget Canada, iVision Integral, mykidsbenefit.com, Nevada Bob's, Royal Bank of Canada Bank of Canada

Canada's central bank, established under the Bank of Canada Act (1934). It was founded during the Great Depression to regulate credit and currency. The Bank acts as the Canadian government's fiscal agent and has the sole right to issue paper money.
 and United Grain Growers United Grain Growers, or UGG, was a Canadian grain distributor. Founded in 1906 in Winnipeg, UGG was active in grain sales, crop inputs and livestock production services. .

In addition, as BroadVision continues to aggressively build customer and partner relationships in this market, 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
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 estimates that the "Canadian 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
 electronic commerce market will hit hypergrowth in 2001 -- growing to C$218 billion by 2004" (Forrester Research, March, 2000). Accordingly, BroadVision continues to leverage its strategic partnerships with Betach, Deloitte Consulting, Hewlett-Packard (Canada) Ltd., PriceWaterhouseCoopers, and Xpedior to provide electronic business solutions tailored to customers' corporate needs. These focus on several key industries with prototype solutions built for automotive, energy & utilities, food & agriculture, retail, telecommunications and travel.

"It's obvious there is a surge of B2B electronic commerce opportunities in Canada," said Dr. Pehong Chen, president 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 BroadVision, Inc. "We are proud to team with our best of industry customers and partners who are all helping BroadVision provide the Canadian market with best-of-breed, comprehensive solutions to help companies speed their time to market."

A Closer Look at BroadVision Customers in Canada

Air Canada: In its sixty year history, Air Canada has grown to a C$6.5 billion corporation that maintains a fleet of 158 aircraft. Together with its Star Alliance partners, Air Canada offers 800 destinations in more than 130 countries. At this site customers will have access to a personalized menu providing a large number of Air Canada Online interactive services. Customers can make reservations and book seats online, request fare quotes, check Air Canada's last minute seat sales, update their Air Canada (Aeroplan) Customer Profile, and review their Aeroplan account information.

Budget Canada (www.budgetcanada.com): Budget Canada offers registered customers and businesses the opportunity to make reservations online. Customers can check for availability or take advantage of special promotions before making reservations. Budget partners and registered businesses can negotiate contracts and rates to streamline their reservation process, and tour wholesalers can print out vouchers for their customers to present to a Budget location when they pick up rentals.

iVision Integral, Inc. (www.ivision.com): is specialized in the design, development, implementation and hosting of dynamic Web sites used for business-to-business and business-to-consumer applications. Dynamic sites developed by iVision are scalable which allow them to be customized to meet the needs of small, medium and large companies in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere.  and Europe. iVision provides a wide range of consulting services used to develop dynamic Web-enabled business solutions for our customers. Services include: project analysis, project planning project planning - project management , project management, application development, testing, and back-office integration. We have also developed solid expertise in the areas of personalization, interactive marketing, and Web site design and production.

mykidsbenefit.com (www.mykidsbenefit.com): is a company that delivers entirely customized electronic magazines over the Internet. Delivered at no cost to subscribers, each issue contains articles from the world's leading writers and product and service offerings, only in areas of expressed interest to the particular subscriber. By leveraging these individual electronic magazines, companies can deliver marketing messages in a surgically precise manner with dramatically reduced costs of acquiring new business. The company is in the process of offering their unique medium as an application service provider.

Nevada Bob's (www.nevadabobs.com): is Canada's largest retailer of golf equipment, apparel, accessories and services. Located in Calgary, Alberta, Nevada Bob's has 64 corporate and franchised retail stores across Canada Across Canada was an afternoon program that formerly aired on The Weather Network. The segment ran from early 1999 until mid 2002. The show ran from 3:00PM ET until 7:00 PM ET.  and 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. . Recently, Nevadabobs.com announced its partnership with I-Storm, Inc., a BroadVision partner that specializes in developing e-commerce systems, to develop, build and create a compelling e-tailing experience that will drive significant sales of golf apparel and equipment online.

United Grain Growers Limited (www.ugg.com): a $2 billion agricultural business, is one of western Canada's largest "agribusiness agribusiness

Agriculture operated by business; specifically, that part of a modern national economy devoted to the production, processing, and distribution of food and fibre products and byproducts.
" firms, operating more than 150 grain elevators, feed mills and crop input centers. The Winnipeg-based company is diversified into crop input sales, grain merchandising, livestock production services and farm business communications. HP Canada's consulting services group led the design and planning of the initiative based on BroadVision One-To-One e-business applications. The United Grain Growers' site is the first Web-based project in Canada to pair HP Canada infrastructure solutions with BroadVision software solutions.

BroadVision Offices in Canada

Marking BroadVision's physical Canadian presence, the company announced the opening of the BroadVision Toronto office located at 40 King Street, West Suite 4900, Scotia Plaza Scotia Plaza is a commercial office complex in the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The complex is situated in the financial district of the downtown core, and is generally bordered by Yonge Street on the east, King Street West on the south, Bay Street on the west, and Adelaide , Toronto, Ontario. The new office will serve to complement the existing sales operation in BroadVision's existing office in Vancouver, British Columbia British Columbia, province (2001 pop. 3,907,738), 366,255 sq mi (948,600 sq km), including 6,976 sq mi (18,068 sq km) of water surface, W Canada. Geography
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About BroadVision

BroadVision (Nasdaq:BVSN)(Neuer Markt:BDN) develops and delivers an integrated suite of packaged applications for conducting e-commerce interactions and transactions. Global enterprises and government entities use these applications to sell, buy and exchange information over the web and on wireless devices. The BroadVision e-commerce application suite enables a corporation to become more competitive and profitable by establishing and sustaining high-yield relationships with customers, suppliers and employees. BroadVision services professionals, supported by over 100 partner organizations worldwide, transform these applications into business value for our customers through consulting, education, and support services support services Psychology Non-health care-related ancillary services–eg, transportation, financial aid, support groups, homemaker services, respite services, and other services  in more than 34 countries.

BroadVision -- founded in 1993, public since 1996, profitable since 1998 -- has over 1,000 customers. IDC ranks BroadVision as the world's leading provider of e-commerce software applications (International Data Corp., E-Commerce Software Applications Market Forecast and Analysis, 2000-2004). BroadVision is headquartered in Redwood City, California Redwood City is a suburb located on the San Francisco Peninsula in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. Redwood City is the county seat of San Mateo County. As of the 2005 census, the city had a total population of 76,000.  and can be reached at 650/261-5100 or info@broadvision.com.

Note to Editors: BroadVision is a registered trademark and BroadVision One-To-One is a trademark of BroadVision, Inc. in the United States and other countries. Other names herein may be the property of their respective owners.
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