BroadVision and STC Announce Strategic Global Alliance Software Partnership; STC Enables Easy Exchange of Data Between SAP and BroadVision Applications.Business/Technology Editors REDWOOD SHORES, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 23, 2000 BroadVision(R) Inc. (Nasdaq: BVSN BVSN Broadvision, Inc. (stock abbreviation, AMEX) ), the leading worldwide supplier of personalized e-Business applications, and STC STC Supplemental Type Certificate (FAA) STC Society for Technical Communication STC Subject to Change STC Surf the Channel (website) STC Sound Transmission Class STC Singapore Turf Club , the leading provider of e-Business application integration (eAI) packaged solutions, today announced a strategic partnership naming STC as a preferred eAI solution. This alliance unites two of the strongest players in the e-Business market space for SAP R/3 business-to-business e-Commerce integration. The alliance agreement between STC and BroadVision outlines joint marketing and business development initiatives, along with a global sales and support campaign. This is the first instance in which BroadVision will brand and resell an eAI vendor's technology in the BroadVision to SAP R/3 integration space. "Time to market is what our customers need to compete and win," 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. "STC's e*Gate technology will help BroadVision and our integration partners deploy premier personalized e-business applications for our customers in a quick and cost-effective manner." The BroadVision to SAP One-to-One Intelligent Bridge for Business Commerce provides both BroadVision and its customers a proven solution with strong visual tools for integrating BroadVision's One-To-One(TM) Commerce with SAP R/3. Together, STC and BroadVision will deliver a tightly integrated, supported and scalable solution providing end users the ability to reduce risk and focus on achieving their overall e-Business strategies. "Companies are under tremendous pressure to offer products and services to businesses and consumers via the Internet," said Jim Demetriades, founder, chairman and CEO for STC. "They are also under pressure to connect their Web systems to the legacy systems that house data and operational information in order to make their Web presence more powerful. By combining STC's e*Gate with BroadVision's e-Business solutions, customers can rapidly get out ahead of the competition and seamlessly integrate e-Business functions into the rest of their business." STC has developed the BroadVision to SAP Intelligent Bridge to facilitate the out-of-the-box flow of data between BroadVision's applications and SAP R/3, via STC's e*Gate e-Business Integrator. Once information has been transported from the BroadVision application to e*Gate, customers can then also leverage additional STC intelligent adapters to integrate with other CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. and 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. applications. The BroadVision to SAP One-to-One Intelligent Bridge will be released for general availability on April 15, 2000. The BroadVision One-To-One Commerce Family BroadVision provides a complete line of Internet software products and services for enabling large-scale Net business. All BroadVision products reflect the principles of excellence that drive the company's engineering and business culture: adherence to open software standards, unmatched scalability and performance, foolproof data and transaction security, high-powered functionality based on expert business logic, and rigorous testing for quality assurance. BroadVision's commerce family includes both BroadVision One-To-One Business Commerce and BroadVision One-To-One Retail Commerce are the industry-leading, enterprise-scale applications for rapid deployment and easy maintenance of high transaction commerce sites. About BroadVision BroadVision, Inc. is the leading worldwide supplier of personalized e-business applications. BroadVision's end-to-end solutions enable companies and governments to rapidly deploy and cost-effectively operate secure, scalable, intelligent, and flexible e-business applications for e-commerce, financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. and knowledge management. The company's entire product line has experienced strong growth and increasing acceptance by Global 2000 businesses, governments and pure-play "e-startups." BroadVision has more than 500 customers in financial services, retail/distribution, high technology, telecommunications, government and travel including Argentaria Bank, American Airlines American Airlines Major U.S. airline. American was created through a merger of several smaller U.S. airlines and incorporated in 1934. 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Headquartered in Vinings, just outside Atlanta in unincorporated Cobb County, Georgia, Home Depot employs more than 355,000 people and operates 2,164 big-box , Motorola, RS Components, Sears.com, Vodafone, Wal-Mart, and Xerox. BroadVision is headquartered in Redwood City, Calif. and maintains an extensive worldwide network of subsidiaries and licensed resellers in North and South America, Europe, and Asia. BroadVision is a public company traded on the Nasdaq in the United States under the symbol BVSN and on the high-technology stock high-technology stock The stock of a company that is involved in sophisticated technology, such as electronics, computer software, robotics, or life sciences companies. market of Germany, the Neuer Markt segment of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange Frankfurt Stock Exchange The largest of Germany's eight securities exchanges, operated by Deutsche Borse AS. , under the symbol BDN BDN Borland Developer Network BDN Bangor Daily News (Maine, USA) BDN Business Development Network BDN Bell Data Network BDN Bulk Data Network BDN Busy Doing Nothing (band) BDN Buffered Delta Network . The Company can be reached at (650) 261-5100 or at http://www.broadvision.com. About STC's e*Gate e-Business Integrator STC's e*Gate(TM) e-Business Integrator is the fourth generation of the eAI product implemented at more than 1,200 sites worldwide. It is fully Internet-enabled and, with unprecedented speed and reliability, allows companies to tie together new Web-based applications with existing systems such as ERP and CRM, regardless of platform or technology. e*Gate e-Business Integrator's revolutionary distributed, infinitely scalable, network-based architecture enables information to seamlessly flow across enterprises, not just today, but in the future as the business grows and applications evolve. About STC STC is the leading global provider of e-Business application integration (eAI) packaged solutions with its flagship product, e*Gate(TM) e-Business Integrator. e*Gate 4.0 is the industry's first open strategic eAI architecture that enables accelerated deployment of true e-Business integration with unprecedented performance and reliability. The e*Gate product family is installed at more than 1,200 customer sites worldwide, in leading companies that include: Amdahl, barnesandnoble.com, Chevron, Hewlett Packard, PETsMART, Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS UBS Union Bank of Switzerland UBS United Bible Societies UBS United Blood Services UBS United Buying Service UBS Used Bookstore UBS University Business Services UBS Universal Building Society (UK) UBS Ulaanbaatar Broadcasting System ), and Warner Lambert. In addition, STC has alliance relationships with Andersen Consulting, BroadVision, Clarify, CSC, 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. , Ernst & Young, Onyx Software, Oracle, PeopleSoft, PricewaterhouseCoopers, SAP and Siebel Systems. Founded in 1991, STC pioneered the eAI market category. STC is headquartered in Monrovia, Calif., with marketing and sales headquarters in Redwood Shores, Calif., and sales, services and support offices worldwide. For more information about STC and e*Gate, please visit the company's Web site: www.stc.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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