BroadWing and Ernst & Young Announce Alliance to Provide E-Commerce Services for Businesses of All Sizes.CINCINNATI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 22, 1999-- Enables Small and Medium-Sized Businesses To Quickly Establish Web Presence BroadWing Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :BRW BRW Business Review Weekly (business magazine; Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) BRW Business Report Writer BRW Barrow, AK, USA - Barrow (Airport Code) BRW Business Requirement Worksheet ), the newly created telecommunications provider formed from the merger between Cincinnati Bell Cincinnati Bell is the dominant telephone company for Cincinnati, Ohio and its nearby suburbs in Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky. The parent company is named Cincinnati Bell Inc. and IXC (1) (IntereXchange Carrier) An organization that provides interstate (long distance) communications services within the U.S., which includes AT&T, MCI, Sprint and more than 700 others. See LATA. (2) (IXC Communications Inc., Austin, TX, www. Communications Inc., and global professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. firm Ernst & Young LLP LLP - Lower Layer Protocol announced today the formation of a new alliance that will give small and medium businesses e-commerce capabilities at a minimum of the time and costs needed to build them. The alliance capitalizes on strengths of each of these market leaders to provide one-stop shopping for designing, creating, hosting and maintaining secure and scalable e-commerce applications. E&Y will design and implement secure, high quality, customized e-commerce solutions integrating various platforms and operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. . ZoomTown.com, a subsidiary of BroadWing, will manage the site, housing it in a secure, high-availability data center facility that can be accessed through any Internet connection. "This alliance proves that smart, leading-edge companies are attracted to BroadWing, the hottest communications company Communications Company is a communications unit of the United States Marine Corps. They are part of Combat Logistics Regiment 37 , 3rd Marine Logistics Group (3MLG) and III Marine Expeditionary Force (III MEF). The unit is based out of the Marine Corps Base Camp Smedley D. in the nation. E&Y is just the first of many strategic alliances. Watch us over the months and you'll see we are quickly becoming a magnet for the fast, nimble, innovators to do business with," said Rick Ellenberger, president and chief executive officer of BroadWing. "By aligning forces with industry leader E&Y, BroadWing will attack the market, offering clients cutting-edge communications solutions with the speed, agility, and reliability needed to gain and maintain market advantage." The alliance gives all businesses the ability to bring their "e-business" efforts to market quickly by eliminating the need to create relationships with multiple firms. Businesses also avoid some of the negatives traditionally associated with an Internet presence, such as hiring experienced people for application development, staffing a 24-hour operation, building facilities, spending capital and ensuring a secure transaction process. "Our current business clients will immediately enjoy the benefits of this partnership," said Bill Dyer, president and general manager of ZoomTown.com Hosting, the division of ZoomTown.com responsible for managing the new capabilities. "But now with E&Y's national resources and the 14,000-mile fiber optic high-speed network capabilities of BroadWing, we are poised to bring unique e-commerce solutions to new business clients from coast to coast." "Through integration of business, people and technology with ZoomTown.com, we will create end-to-end solutions, from thought through execution," said Stan Brown Stanley "Stan" Brown, also known as Loady (born June 27, 1929) is a retired American basketball player. He played for the Philadelphia Warriors (1947-48, 1951-52) in the BAA and NBA for 34 games. External links
About ZoomTown.com and BroadWing ZoomTown.com is a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of BroadWing Inc. (NYSE:BRW), an integrated communications powerhouse delivering voice, data, wireless, and Internet solutions to a variety of customers nationwide. Focused on customer service combined with a premier next-generation fiber network and award winning IP backbone, BroadWing's reliable high-bandwidth data and Internet capabilities give businesses a competitive advantage. Headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio “Cincinnati” redirects here. For other uses, see Cincinnati (disambiguation). Cincinnati is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Hamilton County. with 5,500 employees in 37 cities, BroadWing can be found on the World Wide Web at broadwing.com. About Ernst & Young LLP Ernst & Young (www.ey.com) is one of the world's leading providers of dot-company services in assurance, consulting, corporate finance and tax. More than 85,000 people around the world act as creative catalysts, joining forces with clients to do all it takes--FROM THOUGHT TO FINISH(TM)--to achieve positive, significant change. E&Y pioneered the development of advanced solutions that connect clients, partners and employees with E&Y resources and knowledge to help them rapidly reach their goals. Ernst & Young refers to the U.S. firm of Ernst & Young LLP and other members of the global Ernst & Young organization. |
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