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Casahl Technology and CastaLink.com Team to Deliver Fully Integrated Supply Chain Solutions for Emerging eBusiness.


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, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 6, 2000

Casahl's 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
 Infrastructure Software & Services Integrate CastaLink.com's Web-based Virtual Supply Chain Collaboration Solutions

Casahl Technology and CastaLink.com today announced an alliance to provide fully integrated supply chain collaboration solutions to enable companies to collaborate with customers and partners in the value chain.

Casahl's ecKnowledge(R) is a powerful integration system with the flexibility to foster true collaboration within the changing e-business environment. ecKnowledge offers information exchange and capabilities between a vast array of data sources and applications via XML-based transaction exchange. Built into ecKnowledge are a variety of collaboration tools A collaboration tool is something that helps people collaborate. The term is often used to mean collaborative software, but collaboration tools were being used before computers existed, a piece of paper can for example can be used as collaboration tool.  and capabilities specifically aimed at e-business relationship-building. ecKnowledge offers ASP, publish-and-subscribe and broadcast deployment options.

CastaLink's web-centric applications suite, eCAS (electronic Collaborative Application Solution), is targeted to address all facets of supply chain collaboration in the extended enterprise environment. eCAS provides the platform for supply chain members to exchange information, interact, plan and collaborate at anytime, from anywhere. The product suite is comprised of six modules: eOrder, eAPS, eDD, eMessaging, LinkSpan A linkspan or link-span is a device used mainly in the operation of moving vehicles on and off a RO-RO vessel or ferry.

Linkspans are usually found at ferry terminals where a vessel uses a combination of ramps either at the stern, bow or side (or a combination of any)
 and eSupply.

The alliance announced today fully addresses the industry's need for extended enterprises to collaborate and automate To turn a set of manual steps into an operation that goes by itself. See automation.  the processing of electronic transactions between buyers, sellers and other supply chain partners.

"ecKnowledge provides the backbone for B2B collaborative commerce," said Harry Wong, 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 Casahl Technology. "Using CastaLink and ecKnowledge, customers will be able to build end-to-end e-Business with full integration with their suppliers and buyers' backend applications such as inventory, ordering, shipping management, and procurement The fancy word for "purchasing." The procurement department within an organization manages all the major purchases.  systems."

CastaLink.com, an application service provider (ASP), offers web-based supply chain collaboration solutions that address the needs of mid-sized companies for fast, low cost deployment of complete business-to-business (B2B) solution. Companies can recognize the benefits immediately and have an eBusiness solution across the value chain.

"To succeed in today's eBusiness environment, the entire supply chain must accelerate the rate at which they identify and respond to changing customers' demands," said Richard Leza, president and CEO of CastaLink.com. "CastaLink provides a collaborative solution for the enterprise to link customers and suppliers closer together to deal with the dynamic business environment. With Casahl's products, we can tie our solutions with our customers' backend applications, making the solutions a seamless extension to our customers existing operations."

About Casahl Technology, Inc.

Casahl Technology, Inc., is a leading provider of infrastructure software and services that enable businesses to automate information exchange among their e-business partners. Casahl's products and services facilitate the rapid development and deployment of eBusiness solutions, transactions, and collaborative efforts between companies (B2B) and between departments within a single company (D2D (Disk-to-Disk) Typically refers to backing up data on disks rather than on tape. Disk-to-disk backup systems provide a very fast restore capability compared with tape backup. See D2D2T and virtual tape. ).

Casahl's ecKnowledge(R) is a comprehensive, ASP-hostable e-business solution that addresses collaboration, information exchange and 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.
 transaction requirements. ecKnowledge automates information exchange among eBusiness partners and the flow of data between virtually all key applications (DBMSs, ERPs, legacy applications, web portals See portal. , 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.  applications, directories, and desktop applications). It offers superior capabilities to respond rapidly to changing market conditions, to enter into collaborative business relationships, and to participate in e-markets. ecKnowledge is built upon a proven architectural foundation that supports the scalability and fault tolerance See fault tolerant.

(architecture) fault tolerance - 1. The ability of a system or component to continue normal operation despite the presence of hardware or software faults. This often involves some degree of redundancy.

2.
 required by the 7x24 global world of eBusiness.

Founded in 1992 and privately funded by the founders, Casahl Technology, Inc., currently has more than 1500 corporate customers, including over 50 percent of Fortune 500 companies. Casahl's product has won numerous industry awards since its introduction in 1995 and is one of the industry's most widely used and proven data integration solutions. For more information about Casahl visit http://www.casahl.com.

About CastaLink.com

CastaLink.com, headquartered in Mountain View, California For the census-designated place, see Mountain View, Contra Costa County, California. For other places called "Mountain View", see .
Mountain View is a city in Santa Clara County, in the U.S. state of California. The city gets its name from the views of the Santa Cruz Mountains.
, is a venture-backed company founded to provide web-based virtual supply chain collaboration applications that leverage real-time information for customers, suppliers and the enterprise to proactively manage their eBusiness. The goal is to create a virtual community where suppliers and customers are integrated so closely to the enterprise that they virtually become an extension of an organization, sharing secure information via the browser browser

Software that allows a computer user to find and view information on the Internet. The first text-based browser for the World Wide Web became available in 1991; Web use expanded rapidly after the release in 1993 of a browser called Mosaic, which used
. CastaLink's solution drives the total supply chain by adding visibility to all levels, improving collaboration inside and outside an organization, optimizing top-line revenue, increasing bottom-line profit and improving customer satisfaction.

For more information about CastaLink.com visit http://www.castalink.com.
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