Clarkston Partners with Mercator to Extend its Reach to Net Marketplaces and Trading Exchanges.Business/Technology Editors WILTON, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 6, 2000 Relationship Provides Crucial Integration Technology to Enable New 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 Opportunities Mercator(R) Software, Inc. (Nasdaq:MCTR MCTR Missile Technology Control Regime mCTR Murine Calcitonin Receptor MCTR Medical Center for Translational Research (Osaka University Hospital, Japan) MCTR Mackinac Transportation Company ), the e-business transformation company(TM), today announced a joint marketing alliance with Clarkston, a leading systems integrator An individual or organization that builds systems from a variety of diverse components. With increasing complexity of technology, more customers want complete solutions to information problems, requiring hardware, software and networking expertise in a multivendor environment. providing strategic business solutions. As part of the agreement, Clarkston has extended its relationship with Mercator and joined the MercatorWorld Partner Program to broaden its expertise in business-to-business (B2B) integration and provide its customers with a cost-effective and efficient solution for extending their enterprise applications to trading exchanges and Net markets. "Mercator's momentum in the B2B space is highly recognized throughout the industry," said James La Voy, managing partner for the Application Integration Solutions practice of Clarkston. "Given their momentum and success, we are excited to extend our long relationship in order to provide our customers with a flexible and reliable B2B integration solution. Clarkston's Application Integration Solutions (AIS) practice has been successfully helping clients with their integration needs for nearly five years now, and the addition of the Mercator E-Business Broker suite significantly enhances our ability to help companies in the life sciences, high tech, telecom and manufacturing verticals achieve their full business potential." Clarkston will now be able to implement Mercator e-business integration brokers to help customers establish a unified integration architecture, which ties legacy systems and applications with new B2B applications and trading exchanges, to speed the flow of e-business transactions and reduce 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). . Mercator's flexible any-to-any integration capabilities will help protect the current IT investments of Clarkston customers and prepare them to adapt to the evolving B2B technology standards and business practices. This new alliance will extend the reach of the Mercator E-Business Broker suite into new markets, leveraging Clarkston's presence in vertical industries such as medical products and pharmaceuticals, high tech manufacturing, telcom, and manufacturing. As part of the MercatorWorld Partner Program, Mercator will train and equip e·quip tr.v. e·quipped, e·quip·ping, e·quips 1. a. To supply with necessities such as tools or provisions. b. Clarkston consultants specializing in e-business integration 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. implementation with the skills necessary to identify opportunities ideal for the Mercator products, and to demonstrate and implement the technology. "The formula for achieving B2B integration is a sought-after commodity for today's business-savvy organizations," said Connie Galley galley, long, narrow vessel widely used in ancient and medieval times, propelled principally by oars but also fitted with sails. The earliest type was sometimes 150 ft (46 m) long with 50 oars. , 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. , Mercator. "By working with leading technology service providers, we can help organizations demystify de·mys·ti·fy tr.v. de·mys·ti·fied, de·mys·ti·fy·ing, de·mys·ti·fies To make less mysterious; clarify: an autobiography that demystified the career of an eminent physician. B2B integration and exploit the buying and selling potential afforded by the Internet markets and trading exchanges. We look forward to continuing our relationship with Clarkston and extending Mercator's products to new customers." The MercatorWorld Partner Program is a worldwide family of marketing, reselling and service partners that provide industry-specific solutions or products that complement Mercator technology. Members of this program facilitate customers' success with all aspects of e-business integration, including the planning of systems architecture, prototyping, implementation, and training. About Mercator Mercator is a leading provider of integration software for e-business transformation. Our products automate the end-to-end integration of the commerce chain, enabling the seamless flow of information throughout the enterprise and with the applications of customers and partners. With Mercator, customers can lock in the benefits of e-business through the adaptive transformation of business processes, while fully leveraging current technology investments at every step. More than 5,000 customers, across every industry, use our software to accelerate their transformation to e-business. Over 100 partners, including application software providers, systems integrators and Net markets, embed em·bed also im·bed v. em·bed·ded, em·bed·ding, em·beds v.tr. 1. To fix firmly in a surrounding mass: embed a post in concrete; fossils embedded in shale. or resell re·sell tr.v. re·sold , re·sell·ing, re·sells 1. To sell again. 2. To sell (a product or service) to the public or to an end user, especially as an authorized dealer. our technology to enhance their product or service offerings. Additional information about Mercator can be found at www.mercator.com. About Clarkston Clarkston helps its clients Seize the Advantage by providing comprehensive, strategic business solutions driven by e-business. The company harnesses the power of the Internet to unleash its clients' business potential by providing a full range of services including strategy, implementation and application support. Through a client partnership approach, Clarkston collaborates with its clients to articulate a competitive business vision and assemble a high-energy deployment team to build business models with Coherent Speed. Clarkston guides clients in the pharmaceutical, high technology, telecommunications Communicating information, including data, text, pictures, voice and video over long distance. See communications. , and manufacturing markets. The company, with headquarters in Durham, N.C., has locations in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Detroit, San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden and India. For more information, visit the Clarkston Web site at www.clarkstongroup.com. Mercator is a registered trademark of Mercator Software, Inc. "the e-business transformation company" is a trademark of Mercator Software, Inc. Legal Notice Regarding Forward-Looking Statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. Statements in this press release that are not purely historical are forward-looking statements, including statements regarding Mercator Software's beliefs, expectations, hopes or intentions regarding the future. Forward-looking statements in this release include, but are not limited to, statements regarding the growth of the enterprise application market, the demand for the company's application integration solutions and the speed of deployment of new products, including combined Mercator E-Business Integration Broker products. It is important to note that actual outcomes and the company's actual results could differ materially from those in such forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially include risks and uncertainties such as changes in demand for application integration or e-business integration software and the company's Mercator E-Business Integration Broker suite of products in particular, the ability of the company to expand its international operations Internal Operations (I.O., IO or I/O) is a fictional American Intelligence Agency in Wildstorm comics. It was originally called International Operations. I.O. first appeared in WildC.A.T.S. volume 1 #1 (August, 1992) and was created by Brandon Choi and Jim Lee. , the ability of the company to manage expanded global operations Global Operations is a first-person shooter computer game developed by Barking Dog Studios and published by both Crave Entertainment and Electronic Arts. It was released in March of 2002, following its public multiplayer beta version which contained only the Quebec map. , the ability of the company to continue to add resellers and other distribution channels, and the success of third parties in utilizing and marketing the company's products, or seasonality in operating results. Readers should also refer to the risk disclosures outlined in the company's reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. All forward-looking statements and reasons why results might differ included in this release are made as of the date hereof here·of adv. Of this. hereof Adverb Formal or law of or concerning this Adv. 1. hereof - of or concerning this; "the twigs hereof are physic" , based on information available to the company as of the date hereof, and the company assumes no obligation to update any such forward-looking statement or reasons why results might differ. |
|
||||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion