Clarus And Impresse Form Alliance To Offer Print Procurement Services.Business/High-Tech Editors ATLANTA & SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 10, 2000 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 Solution Providers Demonstrate Advantages of "Tap Out" Integration at e-Commerce Leadership Conference Impresse, the leading provider of business-to-business electronic collaboration and commerce services for the creation and procurement of commercially printed materials, and Clarus(TM) Corporation (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : CLRS CLRS Center for Labor Research and Studies CLRS Central Launch and Recovery Section CLRS Claims Legal Research System ), a leading business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce solution provider, today announced an alliance to help customers maximize the value of e-procurement through integration of the two companies' products and services. At the Clarus eC Leadership Conference, both companies demonstrated a seamless integration An addition of a new application, routine or device that works smoothly with the existing system. It implies that the new feature or program can be installed and used without problems. Contrast with "transparent," which implies that there is no discernible change after installation. of Clarus eProcurement to impresse.com. Clarus(TM) eProcurement is part of the Clarus suite of applications offering improved efficiency to Internet communities. These solutions deliver genuine process efficiencies, measurable cost savings and improved service levels to every employee participating in the procurement process. Impresse.com's innovative online service addresses corporate print procurement, allowing buyers and printers to better negotiate and manage commercial print projects. Impresse is the first print e-procurement vendor and one of the first companies to complete a "Tap Out" integration from the Clarus eProcurement application. This integration allows customers to quickly deploy the impresse.com solution and capture a large and important spend category while maintaining the workflow and approval processes of eProcurement, The combined cost savings and enhanced productivity increase the return on investment for Clarus customers. "We are pleased to work with Clarus to integrate the impresse.com service to Clarus' e-procurement software. Our unique SmartLink(TM) technology makes it possible for us to integrate tightly with Clarus and other critical business systems, enabling corporations to extend the value of their Clarus investments while realizing significant print savings with the impresse.com service," said Nimish Mehta, 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 Impresse. "Partnering with Impresse, a leader in print procurement, enables Clarus to address a major service category that all of our customers require. Leveraging Impresse's domain expertise in the complex print procurement process is an ideal complement to our B2B solutions," said Steven Jeffery, Chairman, CEO, and President of Clarus. About Impresse Corporation Impresse, headquartered in Sunnyvale, California Sunnyvale ([sʌniveil]) is a city in Santa Clara County, California, United States. It is one of the major cities that make up the Silicon Valley. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 131,760. , is the leading provider of business-to-business (B2B) electronic collaboration and commerce services for the creation and procurement of commercially printed materials. Impresse.com is the leading Internet service for buyers and their printers to negotiate and manage commercial print projects, reduce cycle times, eliminate errors, and cut production costs. For more information, contact Impresse at 408/530-2000 or at www.impresse.com. About Clarus Atlanta-based Clarus Corporation (www.claruscorp.com; NASDAQ: CLRS), a leader in business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce, provides B2B procurement software Procurement software is business software that helps to automate the purchasing function of organizations. Activities including raising and approving purchase orders, selecting and ordering the product or service, receiving and matching the invoice and order, and paying the bill is and trading services that exploit the global marketplace of the Internet to manage corporate purchasing and enable digital marketplaces. ClarusNet(TM), a fully managed service portal, provides a comprehensive range of critical trading services such as payment settlement, supplier enablement Supplier Enablement is the process of electronically connecting suppliers (or other trading partners) to a company's supply chain. Supplier enablement is achieved when suppliers of goods and services are connected to a company's back-office systems to exchange critical business , auctions, integration, and analytics. Designed to provide unprecedented interoperability, ClarusNet enhances the value and speeds delivery of any B2B trading platform including Clarus(TM) eProcurement and Clarus eMarket(TM). Clarus solutions are being deployed at customer sites including Burlington Northern Santa Fe Santa Fe, city, Argentina Santa Fe, city (1991 pop. 341,000), capital of Santa Fe prov., NE Argentina, a river port near the Paraná, with which it is connected by canal. Corp., Cinergy, Comcast Corporation, First Data Corporation, Gjensidige NOR Gjensidige NOR was a Norwegian bank and insurance company that was in existence between 1999 and 2003. The company was created when the two savings banks Sparebanken NOR (bank) and Gjensidige (insurance) were merged in 1999. , MasterCard International, MetLife, Parsons Brinckerhoff Parsons Brinckerhoff (PB) is a planning, engineering, program and construction management organization. The company has been involved in planning and designing some of the world's largest public works projects, such as Boston's Big Dig, Britain's rail system Network Rail; , Perot Systems Perot Systems Corporation NYSE: PER is an information technology services provider based in Plano, Texas. Peter Altabef has served as president, chairman, and chief executive officer since 2004. and Wachovia. This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27a of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21e of the Exchange Act. Actual results could differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements as a result of certain risks including that the benefits expected by the company as a result of this announcement may not occur. Impresse and impresse.com are trademarks. Throughout this release, software and hardware products are mentioned by name. 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