Clarus Drives Electronic Procurement Decisions with Industry Experts.ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 3, 1999-- Free Web Conferences Provide Insight to Utilizing Electronic Procurement The fancy word for "purchasing." The procurement department within an organization manages all the major purchases. Solutions to Produce Measurable ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). Clarus 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 (Business to Business) Refers to one business communicating with or selling to another. See B2B e-commerce, B2C and B2G. B2B - business to business ) e-commerce solution provider, announced today the offering of a Web-based conference entitled en·ti·tle tr.v. en·ti·tled, en·ti·tling, en·ti·tles 1. To give a name or title to. 2. To furnish with a right or claim to something: Developing a Roadmap to E-Procurement, to be broadcast on November 11 and 18, 1999. The interactive conference will provide valuable insight for corporations who wish to make better, faster purchasing choices that allow them to save money and time through electronic procurement. Clarus is offering the interactive conference as a part of the company's ongoing effort to build awareness of the exploding market of electronic procurement. During the Web conference, industry experts will present a step-by-step guide for evaluating electronic procurement solutions available in the market today, and will offer strategies for making use of those products. The conference's evaluation process will help attendees plan for evaluating key areas such as: -- Improve catalog and supplier management -- Deploy e-procurement to a large user base -- Integrate new solutions seamlessly with existing ERP platforms -- Improve data analysis -- Strategically control the purchasing process -- Evaluate software vendors Developing a Roadmap to E-Procurement also will provide methods to measure ROI through employee-direct purchasing, strengthening supplier relationships, improving buyer discounts and enforcing purchasing policies. In additional, expert instructors will examine various studies that show the benefits of e-procurement in actual implementation. "More than anything else, there's a need for businesses to understand the immediate ROI benefits of electronic procurement," said Steve Hornyak, vice president of strategy and business development for Clarus. "By helping to educate businesses, we can shed light on the immense value of these solutions and further our mission of providing electronic procurement solution that service the many, not just the few." Developing a Roadmap to E-Procurement will be offered to dial-in listeners as well as those who choose to access the broadcast via the Internet. Registrants may choose to attend one of two sessions offered November 11 and 18, each beginning at 1:00pm Eastern. To take advantage of the hour-long seminar, participants can register by pointing their Web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. to www.claruscorp.com/esiminar or by calling 1-800-437-0734. About Clarus Atlanta-based Clarus Corporation (www.claruscorp.com)(NASDAQ: CLRS) is a leader in providing B2B e-commerce (Business to Business Electronic-COMMERCE) Refers to one business selling to another business via the Web. See e-commerce. applications that leverage the global, open marketplace of the Internet, enabling organizations to gain control of their operational resources, including non-production goods and services In economics, economic output is divided into physical goods and intangible services. Consumption of goods and services is assumed to produce utility (unless the "good" is a "bad"). It is often used when referring to a Goods and Services Tax. . The Clarus Commerce solution incorporates Web technology and channel partners to connect large populations of employees, management and suppliers with continuous planning, monitoring and control of resources, which can result in a dramatic impact on the bottom line. Clarus delivers its e-commerce solutions via direct and indirect channels and offers innovative "zero capital" pricing models to service very large to medium and small sized companies. The company's flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. , Clarus(TM) eProcurement, is being used at more than 23 sites for customers including MasterCard International, MetLife, First Data Corporation, and 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; , with planned deployment to more than 130,000 employees. NOTE TO EDITORS: THIS PRESS RELEASE CONTAINS 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. 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 BUSINESS OR PROSPECTS EXPECTED BY THE COMPANY AS A RESULT OF THE ANNOUNCEMENT MAY NOT OCCUR. FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS CONTAINED IN THIS PRESS RELEASE ARE ALSO SUBJECT TO OTHER RISKS AND UNCERTAINTIES, AND OTHER FILINGS MADE BY THE COMPANY WITH THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION. Clarus is a trademark of Clarus Corporation. Throughout this release, software and hardware products are mentioned by name. In most, if not all, cases, these product names are claimed as trademarks by the companies that manufacture the products. It is not our intention to claim these names or trademarks as our own. |
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