Clarus and AlphaBlox Partner To Raise the Bar for Digital Marketplace Business Intelligence.Business Editors ATLANTA & SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 11, 2000 Clarus Adopts Advanced Web Platform To Deliver Analytical Application Services to Its eBusiness Communities 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 software solution provider and AlphaBlox Corporation, today announced that the companies have joined forces to deliver the next generation of business intelligence solutions for today's digital marketplace. Specifically, the partnership will offer the only Web-native analytical service to enhance all Clarus B2B e-commerce (Business to Business Electronic-COMMERCE) Refers to one business selling to another business via the Web. See e-commerce. offerings. The services, built on the AlphaBlox platform and the Microsoft(R) .NET enterprise platform, will reach all buyers, sellers and marketplace hosts with Web-hosted business intelligence via a browser interface. Clarus, already at the forefront of B2B e-commerce analytics with its Clarus(TM) View product, extends that lead with the addition of the latest technologies from AlphaBlox and the Microsoft(R) .NET platform including Commerce Server(R) 2000, SQL Server An earlier relational DBMS from Sybase and from Microsoft. Sybase introduced SQL Server in 1988 for various Unix versions. In that same year, with help from IBM, Sybase created an OS/2 version that Microsoft licensed and branded as Microsoft SQL Server. (R) 2000 and BizTalk(TM) Server. Clarus View is a packaged analytic application that provides immediate access to online graphical analysis for electronic procurement and digital marketplaces. The continuous analytics are driven by key business indicators and are designed to provide valuable business information for buyers, suppliers and net market makers. "A survey conducted at the Clarus eC Leadership conference reported that 75% of the respondents identified analytics as a critical resource requirement for their B2B e-commerce infrastructure," said Steve Hornyak, executive vice president and chief strategy officer for Clarus. "Clarus will deliver a superior solution for B2B analytics by providing a packaged application that can be brought online very quickly, so digital markets can compete and thrive. The advancements of the AlphaBlox and Microsoft technologies will enable us to enhance these capabilities by accelerating the integration of disparate data sources, improving the flexibility of graphical analysis, and delivering customized analytics embedded into our solutions." AlphaBlox, a leader in Business Intelligence (BI), provides a best-of-breed, Web-based platform and server for customized analytical applications. The platform provides value to B2B infrastructure players, because it has been optimized for the Web, offering greater levels of integration, flexibility and extensibility compared to traditional BI query tools. With its modular, open architecture, AlphaBlox provides Clarus with greater flexibility in designing, embedding and delivering analytical services to its customers' entire digital marketplace. "Clarus has led the B2B market in adopting the latest Microsoft technologies, " said John Eng, Lead Product Manager, SQL Server Product Marketing - Business Intelligence, Microsoft Corporation (company) Microsoft Corporation - The biggest supplier of operating systems and other software for IBM PC compatibles. Software products include MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows, Windows NT, Microsoft Access, LAN Manager, MS Client, SQL Server, Open Data Base Connectivity (ODBC), MS Mail, . "The Clarus and AlphaBlox relationship will deliver analytical applications on the Microsoft platform, delivering speed-to-market, greater flexibility and quicker decision making for an organization's e-business initiatives." Clarus View provides a graphical view from any browser or portal for procurement trends that will impact the bottom line, adjusted forecasts that could alter business results, and the ability for decision makers to act on this information immediately. Clarus will also utilize the AlphaBlox platform and Microsoft SQL Server A relational DBMS from Microsoft that is a major component of the Windows Server System. It is Microsoft's high-end client/server database and is closely integrated with Microsoft Visual Studio and the Microsoft Office System. 2000 to improve its Action Catalysts, allowing a decision maker direct access to the business transactions taking immediate action based upon the information provided through Clarus View. Clarus View will leverage these new technologies to bring even greater agility and enhanced Web analytics for its entire B2B e-commerce suite including Clarus eMarket(TM), Clarus(TM) eProcurement and Clarus(TM) eXpense. "The nature of B2B marketplaces calls for transactional information to be analyzed for performance tuning Performance tuning is the improvement of system performance. This is typically a computer application, but the same methods can be applied to economic markets, bureaucracies or other complex systems. or to create value added Value Added The enhancement a company gives its product or service before offering the product to customers. Notes: This can either increase the products price or value. services to differentiate these digital markets," said Polly Sumner, President and COO of AlphaBlox. "An analytical infrastructure in B2B marketplaces is now becoming just as critical as the transaction infrastructure for e-businesses. AlphaBlox's flexible platform is helping Clarus' customers gain a competitive edge above and beyond what they could realize with `monolithic' query tools." 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). Microsoft recently honored Clarus with one of the highest awards possible as the Microsoft Global eCommerce Solution of the Year. 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, 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. About AlphaBlox AlphaBlox Corporation provides the industry's only open and extensible 100% Web-based platform for delivering analytical applications that optimize eBusiness efficiencies. With AlphaBlox, companies can share and analyze information with customers, partners, and suppliers to build eBusiness communities, foster more profitable eBusiness relationships, and optimize business performance. Leveraging AlphaBlox's unique "building Blox(TM)" approach customers and partners can quickly assemble and deploy a variety of customized analytical applications for measuring and improving eBusiness operations, financial performance, customer/product profitability, distribution channels, and the supply chain. Leading Global 1000 organizations such as Deutsche Bank Deutsche Bank AG (IPA: /'dɔɪ.tʃə/[1]) (ISIN: DE0005140008, NYSE: DB) (English: German Bank Securities, AT&T, SBC (1) (SBC Communications Inc., San Antonio, TX, www.sbc.com) A large, national telecommunications company that grew from a multitude of local and regional companies, including Southwestern Bell, Pacific Bell and Nevada Bell, into a single, unified brand by 2002. , Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, Hewlett Packard, Toyota Motor Company, FedEx, Morgan Stanley  To comply with Wikipedia's , the introduction of this article needs a complete rewrite. , and OppenheimerFunds rely on AlphaBlox solutions to turn their
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