Cohera E-Catalog System to Power $400 Million Aftermarket Parts Exchange.Business Editors and Internet Writers eB2B MarketplaceWorld 2000 HAYWARD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 7, 2000 LiveListings.com Uses Cohera Technology to Provide On-demand Product Information for Its 1,300-Customer List Cohera(R) Corporation, the leading provider of e-catalog software for e-businesses, today announced that LiveListings.com, the premier online trading community An online trading community exists to provide its members with a structured method for trading, bartering, or selling goods or services. These communities often have forums and chatrooms designed to facilitate communication between the members. for aftermarket truck, automotive and industrial parts, has selected the Cohera E-Catalog System(TM) to deliver cataloging software for the 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 exchange. LiveListings.com is using Cohera's solution to link more than 1,300 suppliers' products to its $400 million listing exchange in a secure and anonymous environment. LiveListings.com will use powerful Cohera E-Catalog System software to take its current fax-based exchange to an automated collection of live product information from multiple suppliers' back-office systems and integrate that information into a single online catalog Similar to an online library or databases in the information storage respect, ‘’’online catalogs’’’ allow potential customers to browse a company’s items for sale from a different location using the internet. . Buyers will receive instant pricing, detailed product specifications and inventory availability on demand. "Being at the forefront of technology is critical to the success of any B2B exchange, including the LiveListings.com exchange," said Don Etsekson, founder 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 LiveListings.com. "The Cohera E-Catalog System enables us to be a real-time, highly liquid, neutral exchange that offers up-to-the second pricing and inventory availability." LiveListings.com is the only neutral aftermarket site developed by a third-generation, aftermarket parts seller. Users include manufacturers, dealers, rebuilders, independent distributors, dismantlers and core suppliers. "The LiveListings.com exchange is a perfect demonstration of Cohera's ability to address the complexity that online cataloging presents to growing e-markets," said Michael Laven, CEO of Cohera Corporation. "Cohera's E-Catalog System provides LiveListings.com with the most comprehensive solution available to a core e-marketplace problem -- cataloging live product information from thousands of suppliers and sources." About Cohera E-Catalog System Cohera E-Catalog System lets developers of B2B e-marketplaces retrieve product data on demand from multiple catalog sources -- that often exist in various locations and numerous formats -- and convert the information into a single, standards-based format. Buyers accessing a Cohera-powered e-marketplace are presented with a single view of the data. Unlike most e-catalog vendors that approach cataloging by either integrating data or managing content, Cohera is focused on both operations and is able to broker catalog data in real time from multiple suppliers. Thus, Cohera offers the most complete technology for retrieving and managing data within dynamic e-marketplaces. About LiveListings.com LiveListings.com is the premier business-to-business (B2B) online trading community for truck, automotive and industrial parts. LiveListings.com enables its customers to securely browse, buy and sell their products in an exchange environment. Through the largest database of its kind, LiveListings.com's digital exchange connects customers and buyers to competitive pricing and high-quality products. With over 1,300 customers and over $400 million listings in 1999, LiveListings.com is also the operator of both the Actifax and Multifax aftermarket parts exchange services. Headquartered in Seattle, LiveListings.com Inc., is located at 600 South Dakota South Dakota (dəkō`tə), state in the N central United States. It is bordered by North Dakota (N), Minnesota and Iowa (E), Nebraska (S), and Wyoming and Montana (W). Street, Seattle, WA 98108 and can be reached by phone at 206/343-5407. More information is available at www.livelistings.com. About Cohera Corporation Headquartered in Hayward, Calif., the Cohera Corporation is dedicated to providing fast-growing B2B e-commerce (Business to Business Electronic-COMMERCE) Refers to one business selling to another business via the Web. See e-commerce. firms with a scalable standards-based e-catalog infrastructure to drive dynamic e-markets. The company works closely with industry-leading corporations such as AltaVista (Nasdaq:ALTA), Sybase (Nasdaq:SYBS), Breakaway Solutions (Nasdaq:BWAY BWAY Breakaway Solutions (stock symbol) ), RSA Security RSA, The Security Division of EMC Corporation, is headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts, and maintains offices in Ireland, the United Kingdom, Singapore, India, and Japan. RSA organizes the annual RSA conference. (Nasdaq:RSAS RSAS RSA Security, Inc. (stock abbreviation, AMEX) RSAS Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences RSAS RAND Strategy Assessment System RSAS Reactor Safety Assessment System ), and webMethods (Nasdaq:WEBM WEBM webMethods Inc. (stock abbreviation, AMEX) ). Customers include Foodservice.com and AllBusiness.com. Cohera is privately held and backed by such industry-leading venture firms as Accel Partners, Sequoia Capital Sequoia Capital is a venture capital firm founded by Don Valentine in 1972. The firm's partners include Don Valentine, Pierre Lamond, Michael Moritz, Doug Leone, Mike Goguen, Mark Stevens, Jim Goetz, Sameer Gandhi, Roelof Botha, and Mark Kvamme. , Sippl/MacDonald Ventures, Merrill Lynch Partners, Ignite Ventures and Cambridge Technology Capital. A Web seminar discussing Cohera's E-Catalog System is planned for August 16, 2000 at 2:00 p.m. EDT EDT abbr. Eastern Daylight Time EDT Eastern Daylight Time EDT n abbr (US) (= Eastern Daylight Time) → hora de verano de Nueva York EDT . Cohera will be at eB2B Marketplace World, Sept. 18 - Sept. 20, 2000 in San Francisco, Calif. Web seminar registration and further information about Cohera can be found at http://www.cohera.com or by calling 510/780-1700. Note to Editors: Cohera, Cohera E-Catalog System, the Cohera logo, and the E-Catalogs for E-Business tagline are trademarks of Cohera Corporation. All others are properties of their holders. |
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