Comdisco and Trilogy Form Strategic Alliance Offering Fast, Easy Online Buying to Businesses.AUSTIN Austin. 1 City (1990 pop. 21,907), seat of Mower co., SE Minn., on the Cedar River, near the Iowa line; inc. 1868. The commercial and industrial center of a rich farm region, it is noted as home to the Hormel meatpacking company, whose Spam Town museum , Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 20, 1998-- Comdisco To 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. Trilogy's Buying Chain Technology To Support Comdisco's New Desktop Management Services Trilogy A company founded in 1979 by Gene Amdahl to commercialize wafer scale integration and build supercomputers. It raised a quarter of a billion dollars, the largest startup funding in history, but could not create its 2.5" superchip. Software, Inc., a leading provider of sales, marketing, and electronic commerce solutions announced today a comprehensive alliance with Comdisco, one of the world's leading providers of technology services that help organizations reduce cost and risk. Under the terms of the agreement, Comdisco will integrate and resell Trilogy Buying Chain(TM) as the core component of Comdisco's ComPLETE Buyer(TM) with Buying Chain, creating the first broad-market, online buying solution that interfaces to an asset management repository (1) A database of information about applications software that includes author, data elements, inputs, processes, outputs and interrelationships. A repository is used in a CASE or application development system in order to identify objects and business rules for reuse. . The new tool supports Comdisco's Desktop Management Services announced last week. ComPLETE Buyer with Buying Chain - Standards-Based Online Buying A broad market solution that can be installed in minutes on a company's intranet server, ComPLETE Buyer with Buying Chain, delivers a fast, easy way for corporations to engage in electronic commerce. ComPLETE Buyer with Buying Chain allows employees to buy through a browser browser Software that allows a computer user to find and view information on the Internet. The first text-based browser for the World Wide Web became available in 1991; Web use expanded rapidly after the release in 1993 of a browser called Mosaic, which used on their desktops while the company maintains approval routings and business rules. Using ComPLETE Buyer with Buying Chain, companies simplify the buying process and gain controlled buying access to hundreds of online suppliers. ComPLETE Buyer with Buying Chain integrates with Comdisco's ComPLETE Asset Manager(TM), uniting on-line product purchasing with Comdisco's state-of-the-art asset repository. ComPLETE Asset Manager is a web-based desktop management tool that captures information about an asset and tracks it throughout its lifecycle, facilitating day-to-day management and strategic decision making. Working with ComPLETE Buyer with Buying Chain, ComPLETE Asset Manager ensures that asset and user information is automatically transferred from ComPLETE Buyer with Buying Chain to ComPLETE Asset Manager at time of purchase for ongoing management of the technology. "Comdisco and Trilogy share a vision in which every company can take advantage of simplified, automated business processes Many computer systems are available in the commercial marketplace that address the various aspects of Business Process Management. Most address one specific set of functionality; for instance, some allow the processes to be mapped (see Business Process Mapping) and documented (such as through solutions that are easy-to-use and easy-to-deploy," said Rob Lilleness, director of product marketing at Trilogy. "We are pleased to be working with Comdisco to offer a revolutionary business-to-business solution to the broad market." "Well-designed tools play a crucial role in our best-practices approach to desktop management," said John Kresovsky, vice president and general manager of desktop services for Comdisco, Rosemont, Ill. "Comdisco selected Trilogy Buying Chain for its ease-of-use and standards-based architecture. Working with Trilogy, Comdisco has created a best-in-class application that will helps companies better manage their day-to-day desktop requirements." About Trilogy Trilogy, the largest private software company focused on the front office, is a leading provider of sales, marketing and business-to-business electronic commerce applications. Hewlett-Packard, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Whirlpool Corporation Whirlpool Corporation (NYSE: WHR) is the world's leading manufacturer and marketer of major home appliances,with annual sales of approximately $18 billion, more than 73,000 employees, and more than 70 manufacturing and technology research centers around the world. and Lucent use Trilogy's patented software to achieve new levels of profitability, customer satisfaction and competitive advantage by changing the way their products are bought and sold. More information on Buying Chain can be found at http://www.buyingchain.com. More information on Trilogy can be found at http://www.trilogy.com/. About Comdisco Comdisco, Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :CDO (Collaborative Data Objects) A programming interface from Microsoft for accessing MAPI-based e-mail, calendaring and scheduling servers. Originally called "OLE Messaging" and "Active Messaging," CDO wraps the Enhanced MAPI library into a COM object that provides the ), a technology services company, is one of the world's leading providers of solutions that help organizations reduce cost and risk. These services include desktop management, business continuity, network services, equipment leasing Equipment Leasing is a financing option to lease equipment for a certain amount of time. Leasing Benefits
Editors Note: Additional information and announcements about Comdisco's ComPLETE Buyer with Buying Chain is available on Comdisco's web site (www.comdisco.com) or by contacting Holly Crilly at 847-518-5616. Trilogy and Buying Chain are trademarks of Trilogy Software, Inc. Comdisco is a registered trademark of Comdisco, Inc. ComPLETE Asset Manager and, ComPLETE Buyer are trademarks of Comdisco, Inc. All other trademarks and tradenames are the property of their respective organizations. |
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