Commerce One's Dr. Amos Barzilay Joins WebQuote Software's Board of Advisors.Business Editors/High Tech Writers NOTE TO MEDIA: Photo is available in a Smart News Release(TM) on Business Wire's Home Page at www.businesswire.com LOS GATOS Los Gatos (lôs gä`tōs, lŏs, găt`əs), city (1990 pop. 27,357), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1887. It is an affluent residential community and health resort. , Calif--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 17, 2001 WebQuote Software, Inc., a leading authority on sell-side supply chain management software and web enabling technology for electronics markets, announced today the addition of Dr. Amos Barzilay to its Advisory Board. "Dr. Barzilay is a great addition to WebQuote's Board of Advisors, said Saeid Ghafouri, WebQuote`s President and Chief Executive Officer. "Amos comes from a rich eCommerce background and will help us formulate successful strategies for the markets we are targeting," added Ghafouri. "WebQuote presents a compelling solution to the market by beefing-up the sell-side and focusing on complex design-to-order electronics products," said Barzilay. Businesses that integrate procurement automation solutions often fall short of the maximum benefit that they could get because their suppliers lack complimentary solutions. In effect, if both buyers and sellers are not automated, then the supply chain remains broken, and the increase in the velocity of the supply chain is lost. By automating the sell-side, the bottleneck in supply chain management solutions is removed. Dr. Barzilay is the Vice President and General Manager of Commerce One's (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 :CMRC CMRC Canadian Motosport Racing Club CMRC Commerce One Inc. (stock symbol) CMRC Caribbean Marine Research Center CMRC Crime Mapping Research Center CMRC Credit Management Research Centre (UK) ) Content and Supplier Solutions Group. Prior to Commerce One, Dr. Barzilay held a variety of senior management positions including Chairman, 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. , and Founder of Mergent Systems, General Manager of C*ATS Software, a leader in financial risk management applications, and Worldwide Director of Industry Marketing at Informix focusing on data warehousing and vertical markets including finance, manufacturing, retail, and telecommunications. Dr. Barzilay has an engineering degree from the Technion in Israel and a M.B.A. and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Pittsburgh. About WebQuote Software, Inc. WebQuote Software, Inc. develops turnkey eCommerce solutions for sellers, contract manufacturers, and buyers of build-to-specification electronic products. The company is committed to the principals of end-to-end supply chain management collaboration, focusing first on automating and web enabling the complex sell-side process for direct materials. The WebQuote System(TM) includes both sell-side (SalesLINK(TM)) and buy-side (BuyersLINK(TM)) software agents, secure central databases, and hosted corporate extranets or private exchanges. The solution uniquely addresses the needs of build-to-specification sales and procurement organizations by starting and ending in CAD/CAM CAD/CAM in full computer-aided design/computer-aided manufacturing. Integration of design and manufacturing into a system under direct control of digital computers. . This delivers reduced time-to-market, lower cost of sales, decreased acquisition cost, and increased supply chain velocity. WebQuote also uses its technology to host public vertically centric exchanges. The PCBMarketplace, which is the longest running exchange for custom printed circuit board fabrication fabrication (fab´rikā´sh  n),n the construction or making of a restoration. and assembly, has successfully processed over 10,000 RFQs and has a membership of thousands of businesses. WebQuote is a member of RosettaNet and IPC (1) (InterProcess Communication) The exchange of data between one program and another either within the same computer or over a network. It implies a protocol that guarantees a response to a request. , and an Oracle Partner (NASDAQ:ORCL ORCL Oracle (stock symbol) ). Contact WebQuote at its worldwide headquarters at 408/354-8800 or visit www.webquote.com. Note: A Photo is available at URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. : http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/photo.cgi?pw.011701/bb13 |
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