Commerce One Receives Unprecedented Industry Support for MarketSite; Market Leaders Endorse World's Largest Open, Business-to-Business Marketplace.WALNUT CREEK Walnut Creek, residential city (1990 pop. 60,569), Contra Costa co., W Calif., in the San Francisco Bay area; inc. 1914. It is the trade and shipping center of an extensive agricultural area where walnuts are among the major product. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 29, 1999--Commerce One, Inc. today announced it has received broad industry support for Commerce One MarketSite from a wide variety of market leaders including leading software and services providers, global telecommunications companies See telecom company. , industry standards organizations A standards organization, also sometimes referred to as a standards body, a standards development organization or SDO (depending on what is being referenced), is any entity whose primary activities are developing, coordinating, promulgating, revising, amending, , systems integration and consulting firms Noun 1. consulting firm - a firm of experts providing professional advice to an organization for a fee consulting company business firm, firm, house - the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments; "he worked for a , buying organizations, and supplying organizations. These organizations include:
Software Providers: RightWorks, InterShop, Microsoft,
CrossWorlds, UWI.COM
Business Services Providers: American Express, GE Capital
Financial and Verifone for payment services; TanData and UPS for
shipping and logistics services; TAXWARE for tax services
Industry Standards Bodies: CommerceNet, Ontology.Org, eCo
Framework Working Group, OBI, Open Trading Protocol Consortium,
OASIS and RosettaNet
Global Telecommunications Leader: British Telecom (BT)
Systems Integration and Consulting Firms: MCI Systemhouse,
PricewaterhouseCoopers, and Cambridge Technology Partners
Buying Organizations: Boots, BT, Schlumberger Oilfield Services,
Idaho Power, Eastman Chemical, University of California, Los
Angeles, County of Los Angeles, California State University
Fullerton
Supplying Organizations: Boise Cascade Office Products, Office
Depot, Factory Direct Corporation, W.W. Grainger, Graybar, NECX,
PageMart, Software Spectrum, Tech-Sys Solutions, Trade Service
Corporation, RoweCom and Wareforce
"We are ecstatic ec·stat·ic adj. 1. Marked by or expressing ecstasy. 2. Being in a state of ecstasy; joyful or enraptured. [French extatique, from Greek ekstatikos, from about the level of support we are getting for Commerce One MarketSite from every key constituency A constituency is any cohesive corporate unit or body bound by shared structures, goals or loyalty. It can be used to describe a business's customer base and shareholders, or a charity's donors or those it serves. involved in electronic commerce," said Mark Hoffman, 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 president of Commerce One. "With this widespread support we will be able to accelerate the growth of the Commerce One trading community exponentially ex·po·nen·tial adj. 1. Of or relating to an exponent. 2. Mathematics a. Containing, involving, or expressed as an exponent. b. ." Announced separately today, Commerce One unveiled Commerce One MarketSite 3.0, Open Marketplace Platform and Commerce One MarketSite.net, the B to B Marketplace Portal A Web "supersite" that provides a variety of services including Web search, news, free e-mail, discussion groups, shopping and links to other sites. The major general-purpose Web portals are Yahoo!, MSN and AOL. Many portals allow the home page to be personalized (see personal portal). . Additionally, BT and Commerce One announced that they are working together to implement the Commerce Chain Solution at Boots boot 1 n. 1. Protective footgear, as of leather or rubber, covering the foot and part or all of the leg. 2. , a major U.K. retailer and within BT itself. This announcement falls on the heels of a recent announcement that BT and Commerce One are working together to establish a U.K. marketplace. (See BT/Commerce One press release issued today and BT/Commerce One Press Release issued February February: see month. 24, 1999 for more details.) About Commerce One Commerce One is the leading provider of electronic commerce solutions that dynamically link buying and supplying organizations into real-time 1. real-time - Describes an application which requires a program to respond to stimuli within some small upper limit of response time (typically milli- or microseconds). Process control at a chemical plant is the classic example. trading communities. The Commerce Chain Solution by Commerce One, comprised of Commerce One BuySite and Commerce One MarketSite, enables companies to significantly reduce operational costs and increase efficiency by automating the entire indirect 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. supply chain. As a result, enterprise organizations are able to realize a strategic competitive advantage as well as a rapid return on investment. Commerce One is located in Walnut Creek, Calif. and can be reached by phone at (800) 308-3838 or (925) 941-6000 or via the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the at http://www.commerceone.com. Commerce One, Commerce Chain, BuySite, MarketSite, MarketSite.net and Marketplace Portal are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Commerce One. Other product and company names mentioned herein might be the trademarks of their respective owners. Statements of Support for Commerce One MarketSite
Buying Organizations:
Schlumberger
"MarketSite.net will enable us to have more efficient communications
with our suppliers, thereby further increasing the efficiency of our
Field operations and of our procurement professionals. We will also
gain access to new suppliers through this open portal and be able to
leverage the multiple value-added services it offers."
Alain-Michel Diamant-Berger
Procurement Process Leader
Schlumberger Oilfield Services
Idaho Power
"The ability to connect buyers and sellers, quickly and economically
into online marketplaces make this release of Commerce One MarketSite
exciting for Idaho Power. With the release of MarketSite 3.0, Commerce
One has added important functionality that will further enable us to
do indirect procurement online".
Deb Kunkler
Manager of Procurement
Idaho Power
UCLA
"The procurement requirements for UCLA have rapidly expanded over
time. With the latest enhancements to MarketSite, Commerce One has
delivered a product that will enable us to reduce cycle times and free
up our employees to concentrate on contract management and
negotiation".
Ann Powley
Director of Procurement
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
County of Los Angeles
"With an annual purchasing budget of $650M, it is important for the
County of Los Angeles to establish close relationships with our
suppliers. Commerce One MarketSite offers the largest open
business-to-business marketplace and allows us to work with multiple
suppliers to negotiate the best terms".
Chrys Varnes
Director, CAMIS Project
County of Los Angeles
Eastman Chemical
"MarketSite 3.0 provides the first truly open marketplace platform to
support electronic procurement. By implementing both Commerce One
MarketSite and BuySite to streamline our procurement process and
improve efficiency, we have been able to better aggregate our spend
and drive closer relationships with our suppliers."
Eddie Page
Purchasing Manager - Systems and Special Projects
Eastman Chemical
"Our aim is to establish world-class procurement practise, and we
wanted a solution that would reduce processing costs and channel spend
through a reduced supplier base. We considered several options and
chose the Commerce One/BT solution because it offers a user-friendly
system for our employees and manages the issues of integration with
multiple suppliers. We were also impressed with their commitment to
the rapid implementation of our key suppliers."
Jonathan Gribbin,
E-Commerce Project Manager
Boots
"We're delighted to be working with Commerce One as we have identified
them as market leaders for procurement services. We are committed to
changing the way we do business by optimising our indirect purchasing
procedures to increase efficiency. To achieve this, we have set a
target of 95% of BT's indirect procurement to be sourced using the
e-Business solutions by March 2000."
Patricia Vaz
Director UK Business Services
BT
Supplying Organizations:
Office Depot
"We chose to form a strategic alliance with Commerce One because of
their innovative forward thinking vision in business-to-business
electronic commerce. Our participation in MarketSite.net, from
Commerce One, allows us to utilitize leading XML technology, in
presenting our products to our joint customers. The direct integration
of our website into MarketSite.net has created a powerful channel to
support our customers in their efforts to contain costs through
technology."
Monica Luechtefeld
Vice President of Contract Marketing
Office Depot
W.W. Grainger
"We are excited to be a part of revolutionizing the way
business-to-business electronic commerce is conducted. The
interoperability between our commerce portals, Grainger.com and
MarketSite.net, will allow us to leverage our comprehensive content,
reach new prospects and better service our existing customers."
Donald Bielinski
Group President
W.W. Grainger
PageMart
"Our participation as a trading partner in MarketSite.net provides us
a powerful new channel. By combining our advanced messaging network
with the global infrastructure of MarketSite.net, we can extend the
reach of our communication services throughout the Western
Hemisphere."
John D. Beletic
CEO and Chairman
PageMart
GrayBar
"Our participation in MarketSite.net will enable us to better serve
the needs of our customers. The phased integration and
interoperability with MarketSite.net will enable our district branches
to connect instantly with customers, and the Commerce One content
management tools and services allow us to provide the most current and
accurate product information."
John Loff
District Vice President
Graybar
Boise Cascade Office Products
"Boise has always offered the latest technology, electronic ordering
systems and other tools necessary for making our customers' lives
easier. Our partnership with Commerce One supports this commitment.
MarketSite.net's unified process not only offers customers cost
effective, fully-integrated and time efficient ordering, but it gives
Boise a competitive edge through easy setup, ongoing support, and
access to additional customers. We're excited to be a part of such an
innovative network."
Laura Longcore
Senior Manager of Electronic Commerce
Boise Cascade Office Products
Wareforce
"The combination of Commerce One's leading-edge electronic commerce
technology with Wareforce's virtual catalog of over 140,000 items
allows us to offer our customers the additional advantages of true,
real-time, online purchasing. We are excited about sharing these
e-commerce capabilities with our customers and other trading partners
through our participation in MarketSite.net."
Darrell Tate
Vice President of Strategic Business Development
Wareforce
Factory Direct Corporation
"Commerce One's content management services have propelled us into
electronic business-to-business commerce. In becoming a supplier to
MarketSite.net, we see the potential to tremendously increase our
revenues and significantly expand our customer base."
Ed Furey
Partner
Factory Direct Corporation
Tech-Sys Solutions
"In our involvement in business to business electronic commerce for
the past few years, we found Commerce One an exciting alternative.
Their business-to-business format is clearly superior. Through our
alliance with Ingram Micro and our participation in MarketSite.net, we
can more efficiently service the needs of our customers by offering
real-time product pricing and availability, and expand our reach to
global accounts."
Joe Vaught
Executive Vice President of Sales
Tech-Sys Solutions
NECX
"Our early involvement with MarketSite.net has provided new
breakthroughs with large enterprise clients. It has also increased our
traffic to NECX.com, from which we anticipate incremental transactions
and revenue for our organization. By aligning our strengths in supply
aggregation with Commerce One's strengths in electronic commerce
solutions, we have harnessed the power of the Internet to provide
organizations around the world with the industry's most comprehensive,
business-to-business transactionable procurement catalog for computer
products."
Brian Marley
Vice President of Operations
NECX
Software Providers:
RightWorks
"RightWorks' ProcureWorks customers will have the opportunity to
access a large supplier base and catalog content through our work with
Commerce One. Commerce One's open strategy, the basis for the Commerce
One MarketSite, is a major step for our industry and will be of great
benefit to both buying and supplying communities."
Vani Kola
CEO, President and Founder
RightWorks Corporation
Intershop Communications, Inc.
"Intershop, one of the world's largest providers of electronic
commerce software, shares Commerce One's vision of a marketplace with
online dynamic trading communities. Working with Commerce One will
open up a tremendous opportunity for Intershop customers by enabling
them to reach a powerful new sales channel through the MarketSite
commerce portal."
Ed Callan
Vice President of Marketing
Intershop Communications, Inc.
Microsoft
"Microsoft is enthusiastic about collaborating with Commerce One on
BizTalk and XML initiatives that will make it easier for diverse
trading partners to transact business in communities like Commerce
One's MarketSite.net portal. The combination of open XML document
exchange and interoperability among major commerce portals is going to
change the face of business-to-business commerce."
Satya Nadella
General Manger Commerce Platforms
Microsoft Corporation
CrossWorlds
"Commerce One's expertise in uniting business partners in online
trading marketplaces can now leverage CrossWorlds' complete solution
for integrating applications within the enterprise. We are excited to
be working with Commerce One given their leading XML and MarketSite
initiatives."
Katrina Garnett
President and CEO
CrossWorlds Software
UWI.COM
"The integration of CommerceOne's MarketSite and UWI.Com's
InternetForms is a match made in heaven for e-commerce portal
organizations. MarketSite's XML-based commerce portal enables global
marketplaces and its integration with InternetForms provides an
expansion of those marketplaces to include small and medium-sized
enterprises today."
Eric Jordan
President and CEO
UWI.Com
Commerce Services:
TAXWARE
"TAXWARE is pleased to enhance our current alliance with Commerce One,
in which we deliver tax services through Commerce One MarketSite.net.
Our SALES/USE and WORLDTAX Systems will provide members of the
MarketSite.net trading community with accurate, up-to-date information
on taxes and tax laws. By using our automated systems, buyers and
suppliers will no longer have to manually compute taxes on purchases."
Caitlin Sullivan
Vice President Business Development
TAXWARE
TanData
"Business-to-business makes up the vast majority of E-commerce, and
corporations are looking for ways to maximize the benefits of online
trading. Commerce One MarketSite.net creates a secure trading
environment for these transactions, and the integration of TanData's
shipping technology will provide added value--it allows these
merchants to dramatically reduce their supply chain expenses and it
ensures accurate and timely shipping information."
Peter Nicholls
President
TanData
Verifone
"We believe VeriFone's industry-leading experience in secure
electronic payment provides a valuable marketplace service to Commerce
One MarketSite.net. By integrating vPOS into MarketSite.net, Commerce
One will deliver robust payment services to the trading community by
enabling the approval and processing of payments through major credit
card issuers securely and in real time."
Tom Masotto
General Manager Internet Commerce Business Unit
VeriFone
UPS
"Commerce One's use of UPS's web tools in their MarketSite portal is a
perfect example of how companies can leverage advanced transportation
information to maximize the power of the Internet for multiple trading
partners. By utilizing UPS enhanced tracking, time-in-transit and
address validation they are able to extend end-to-end efficiencies and
superior online customer service that impact on the bottom line of
portal participants."
Alan Amling
Director of E-Commerce
UPS
GE Capital Financial, Inc.
"GE Capital Financial, Inc., a leader inproviding financial services
to corporate America, is pleased to announce our support of Commerce
One MarketSite.net, B to B Marketplace Portal. Commerce One's vision
of delivering a complete and robust electronic commerce solution is in
line with the needs in the marketplace. GE Capital is pleased to be
working with Commerce One to provide integrated payment services to
the MarketSite.net community of buyers and suppliers."
Craig Watson
Vice President, New Product Development, Corporate
Expense Management Services
GE Capital
American Express
"The combined power of American Express and Commerce One allows
organizations to integrate their entire purchasing process from
sourcing and ordering through payment, data integration and
reconciliation. This will help companies purchase over the Internet
and through and intranet, while maintaining the strict controls that a
purchasing card program offers and that finance executives demand."
Brigitte Baumann
General Manger and SVP
American Express Corporate Services Interactive
Content Services:
Trade Service Corporation
"We are pleased to partner with Commerce One on MarketSite.net. Our
extensive data enrichment and content management experience, coupled
with Commerce One's expertise in transaction-enabling technologies,
makes for a powerful alliance. Together, we are working to make
MarketSite.net the preeminent business to business electronic commerce
solution."
Norm Decker
Vice President and General Manager
Trade Service Corporation
Object Design
"XML continues to emerge as the key enabling standard for
next-generation e-commerce. As the industry's only XML data server for
building highly scalable XML e-commerce applications, Object Design's
eXcelon is a perfect fit with MarketSite's distributed marketplace
architecture and adherence to the XML family of standards. We look
forward to bringing new suppliers and customers into the Commerce One
Network using eXcelon."
Larry Alston
Vice President of Marketing
Object Design, Inc.
Standards Organizations:
Ontology.Org
"Commerce One understands that the main barrier to Internet commerce
lies in the need for applications to meaningfully share information,
not in the reliability or security of the network.
Commerce One has embraced the need for a diversity of XML-based
business document representations for specific vertical industries and
have designed a distributed marketplace architecture that facilitates
commerce within and between vertical commerce communities.
Ontology.Org has long been an advocate of solutions which move
beyond rigid representations based on fixed vocabularies and implicit
semantics. We look forward to working with Commerce One to address the
problems that impact both the technical and economic viability and
sustainability of large electronic trading groups."
Howard Smith, Director
Ontology.Org
Open Trading Protocol Consortium
"Commerce One isn't just jumping on the XML bandwagon; it has been one
of the leaders in developing standards that enable interoperable
commerce. Commerce One's important contributions to the development of
the OTP specification, the global neutral framework for Internet
payment, should enable MarketSites to plug into OTP payment
protocols".
Steve Fabes
MXI Development Director San Francisco co-Chair
Open Trading Protocol Consortium
CommerceNet
"As the premier global consortium for companies using and building
electronic commerce solutions, CommerceNet supports open, XML-based
architectures for online trading communities. CommerceNet recognizes
that there will not be a single XML commerce standard, but rather many
standards that address the needs of particular industries and business
processes. To deal with this digital anarchy, CommerceNet is
sponsoring a broad industry initiative to develop the Common Business
Library, a data dictionary that will enable companies using different
XML standards to still do business. Commerce One, as a sponsoring
member of CommerceNet, has taken a very active part in CommerceNet's
eCo working group defining open, interoperable environments for
eCommerce. We applaud their leadership in being the first vendor to
base their software for Internet trading communities on the common
business libraries being developed by CommerceNet."
Randall C. Whiting
President & CEO,
CommerceNet, Inc.
OBI
"We are excited that Commerce One is committed to incorporating OBI
support into MarketSite. This shows that Commerce One shares our
vision of linking buyers and sellers of business products and services
through an open, vendor neutral architecture. The MarketSite offering
further expands the options for companies to implement interoperable
OBI procurement and sales solutions. As Commerce One demonstrates
their compliance with the OBI specification, Marketsite.Net users will
have the assurance they will be able to participate in a truly open
and interoperable eCommerce trading community solution."
Patrick Gannon
Executive Director
Open Buying on the Internet (OBI) Consortium
OASIS
"OASIS is the only non-profit, international consortium dedicated to
product-independent information exchange using standards like XML and
SGML. Commerce One's XML people have been involved with OASIS since
its inception, and are respected as leaders in the XML technical
community. In keeping with their strong commitment on to the industry
and to the OASIS cause, Commerce One currently leads the OASIS
technical committee on registries and repositories, supporting the
open sharing of XML building blocks and DTDs."
Laura Walker
Executive Director
OASIS
eCo Framework Working Group
"CommerceNet's eCo Project is developing a framework to enable
interoperability among multiple electronic commerce specifications and
across multiple operating environments. Commerce One continues to play
a very strong role as a key contributor to the working group. I am
very pleased to see that Commerce One's commitment to the project's
technical direction is reflected in MarketSite's XML-based
architecture."
Murray Maloney
Chairman
eCo Framework Working Group
RosettaNet
"Commerce One has made valuable contributions to the development of
RosettaNet's eBusiness Implementation Framework. We look forward to
working with Commerce One on incorporating RosettaNet's Framework into
MarketSite 3.0 to facilitate the deployment of our XML-based Partner
Interface Processes."
Fadi Chehade
CEO
RosettaNet
Systems Integration & Consulting:
MCI Systemhouse
"MCI Systemhouse, is pleased to be a Commerce One partner delivering
solutions to our clients on Commerce One MarketSite. "MarketSite
enhances our Internet Procurement Automation (IPA) offering and
together, Commerce One and MCI Systemhouse will continue to provide
technology leading, end-to-end, enterprise solutions to organizations
and its suppliers
Colin Dalzell
Vice President Electronic Commerce Solutions
MCI Systemhouse
PricewaterhouseCoopers
"Commerce One is a demonstrated leader in delivering
business-to-business marketplaces around the globe "This release of
Marketsite will allow Commerce One to maintain a leadership position
in electronic commerce and will be a key tool in our FVP and eBusiness
offerings, allowing for robust solutions and continued client
satisfaction."
Hank Adamany
Partner and Full Value Procurement (FVP) Practice Leader
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Cambridge Technology Partners
"Following the movement toward eXtended Resource Planning, or XRP, our
clients are looking for ways to extend their ERP backbone with
strategy-driven solutions that leverage the Internet - Commerce One's
offerings fit this category well. With Commerce One MarketSite's
strong connectivity and content aggregation, our clients will
experience rapid XRP integration efforts that provide strong
e-business solutions,"
Thomas Weeks
Director, Enterprise Resource Solutions
Cambridge Technology Partners
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