Commerce One and AvantGo Select Portera's Web-Hosted Application Services; Portera Continues to Attract Industry Leaders From the Professional Service Sector.Business Editors and High-Tech Writers CAMPBELL, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 12, 2000 Portera Inc. (www.portera.com), a leading vertical service provider focused on the professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. industry, today announced that Commerce One Inc. (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) ) and AvantGo have recently subscribed to the company's Web-hosted application services See ASP and Web services. . This news follows a recent announcement by Portera that Viant, Hewlett-Packard and Network Associates have also joined Portera's growing customer list. "As a leader in global e-commerce solutions for business, it is important for our own systems to have seamless integration between the front and back office," said Michael Hastings, vice president, professional services of Commerce One. "We evaluated several PSA (Professional Services Automation) An information system designed to organize, track and manage all opportunities, work, resources, costs, revenues and invoices to improve the productivity and efficiency of the workforce. solutions and found Portera's Web-hosted time and expense functionality and integration to back office financials best for our worldwide consulting organizational needs." All of Portera's application and e-business services run on a highly scalable platform, designed and built from the ground up to support Web-hosted service delivery. This platform allows Portera to rapidly implement new customers, quickly integrate third-party software and services, perform seamless upgrades and maintain a development cycle measured in weeks instead of months. "We selected Portera's PSA solution because of its scalable architecture and ability to measure development cycles in weeks instead of months," said Marty Kacin, vice president of professional services at AvantGo, a mobile Internet company. "Like AvantGo solutions, Portera is based on industry standards, such as HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. , to deliver its quality Web-based service." Gary Steele, 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 Portera, said, "Our Web-hosted service delivery model allows us to get our customers up and running quickly and keep them ahead of the game by providing innovative new services on a regular basis. Combined with our dedication to outstanding customer service, this ensures that our customers are free to focus on serving their clients." Portera's ServicePort application service is available stand alone or pre-integrated with industry-configured versions of applications from the Oracle E-Business Suite A group of integrated Internet-based applications from Oracle. Introduced in 2001 as Version 11i, it includes modules for CRM, finance, human resources, supply chain management as well as applications for business intelligence. , including financials, human resources and procurement. These application services are also complemented by Portera-managed e-business services that enable service organizations to outsource back-office business processes including staffing, training, document production, accounting and purchasing. About Portera Portera is a leading vertical service provider focused on the professional services industry. Delivered through a standard Web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. , Portera's combination of Web-hosted application and e-business services enhances productivity and margins by helping firms streamline operations and focus on their core business. Portera also drives efficiency across the service sector by providing a global platform for collaboration and commerce between service providers, their suppliers and clients. Customers include: Agilent, Baan, British Telecom, Commerce One, E.piphany, Hewlett-Packard, Inventa, Lutris Technologies, Microsoft, Network Associates, Tanning Technology and Viant. Further information about Portera can be found at www.portera.com. |
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