Completebook.com Gains Competitive Edge with the Selection Of Hubspan.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 26, 2004 Hubspan, a leading integration solutions provider, today announced that Completebook.com Media Supply, Inc. (completebook.com), the world's largest online business-to-business  This article or section needs copy editing for grammar, style, cohesion, tone and/or spelling.You can assist by [ editing it] now. source for books, publications, and media, has selected the Hubspan service to provide seamless, 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. demand chain integration between completebook.com and their key customers. Completebook.com's broad range of customers includes corporations, government agencies, libraries, laboratories, financial institutions, healthcare agencies, foreign divisions of corporations, and many others. With more than 3.5 million titles and over 45,000 direct relationships with publishers, completebook.com maintains its leading position by continuing to seek out greater ways to provide better value and faster service to corporate customers. Investing in advanced technologies is one of the primary ways in which the company surpasses customer expectations and differentiates from major retail book and media reseller An organization that sells hardware and software to the general public. Resellers purchase products from software publishers and hardware manufacturers. competition. Hubspan will advance the completebook.com mission by leveraging and extending their existing sell-side infrastructure, enabling it to seamlessly integrate with a broad range of customer procurement The fancy word for "purchasing." The procurement department within an organization manages all the major purchases. systems including Oracle, SAP, Ariba, PeopleSoft (PeopleSoft, Inc., Pleasanton, CA, www.peoplesoft.com) A software company that specialized in enterprise-wide applications for client/server environments. Initially specializing in human resources, its package offerings covered the gamut including financial, distribution, manufacturing , CommerceOne, and many more. As a result, completebook.com will gain a key selling point selling point n. An aspect of a product or service that is stressed in advertising or marketing. Noun 1. selling point - a characteristic of something that is up for sale that makes it attractive to potential customers essential to the acquisition of new corporate business. "Fortune 500 enterprises are eager to integrate the purchase of books, publications, and media with their procurement systems," said Peter Coomaraswamy, president, completebook.com. "The Hubspan service will enable us to quickly and efficiently take advantage of the tremendous need in the market, becoming one of the most advanced online, corporate book and literature providers in the industry." While initial integration will focus on real-time processes such as punch-out, Hubspan's complete integration solution will also enable completebook.com to address future customer requirements for complete order-to-cash processes such as purchase order, purchase order acknowledgement, and invoice An itemized statement or written account of goods sent to a purchaser or consignee by a vendor that indicates the quantity and price of each piece of merchandise shipped. A consular invoice is one used in foreign trade. . "Completebook.com's selection of Hubspan is an excellent example of the strategic impact successful business-to-business integration can have on an organization," said Trisha Gross, Hubspan vice president of client services. "Hubspan believes strongly in the tremendous value service-based integration can bring to organizations. Therefore, we continue to strive to lower the barriers to 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 integration and increase interoperability The capability of two or more hardware devices or two or more software routines to work harmoniously together. For example, in an Ethernet network, display adapters, hubs, switches and routers from different vendors must conform to the Ethernet standard and interoperate with each other. across business processes and technology so more and more organizations can benefit from competitive differentiation, cost-savings, and process efficiencies." About Completebook.com Complete Book & Media Supply, Inc. (completebook.com) is the world's largest online business-to- business source for over 3,500,000 books, publications, government documents, software titles, videos, standards and audio recordings. Through outstanding customer service, state-of-the art technology, and strategic vendor relationships with many of the leading publishers in the US, and throughout the world, completebook.com provides corporate customers with the very best in procurement services, pricing and delivery times for books and publications. For more information about Complete Book & Media Supply, Inc., please visit: www.completebook.com. About Hubspan As a leading integration solutions provider, Hubspan delivers on the promise of the Business 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 . Hubspan's service-based integration solutions enable companies around the world to exchange mission-critical information with their partners, providing maximum security and world-class reliability. Robust standards-based technology combined with rapid implementation and superior service deliver strategic value to trusted customer relationships. Headquartered in Seattle, Washington  This page is protected from moves until disputes have been resolved on the .The reason for its protection is listed on the protection policy page. , Hubspan is trusted to deliver by industry leading customers including The Boeing Company, Graybar, and Tradeplace. Additional information can be found at www.hubspan.com. |
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