ComputerLiteracy.com Provides Sell-side Support for Ariba.com Network.SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 3, 1999-- Leading Internet retailer to supply content for new business-to-business e-commerce solution for Global 2000 customers ComputerLiteracy.com (Nasdaq: CMPL CMPL Commercial Materials Processing Lab ) today announced further sell-side support for Global 2000 organizations buying resources, 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. over the Internet. ComputerLiteracy.com, the leading online retailer of books, training materials and documentation for technical professionals, will provide content and sell-side support for Ariba.com Network, a new Internet See Web 2.0 and Internet2. service unveiled today by Ariba Technologies that connects buying organizations enabled with Ariba Operating Resource Management System (Ariba ORMS ORMS Operating Resource Management System ORMS Operations Research and Management Science ORMS Operational Readiness Monitoring System ORMS Orderly Room Management System ORMS Oracle Retail Merchandise System ) to suppliers worldwide. "It is critical to our strategy that our popular FindITnow corporate intranet bookstore program provide seamless, sell-side support to any organization reaping the financial benefits of purchasing supplies over the Internet -- including large enterprise firms using the Ariba ORMS solution," said Chris MacAskill, president and 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 ComputerLiteracy.com. "Ariba's products and its growing customer base complement our own FindITnow intranet bookstore program, which provides customized content at the desktop level to employees of these and other corporations." Last month ComputerLiteracy.com announced it would supply catalog content through its innovative FindITnow program into Ariba Supplier Link (ASL ASL - Algebraic Specification Language ), Ariba's leading e-commerce buying solution for Global 2000 organizations. As an ASL supplier, ComputerLiteracy.com's world-class selection of technical and business books, training materials and documentation is made conveniently available to enterprise organizations using Ariba's buy-side e-commerce solution, Ariba Operating Resource Management System (Ariba ORMS). Once deployed, Ariba.com will provide a scalable means of connecting the rapidly growing number of buyers using Ariba ORMS with suppliers. By participating in ASL and now Ariba.com, ComputerLiteracy.com gains a distribution channel to millions of corporate buyers worldwide. Organizations using Ariba's buy-side e-commerce solution currently spend an aggregate total of more than U.S. $75 billion annually on operating resources. Ariba's clients include industry giants such as Philips, Bristol-Myers Squibb Bristol-Myers Squibb (NYSE: BMY), colloquially referred to as BMS, is a pharmaceutical corporation, formed by a 1989 merger between pharmaceutical companies Bristol-Myers Company, founded in 1887 by William McLaren Bristol and John Ripley Myers in Clinton, NY (both were , Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce The Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce TSX: CM NYSE: CM, better known to most customers as CIBC, is one of Canada's major banks. CIBC is classified as a Domestic Chartered Bank (Schedule I). , Cisco Systems “Cisco” redirects here. For other uses, see Cisco (disambiguation). Cisco System,Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO, HKSE: 4333 ) is an American multinational corporation with 54,000 employees and annual revenue of US $28.48 billion as of 2006. , State of California and US WEST. Access to ComputerLiteracy.com's offerings is now available for employees in these Global 2000 organizations buying through Ariba ORMS. Ariba ORMS provides access to exceptional supplier content via open Internet standards See Internet Engineering Task Force. , saving buying organizations the time and cost of managing their own supplier content. An Internet-based e-commerce solution, Ariba ORMS reduces the cost of acquiring operating resources -- the non-production goods and services required to run a company -- by electronically connecting buyers to suppliers like ComputerLiteracy.com. About FindITnow Introduced last fall, ComputerLiteracy.com's FindITnow intranet bookstore program allows businesses to provide customized technical resource stores within their corporate networks, providing every employee with a quick, easy way to find and order technical and business resources specific to individual needs. In addition, the FindITnow program integrates with existing business processes to give organizations control over procurement. The program also offers personalized per·son·al·ize tr.v. per·son·al·ized, per·son·al·iz·ing, per·son·al·iz·es 1. To take (a general remark or characterization) in a personal manner. 2. To attribute human or personal qualities to; personify. service by a designated ComputerLiteracy.com account manager and unique expertise in technical and business books, training materials and documentation. Significant cost savings can be obtained through FindITnow by leveraging the corporate discount program, the corporate intranet and existing processes. About ComputerLiteracy.com ComputerLiteracy.com is the leading online retailer of information resources (1) The data and information assets of an organization, department or unit. See data administration. (2) Another name for the Information Systems (IS) or Information Technology (IT) department. See IT. singularly focused on technical professionals. With more than 300,000 technology-focused information resource titles from more than 8,000 publishers, ComputerLiteracy.com offers individual and corporate customers online access to the broadest, most comprehensive selection of technical and business books, technology-based training solutions, product manuals, research reports and other information resources. The company offers discounts of up to 40 percent on books and resources, and all in-stock orders placed by 4 PM PST PST Paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia, see there ship the same business day. Visit ComputerLiteracy.com on the web at www.computerliteracy.com. This announcement may contain forward-looking statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. that involve risks and uncertainties including, among others, ComputerLiteracy.com's limited operating history, anticipated losses, the unpredictability of its future revenues, competition, risks associated with system development and operation risks, management of potential growth, and risks of new business areas, international expansion, business combinations, and strategic alliances. Actual results could differ materially from those discussed. More information about factors that potentially could affect ComputerLiteracy.com's financial results is included in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its Registration Statement filed on Form SB-2 on November 19, 1998, as amended. All forward looking statements are based on information available to the Company on the date hereof, and the Company assumes no obligation to update such statements. Note to Editors: All company and product names may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated. |
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