CrossWorlds Selected by Neoforma.com as Integration Hub for E-business Healthcare Exchange.Business Editors/Technology Writers BURLINGAME, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 18, 2000 CrossWorlds eBusiness Links Healthcare Providers and Suppliers to Neoforma.com's mySAP.com Marketplace CrossWorlds Software, Inc., a leading provider of integration software for e-business and the enterprise, announced that Neoforma.com, Inc. has chosen CrossWorlds eBusiness as the core integration solution to link Neoforma.com with its healthcare marketplace on mySAP.com. The Neoforma.com marketplace serves as a global online exchange network for healthcare providers and medical suppliers. Using CrossWorlds eBusiness, Neoforma.com will be able to offer healthcare providers and suppliers integration to the Neoforma.com marketplace that is being developed with SAP. Neoforma.com has licensed mySAP.com as a stand-alone product to meet their needs for collaborative commerce. CrossWorlds will standardize and maintain the core business logic and master data definitions involved in the transactions such as item, master customer, master vendor, master orders, account status and inventory levels to promote consistent, accurate exchange of information and buying and selling of medical products, supplies and equipment. CrossWorlds will leverage pre-built integration modules to reduce the time and cost of integrating to the Neoforma.com marketplace. CrossWorlds will also help Neoforma.com with the integration of their marketplace and their internal ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer. system. "The Neoforma.com marketplace brings together a myriad of medical providers and suppliers who are looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. a more efficient way to buy and sell equipment and supplies, which can be critical to their operations," said Bob Zollars, chairman, 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 Neoforma.com. "We chose CrossWorlds because of their ability to support many of the marketplace's business processes with pre-built components and because of their experience with SAP. The CrossWorlds eBusiness integration solution will enable us to work towards providing suppliers and providers a market-ready solution." "The market for the buying and selling of medical equipment and supplies is substantial," said Fred Amoroso Am`o`ro´so n. 1. A lover; a man enamored. adv. 1. (Mus.) In a soft, tender, amatory style. , president and CEO of CrossWorlds Software. "We are pleased to be working with Neoforma.com to help provide the healthcare industry an integrated supply chain, and we are pleased to receive another endorsement of our e-business strategy." CrossWorlds' eBusiness solution and tools help enterprises gain greater efficiencies in working with suppliers and customers by uniting common business processes and sharing key information over the Internet. CrossWorlds' product line supports a modular, incremental solution so underlying enterprise applications can be added, removed and changed over time and is application version-transparent so users can upgrade to new versions or releases of the respective applications without affecting the cross-application business processes. Long-term, CrossWorlds also allows users to better leverage their application investments by: improving the collaboration between applications, reducing cost of ownership and operating costs operating costs npl → gastos mpl operacionales through savings on software maintenance, and providing more effective business process integration. ABOUT NEOFORMA.COM Neoforma.com is a leading provider of business-to-business e-commerce services in the large and highly fragmented market for medical products, supplies and equipment. Neoforma.com offers three primary services, Shop, Auction and Plan, that together address the entire healthcare purchasing life cycle, from planning through procurement to liquidation The collection of assets belonging to a debtor to be applied to the discharge of his or her outstanding debts. A type of proceeding pursuant to federal Bankruptcy . Neoforma.com Shop provides a unified marketplace where purchasers can easily locate and buy new medical products, and suppliers can access new customers and markets. Neoforma.com Auction creates an efficient marketplace for idle assets by enabling users to sell and buy used, refurbished and surplus medical products. Neoforma.com Plan provides interactive content to healthcare facility planners to reduce the complexities of planning and outfitting facilities. ABOUT CROSSWORLDS SOFTWARE, INC. CrossWorlds is a leading provider of integration software for e-business and the enterprise. The CrossWorlds solution enables companies to extend business processes over the Internet and collaborate with trading partners while leveraging existing IT investments. The company offers a complete suite of integration products including development and management tools, connectivity to leading e-business and enterprise application packages and pre-built modules for the most common business integration requirements. CrossWorlds' business partners include: IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , SAP, Cap Gemini, CSC (Card Security Code) A three- or four-digit number printed on the back of credit cards for security purposes. Called "Card Verification Value" (CVV) by Visa, "Card Validation Code" (CVC) by MasterCard and "Card Identification (CID) by American Express and Discover, , Deloitte Consulting, Ernst & Young, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Baan, Clarify, J.D. Edwards (J.D. Edwards & Company, Denver, CO, www.jdedwards.com) A developer of multinational, integrated enterprise software for distribution, finance, human resources, manufacturing and supply chain management. , Manugistics, MetaSolv, Oracle, PeopleSoft, Portal, Siebel, Trilogy, and Vantive. The company's customers include industry-leading companies such as Deutsche Telekom Deutsche Telekom AG (ISIN: DE0005557508, FWB: DTE, NYSE: DT, LSE: DEU, TYO: 9496 ) (abbreviated DTAG) is a telecommunications company headquartered in Bonn, Germany. It is the largest telecommunications company in Germany and in the EU. , Delphi Automotive, DuPont, Nortel Networks (Nortel Networks Limited, Brampton, Ontario, www.nortelnetworks.com) A world leader in telecommunications products, which includes switching, wireless and broadband systems for service providers and carriers, telephones and systems for residential and business users, computer telephony , Roche Group, Siemens AG Siemens AG German electrical-equipment manufacturer. The first Siemens company, Siemens & Halske, was founded in Berlin in 1847 to build telegraph installations. , Caterpillar/Solar Turbines, Sony, U S WEST and Whirlpool Corporation Whirlpool Corporation (NYSE: WHR) is the world's leading manufacturer and marketer of major home appliances,with annual sales of approximately $18 billion, more than 73,000 employees, and more than 70 manufacturing and technology research centers around the world. . Additional information can be found at www.crossworlds.com. CrossWorlds, the CrossWorlds logo and United Applications Architecture are trademarks or registered trademarks of CrossWorlds Software, Inc. in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and/or foreign countries. Neoforma.com and www.neoforma.com are trademarks of Neoforma.com, Inc. Other Neoforma.com logos, product names, and service names are also trademarks of Neoforma.com, Inc., which may be registered in other countries. All other company or product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. |
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