DAT Services Engages IBM to Design Newest E-Business Offering; IBM's E-Business Experience Attracts Transportation's Largest Freight Exchange Network.Business Editors/Technology Writers PORTLAND Portland, town, England Portland, town (1991 pop. 12,945), Dorset, S England. It is on the Isle of Portland, a small rocky peninsula. Portland stone has been used in St. Paul's Cathedral and other important London buildings. Lobsters and crabs are harvested. , Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 20, 2000 DAT (1) (Dynamic Address Translator) A hardware circuit that converts a virtual memory address into a real address. See also DAT file. (2) (Digital Audio Tape) A magnetic tape technology used for backing up data. Services, the original and largest national freight exchange A freight exchange is an online, real time service where hauliers search for freight (eg. for a backload) and freight forwarders offer freight to be transported. What a freight exchange does network, today announced that it has engaged 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) as the services consultant for its newest e-business (Electronic-BUSINESS) Doing business online. The term is often used synonymously with e-commerce, but e-business is more of an umbrella term for having a presence on the Web. offering, which launches October 29. For DAT Services, a provider of electronic business-to-business information for the freight transportation industry since 1978, IBM's success in helping companies realize the full value of information technology made it a logical choice for DAT Services' next e-business service. DAT Services' network is the most highly regarded infrastructure in the freight-exchange industry. The 17,000-plus customers, who use DAT Services' freight-exchange information tools, move more than 330,000 trucks and 190,000 loads daily. The new DAT Services e-business service will aim at increasing the number of transactions and will help customers work more efficiently. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Marc Cameron, DAT Services' president, engaging IBM's e-business expertise shows DAT's continued commitment to leadership as the transportation industry's information and services provider. "DAT Services attributes its leadership to listening to our customers and aligning a·lign v. a·ligned, a·lign·ing, a·ligns v.tr. 1. To arrange in a line or so as to be parallel: align the tops of a row of pictures; aligned the car with the curb. their needs with technological breakthroughs," said Cameron. "Working with IBM enables us to extend our services once again, this time from providing information electronically to offering a suite of services that meet our customers' e-business needs with even more speed and efficiency." "DAT Services was looking to extend their Web presence in a way that would match their business model as well as give them an edge over the competition," said Jim Corgel, general manager of IBM's Global Net Generation Business. "The combination of IBM's e-business infrastructure and DAT's extensive experience in the freight transportation industry will help them obtain that edge." About DAT Services Since 1978, DAT Services has maintained the original and largest business-to-business freight exchange network for the transportation marketplace. DAT Services harnesses a variety of electronic methods to deliver information services See Information Systems. that help make its 17,000 customers more efficient and profitable. From creating the first of more than 1,200 electronic load-posting monitors in truck stops to developing an e-business infrastructure for its customers, DAT Services is an established neutral business with a long record of innovative leadership. Headquartered in Portland, Ore., DAT Services has branch offices in Nashville, Tenn., West Palm Beach, Fla., and Brussels, Belgium. For further information, please visit www.dat.com. |
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