Ecommercesoft Scores Another Fortune 500 Account With Ascend Communications.

AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 11, 1999--Ecommercesoft, a leading-edge e-commerce company, has been commissioned to create a new e-commerce site for Ascend Communications (Nasdaq:ASND) to be utilized as the internal and external online store for documentation distribution and sales.

The new e-commerce solution encompasses a corporate home page, products database, secured online ordering, order fulfillment via multiple shipping points and interconnectivity to accounting processes and existing Web pages.

The Ascend online store is part of the new Galaxy-class enterprise level solution offered by Ecommercesoft. GalaxyCommerce is a multi-level turnkey solution designed for corporations with multiple divisions and departments. Designed to mirror existing infrastructure within these corporations, migration to an Internet-based operation model can be achieved with maximum efficiency, reduced costs and minimum risk.

Utilizing SohoStore from Ecommercesoft as the basic elements within the system, a special version is created for each department within the corporation. SohoStore Elemental is designed to handle both internal & external sales, information transfer, and can operate as a standalone e-commerce site or connected together to form WebClusters. A WebCluster can be viewed as equivalent to a division within a normal corporate infrastructure system. Finally, the WebClusters are linked into the main corporate site, which also interfaces with legacy systems or databases to form a complete GalaxyCommerce solution.

"GalaxyCommerce solutions are extremely flexible and scalable," states Victor Wong, CEO, Ecommercesoft. "With this type of Internet architecture, a corporation can expand onto the Internet as fast or as slow as it would like and still be afforded the ability to change directions instantly without catastrophic breakdowns in daily operations."

GalaxyCommerce has advanced features and encompasses all functions found in SohoStore, which includes automatic submission to search engines like: Yahoo! (Nasdaq:YHOO), Excite (Nasdaq:XCIT), Lycos (Nasdaq:LCOS), InfoSeek (Nasdaq:SEEK), AltaVista (Nasdaq:CPQ) and HotBot.

Costs for GalaxyCommerce solutions are also much less than comparable offerings from Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT) and IBM (Nasdaq:IBM). In the case of Ascend, the costs were less than 10% of the estimates provided by the next lowest priced solutions provider.

About Ecommercesoft:

Ecommercesoft is an Internet company with an emphasis on e-commerce solutions such as SohoStore SE, which provides a free $20,000 Web site with reduced hosting costs.

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