Edifecs Commerce Recruits Pioneering Architects of Global B2B E-Commerce Standards.

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Bellevue, Wash--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 29, 2000

Chief Architect of RosettaNet Consortium and Award-Winning Colleagues

Solidify Edifecs's Leadership in E-Business Process Modeling

Edifecs Commerce, Inc. today announced that it has recruited a team of industry-leading e-commerce architects.

Each has been at the forefront of architecting global business-to-business collaboration systems; three have been integrally involved in the ground-breaking effort to develop and implement global standard business processes through the RosettaNet Consortium. Joining Edifecs are Arthur Greef, Jim Clark, John Yunker, Tony Weida, and Gary Ham.

"We are thrilled to have assembled such synergistic expertise in the optimization of trading networks and supply chains," said Sunny Singh, CEO of Edifecs Commerce. "This architectural dream team will help Edifecs take supply chains to new heights in speed, efficiency and cost-effectiveness."

Arthur Greef, Edifecs's Chief Architect, was Chief Architect for the RosettaNet Consortium, where he created the E-Business Framework for specifying and executing business interface processes for the Information Technology and Electronic Components supply chains. Previously at IBM, he was a principal architect for the IBM Net.Commerce Catalog and Catalog content management tool and was granted recognition for submitting 12 patent applications. Greef holds a PhD in Industrial Engineering from the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa and completed two years of post-doctoral training in Industrial Engineering at North Carolina State University.

Jim Clark, Director of Industry Solutions, Telecommunications Industry, was instrumental in pioneering Protocol-Neutral Information Modeling, for which he won a Smithsonian Award for Influential Technology of 1998. His methodology has been adopted by the TeleManagement Forum, the UN/EDIFACT and X12 committees, and ETIS. For 10 years, Clark has served on the Intelligent Networks steering committee for the International Engineering Consortium, and has been Telecommunications Management Forum Chairperson for the SMART (Service Management Automation and Re-engineering Team) Billing Team. He came to Edifecs from the RosettaNet Consortium, where he served as resident expert in Business Collaboration Protocol Modeling.

John Yunker, Architect, Enterprise Collaboration Models, is an architecture evangelist with over 20 years' experience pioneering enterprise solutions. As Enterprise Architect at Expeditors International, Yunker developed a state of the art, global B2B system allowing the company's worldwide business units to seamlessly exchange logistics and other business information with each other, as well as with customers, carriers, suppliers and distributors. He holds a B.S. in Math Sciences from the University of Washington, with advanced coursework in object-oriented development.

Tony Weida, Architect, Business Collaboration Framework, is an expert in the architecture of e-business systems as well as knowledge representation and reasoning for large, shared ontologies. Weida served as System Architect in IBM's Software Division, where he designed and implemented the IBM Catalog Architect, a content creation and management tool for IBM Net.Commerce catalogs. Weida also developed IBM's first working demonstration of the RosettaNet PIP (Partner Interface Process) and other Knowledge-based Expert Systems applications. He was granted recognition by IBM for publishing technical reports and publications and for submitting numerous patent applications. Weida holds a BA, MS, and PhD in Computer Science from Columbia University.

Gary Ham, Business Collaboration Architect, is an expert in standardization and systems interoperability who has pioneered a leading methodology for defining "measurable value" business collaboration requirements analysis. Ham was previously Senior Research Scientist at Battelle Memorial Institute, where he supervised the development of the Army Standard Reference Model for object-oriented systems analysis and design. He developed his IT expertise during a twenty year military career, during which he held many leadership positions, including Head of Quality Control for a worldwide networked accounting system and Senior Lecturer in Computer Science at the U.S. Naval Academy. Ham received his MS in Information Systems with Distinction from Naval Postgraduate School, and has completed many additional graduate courses at George Mason University.

About Edifecs Commerce, Inc.

Edifecs Commerce, Inc. (www.edifecs.com) is dedicated to expediting business-to-business e-commerce through two primary product lines: its CommerceDesk enablement solution, designed to automate and accelerate the deployment of trading partner networks; and its Business Collaboration Services, which streamline and optimize electronic supply chains through e-business process modeling and standards development. Founded in 1996, Edifecs currently serves an installed base of more than 1000 customers including Boeing, Microsoft, IBM, Gillette, Eastman Kodak, Sony, Barnes & Noble, and Dura Automotive. The company partners with numerous B2B providers such as GE Global eXchange Services, iPlanet, Sterling Commerce and NEON Software, and is a technology solution partner for 30+ industry consortia including RosettaNet, CompTIA, and the Supply Chain Council. Based in Bellevue, Washington, Edifecs Commerce is privately held, with investment from General Electric.