Emerald Solutions Forms Alliance with ATG; ATG Recognizes Emerald with `Rising Star' Award at ATG Open User Conference.Business Editors, High-Tech Writers PORTLAND, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 1, 2001 Emerald Solutions, Inc., a leading business and technology integrator today announced an alliance with ATG ATG antithymocyte globulin. lymphocyte immune globulin (antithymocyte globulin equine, ATG, ATG equine, LIG) Atgam Pharmacologic class: Immunoglobulin Therapeutic class: Immunosuppressant (Art Technology Group, Inc.) (Nasdaq:ARTG ARTG Australian Register of Therapeutic Goods ) aimed at delivering customer management and e-commerce solutions based on the ATG Dynamo A family of e-commerce and CRM applications from Art Technology Group, Inc., Cambridge, MA (www.atg.com). Part of ATG's core marketing Adaptive Scenario Engine, Dynamo comprises a comprehensive set of Java-based products that enable an organization to deploy a fully-integrated customer (R) e-Business Platform. Highlighting the close relationship between the two companies, ATG recently provided Emerald with its `Rising Star' award at the ATG Open User Conference in New Orleans New Orleans (ôr`lēənz –lənz, ôrlēnz`), city (2006 pop. 187,525), coextensive with Orleans parish, SE La., between the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain, 107 mi (172 km) by water from the river mouth; founded . The award is given to the ATG Solutions Provider with the largest percentage of growth in ATG Dynamo revenue within a one-year time span. In addition, ATG recognized Emerald for its close collaboration as the two companies form a marketing and sales alliance. Emerald and ATG have already worked on a number of ATG Dynamo installations, including a Web portal See portal. launch for HealthAllies. "Emerald Solutions is working closely with ATG to integrate the ATG Dynamo platform with a corporation's back-office to deliver a truly unified customer approach," said Martin Wright, 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. for Emerald Solutions. "We are honored to receive ATG's Rising Star award. This alliance has lead to a number of successful client installations. Together, we transformed the HealthAllies site from brochureware A Web site that advertises a product but contains only the equivalent of a paper brochure with no interactivity. The Web is not encumbered by the size of paper and offers the ability to show endless views and details of a product, make recommendations based on user input, download demos to a commerce-ready healthcare portal." "The integration prowess of ATG and Emerald Solutions enables customers to continue to take advantage of their existing infrastructure and applications as they extend the capabilities of their e-businesses," said Jonna Stopnik, director of alliances, Americas, ATG. "Emerald has once again demonstrated its proficiency and expertise with a history of successful integrations, such as HealthAllies, and is recognized by this award." For HealthAllies, a provider of consumer-driven health benefits, Emerald and ATG transformed the company's mostly static web site into a dynamic, personalized, commerce-ready portal. Based on the ATG Dynamo platform and Interwoven's TeamSite content management software, the new Web portal helps consumers easily find healthcare services at preferred rates and now offers online transactions, advanced search capabilities and client-based customization features. "Emerald Solutions and ATG helped us transform our business and capture new revenue," said Todd Hoddick, CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. of HealthAllies. "The Emerald/ATG team partnered with us from the early strategic planning Strategic planning is an organization's process of defining its strategy, or direction, and making decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy, including its capital and people. stages through completion, bringing a level of professionalism and the tenacity we needed to meet our goals and grow our business." About ATG ATG is a leading provider of customer management and e-commerce products and services. ATG offers an integrated suite of Java(TM) application server-based products and services, as well as related application development, integration and support services support services Psychology Non-health care-related ancillary services–eg, transportation, financial aid, support groups, homemaker services, respite services, and other services . The ATG Dynamo(R) e-Business Platform enables Global 2000 enterprises, as well as new businesses using the Internet as their primary business channel, to understand, manage and build their online customer relationships and to more effectively market, sell and support their products and services over the Internet. With its network of more than 250 partners, ATG has delivered e-business solutions to over 670 companies worldwide including 3M, Aetna Services, Inc., American Airlines American Airlines Major U.S. airline. American was created through a merger of several smaller U.S. airlines and incorporated in 1934. It continued to buy the routes of other airlines, becoming an international carrier in the 1970s; its routes include South America, the , Blockbuster, BMG BMG Bundesministerium für Gesundheit (Germand: Federal Ministry for Health) BMG Be My Girl BMG Blue Man Group BMG Bertelsmann Music Group BMG Be My Guest BMG Browning Machine Gun BMG Bulk Metallic Glass Direct, eChips, Eastman Kodak, HSBC HSBC Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation HSBC Humane Society of Broward County (Florida) HSBC Humane Society of Bay County (Bay County, Michigan) , Herman Miller, J. Crew and Sun Microsystems. The company is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts with additional locations throughout North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. www.atg.com About Emerald Solutions Emerald Solutions is a leading business and technology integrator for growth-minded enterprises. The company plans, builds, and integrates the processes, systems, and experiences that attract customers to a business. Emerald Solutions teams with enterprises that are dedicated to using innovative technology and emerging business practices to foster growth, gain competitive advantage and generate profitable customer relationships. Emerald Solutions' client base includes AT&T, Lucent, Readers' Digest, Warner-Lambert/Parke-Davis, Pfizer, Flowerbud.com, Consolidated Freightways, Emery Worldwide, Benjamin Moore, and Hawaiian Airlines. Emerald is a U.S.-based company with offices in 13 locations. For more information, visit Emerald Solutions at http://www.emeraldsolutions.com/. "Emerald Solutions" and the Emerald Solutions logo are service marks of Emerald Solutions Inc. Other product and company names may be the trademarks of their respective owners. (c)2001 Art Technology Group, Inc. ATG, Art Technology Group, the Techmark, the ATG Logo, and Dynamo are registered trademarks, and Personalization Server and Scenario Server are trademarks, of Art Technology Group, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective holders. NASDAQ:ARTG This press release contains forward-looking statements for purposes of the safe harbor Safe Harbor 1. A legal provision to reduce or eliminate liability as long as good faith is demonstrated. 2. A form of shark repellent implemented by a target company acquiring a business that is so poorly regulated that the target itself is less attractive. provisions under The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and of 1995. These statements involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties that may cause ATG's actual results, levels of activity, performance or achievements, the benefits to be realized from the alliance between ATG and Emerald Solutions and the benefits and capabilities to be offered by the HealthAllies web portal to be materially different from any future results, levels of activity, performance, achievements benefits or capabilities expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Important risk factors affecting ATG's business generally may be found in ATG's periodic reports and registration statements filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Risk factors related to the subject matter of this press release include the possibility that ATG and Emerald Solutions will not continue to work together; that Emerald will not continue to provide ATG product implementations on behalf of customers; and that the two companies will not continue to add common customers. ATG and Emerald Solutions undertake no obligation to update any of the forward-looking statements after the date of this press release. |
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