FDC Solutions Group and IPNet Solutions Form Alliance to Provide Federal Market eCommerce Solutions.NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 26, 1999-- IPNet Solutions Inc., a leader in Enterprise eCommerce solutions, and Federal Data Corp.'s (FDC FDC - Floppy Disk Controller ) Solutions Group, a major supplier of information technology services and solutions to a wide range of federal customers since 1969, have formed an alliance to provide the federal market electronic commerce solutions. These business-to-business solutions, such as enterprise electronic data interchange See EDI. (application, communications) electronic data interchange - (EDI) The exchange of standardised document forms between computer systems for business use. EDI is part of electronic commerce. (EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) The electronic communication of business transactions, such as orders, confirmations and invoices, between organizations. Third parties provide EDI services that enable organizations with different equipment to connect. ) and Web-based catalogue ordering, link government entities and suppliers and vendors via the Internet. The alliance enables IPNet and FDC to team on large-scale, complex government requests for proposal (RFP (Request For Proposal) A document that invites a vendor to submit a bid for hardware, software and/or services. It may provide a general or very detailed specification of the system. 1. (business) RFP - Request for Proposal. 2. ) procurements involving electronic commerce/EDI solutions, and enables IPNet Solutions to develop federal market share by utilizing the systems integration expertise of FDC. The alliance also establishes FDC as a preferred provider of high-level integration and implementation services within enterprise eCommerce marketplaces. "The alliance demonstrates a true recognition of where the federal market is going -- electronic commerce," said Phyllis Johnson, director of sales and marketing, Solutions Group, FDC. "Federal Data Corporation possesses vast experience in developing and managing technology implementations that have greatly benefited our joint government customers. IPNet Solutions is a leading provider of software that automates external transactions, from EDI to full supply chain management. We believe the federal market will be the real beneficiary of this partnership." "IPNet's products are addressing the business-to-business eCommerce needs of many Fortune 500 and smaller companies," said Donald E. Willis Jr., chief executive officer of IPNet Solutions. "FDC is a leading provider of IT services to the federal market. Together, IPNet and FDC will offer solutions that will significantly benefit the federal market." About Federal Data Corp. Founded in 1969, Federal Data Corp. has more than 1,800 employees and is one of the most experienced information technology (IT) providers serving the federal government. Specializing in providing turn-key, fully integrated customized IT systems, high-quality COTS products from leading manufacturers, and IT support services support services Psychology Non-health care-related ancillary services–eg, transportation, financial aid, support groups, homemaker services, respite services, and other services , Federal Data Corp. has successfully managed and implemented thousands of contracts nationwide. Federal Data Corp. has headquarters in Bethesda, Md. For more information, visit www.feddata.com. About IPNet Solutions IPNet Solutions develops and markets an Enterprise eCommerce solution to the Fortune 5000 marketplace. IPNet Solutions offers Enterprise eCommerce software that supports all trading partner transactions including traditional EDI, Internet EDI, Web EDI, Internet-based Buying and Selling, business object exchange, as well as Supply Chain Management (SCM (1) (Software Configuration Management, Source Code Management) See configuration management. (2) See supply chain management. ) solutions including Vendor Managed Inventory Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) is a family of business models in which the buyer of a product provides certain information to a supplier of that product and the supplier takes full responsibility for maintaining an agreed inventory of the material, usually at the buyer's (VMI VMI Virginia Military Institute VMI Vendor Managed Inventory VMI Vertical Motion Index VMI Valtakunnan Metsien Inventointi (Finnish: National Forest Inventory) VMI Video Module Interface ). IPNet's products allow businesses to utilize Internet-based open solutions while continuing to leverage their investment in legacy systems and proprietary networks. IPNet's corporate headquarters is in Newport Beach with regional offices in Chicago, Houston, San Francisco and Alexandria, Va. For further information see IPNet's Web site at www.ipnet-solutions.com. Keywords: IPNet, FDC, XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. , Web forms, eCommerce, EDI, electronic commerce, Internet EDI, supply-chain and order-management. Note to Editors: IPNet Suite and IP.edi.link are registered trademarks of IPNet Solutions Inc. CTR See click-through rate. , IP.trade.link, IP.customer.link, IP.web.link, IP.quick.link, IP.object.link and IP.suite.server are trademarks of IPNet Solutions Inc. |
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