Pinacor Launches Seamless Business-to-Business Reseller Platform for the Digital Marketplace.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers TEMPE, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 22, 2000 Distributor delivers Pinacor Connect -- first XML-based e-business platform for real-time order management systems Pinacor Inc., a leading distributor of technology products and services, has launched Pinacor Connect, a seamless XML-based order management platform for resellers. Pinacor Connect provides a back-end systems integration platform that creates a direct Internet link between Pinacor and its resellers for product pricing, availability, status and order placement capabilities. The e-business platform is full-featured, flexible, easy to implement, and available free of charge for Pinacor's resellers. Pinacor is the first full-line technology distributor to implement a complete real-time XML-based order management tool for resellers. Pinacor Connect, built on technology created by Eleris, a B2B e-commerce (Business to Business Electronic-COMMERCE) Refers to one business selling to another business via the Web. See e-commerce. software company, extends the company's strategy to use e-business tools to streamline technology procurement for customers, thereby reducing costs increasing supply chain efficiencies. Pinacor Connect's business-to-business 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. platform integrates with resellers' order management systems to create a real-time Internet link to supply chain information without using a Web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. . Pinacor Connect automatically transmits requests for product information straight from the reseller's standard order management system through the Internet to Pinacor and back, with no manual input required. The XML platform provides back-end integration into Pinacor's comprehensive digital marketplace, which supplies information about available inventory at multiple warehouses and procurement sources. Resellers can also use Pinacor Connect to update their own Web storefronts with real-time product price and availability information. "Pinacor's number one strategic initiative for 2000 is to create a digital marketplace that lights up the supply and demand pipeline for our resellers and vendor partners," said Don Lyons, president of Pinacor. "As a result, Pinacor is aggressively establishing new partner-to-partner tools for its resellers. "Pinacor Connect transmits business-critical information directly to the reseller's desktop from Pinacor's e-business systems. The potential efficiencies gained from implementing this automation tool are immeasurable." Unlike other Internet gateway (1) See cable/DSL gateway. (2) A router or server that converts IP packets to IPX, AppleTalk or some other non-IP format and vice versa. It is used to connect non-IP networks to the Internet. initiatives that have prohibitive pro·hib·i·tive also pro·hib·i·to·ry adj. 1. Prohibiting; forbidding: took prohibitive measures. 2. start-up and maintenance costs, Pinacor Connect is available to resellers at no charge and integrates directly into a reseller's existing order management system with minimal effort. Resellers who take advantage of Pinacor Connect will be able to eliminate existing 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 Virtual Private Network (VPN (Virtual Private Network) A private network that is configured within a public network (a carrier's network or the Internet) in order to take advantage of the economies of scale and management facilities of large networks. ) costs, while improving the efficiency of order management processes. Pinacor Connect uses Extensible Markup Language See XML. (language, text) Extensible Markup Language - (XML) An initiative from the W3C defining an "extremely simple" dialect of SGML suitable for use on the World-Wide Web. http://w3.org/XML/. (XML), the common standard for secure electronic commerce transactions. XML has been embraced as a standard platform for e-business transactions by the industry's major IT vendors and users, including IBM and Microsoft See Microsoft and IBM. . XML's common language interface enables Pinacor Connect to reach beyond the reseller's system to create visibility into the entire supply chain pipeline. Resellers can implement Pinacor Connect into their end-user customers' locations for single touch order management. In addition, Pinacor's suppliers will soon be able to use Pinacor Connect to process real-time order invoices, and Pinacor's inventory financing Inventory financing Used in the context of factoring and general finance to refer to loans to consumer product producers that use inventory as collateral. See also: Inventory loan. partners will be able to process real-time reseller credit approvals. Pinacor Connect is an integral part of Pinacor's digital marketplace offerings, which include ECworksite, Pinacor's e-commerce Web site; Pinacor eCatalog, a customizable catalog for daily downloads of product price and availability information; Pinacor eStorefronts, Pinacor's customizable reseller storefronts; and Pinacor's Electronic Message Center, a daily e-mail information system for product promotions. Resellers can learn more about Pinacor Connect by visiting Pinacor's Web site at www.pinacor.com/b2b/. About Eleris Eleris specializes in B2B e-commerce procurement solutions and is a subsidiary of MicroAge (Nasdaq:MICA mica (mī`kə), general term for a large group of minerals, hydrous silicates of aluminum and potassium, often containing magnesium, ferrous iron, ferric iron, sodium, and lithium and more rarely containing barium, chromium, and fluorine. ). Eleris solutions automate and integrate commerce processes of buyers and sellers delivering a procurement structure that will reduce costs and generate revenue opportunities. About Pinacor Pinacor Inc., a distributor headquartered in Tempe, delivers technology products and services internationally to more than 25,000 resellers and systems integrators. Recognized for its core integrated logistics and assembly outsourcing services, Pinacor is a market leader in configuration, electronic commerce solutions, technical support, project management and financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. . Pinacor has more than 20 years of industry experience and is a subsidiary of MicroAge Inc., a Fortune 500 provider of global technology solutions. For additional information, visit www.pinacor.com. |
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