Premenos Ships New Version of EC Software; Documents of Any Type Supported With New Mapping Feature.CONCORD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 1, 1997--Premenos, a leading provider of electronic commerce solutions for established and emerging trading communities, today announced the general availability of EDI/Open version 3.1, the latest release of its 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. translation software for UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). and NT platforms. EDI/Open v3.1 offers application to application mapping and significant performance improvements. Application to application mapping allows users to map documents between applications without translating the data into an EDI standard format such as ANSI (American National Standards Institute, New York, www.ansi.org) A membership organization founded in 1918 that coordinates the development of U.S. voluntary national standards in both the private and public sectors. It is the U.S. member body to ISO and IEC. X12. For example, customer records from a legacy mainframe application could be mapped and translated directly into the files of a different client/server application. "A number of our trading partners send us data in formats different than those outlined by EDI standards," said Robert Johnson, business process specialist of GTE Supply. "For example, some of our GTE offices use their own purchase order format. We currently have two different business processes supporting the two types of documents -- one for EDI and one for non-EDI. Application to application mapping will allow us to integrate these non-EDI documents into our EDI program, allowing us to streamline our business processes. This gives us a more integrated electronic commerce solution." Part of the pre-release testing of EDI/Open v3.1 included a project with Oracle Corporation, a leading database and application software company. This Premenos customer uses EDI/Open v3.1 to support high volume document exchange with third party fulfillment companies that ship Oracle software, documentation and collateral. "The performance of EDI/Open v3.1 exceeded our requirements for meeting our peak volume during our recently completed year end close," said Brock Blatter Blat´ter v. i. 1. To prate; to babble; to rail; to make a senseless noise; to patter. [ imp. & p. p. os> ( ) r>.] They procured . . . , director of Information Technology at Oracle. "We were very impressed with the commitment from Premenos to help us develop and deliver a new EDI solution." About EDI/Open EDI/Open runs on IBM RS/6000, HP 9000, Sun SPARC (Scalable Performance ARChitecture) A family of RISC CPUs from Sun that runs mostly under Sun's Solaris, but also under Linux and BSD operating systems. After development began in the mid-1980s by David Patterson of the University of California at Berkeley and Bill and Windows NT platforms and is available bundled with the Sybase 11 database, or for use with Oracle 7.2 or Microsoft SQL Server A relational DBMS from Microsoft that is a major component of the Windows Server System. It is Microsoft's high-end client/server database and is closely integrated with Microsoft Visual Studio and the Microsoft Office System. databases. The Windows client runs on Windows 95 and NT workstations. EDI/Open offers easy integration to leading applications from companies like Oracle, SAP, Baan, JD Edwards and PeopleSoft. All versions of ANSI X12 and EDIFACT (Electronic Data Interchange For Administration Commerce and Transport) An ISO standard for electronic data interchange (EDI) that was proposed to supersede both X12 and TRADACOMS as the worldwide standard. See EDI. standards, plus their subsets are supported by EDI/Open. EDI/Open's core functionality lies in its ability to automate the creation and management of electronic transactions. EDI/Open's powerful mailbox provides real-time document status information along with filtering and sorting capabilities, priority processing options and automated acknowledgment reconciliation. Premenos: Business Beyond Barriers Premenos (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :PRMO PRMO Patient Revenue Management Organization PRMO Promotion PRMO Public Relations and Media Office PRMO Partially Restricted Molecular Orbital ) is a leading provider of electronic commerce solutions for established and emerging trading communities. Its standards-based business applications leverage the strengths of traditional EDI systems, TCP/IP TCP/IP in full Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol Standard Internet communications protocols that allow digital computers to communicate over long distances. networks and Web technologies. Premenos has a history of market-proven innovation, including the first network-independent technology for secure, auditable data transmission over public and private Internets. Through partnerships with leading application and integrated solutions vendors, Premenos empowers businesses to lower costs, shorten trading cycles and increase competitive advantage. Premenos' renowned Electronic Commerce Resource Guide can be reached at www.premenos.com . -0- Note to Editors: Premenos and EDI/Open are trademarks or registered trademarks of Premenos Corp. CONTACT: Premenos Gary Proefke, 510/602-2000 gproefke@premenos.com |
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