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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 2000 8:03:00 AM EST
WILTON, Conn., Nov 28, 2000 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Mercator(R) Software, Inc., (Nasdaq: MCTR) the e-business transformation company(TM), today announced that leading online retailer Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) has selected the Mercator E-Business Integration Broker suite as a key technology for its business-to-business (B2B) integration strategy. Amazon.com turned to Mercator's flexible B2B integration software with its strong any-to-any data transformation capabilities to provide a scalable and flexible solution to support its continued global growth. Amazon.com's use of Mercator as an enabling technology for its B2B initiative is an important element of the company's strategy to grow its business and provide more choice and superior service to its customers.
"Amazon's goal is to collaborate with our suppliers to increase efficiencies and improve inventory turnover," said Jim Miller, vice president of supply chain at Amazon.com. "We want to bring to suppliers the kind of interactive relationship that has inspired customers to shop with us. As the foundation of our supply chain integration initiative, Mercator will make it easy to integrate and share information with our growing worldwide community of business partners."
Mercator has allowed Amazon.com to simplify its business processes by reducing the number of complicated connecting interfaces with trading partners by more than 80% in four months. Mercator Commerce Broker has enabled Amazon.com to compress its time to production by accelerating the seamless integration of information from diverse business partners of varying sizes and technology capabilities, resulting in reduced costs and optimized B2B trading relationships. Amazon.com is now expanding its use of Mercator as the key technology to manage its event-driven transaction flows and to facilitate the integration of its global business processes. Mercator Commerce Broker provides Amazon.com with leading EDI functionality and a scalable information integration architecture that facilitates any-to-any data transformation, which enables Amazon.com to easily replicate its B2B infrastructure in a way that facilitates the further global expansion of its products and services.
"We are excited to enable Amazon.com to streamline and automate its business processes by implementing Mercator as the e-business integration backbone of their B2B strategy," said James P. Schadt, CEO, Mercator. "Amazon's supply chain processes are highly complex, requiring flexibility and scalability from its transformation and integration technology. The ability of our Mercator technology to handle any B2B format -- XML, EDI, legacy or packaged application -- over any type of transport -- HTTPS, SMTP/MIME, FTP, messaging middleware or value added network -- gives customers like Amazon the ability to quickly adapt their infrastructure as customer and partner requirements change and as global data standards develop."
About Mercator
Mercator software integrates electronic information throughout any business enterprise and with the applications of its customers and partners -- while leveraging current technology investments at every step.
More than 5,000 customers, across every industry, use Mercator software to accelerate their transformation to e-business. Over 100 partners, including application software providers, systems integrators and Net markets, embed or resell our technology to enhance their product or service offerings. Additional information about Mercator can be found at www.mercator.com.
Mercator is a registered trademark of Mercator Software, Inc. "the e-business transformation company" is a trademark of Mercator Software, Inc.
Legal Notice Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
Statements in this press release that are not purely historical are forward-looking statements, including statements regarding Mercator Software's beliefs, expectations, hopes or intentions regarding the future. It is important to note that actual outcomes and the company's actual results could differ materially from those in such forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially include risks and uncertainties such as changes in demand for application integration or e-business integration software and the company's Mercator e-business integration broker suite of products in particular, difficulty or delays in developing new or enhanced products, the ability of the company to expand its international operations, the ability of the company to manage expanded global operations, the ability of the company to continue to add resellers and other distribution channels, and the success of third parties in utilizing and marketing the company's products, or seasonality in operating results. Readers should also refer to the risk disclosures outlined in the company's reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. All forward-looking statements and reasons why results might differ included in this release are made as of the date hereof, based on information available to the company as of the date hereof, and the company assumes no obligation to update any such forward-looking statement or reasons why results might differ.
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