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BroadVision Personalization and E-commerce Capabilities are Core of E-sales Component of HP Front Office
REDWOOD CITY and PALO ALTO, Calif., June 15 /PRNewswire/ -- BroadVision, Inc., (Nasdaq: BVSN), the leading worldwide supplier of one-to-one e-business applications for relationship management across the extended enterprise, and Hewlett-Packard Company today announced that BroadVision One-To-One(TM) Commerce is a key module of HP Front Office, a customer relationship management (CRM) solution designed to help companies develop stronger relationships with their customers, resulting in greater loyalty, revenue and profit. HP chose BroadVision in its quest to bring together a complete array of pre-integrated, best-in-class applications and services. BroadVision is the e-sales component of HP Front Office and was chosen based on its superior e-commerce capabilities and preeminent personalization features. E-sales is an e-commerce application that personalizes a shopper's experience and offers dynamic content, as well as shopping-cart and transaction functionality. "BroadVision pioneered personalization as the way to do business on the Web and remains the leader today with proven e-business applications for one-to-one relationship management," said Karen Rogge, general manager of HP's Customer Relationship Software Program. "A key differentiator for HP Front Office is the capabilities BroadVision brings to personalizing communications, transactions, services and support to match the highly specific needs of customers." "With Front Office, HP is building an infrastructure for companies to rapidly implement customer relationship management solutions," said Sandra Vaughan, vice president of marketing at BroadVision. "Companies will have a complete tool-set for harnessing the power of the Internet to increase revenues and satisfy their customers. We're proud to be a key component of the HP Front Office solution."
About HP Hewlett-Packard Company -- a leading global provider of computing and imaging solutions and services for business and home -- is focused on capitalizing on the opportunities of the Internet and the proliferation of electronic services. HP had computer-related revenue of $39.5 billion in its 1998 fiscal year. HP plans to launch a new company consisting of its industry-leading test-and-measurement, semiconductor products, chemical-analysis and medical businesses. These businesses represented $7.6 billion of HP's total revenue in fiscal 1998. With leading positions in multiple market segments, this technology-based company will focus on opportunities such as communications and life sciences. HP has 123,000 employees worldwide and had total revenue of $47.1 billion in its 1998 fiscal year. Information about HP, its products and the company's Year 2000 program can be found on the World Wide Web at www.hp.com. Information on HP Front Office can be found at www.hpfrontoffice.com.
About BroadVision BroadVision, Inc. is the leading worldwide supplier of e-business applications for relationship management across the extended enterprise. BroadVision's end-to-end solutions enable companies to rapidly deploy and cost-effectively operate secure, scalable, intelligent and flexible e-business applications for e-commerce, financial services and knowledge management. The company's entire product line has experienced exceptional growth and increasing acceptance by Global 2000 businesses as well as pure-play e-startups. BroadVision has more than 300 customers in the financial services, retail, distribution, high technology, telecommunications and travel industries including American Airlines, Credit Suisse, Cyberian Outpost, Development Bank
of Singapore, Ernst & Young, Fingerhut, Hewlett-Packard Company, Intuit, Liberty Financial, Motorola, Nortel Networks, RS Components, Toyota UK, USAA, Vodafone and Xerox. BroadVision is headquartered in Redwood City, Calif. and maintains an extensive network of subsidiaries and licensed resellers in North and South America, Europe, and Asia. The company can be reached at 650-261-5100 or at broadvision.com. NOTE: BroadVision is a registered trademark of BroadVision One-To-One is a trademark of BroadVision Inc. in the United States and other countries.
SOURCE BroadVision, Inc. -0- 06/15/99 /CONTACT: Janine Kromhout of BroadVision, 650-261-5100, or jkromhout@broadvision.com; or Sabrina Austin of Copithorne & Bellows, 415-538-7508, or sabrina.austin@cbpr.com, for HP; or Carole Sinclair of Capstone Communications, 510-428-4100, ext. 203, or csinclair@capstonepr.com, for BroadVision/ /Web site: hpfrontoffice.com /Web site: hp.com. /Web site: broadvision.com |