BYND new b2b play?$?$? maybe this is why it didn't fall apart.....
Beyond.com Outlines Leadership Position in Corporate,
Publisher and Government Businesses At AEA Technology
Conference
Business Wire - November 09, 1999 17:45
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 9,
1999--Beyond.com (Nasdaq:BYND)
President and CEO Mark Breier told investors at the
American Electronics Association conference today
that the company has extended its leadership position
beyond its strong consumer brand in three key
software market segments: the corporate, publisher and
government markets.
Breier said these business-to-business (B2B) market
segments represent 84 percent or five-sixths of the
total software market category according to the company's
analysis of data from International Data
Corporation, and are segments that require specific
expertise for success. This expertise includes digital
download technology, an understanding of B2B needs for
software maintenance, and experience with
setting up complete e-stores.
To demonstrate this expertise, Breier outlined
Beyond.com's two new B2B services, eStore and
eCurrent(TM) and spoke about the company's recent
contracts with several key government agencies.
Beyond.com's B2B Initiatives
Beyond.com's eStore offers publishers and OEMs the
opportunity to quickly launch an e-commerce
store that offers a full range of solutions in a matter of
weeks. eStore offers website design and
operation, marketing and merchandising support,
transaction processing, physical and electronic
fulfillment as well as customer service. The company built
and manages software stores for companies
such as Symantec Corp., McAfee Corp., Compaq
Computer Corp., HP Shopping Village and 3Com
Corp.
Beyond.com's eCurrent(TM), a Web-based subscription
service for small- and mid-sized businesses,
updates and repairs software. eCurrent notifies systems
administrators of software upgrades and
manages the repair and deployment of software on a
fee-per-desktop basis. eCurrent will be available
from Beyond.com or it can be integrated into solutions
offered from application service providers
(ASPs) and similar organizations.
"With eCurrent, Beyond.com delivers a powerful desktop
management infrastructure that would
otherwise be prohibitively expensive for small to mid-sized
companies," said Breier. "Using the Internet
to provide desktop application services, eCurrent changes
the way businesses will deploy and maintain
software for their employees -- all with the simplicity of a
fee-per-desktop subscription model."
For more information on how to subscribe to eCurrent, visit
the company at
beyond.com.
Beyond.com's Government Business Also Grows
Beyond.com's government business has grown rapidly, and
the company now has contracts to deliver
software via digital download to government agencies
within such government departments as the
Department of Defense (DoD), the Department of
Commerce and the Department of Treasury.
"We have great momentum in the government space,
having recently added a new contract with the DoD
to deliver Corel software, which the government estimates
will total approximately $30 million over the
next three years," Breier said.
Beyond.com will deliver Corel software products through
physical and electronic order fulfillment to
the DoD's individual customers. For large deployments of
Corel products, Beyond.com will employ its
Electronic Download Manager (EDM) technology to
distribute, manage and support products across the
Internet to the customer site. EDM is a propriety service
developed by Beyond.com to ease the
deployment, management and maintenance of software
throughout government agencies and large
enterprises.
"The EDM technology empowers systems administrators to
retain control of distribution and
deployment throughout large enterprises while staying
current with the most recent software versions,"
Breier said.
About Beyond.com
Beyond.com provides commercial, off-the-shelf software
and related products and services to the
government, enterprise, corporate and consumer markets.
Visitors to the company's online store
beyond.com enjoy an expansive selection of
software backed by customer service and
competitive pricing. Beyond.com offers more than 1.6
million software and other digital products,
including software stock-keeping units (SKUs) for online
purchase from such major publishers as Adobe
Systems Inc., IBM Corp., Lotus Development Corp.,
Microsoft Corp., Network Associates Inc., Sun
Microsystems Inc. and Symantec Corp; hardware;
computing devices; and digital images in different file
formats, including jpeg, gif and mpf through a strategic
marketing alliance with IMSI. The company has
established strategic marketing alliances with America
Online Inc., CNET Inc., Compaq Computer
Corp., Excite@Home, Road Runner/ServiceCo, Yahoo!
Inc. and ZDNet. Additionally, Beyond.com
offers e-commerce solutions such as site design and
construction, site operation, including transaction
processing, physical and electronic order fulfillment,
customer support, marketing, and merchandising
support and reporting to software publishers, hardware
manufacturers and systems OEMs. Customers
include Autodesk, Executive Software Inc., McAfee.com
Inc., Symantec Corp., Systran Software Inc.
Palm Computing, Compaq Computer and HP Shopping
Village (a subsidiary of Hewlett Packard). The
company has applied for federal registration of the marks
BEYOND.COM and BEYOND DOT COM.
Beyond.com Corporation trades on the Nasdaq National
Market under the symbol ("BYND"). More
information on the company can be found in the company's
filings with the Securities and Exchange
Commission ("SEC").
Safe Harbor Statement
Certain statements in this press release are
forward-looking within the meaning of Section 27A of the
Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended. These include statements relating to
expectations about the timing and feature set of eCurrent
and eStore. Such statements are subject to substantial
risks and uncertainties, including risks that the
launch of eCurrent and eStore will be delayed or that their
form will vary from current expectations.
Beyond.com's business is subject to risks including
reductions in or cancellations of customer orders,
changes in relationships with software suppliers, changes
in relationships with strategic partners,
changes in the product mix sold by the company,
competition from other online software resellers or
publishers, inability to raise sufficient capital on satisfactory
terms, or at all, and other factors described
in the company's filings with the SEC.
CONTACT: Beyond.com
Zenobia Austin, 408/855-2768 (PR Specialist)
Laura Fulda, 408/855-2728 (IR & Corp. Communications)
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