Calico Joins Key E-Commerce Standard Initiative; Calico P
B: Calico Joins Key E-Commerce Standard Initiative; Calico Participates in
Customer Profile EXchange (CPEX) Working Group
SAN JOSE, Calif., Nov 16, 1999 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Calico Commerce,
Inc., (Nasdaq: CLIC), a leading provider of electronic commerce
software and services, today announced its participation in the
Customer Profile EXchange (CPEX) working group. CPEX offers a
vendor-neutral, open standard for facilitating the privacy-enabled
exchange of customer information across disparate enterprise
applications and systems. Calico is committed to helping shape industry
standards that broaden the adoption of more open and flexible
e-Business solutions.
Calico joins other leading e-Business vendors in the CPEX working group
to address the need to maintain a singular, holistic view of their
customers. The CPEX standard integrates online and offline data with an
XML-based description of customer information for use within various
enterprise applications both on and off the Web. The result is a
networked, customer-focused environment that allows e-businesses to
leverage a unified view of their customers into more compelling
e-relationships.
"CPEX will prove vital in tomorrow's world of connected enterprises,
and Calico plans to support this in our eSales product line," said Dave
Cardinal, chief technology officer, Calico Commerce. "We believe CPEX
will contribute to our market leading eSales solution by enabling the
interchange of valuable customer profile information with other
applications."
About Calico eSales
Calico empowers companies to sell complex products and services
intuitively and effectively via the Web. Calico eSales is a
customer-focused electronic commerce solution that matches unique
customer needs to business initiatives across all channels, leading a
customer from initial interest to order placement while engaging them
in repeat buying relationships. During the purchasing process, Calico
eSales dynamically provides customers with custom, context-specific
information such as product features, discounts and competitor
offerings so that they are equipped to make informed buying decisions
online. Consequently, corporations are able to increase revenues,
reduce costs and foster loyalty among their customers.
About CPEX
Open to any vendor that wishes to contribute to the standard, the
CPEX working group is chaired by Siebel Systems, the Marketing
Committee is co-chaired by net.Genesis and Vignette Corporation, and
Andromedia/Macromedia chairs the Technical Committee. The CPEX working
group is hosted by IDEAlliance.org, a neutral, non-profit organization
that also hosts ICE, PRISM and several other XML working groups.
CPEX solutions are focused upon real-world implementations in
real-world time. Formed by Vignette Corporation in September of 1999,
CPEX was chartered and launched in November of 1999. The first CPEX
specifications are expected to be available for public review in the
first half of 2000, with interoperability demos scheduled to begin in
the second half of 2000. More information on CPEX will be available
soon at www.cpex.org.
About Calico Commerce, Inc.
Calico Commerce, Inc., headquartered in San Jose, Calif. and with
offices throughout the United States and Europe, is a provider of
software and services that enable customers to engage in eCommerce by
selling complex products and services over the Internet. Calico eSales
is a personalized Web-based buying and selling solution that enables
customers to create a unique process to interact with their customers
to improve selling effectiveness and customer satisfaction. Calico
eSales can be deployed across the Internet, intranets, extranets and
corporate networks and can be accessed through desktop and mobile
computers and retail kiosks. Calico Commerce, Inc. can be found on the
World Wide Web at calico.com
Except for the historical information contained herein, the matters
discussed in news releases contain forward-looking statements that
involve substantial risks and uncertainties that could cause actual
results to differ materially from those expressed in or implied by such
forward-looking statements. Potential risks and uncertainties are
described in detail in Calico's Registration Statement on Form S-1 as
filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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