J.D. Edwards and IBM to Deliver Scalable and Agile Electronic Storefront Solution
J.D. Edwards to Resell IBM WebSphere Commerce Suite; Business Alliance Key Element of J.D. Edwards' Global E-Business and Customer Relationship Management Offering
DENVER, Colo. and SICILY, ITALY, Feb. 7, 2000 ? J.D. Edwards & Company (NASDAQ: JDEC), a leading provider of e-business software solutions that deliver speed and agility, and IBM announced today that they have entered into a global sales and product alliance in which they will collaborate to deliver an integrated storefront that extends and enhances J.D. Edwards ActivEra Solution for customer relationship management, Active CRM. Under the agreement, J.D. Edwards will resell IBM's flexible and scalable electronic storefront technology, IBM WebSphere Commerce Suite (WCS)*. Integrated with J.D. Edwards OneWorld?, IBM WCS provides companies with a robust electronic storefront solution coupled with an agile enterprise software system that allows them to establish online stores and increase revenues while still maintaining strong customer relationships.
Whether a customer is a traditional brick-and-mortar or pure-play Internet company, the J.D. Edwards e-business offering with IBM WCS provides organizations with an easier way to do business on the Internet.
"Leveraging the Internet to create new revenue opportunities is critical to maintaining a competitive advantage in today's global marketplaces," said Doug Massingill, president and CEO at J.D. Edwards. "With the OneWorld/WebSphere Commerce Suite product, companies gain a reliable, low cost solution that provides rapid and continuous ROI while reducing operating costs.
J.D. Edwards and IBM have developed the integration between OneWorld and WCS using IBM's Commerce Integrator Server* and MQSeries* messaging and information middleware. The relationship also brings together J.D. Edwards and IBM Global Services e-business and industry expertise such as best practices and industry templates for faster time to benefit and greater return on investment with high executive project confidence.
"By embracing key elements of the IBM Application Framework for e-business," said Dave Liederbach, vice president, E-commerce, IBM Software Group, "J.D. Edwards is providing its customers with open standards and an extensible architecture with which they can not only do more business, but bring greater knowledge to its daily execution. This, combined with the strategic flexibility of OneWorld, is a powerful global offering."
Today's announcement marks the fifth reseller agreement J.D. Edwards has made as part of the Company's larger strategy to provide its customers worldwide with the most functional and flexible e-business solutions available. IBM and J.D. Edwards plan to deliver comprehensive integration between WebSphere Commerce Suite and OneWorld in Spring 2000.
About WebSphere Commerce Suite
IBM's WebSphere Commerce Suite, the first integrated e-commerce solution, provides a wide range of easy-to-use features and functions for content management, relationship marketing, order management, and payment management for all types of Internet businesses, including business-to-business, business-to-consumer, and e-marketplaces. Sites built with WebSphere Commerce Suite can easily integrate with both internal and external systems and grow with the changing needs of an e-business. IBM WebSphere Commerce Suite customers benefit from the functionality of the WebSphere family, which integrates Web commerce, Web application server, Web application development tools, transaction processing and distributed component software from IBM.
About J.D. Edwards
J.D. Edwards provides Idea to ActionTM software for managing the virtual enterprise and supply chain. The Company's integrated applications deliver agile E-Business solutions that give customers control over their front office, manufacturing, supply chain, logistics/distribution, human resources and finance processes for the consumer products, industrial and services industries. J.D. Edwards enables Idea to Action with ActivEra?, a collection of tools and technologies that extend J.D. Edwards' OneWorld? and WorldSoftware TM enterprise business software and its active supply chain planning solutions. ActivEra allows customers to change their software quickly and easily during and after implementation. The Company's solutions operate in multiple computing environments, including Windows NT©, UNIX© and OS/400©, and are JavaTM and HTML enabled.
Founded in 1977, J.D. Edwards is headquartered in Denver and posted fiscal 1999 revenues of $944.2 million. Additional information can be obtained by contacting the Company at 1-800-727-5333, or via the Internet at www.jdedwards.com.
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