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Vitria's BusinessWare(R) and Calico Market Maker(TM) Provide Platform for the Launch and Management of Business Exchanges
SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 17, 2000-- Vitria Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq:VITR - news), a leading ebusiness platform provider and Calico Commerce (Nasdaq:CLIC - news), a leading provider of ebusiness applications that enable companies to sell over the Web, today announced a strategic marketing partnership.
The companies will jointly market two key products, Vitria's BusinessWare and Calico Market Maker, to provide an end-to-end solution for creating business exchanges and automating management of the businesses processes necessary to complete and fulfill these transactions.
The Vitria-Calico alliance will serve as a resource for companies seeking a first-to-market advantage in launching industry-specific business exchanges. Calico Market Maker, a 100% Pure Java(TM) Net Market platform, powers many-to-many B2B digital marketplaces. Vitria's BusinessWare, a comprehensive ebusiness platform, integrates and automates business processes -- such as enterprise resource planning, billing and payment processing, and shipping -- across the extended enterprise. By offering Calico Market Maker with BusinessWare, Calico and Vitria provide a robust end-to-end solution that enables joint customers to establish trading communities with capacity for enhanced buyer and seller interaction and the essential infrastructure to support functions such as construction of catalogs on-demand from data stored deep in supply chain systems.
``Calico's partnership with Vitria supports our strategy to serve as a comprehensive resource for our customers' business exchange initiatives,' said Alan Naumann, president and CEO of Calico Commerce, Inc. ``Calico Market Maker gives companies a competitive advantage in bringing their Net Markets onto the Web quickly, and their long-term success depends on a sound ebusiness infrastructure to automate business processes. Vitria's BusinessWare allows them to do so using established messaging standards such as XML and RosettaNet.'
``Vitria is committed to the transformation of business exchanges into trading partner networks,' said JoMei Chang, CEO and president, Vitria. ``Together, Vitria and Calico will allow organizations to greatly accelerate time to market, reduce the overall cost of implementing exchanges and operating effective ebusinesses and ultimately, bring competitive advantages to trading partners.'
About Calico Commerce, Inc.
Calico Commerce, Inc. provides an eBusiness application suite that enables leading corporations to sell products and services via the Web, through existing channels and in Net Markets. Calico's open-standards eBusiness applications match unique customer needs to products to drive revenue growth, increase customer satisfaction and achieve competitive advantage. Calico customers include leaders in high-technology hardware, manufacturing, telecommunications services, financial services, home furnishings, chemicals, agriculture and retail. Calico Commerce, Inc., headquartered in San Jose, Calif., can be found on the World Wide Web at www.calico.com.
About Vitria
Vitria Technology, Inc. is a leading ebusiness platform provider. Vitria's ebusiness platform, BusinessWare, automates mission-critical business processes across the extended enterprise, reducing time to market, shortening lead times, lowering operating costs, and increasing customer satisfaction. Vitria is a publicly traded company (Nasdaq:VITR - news) based in Sunnyvale, Calif. For more information, call 408/212-2700, visit the company's Web site at www.vitria.com, or send email to info@vitria.com. |
