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eXcelon Demonstrates Capabilities of OAGI B2B Standards At Ford Motor Company's E2K Exposition
eXcelon Corporation joins eight of the world's leading Internet B2B vendors to create simulated Internet supply chain for the automotive industry
BURLINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 18, 2000-- eXcelon Corporation (Nasdaq: EXLN - news), a leading provider of business-to-business (B2B) infrastructure solutions, today announced their participation in the Open Applications Group's (OAGI) latest vendor challenge at Ford Motor Company's e2K event. The OAGI is a non-profit consortium focusing on the best practices and process-based XML content for eBusiness and application integration. The OAGI organized the event to demonstrate the viability of a multi-vendor, multi-platform automotive supply chain based on OAGI's B2B standards.
Ford's e2K Process Leadership Exposition, held in Detroit, featured the latest OAGI vendor challenge involving products and services from eight different OAGI-member vendors. eXcelon Corp. products and personnel were involved in the simulation of an Internet-based supply chain. In this successful simulation, the procurement and inventory control systems of several parts, tools and machinery suppliers were linked with those of Ford Motor Company. As part of the challenge, eXcelon's B2B Integration Server and B2B Portal Server demonstrated their interoperability with OAGI's vendor-neutral B2B standards by facilitating the simulated exchange of mission-critical business information such as purchase orders and requests for proposals.
The simulation demonstrated how multiple organizations can quickly and easily connect to and interact with each other using OAGI's standard for B2B commerce.
``eXcelon Corporation believes that support for the OAGI's efforts in promoting vendor-neutral standards is critical to the widespread adoption of B2B commerce,'' said Larry Alston, chief technology officer and vice president of product strategy at eXcelon Corp. ``With solutions that are 100 percent standards based and capable of understanding any XML dialect including OAG, eXcelon solutions are uniquely positioned to help vendors engage in B2B commerce with thousands of their partners, suppliers and customers over the Internet.''
About OAGI
The Open Applications Group (www.openapplications.org) is a non-profit consortium focusing on dramatically easier business software interoperability for eBusiness and application integration. It is the largest publisher of XML content for business software interoperability in the world. The Open Applications Group also builds and publishes the detail specifications necessary to use the XML content as well as publishing a common middleware API specification that has been endorsed by several major middleware vendors.
About eXcelon Corporation
eXcelon Corporation (www.exceloncorp.com) is a leading provider of products and services that enable companies to engage in dynamic business-to-business (B2B) commerce across the Internet. eXcelon Corporation's dynamic B2B solutions are 100 percent standards-based, thus eliminating technical barriers-to-entry for doing business across the Internet. Companies use eXcelon's dynamic B2B solutions to establish high-value electronic partnerships that are built for change. Based in Burlington, Mass., eXcelon Corporation was founded in 1988 and completed its initial public offering as ODIS in July 1996. The company's stock is traded on the NASDAQ National Market under the symbol EXLN. eXcelon Corporation sells and supports its products through branch offices across the U.S. and international subsidiaries in the United Kingdom, Germany, The Netherlands, Japan and Australia, as well as a worldwide network of distributors, value-added resellers, systems integrators and other indirect sales partners.
``Safe Harbor'' Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: Statements in this press release regarding eXcelon Corporation's business, including future market opportunities and prospects, which are not historical facts are ``forward-looking statements'' that involve risks and uncertainties. For a discussion of such risks and uncertainties, which could cause actual results to differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements, see ``Risk Factors'' in the Company's Annual Report or Form 10-K for the most recently ended fiscal year.
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