Viador and Broden Team Up to Provide Enterprise Portals to Global Shippers
Broden's 'CargoTrends' Offering Incorporates Viador's E-Portal Suite
SAN MATEO, Calif., Nov. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Viador Inc.(TM) (Nasdaq: VIAD - news), a leading enterprise portal provider, and Broden, a leading computing and solutions integrator, today announced a partnership extending Broden's full range of products and consulting services with the addition of Viador's E-Portal Suite(TM). As part of its solutions offerings for steamship companies, Broden plans to incorporate Viador's technology into its newest service called ``CargoTrends.' CargoTrends allows users to access, organize and analyze data from disparate data sources, as well as gain access to real-time information on shipping trends and market information on the industry -- data important to making crucial business decisions.
Broden's customers are globally distributed, with sales offices located throughout the world. They need secure, real-time access to data regardless of where it resides, and the ability to share that information easily with employees, partners, suppliers, and customers throughout the world. Broden believes that Viador's Web-based enterprise portal provides a logical and cost-effective solution to meet these requirements, and meets a mandate for the shipping industry to conduct more of its business processes over the Internet.
``After looking at more than 25 different enterprise portal providers, we chose Viador because it is the only solution on the market today that is 100 percent Web-based, and provides the business and technical features that our customers need,' said Donald Culbertson, president of Broden. ``Of all the companies that we reviewed, only Viador allows our customers to actually create and distribute reports over the Internet -- the other enterprise portals could only offer varying types of distribution.'
Shipping companies, upon Broden's advice, can use CargoTrends to access very detailed market data on cargo shipments going in and out of the country and around the world. These companies can look at and analyze data on commodities, gauge how their competitors are doing, and access documents and data within their own businesses. Broden will also be able offer their customers ways to track shipments and allow authorized access to sensitive information. Through timely and easy access to this information, shipping companies are able to make better informed business decisions.
``We think Viador's E-Portal Suite is perfect for Broden's customers, who are rapidly moving towards doing daily business on the Internet,' said Ben Connors, vice president of business development at Viador. ``As Broden develops its portal offerings for other industries, we look forward to working with them to proliferate use of Viador's enterprise portal platform around the globe.'
About Broden
Founded in 1985, Broden builds long term relationships with clients by helping them take advantage of proven cutting-edge technologies, which enable secure and focused dissemination of information throughout their enterprise and beyond. The company delivers custom software solutions for today's distributed workplace -- Remote offices, field sales force and traveling executives.
The Viador E-Portal Suite
Designed for Global 1000 corporations and any company wanting to become an e-business, the Viador E-Portal Suite enterprise portal enables users to securely search, access and distribute business information, from any information source, including databases, documents and the world wide Web. Viador presents a single, personalized ``portal-like' view to all of this information and delivers a comprehensive set of user capabilities on the Web -- all built on one open, integrated architecture that can be adapted to meet the individual needs of each enterprise. The Viador solution represents a significant innovation beyond knowledge management portals which lack the full capabilities to access the information that companies need most to run their business.
About Viador
Viador Inc. is a leading developer of enterprise portals that help corporations leverage their information and technology assets to gain business advantages. The company's Viador E-Portal Suite gives thousands of users, including business managers and analysts, rich yet easy-to-use functionality based on a thin-client architecture that supports widespread deployment at a low cost of ownership. Viador's innovative technology is used by customers including 3Com, Charles Schwab, FedEx, Internal Revenue Service, Lucent Technologies, Sprint PCS and Xerox. Viador has its headquarter office in San Mateo, Calif. For more information, call 650-685-3000 or visit the Web site at www.viador.com.
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