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Sprint Announces Enhancements to Its E-Commerce Solutions
For Dot.Coms Needing a Competitive Edge
High-Traffic, High-Transaction E-Commerce Sites Benefit from Advanced
Solutions to Create Unique Offers, Capture & Manage Orders,
And Provide Customer Service
DALLAS, Sept. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Today Sprint (NYSE: FON) announced enhancements to its suite of industry leading e-commerce solutions through the addition of Open Market's (Nasdaq: OMKT) Transact TM 5 e-commerce engine. With Sprint's newly enhanced e-commerce solutions, enterprises will enjoy the best of both worlds: World-class network performance and web hosting services, as well as advanced solutions for content, commerce, personalization and marketing. This enables Sprint's e-commerce customers to better focus on their products and services rather than spending scarce resources on managing their Internet channel platform.
Open Market's Transact 5, an advanced order capture and processing system, enables merchants to take advantage of real-time authorization and payment processing, automated delivery, as well as online customer service such as order acknowledgement and status reports, and subscription management. In addition, Transact 5 provides increased ease of implementation and administration.
"We are pleased that Sprint has selected Open Market's Transact 5 as its e-commerce management solution," said Joe Alwan, senior vice president of marketing at Open Market, Inc. "It demonstrates once again that Open Market provides some of the most comprehensive solutions that enabling e-businesses to gain a competitive advantage in transacting business over the Internet."
"In today's competitive e-business market, business growth relies heavily on the customer experience for speed and performance of data and applications," said Gayle Howard, director, Sprint e-Business applications. "By enhancing our advanced services with Open Market Transact 5 our customers now have a single service point for provisioning e-commerce applications from the network source, offering all the tools they need to exceed their customers' expectations."
This enhancement follows up on recent industry recognition of Sprint's leadership in Web Hosting capabilities. In a Network Computing survey of Web Hosting providers conducted earlier this year, Sprint scored highest, earning high marks in all criteria, including, customer service, security, bandwidth scalability, reliability and pricing.
Along with additional e-business applications and award-winning Web hosting services, Sprint greatly enhances its e-business and hosting solutions with Sprint's Enterprise Network Services (SENS), its team of dedicated IT integration consultants. Sprint ENS consultants are able to fully support and manage an enterprise's e-business from creation to deployment.
"Sprint's commitment to its e-business customers is simple: Provide a comprehensive suite of solutions with the latest in advanced features and functionality. We will do that by working with dynamic technology partners," said Elizabeth Byland, Sprint's vice president, Managed-Services Marketing and Product Management. "By working with Open Market, Sprint is moving even further ahead in providing advanced e-business solutions."
This service is available today. For additional customer information, please go to sprint.com or call 877-256-7050.
About Sprint
Sprint is a global communications company - at the forefront of integrating long distance, local and wireless communications services, and one of the largest carriers of Internet traffic. Sprint built and operates the United States' first nationwide all-digital, fiber-optic network and is a leader in advanced data communications services. Sprint has $20 billion in annual revenues and serves more than 20 million business and residential customers.
About Open Market
Founded in 1994, Open Market, Inc. makes e-Business software that enables companies to manage content, deliver personalized experiences, and drive commerce on the Internet and through wireless devices. Open Market designs products to maximize its customers' business performance by enabling them to leverage their existing assets, letting business professionals personally direct Web site content, and by leveraging the new Java and XML open standard platforms to deliver scalable e-Business solutions. Open Market's roster of global customers includes Web domains such as Lycos.com, and AOL.com; major industrials such as Acer, Ingram Micro, and Milacron; and 10 of the world's top 13 national telephone companies. Open Market's content management software is used by companies including Lucent Technologies, FT.com, and Chase Manhattan Bank. The company, headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts, has customers in 33 countries. Open Market's international head office is in the UK with additional offices in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and The Netherlands. Open Market can be reached by calling 1-888-OPEN-MKT (toll-free) or 1-781-359-3000 in the U.S. or +44-1753-838-000 in the U.K. or by visiting openmarket.com.
The following constitutes a "Safe Harbor" statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995: This press release contains forward- looking statements that involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated by such forward-looking statements are set forth under the heading "Certain Factors That May Affect Future Results" in the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2000. These include risks and uncertainties relating to: the Company's history of operating losses, continued development and growth of the Internet, lengthy sales cycles for its products, development and maintenance of relationships with systems integrators, possible changes in government regulations, security issues, competitive pressures, attracting and retaining key employees, management of planned growth, risks associated with international operations, product development and rapid technological change, dependence on intellectual property rights, litigation and the Company's ability to integrate FutureTense.
Open Market, Marketing Studio, Catalog Centre, Syndication Centre, Content Centre, Content Server, Transact, IPS, ShopSite, and FutureTense are trademarks or registered trademarks of Open Market, Inc. in the United States and other countries. All other names are used for identification purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective owners. SOURCE Sprint
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/CONTACT: Randall Crabtree of Sprint Global Business Markets, 972-405-5452, or randall.d.crabtree@mail.sprint.com/
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