AT&T Canada Leads Launch of ASP Services With E-ProcurementE-Business Alliance of AT&T Canada, IBM Canada, Ariba, and i2 Ensures Rapid Deployment of AT&T Canada Marketplace Solution to Canadian Businesses
PR NEWSWIRE - January 15, 2001 11:14
TORONTO, Jan 15, 2001 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- AT&T Canada Inc. (NASDAQ: ATTC)(TSE: TEL.B) Canada's largest national broadband business services provider and a leader in competitive local exchange and Internet and E-Business services, today announced the launch of AT&T Canada Marketplace, an Application Service Provider-based electronic procurement and supply chain management service.
The AT&T Canada Marketplace represents the first in a suite of ASP-based e-Business services designed to offer businesses access to best-in-class applications on a rental basis. AT&T Canada provides customers with a cost-effective alternative for implementing their e-Business strategy through rapid access to applications, secure, scalable infrastructure and sound management expertise through its strategic alliances with IBM Canada, Ariba, Inc. and i2 Technologies, Inc.
E-procurement solutions provide business customers with a means to realize efficiencies in the purchasing process and reduce the cycle times involved. E-procurement can also help customers generate significant savings by reducing the cost of generating, tracking and processing purchase orders, as well as helping to control maverick buying. AT&T Canada estimates that these savings will translate into a 5-10% reduction in procurement expenditures for non-production goods.
Customers have the option to leverage the AT&T Canada Marketplace e-Procurement application or to use it to build their own e-Marketplace. In addition to the over 30,000 global suppliers on the Ariba(R) Commerce Services Network(TM), COMPAQ Canada, Lyreco Canada, and IBM Canada have agreed to offer their products to AT&T Canada Marketplace customers. AT&T Canada has also entered into an alliance with ProCure.com to assist suppliers in integrating their products and services.
"AT&T Canada Marketplace is an exciting step in the continuing development of our ASP platforms and infrastructure built to launch new services that broaden and deepen our capabilities to deliver value to Canadian businesses", said John McLennan, Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of AT&T Canada. "We're moving quickly to layer unique information-based applications on top of our expansive fibre optic networks and web hosting capabilities as we evolve AT&T Canada to become an even stronger business partner for our customers. The opportunity for businesses to have reliable applications which they do not have to support, deploy, and manage in-house and that leverage the speed and savings opportunities inherent with the Internet translate to real competitive advantage."
The AT&T Canada Marketplace is an alliance of world-class solution providers that includes IBM Canada as its implementation partner and Ariba and i2 as its technology partners. IBM Canada is providing implementation support and services to allow customer turn-up of the e-procurement solution within 60 to 90 days. As technology providers, Ariba and i2 offer proven B2B service platforms for e-procurement and supply chain management. AT&T Canada provides on-going application support, security and infrastructure. The application is hosted at the company's Internet Data Centre.
AT&T Canada Marketplace leads the suite of planned ASP services that AT&T Canada will launch in the coming months designed to enhance a business' interaction internally as well as with its suppliers and customers.
More information on AT&T Canada Marketplace is available at www.attcanadamarketplace.com or by calling 1-888-603-1449.
About the IBM-i2-Ariba Alliance:
The e-marketplace Alliance of IBM, i2 and Ariba was formed in March 2000 to offer the world's most comprehensive end-to-end solutions for developing both public and private e-marketplaces. A modular footprint of interoperable solutions combines each of the three company's core strengths in B2B applications and global services to help customers fully leverage the Internet and achieve the benefits of B2B e-commerce. Collectively, the three companies power more than 300 e-marketplaces.
More information can be found at ibm-i2-ariba.com.
About AT&T Canada:
AT&T Canada is the country's largest national broadband business services provider and the leader in competitive local exchange and Internet and E-Business services. With over 18,000 route kilometres of local and long haul broadband fiber optic network, world class data, Internet, web hosting and e-business enabling capabilities, AT&T Canada provides a full range of integrated communications products and services to help Canadian businesses communicate locally, nationally and globally. AT&T Canada Inc. is a public company with its stock traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol TEL.B and on the NASDAQ National Market System under the symbol ATTC. Visit AT&T Canada's web site, www.attcanada.com for more information about the company.
Note for Investors: This news release includes statements about expected future events and/or financial results that are forward-looking in nature and subject to risks and uncertainties. For those statements, we claim the protection of the safe harbor for forward-looking statements provisions contained in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The company cautions that actual performance will be affected by a number of factors, many of which are beyond the company's control, and that future events and results may vary substantially from what the company currently foresees. Discussion of the various factors that may affect future results is contained in the company's recent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Ontario Securities Commission, and SEDAR.
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CONTACT: Media: Ian Dale, 416-345-2227, ian.dale@attcanada.com; Drew Van Parys, 416-345-3623, drew.vanparys@attcanada.com; Investors and Analysts: Brock Robertson, 416-345-3125, brock.robertson@attcanada.com; Dan Coombes, 416-345-2326, dan.coombes@attcanada.com (TEL.B. ATTC)
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