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To: John Pitera who wrote (8)	5/30/2002 1:43:12 AM
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To: John Pitera who wrote (8)	5/30/2002 4:35:29 PM
From: karma	Respond to of 22

Covisint going to 5.0 release on June 3. covisint.com Covisint Auction 5.0 What Covisint is announcing the release of Covisint Auction 5.0. When Launch Date = June 3rd Why Maintain our position as the industry leader in auction functionality providing a greater level of value to our customers. Key New Features Bidder-Friendly features and functionality throughout. Enhanced Multi-Variable Functionality enabling multiple supplier inputs to be rationalized into a Total Landed Cost Calculation. All new UI (User Interface) and easy-to-use Auction Wizard. Single Dashboard to concurrently monitor all open live events. "View Only" Role allowing assigned users the ability to monitor auctions. Deep Organizational structure allowing companies to load company, commodity and user-specific data that can be efficiently mass deployed. User-Defined Reporting that provide both Canned (pre-built) or Ad-Hoc (custom) reporting capabilities to assigned users within the organization. Improved system design eliminating previous software download requirements. Key Changes to be aware of: New Application Menu in Portal will read as follows: "Auction" = all live production environments, all companies, all users. "Auction Training" = Environment designed for Originator Training and Bidder Trial Auctions allowing for unlimited bidding practice. All current User ID's & Passwords will work in new Product. Users should review their Auction Profile: locale, language, time zone, etc. There are NO Bidder Software Downloads or Applets. Key users had input into the auction functionality enabling Covisint to design an Auction product by automotive purchasing professionals, for automotive purchasing professionals. All Auction Training and product related documentation for both Originators and Bidders will be located on the Covisint Portal prior to launch. Languages to be supported in Covisint Auction 5.0: English, French, German, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, Swedish, Italian, Mexican Spanish, Castilian Spanish, Simplified and Traditional Chinese.

To: John Pitera who wrote (8)	5/30/2002 9:45:06 PM
From: karma	Respond to of 22

material from line 56 publication AMR: E-Business Renaissance? At executive conference, signs of revival of variety of e-business initiatives; H.B. Fuller CEO says, "time is ripe" line56.com by Tom Kaneshige, Line56 Thursday, May 30, 2002 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scottsdale, Ariz. -- With patches of green grass and cool ponds, the Phoenician Hotel stands out like an oasis in the sun-baked Arizona landscape. Indeed, the hotel was a fitting place for AMR Research to hold its executive conference and decree the resurgence of e-business. More than 800 attendees packed the auditorium, listening to Tony Friscia, president and CEO of AMR Research, spew out mostly rosy findings from a recent survey about the importance of enterprise application initiatives to business goals. Compared to recent quarters, Q1 2002 posted an overall higher rating across all enterprise e-business initiatives such as CRM, SCM, ERP, e-sourcing and private trading exchanges. "Consistent increases in importance ratings for Q1 may be the result of improved optimism in users thinking about recapturing market share," Friscia says. Spending on internal e-business process and new product development initiatives are up, surpassing trendy customer management initiatives. Of course, AMR tempers its enthusiasm with a warning: Trends over the past four quarters still indicate a cautious environment to invest in IT. Moreover, many companies reported plans to decrease or make no changes to their e-business budgets. But don't tell that to Albert Stroucken, chairman, president and CEO of H.B. Fuller Company, a 115-year-old manufacturer of specialty chemical products that posts $1.274 billion in annual revenues. E-enabling his company to simplify product ordering and customer support processes and cut material costs is a top priority, "and the time is ripe for information technology to take center stage," he says. In a sign of the changing times, Stroucken also warns companies not to sacrifice long-term e-business strategy for short-term ROI gains; delivering a fast ROI has been the mantra for selling technology in a parched market. E-business is a fundamental transformation, he says, adding that keeping track of costs is "hard to do and a waste of time. This doesn't mean that you throw caution out the window, but you don't have to make calculations on everything. You have to have a gut feeling that [e-enablement] is where you want to go, and then go do it." Pioneers of e-business stand to reap huge gains over competitors, and the time to move forward with e-business initiatives is now, agrees Mark Leposky, vice-president of global operations for TaylorMade-adidas Golf Company and a speaker at the conference. Once a laughing stock of the industry for its inability to deliver products to market in a timely fashion, TaylorMade-adidas spent 18 months to turn the problem into a competitive advantage. Adopting e-business holistically and working with supply chain-management software vendor i2 Technologies, TaylorMade-adidas now produces and delivers custom-made golf clubs in 24-hours from the time of fitting. The best part about e-business advantages, says Leposky, is that "competitors often can't see how you're doing it, which makes it a sustainable competitive advantage." As giant competitors weigh in, most notably Nike, TaylorMade-adidas hopes e-business can do exactly what AMR says is driving the e-business resurgence