Amazon.com Selects Sterling Commerce GENTRAN:Server for Electronic Commerce Solution
PR Newswire - July 13, 1998 14:15
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COLUMBUS, Ohio, July 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Sterling Commerce, Inc. (NYSE: SE), a worldwide leading provider of electronic commerce (EC) software and value-added services, today announced Amazon.com has licensed and implemented GENTRAN:Server(R) for UNIX. Amazon.com is using GENTRAN:Server as a scaleable standards-based gateway to support fully-automated ordering from many of its suppliers.
"We chose GENTRAN:Server for our business-to-business package because it is the industry standard and leader in the EDI space," said Richard Dalzell, CIO of Amazon.com.
Amazon.com utilizes GENTRAN:Server to translate outgoing purchase orders and incoming purchase order acknowledgements between Amazon.com internal data formats and industry standard formats.
"Amazon.com communicates electronically with its suppliers, ensuring the highest quality of service with its worldwide customer base," said Brad Sharp, president, Interchange Software Group and executive vice president, Sterling Commerce.
GENTRAN:Server allows organizations to automate and integrate business transactions and information with their trading partners. It provides translation, management, communications, process control and audit functions necessary to link disparate business applications with customers and suppliers worldwide, dramatically accelerating the flow of business information and processes.
About Amazon.com
Amazon.com, Inc., is Earth's biggest book and music store. Amazon.com offers a catalog of more than 3 million book, music, and other titles, plus easy-to-use search and browse features, e-mail services, personalized shopping services, secure Web-based credit card payment, and direct shipping to customers. Amazon.com has virtually unlimited online shelf space and offers customers a vast selection through an efficient search-and-retrieval interface, as well as streamlined ordering through 1-Click SM technology. Amazon.com pioneered the concept of syndicated selling on the Internet and has more than 60,000 members in its Associates Program, including AOL.com, Yahoo!, Netscape, Excite, the AltaVista Search Service, the @Home Network, and iVillage.
About Sterling Commerce
Sterling Commerce is a leading, global provider of business-to-business electronic commerce software and value-added services. The company is ranked eighth on Forbes magazine's list of the Best-Performing Small Companies in America. Also, The Red Herring, an investment and technology publication, named Sterling Commerce as one of the five Best Long-Term Potential technology companies. Sterling Commerce has been providing electronic commerce solutions for 20 years, and has 36 office locations and more than 40 distributors worldwide. Sterling Commerce had 1997 revenues of over $350 million, and has 37,000 customers worldwide and 1,700 employees.
For more information, call 800-299-4041 ext. 777 or visit the Sterling Commerce Web site at www.sterlingcommerce.com.
This announcement contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties that include, among others, Amazon.com's limited operating history, the unpredictability of its future revenues, and risks associated with capacity constraints, management of growth, and new business opportunities. More information about factors that potentially could affect Amazon.com's financial results is included in the company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 1997, and quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 1998, both filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
NOTE: GENTRAN and GENTRAN:Server are registered trademarks of Sterling Commerce, Inc.
Amazon.com, Earth's Biggest Bookstore, and 1-Click are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Amazon.com, Inc. All other names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective owners. All other products or company names mentioned are used for identification purposes only, and may be trademarks of their respective owners.
SOURCE Sterling Commerce
/CONTACT: Dave Owens of Sterling Commerce, 614-793-5167, or
dave_owens@stercomm.com; or Paula Muise, paula.muise@cbpr.com, or Catherine
Malone, catherine.malone@cbpr.com, of Copithorne & Bellows, 617-450-4300/
/Web site: sterlingcommerce.com
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