Active Software and BroadVision Partner to Offer Seamless Integration Between Enterprise Systems and Internet Applications
Combined Solution Enables Companies to Connect ERP, Supply Chain Management and Customer Service Applications with BroadVision's Electronic Commerce and Knowledge Management Internet Applications
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 26, 1998-- Active Software(tm), Inc., the leading provider of enterprise application integration (EAI) software products, and BroadVision(R) Inc. (Nasdaq:BVSN - news), the leading provider of one-to-one Internet applications for relationship management across the extended enterprise, today announced a strategic partnership to create solutions for customers to integrate mission-critical applications for more efficient business operations.
Active Software's Integration System will be used by BroadVision as an integration platform for BroadVision's electronic commerce and knowledge management Internet applications. The new solutions will allow businesses to synchronize customer information within Internet applications with front and back-office systems such as Clarify(R), Oracle(R) Financials, PeopleSoft(R), SAP(R) R/3(R), and Vantive(R) to enable a seamless flow of information throughout the extended enterprise.
The partnership leverages the expertise of both companies to provide substantial value and benefits to the enterprise customer. Active Software's Integration System, which integrates disparate corporate computing resources such as packaged applications, databases, mainframe systems and Internet applications, coupled with BroadVision's suite of Internet applications, enable businesses to improve customer relationships and sales growth by providing real-time information availability.
''Our partnership with Active Software allows us to offer our customers the premier integration platform for integrating front-to-back office applications within the enterprise, while simultaneously providing a less expensive, faster and more flexible implementation process,'' said Sandra Vaughan, vice president, Marketing for BroadVision. ''This joint solution provides the flexibility, scalability and manageability that enterprise environments demand and gives enterprise customers a competitive advantage.''
''BroadVision is the global leader in one-to-one enterprise relationship management,'' said Chet Kapoor, vice president, Business Development, Active Software. ''Together we are providing a flexible and scalable solution that allows enterprise customers to integrate more of their information assets, resulting in a significant competitive advantage, with improved return on investment and increased profits.''
BroadVision
BroadVision, Inc. (Nasdaq:BVSN - news) is the leading worldwide supplier of one-to-one Internet business applications for relationship management across the extended enterprise. BroadVision's end-to-end solutions enable companies to rapidly deploy and cost-effectively operate secure, scalable, personalized, and flexible electronic business and knowledge management applications for the financial services, retail, distribution, high technology, telecommunications, and travel industries.
The company's entire product line has experienced exceptional growth and increasing acceptance by Global 2000 businesses with over 200 customers including Cisco(R), American Airlines, Nortel(R)/BayNetworks, Credit Suisse, Development Bank of Singapore, Fingerhut(R), Hewlett-Packard(R), IBM(R), Liberty Financial, META Group, RS Components, Standard Chartered Bank, Silicon Valley Bank, Solectron(R), Thomas Cook and Visa(R) USA.
BroadVision is headquartered in Redwood City, Calif. and maintains an extensive network of subsidiaries and licensed resellers in North and South America, Europe, Australia and Asia. The company can be reached at 650/261-5100 or at www.broadvision.com.
Active Software's Integration System
Active Software's Integration System is the first product to significantly reduce the complexity of integrating corporate computing resources. The System is based on events -- messages that reflect a customer's business processes and maps to the native information formats of leading application resources. Due to the broad scope of integration offered by Active Software's Integration System, BroadVision users can integrate with key corporate information resources such as custom, packaged or Internet-based applications, databases, and mainframe systems.
Active Software
Founded in 1995, Active Software is the leading supplier of network-based integration software products that help enterprises integrate disparate information resources. A pioneer in the emerging category of enterprise application integration (EAI), Active Software provides a simple, flexible, scalable and manageable suite of products that offers the broadest scope of integration in the industry. Privately-held Active Software is funded by Enterprise Partners, Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, Sierra Ventures, the KPCB Java Fund, Lehman Brothers, and BancAmerica Robertson Stephens. It is headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif. For more information, visit the company Web site at www.activesw.com.
Note to Editors: The Active Software logo is a registered trademark and Active Software is a trademark of Active Software, Inc. BroadVision, the BroadVision logo and One-To-One are trademarks or registered trademarks of BroadVision Inc. in the United States and other countries. All other trademarks mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners.
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Contact:
Active Software
Sandy McBride, 408/969-5614
sandy@activesw.com
or
Thomas Associates, Inc. for Active Software
Laura Heisman, 650/596-2700
laura@thomaspr.com
or
BroadVision
Janine Kromhout, 650/261-5490
jkromhout@broadvision.com
or
Capstone Communications for BroadVision
Carole Sinclair, 510/428-4100, ext. 203
csinclair@capstoneco.com |
