CNKT and IBM
ConnectInc.com Teams With IBM to Create Electronic Commerce Solution
PR Newswire, Tuesday, January 12, 1999 at 09:21
MarketStream E-Commerce Application Incorporates IBM WebSphere Application
Server, WebSphere Performance Pack and IBM MQSeries
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Jan. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- ConnectInc.com
(NASDAQ:CNKT) today announced an initiative with IBM to offer its leading,
OBI-enabled, e-commerce application, MarketStream*, using IBM's
high-performance WebSphere Application Server**, Standard Edition and
WebSphere Performance Pack** and integrating IBM MQSeries**. The solution
will be available in the first quarter of 1999. ConnectInc.com, a member of
IBM's Solution Developer Program, also will be offering both OrderStream*, an
application for business to consumer electronic commerce and PurchaseStream*,
an application for business to business electronic commerce for the WebSphere
product family and MQSeries as upgrades for existing customers.
MarketStream is a powerful, flexible electronic commerce application that
provides a broad technology foundation for the virtual marketplace.
MarketStream includes support for integrated, cross-supplier catalog search,
product-specific attributes, tiered or customized pricing, buyer profiling and
personalization, back-end system integration and robust reporting
capabilities. Unlike most buy or sell-side applications which focus on only a
portion of the business, MarketStream's comprehensive scope of functionality
greatly reduces the technical effort required to build a customized
application to support a major vertical market.
"Best of breed e-commerce solutions are highly scalable, and must be
optimized to run in the new cross-platform, high transaction volume
environments of ".com" companies," said Craig Norris, president and CEO of
ConnectInc.com. "We are convinced this new relationship will help
ConnectInc.com expand its presence among the thousands of global companies
serious about building mission-critical e-business solutions around open
standards."
"The integration of MarketStream with the IBM WebSphere products and
MQSeries will result in an e-commerce solution that can fit the needs of a
variety of businesses," said Steve Solazzo, vice president, Solution
Developers and Small/Growing Businesses for IBM Software Group. "This
initiative will produce an application that will help bring sellers and buyers
together in one comprehensive, online distribution location."
WebSphere Application Server, Standard Edition provides companies with an
open, multi-platform, standards-based, Web server deployment platform and Web
site management tools. It offers customers a solution to deploy e-business
Web sites across a range of operating systems platforms including AIX**,
Windows NT****, Sun Solaris*****, OS/400, OS/390 and OS/2* Warp Server.
WebSphere Performance Pack is a unique combination of caching, proxy and
filtering functions; file content management and replication; and load
balancing in a single Internet hosting infrastructure.
IBM MQSeries, the most widely used message-queuing software on the market,
enables users to exchange information between applications across more than
35 different platforms, from mainframes to PCs. This award-winning software
enables business integration throughout the enterprise, allowing companies to
maximize e-business opportunities by leveraging existing resources to improve
speed-to-market and anticipate IT changes as their business changes.
Under the terms of the agreement, ConnectInc.com has made a significant
commitment to IBM Software and WebSphere. IBM will provide support for
marketing and development to assist ConnectInc.com in successfully
incorporating IBM's WebSphere with MarketStream and reaching its marketing
objectives for IBM Websphere.
About ConnectInc.com
ConnectInc.com, formerly known as Connect, Inc., provides solutions and
services to enable Internet-based electronic commerce, and build "connected
corporations" from any link in the digital value chain. ConnectInc.com's
technologies and service are optimized for today's multi-vendor, e-business
solutions, and allow companies to compete effectively in the digital economy.
ConnectInc.com is a member of the IBM Solution Developer Program.
* Indicates trademark or registered trademark of ConnectInc.com.
** Indicates trademark or registered trademark of International Business
Machines Corporation.
*** Lotus, Lotus Notes, and Lotusphere are registered trademarks and Notes
Global Designer, Domino, and Notes are trademarks of Lotus Development
Corporation.
**** Indicates trademark or registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation.
***** Indicates trademark or registered trademark of Sun Microsystems.
All other trademarks are the properties of their respective companies.
SOURCE Connectinc.com
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/CONTACT: Craig Norris, President and CEO of ConnectInc.com,
650-254-4015, or cnorris@connectinc.com/
/Web site: connectinc.com
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