BroadVision Teams With Cisco Systems as an Internet Business Solution Applications Partner
BroadVision and Cisco's Internet Business Solutions Group Advise Companies
Deploying High-Transaction, Personalized Commerce Sites
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Feb. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- BroadVision(R), Inc. (Nasdaq: BVSN) today announced that it has designated Cisco Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CSCO) as its Strategic Networking Partner and that Cisco has established BroadVision as an Internet Business Solution Applications Partner for providing Cisco's new Internet Commerce Solution. BroadVision and Cisco's Internet Business Solutions Group will provide the Cisco best practices and optimized network foundation, in conjunction with high-performance applications of BroadVision to help customers realize rapid success in online business-to-business transactions with suppliers, partners, and other customers.
BroadVision and Cisco will deliver a comprehensive Internet Commerce Solution through shared sales, marketing and product optimization strategies. In addition, the companies will jointly create a unique Cisco-BroadVision One-To-One reference architecture and configuration guide, and performance and scalability benchmark that leverages BroadVision and Cisco technologies. In developing an integrated Internet Commerce Solution, BroadVision will join Cisco's Internet Business Solutions Advisory Board and Cisco will participate in BroadVision's Technical Advisory Councils. The two companies will also work with Cisco's Internet Business Solution Consulting Partners (Cambridge Technology Partners, Ernst & Young, and KPMG), to offer customers strategic consulting and integration services as part of the Internet Commerce Solution.
"BroadVision is the leading provider of one-to-one relationship management applications for the extended enterprise, with nearly 300 customers worldwide including American Airlines, RS Components and Xerox, " said Dr. Pehong Chen, President and CEO of BroadVision. "Cisco is the global leader in Internet commerce. This partnership highlights the synergy between our two firms via our long-term Internet application and networking strategies. It also utilizes the thriving BroadVision practices at our system integration partners Cambridge Technology Partners, Ernst & Young and KPMG. It's a win-win for all of the companies involved and especially for our shared customers, who stand to benefit the most from this partnership."
"KPMG is pleased to provides services to Cisco customers through our involvement in the Internet Commerce Solution Group," said Keyur Patel, Partner-in-Charge for Electronic Commerce and Customer Relationship Management for KPMG's Software and Electronics Market Segment. "We have trained a significant number of our consultants on BroadVision and are ready to create rapid success for those companies in the software and electronics industries needing to build enterprise-class, network-aware applications to transact business online with suppliers, business partners and customers."
"Cisco is pleased to partner with BroadVision as part of our new Internet Commerce Solution, where both companies will work together to help Cisco customers develop and rapidly execute industry-leading business and technology practices that drive successful Internet commerce implementations," said Sue Bostrom, vice president of the Internet Business Solutions Group at Cisco Systems. "Solutions from Cisco and BroadVision will help our customers realize the tremendous opportunities for using the Internet to improve customer satisfaction, reduce operating costs, and increase revenues from both existing and new customer segments," she said.
BroadVision Solutions
BroadVision provides application solutions that enable the creation of online communities using a customer-centric approach through which companies can market and respond to the needs of customers on a one-to-one basis. BroadVision solutions offer advanced customization, dynamic content matching, and online alerts that are driven by user profiles. These solutions integrate easily with existing front and back office systems. Specific offerings include the BroadVision One-To-One Enterprise relationship management system, and the One-To-One Commerce, One-To-One Financial and One-To-One Knowledge applications. Also available are associated easy-to-use One-To-One tools for business managers, who use these tools to control their web sites dynamically including the creation of business rules and the distributed publication of content.
BroadVision One-To-One Commerce is an enterprise-class application solution for the rapid deployment and dynamic personalization of high transaction Internet commerce sites. This extensible and flexible electronic commerce application helps businesses sell more efficiently to their online customers, whether these customers are consumers, businesses or channel partners. With its advanced, instant personalization capabilities, BroadVision One-To-One Commerce enables fast-moving, high transaction companies to immediately change the products, prices, promotions and other content to better meet user needs -- even on a user's first visit to a web site.
Cisco's Internet Commerce Solution
Cisco's Internet Commerce Solution is comprised of four major components, including:
* Industry-Leading Practices -- Cisco provides a broad portfolio of
recommended business and technology practices, Internet commerce
business models, strategic frameworks, planning tools, and
implementation methodologies based on the company's own industry-leading
Internet commerce expertise.
* Network Foundation -- Complete Cisco network reference architectures and
pre-configured network designs provide the essential foundations for
building a state-of-the-art, end-to-end enterprise network
infrastructure that is highly scalable, reliable, secure, and optimized
to support Internet commerce applications.
* Internet Business Solution Application Partner -- Leading Internet
commerce application vendor BroadVision has Cisco as a strategic
networking partner. In addition to strategic business development and
marketing efforts, BroadVision will work closely with Cisco to enhance
the performance and functionality of BroadVision products by taking
advantage of Cisco's leading edge networking technologies.
* Internet Business Solution Consulting Partners -- Cambridge Technology
Partners, Ernst & Young, and KPMG have selected Cisco as their strategic
networking partner in providing strategic consulting and integration
services for all Internet-based solutions and web technologies.
About Cisco Systems
Cisco Systems, Inc. is the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet. News and information are available at cisco.com.
About BroadVision
BroadVision, Inc. (Nasdaq: BVSN) is the leading worldwide supplier of one-to-one Internet business applications for extended relationship management (XRM) across the electronic enterprise. BroadVision's end-to-end solutions enable companies to rapidly deploy and cost-effectively operate secure, scalable, intelligent, 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 250 customers including American Airlines, Credit Suisse, Development Bank of Singapore, Ernst & Young, Fingerhut, Hewlett-Packard, Liberty Financial, META Group, Nortel Networks, Oracle, RS Components, Solectron, Thomas Cook, Visa USA and Xerox.
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 broadvision.com.
NOTE: Cisco, Cisco IOS, Cisco Systems and the Cisco Systems logo are registered trademarks of Cisco Systems, Inc. in the United States and other countries. BroadVision and BroadVision One-To-One are trademarks or registered trademarks of BroadVision in the United States and other countries. All other trademarks mentioned in this document are the property of their respective owners.
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