Siemens Intranet article.
Thursday February 25, 3:51 pm Eastern Time
Company Press Release
ComputerLiteracy.com Brings Intranet Bookstore to
Siemens' "Route One" Corporate Intranet
SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 25, 1999-- ComputerLiteracy.com
(NASDAQ: CMPL - news), the leading Internet retailer of books, manuals and training
materials for technology professionals, and Siemens Information and Communication Networks, a leader in converged
voice/data solutions today announced the introduction of a jointly developed intranet bookstore application on Siemens'
''Route One'' corporate intranet.
The new Siemens Online Resource Center provides employees with easy, instant desktop access to one of the world's largest
selection of technical and business books, manuals and training materials on the Web. Siemens is one of many companies,
including Microsoft(NASDAQ: MSFT - news), Sun Microsystems(NASDAQ: SUNW - news) and Hewlett Packard (NYSE:
HWP - news), who recently have tapped ComputerLiteracy.com to deliver custom online stores via ComputerLiteracy.com's
innovative FindITnow intranet bookstore program.
The Resource Center furthers ComputerLiteracy.com's strategy to partner with companies using intranets to reduce purchasing
costs and improve access to information for employees. The co-branded Siemens Online Resource Center provides custom
recommended reading lists and grants employees full access to ComputerLiteracy.com's more than 800 technical subject
categories. In addition, the site offers sophisticated search tools and advanced editorial services to assist employees in locating
the right resources to solve their unique technical issues. All Siemens employees are pre-approved to order these information
resources from Route One's ComputerLiteracy.com store.
''The Route One network is our portal to corporate knowledge, so ComputerLiteracy.com was a natural extension, adding
world-class expertise with a great depth of information resource materials,'' said Yatman W. Lai, manager, learning
technologies for Siemens Information and Communications Networks. ''With ComputerLiteracy.com, we were able to add this
valuable component to Route One quickly and extremely cost-effectively.''
Accessible internally or remotely from the Route One network, Siemens Online Resource Center is hosted and maintained by
ComputerLiteracy.com. Data transactions are carried out in secure zones which provide network traffic encryption. The
Resource Center Web site is protected with a firewall, and incoming orders are validated to ensure that they are from Siemens.
ComputerLiteracy.com also maintains a special inventory of titles specifically selected for Siemens, enabling same-day shipping
of those titles that are most in demand.
Siemens' comprehensive corporate intranet, Route One, and the programs launched with it, have become a model for many
large and well-known companies across the US. Since its introduction in 1996, Route One and its applications have been
recognized with several awards, including the Communications Week BOTI (Business on the Internet) award in 1996, and
CIO Magazine's 50/50 award in 1997.
Introduced in November, ComputerLiteracy.com's FindITnow intranet bookstore program allows businesses to provide
customized technical resource stores within their corporate networks. Through this program, ComputerLiteracy.com builds a
custom storefront on the corporate partner's intranet, providing every employee with a quick, easy way to find and order
information resources specific to their particular needs.
The FindITnow program offers personalized support by a designated ComputerLiteracy.com account manager, unique
expertise in technical and business books, manuals and training materials and a business-to-business model that works easily
with purchase order and inter-departmental charge procedures. Some corporate partners may qualify for discounts or rebates
for quantity orders. For more information on corporate options available from ComputerLiteracy.com's FindITNow
business-to-business program, call 800-789-8590, email sales@clbooks.com or visit www.computerliteracy.com. To see an
online demo, visit www.computerliteracy.com/findit.
About Siemens Information and Communication Networks
Headquartered in Boca Raton, Fla., Siemens Information and Communication Networks is a leading provider of highly
integrated communications solutions to both carrier and enterprise customers across North America, and a subsidiary of
Siemens AG, Germany, one of the world's 25-largest industrial companies ($66.2 billion in revenues, FY 1997-98; 416,000
employees). Combining more than 150 years of its own technical innovation and experience with the best-of-breed applications
of its industry-leading partners, Siemens Information and Communication Networks delivers and supports converged voice,
video and data solutions that are reliable, easy-to-use and solve customer problems. The company has annual U.S. revenues of
nearly $2 billion and approximately 8,000 employees. Globally, information and communications accounts for more than $13.7
billion in Siemens' annual revenues. For additional information about Siemens Information and Communication Networks, call
1-800-765-6123, or visit the company's World Wide Website at icn.siemens.com.
About ComputerLiteracy.com
ComputerLiteracy.com is the leading online retailer of information resources singularly focused on technical professionals. With
more than 300,000 technology-focused information resource titles from more than 8,000 vendors, ComputerLiteracy.com
offers individual and corporate customers online access to the broadest, most comprehensive selection of technical and
business books, technology-based training solutions, product manuals, research reports and other information resources. The
company offers discounts of up to 40 percent on books and resources, and all in-stock orders placed by 4PM PST ship the
same business day. Visit ComputerLiteracy.com on the Web at www.computerliteracy.com.
This announcement may contain forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties including, among others,
Computer Literacy's limited operating history, anticipated losses, the unpredictability of its future revenues, competition, risks
associated with system development and operation risks, management of potential growth, and risks of new business areas,
international expansion, business combinations, and strategic alliances. Actual results could differ materially from those
discussed. More information about factors that potentially could affect Computer Literacy's financial results is included in the
Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its Registration Statement filed on Form SB-2 on
November 19, 1998, as amended. All forward looking statements are based on information available to the Company on the
date hereof, and the Company assumes no obligation to update such statements.
Note to Editors: All company and product names may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they are
associated.
Contact:
A&R Partners for ComputerLiteracy.com
Amy Nemechek, 650/363-0982 ext. 3930
anemechek@arpartners.com
or
Siemens Information and Communication Networks
Ed Rebello, 408/492-6999
ed.rebello@icn.siemens.com
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