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COLLABRIA ANNOUNCES ALLIANCE WITH COMMERCE ONE: Collabria's
eBusiness Print Solution can now Connect to Commerce One MarketSite
SAN MATEO, CA -- March 9, 2000 -- Collabria, the most widely used e-commerce
solution in the printing industry, today announced an alliance with Commerce
One, Inc., the leader in global e-commerce solutions for business. Current
and prospective Collabria customers will be able to link to Commerce One
MarketSite(tm) Global Trading Portal, the U.S. portal for exchanging goods
and services among businesses worldwide, to fulfill their printing needs.
In addition, Collabria joins the premier list of suppliers on MarketSite.
Collabria's service-based system was developed to address the following problems that typical corporate print buyers face:
- Coordinating a print project with multiple team members, agencies and suppliers;
- Automating the procurement of catalogued items;
- Customizing print documents for 1-on-1 Marketing;
- Decentralizing print purchasing while maintaining control;
- Ensuring the integrity of production-ready documents.
Collabria addresses these problems with the following features:
- An on-line project management and tracking system with centralized project specs, automatic milestone alerts and job archiving;
- A customizable catalog for proofing and reordering templated documents with static and variable data;
- The ability to change specific data items on-the-fly then distribute on demand;
- Automatic routing of approvals, inventory management and on-line billing;
- Built-in technology to create and pass on to your printer production-ready files.
Together, these features make up Collabria's Intelligent Print Workplace(tm), a system designed to integrate all functions and players, returning tangible cost savings throughout the total print process.
"By partnering Commerce One's technology capabilities with Collabria's leading PrintCommerce service, together we can provide customers faster, less expensive print solutions easily and seamlessly," said Roy Satterthwaite, vice president of Commerce One MarketSite. "We're also excited to welcome Collabria into the large and rapidly growing community of suppliers transacting business through Commerce One MarketSite."
Commerce One MarketSite is an open portal that integrates with a wide variety of buying and selling applications and connects to the Commerce One Global Trading Web(tm), the world's largest business-to-business trading community. It is anticipated that through Commerce One MarketSite and its affiliates, trade will be accelerated, technology barriers eliminated, and costs reduced for all trading partners.
According to Alan Hu, president and CEO, Collabria, "The value of this partnership is that it represents yet another new application and e-business solution for customers. The way to win in the marketplace today is by combining the best technology with the best expertise in e-business. That is why this agreement is so exciting for print customers and their printers."
Commerce One MarketSite Global Trading Portal, the U.S. portal for exchanging goods and services among businesses worldwide, provides features and services including hosted trading applications, auction services, Trade Zones for interaction with other e-marketplaces and advertising capabilities. Built with the Commerce One MarketSite Portal Solution 3.0, Commerce One MarketSite is a proven e-commerce portal that offers a complete suite of integrated trading services for buyers, suppliers and Internet market makers. Commerce One MarketSite has supplied transaction, content management and business services to buyers and suppliers since March 1998.
Contacts: Brigitte Heiser, Collabria, Inc.T: 650-306-0777. E: bheiser@collabria.com. Or: Craig Kevghas, Public Relations, CPR Marketing. T: 978-392-8990, E: pr@collabria.com