Edifecs and Contivo Partner To Speed B2B Integration
Contivo to use Edifecs popular and
widely used SpecBuilder Specification
Authoring Suite
Bellevue, WA and Mountain View, CA (June 06, 2001) --
Edifecs, a B2B solutions provider
who delivers products and services
that help businesses rapidly ramp-up
and manage their trading partner networks,
and Contivo, the leading provider
of auto-mapping solutions for B2B
trading partner networks and eCommerce,
today announced that Contivo has licensed
Edifecs SpecBuilder™. The partnership
comes as another effort by both companies
toward enhancing their solutions to
help dramatically speed up the process
of ramping-up and integrating B2B
trading partners.
Contivo will use Edifecs SpecBuilder
internally to develop EDI-based interfaces.
The use of SpecBuilder provides Contivo
with a source reference for EDI standards,
including all versions of both X12
and UN/EDIFACT published to date.
Under the partnership, Contivo will
also resell SpecBuilder to select
Contivo eService customers to support
non-standard complex EDI structures.
We turned to Edifecs SpecBuilder
due to its strong reputation in the
market as a mature and robust solution
for developing and managing EDI guidelines,
said Paul Koenig, vice president of
business development for Contivo.
SpecBuilder will help us rapidly
deliver EDI-based interfaces to our
customers.
We are excited that Contivo
has selected SpecBuilder, said
Greg Gilles, vice of president of
product management for Edifecs. Aligning
with Contivo is a natural fit for
Edifecs thanks to our highly complementary
focuses on speeding up the process
of getting B2B trading networks online
faster.
Edifecs SpecBuilder
Edifecs SpecBuilder™ is the
most powerful and widely deployed
B2B specification-authoring tool on
the market for XML, EDI, and other
B2B standards. SpecBuilder dramatically
simplifies and speeds up the creating,
editing, publishing, migrating and
analyzing of B2B business document
specifications. SpecBuilder also provides
machine-readable document schemas
for use by leading integration and
translation products. SpecBuilder
includes the most comprehensive and
exhaustive B2B standards content for
XML (RosettaNet, DTDs, XDR, and more),
EDI (X12, EDIFACT, VICS, and more),
and proprietary formats (e.g. SAP
IDOCS).
In use by thousands of corporations,
consultants, and integrators worldwide,
SpecBuilder is also the solution of
choice for over 30 industry associations,
standards bodies, and consortia for
standards development. SpecBuilder
builds upon Edifecs expertise
in B2B standards development and implementation
gained through leading roles with
key industry groups and consortia.
About Contivo
Contivo, Inc. provides solutions that
design the way business documents
link and synchronize across internal
applications and e-commerce trading
communities. The Contivo approach
automates the transformation of data
between business applications, also
known as mapping, which constitutes
a significant part of the integration
effort. Founded in 1998, Contivo is
a privately held company with offices
in Mountain View, California. Investors
include Bank of America Ventures,
BEA Systems, TIBCO Software Inc. (Nasdaq:
TIBX), MSD Capital Ltd., Voyager Capital
and webMethods, Inc. (Nasdaq: WEBM).
Tel. 650-426-4000. More information
about the company can be found at
www.contivo.com
About Edifecs
Edifecs (http://www.edifecs.com) delivers
proven B2B solutions to rapidly ramp-up
and manage trading partner networks.
Edifecs B2B products and services
are a powerful solution to the most
significant bottleneck currently holding
back B2B e-commerce: the manual, repetitive
trading partner enablement (ramp-up
and management) process employed by
most companies today. Our B2B solutions
encompass the CommerceDesk™
and SpecBuilder™ product families,
as well as a Professional Services
group with demonstrated expertise
in B2B standards --- all designed
to boost ROI while reducing cost and
time-to-market for companies building
complex trading partner networks.
Founded in 1996, Edifecs serves thousands
of customers including Microsoft,
IBM, Ingram Micro, Eastman Kodak and
Dura Automotive. The company partners
with numerous B2B providers such as
General Electric Global eXchange Services
and Peregrine Systems and is a technology
partner for more than 30 industry
consortia including RosettaNet, ebXML,
UN/CEFACT, CompTIA, and OBI. Based
in Bellevue, Washington, Edifecs is
privately held, with investment from
GE Global eXchange Services.
SpecBuilder and CommerceDesk are trademarks
of Edifecs.
All other company and product names
are the property of their respective
owners.
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Contact:
Edifecs
Kevin Briody
Senior Marketing Manager
425.895.3064
kevinb@edifecs.com
Contivo
Irene Yao
650-426-4196
IYao@contivo.com
