Edifecs and Peregrine Systems® Announce Strategic Partnership To Expedite Trading Partner Enablement
Peregrine integrates Edifecs CommerceDesk
with Get2Connect(sm) to expand trading
community management, surveying and
reporting
BELLEVUE, WA (April 16, 2001) -- Edifecs, the leading
provider of solutions which helps
companies accelerate the building
of standards-based B2B trading-partner
networks, and Peregrine Systems, Inc.
(NASDAQ: PRGN) today announced the
signing of a multi-year licensing
agreement that will provide Peregrine
customers with enhanced capabilities
for community collaboration.
The services will be delivered through
the Peregrine's e-Business portal,
using Edifecs CommerceDesk™
community collaboration server. Peregrine,
one of the world's largest software
companies, helps companies remove
the frictional cost from collaborative
commerce by connecting businesses,
people and applications, using its
Get2Connect global trading network.
Industry analysts conclude that trading
partner enablement is one of the single
most important factors in B2B relationship
management. The combination of Edifecs
and Peregrine's Get2Connect,
which hosts $280 billion of transactions
annually, brings a powerful and scalable
Web-based collaboration solution to
the Peregrine customer base, helping
them automate and significantly reduce
the time it takes to ramp up, survey
and maintain trading partners. Under
the agreement, Peregrine will incorporate
CommerceDesk with its Get2Connect
service offerings, as well as with
its Business Community Integration
group, to enhance customer service
levels.
Peregrine is committed to
providing customers with value-added
services that uniquely extend their
B2B relationship management capabilities
and provide a value proposition for
buyers, suppliers and marketplaces,
said Louis Blatt, senior vice president
and general manager of the Peregrine
E-Markets Group. We believe
CommerceDesk is an ideal complement
to our Get2Connect and Business Community
Integration solutions. It will provide
an immediate benefit to our customers
in their B2B relationship management
efforts.
This partnership aligns with
our current strategies to enhance
the offerings of leading B2B providers
with our enablement platform and products,
said Sunny Singh, CEO of Edifecs.
By offering Edifecs CommerceDesk
through Get2Connect, Peregrine will
be able to dramatically increase the
speed and efficiency with which it
readies individual customers'
trading communities for e-commerce
transactions, and allow the company
to solidify its position as a leader
in the B2B market.
Edifecs CommerceDesk 4.0 is a software
platform that automates, streamlines,
standardizes and accelerates the individual
steps of the enablement process, critical
for ramping-up and managing large-scale
trading partner networks and exchanges.
CommerceDesk, a community collaboration
solution, provides a full range of
self-service functionality including
community, partner, and project management,
schema and message validation, reporting
and administration. CommerceDesk provides
an extendable quick deployment process
that can be customized for each partner
network and its B2B initiatives. It
enables Global 2000 companies and
trading exchanges to rapidly deploy
trading networks and accelerate the
B2B implementation process to thousands
of partners, eliminating the enablement
bottleneck holding back B2B adoption
today.
For more information on CommerceDesk
call +1.425.895.3020, email info@edifecs.com,
or visit www.edifecs.com.
About Peregrine
Founded in 1981, Peregrine has matured
into one of the largest software companies
worldwide. Peregrine supports companies
with solutions that remove friction
points in managing infrastructure
assets, empowering employees and enabling
collaborative electronic commerce.
Peregrine's E-Markets Group (EMG)
takes to market a digital business
offering that provides a full range
of software products and managed Internet
services using Peregrine's Get2ConnectSM
global trading network. Peregrine
EMG processes nearly 1.2 million e-Commerce
transactions every business day. Peregrine's
Infrastructure Management Group (IMG)
provides solutions to manage the entire
life cycle of an organization's assets,
from IT equipment and fleets of vehicles
to a company's intangible knowledge
assets. Peregrine's Employee
Relationship Management solutions
give employees real-time tools to
secure knowledge, services and resources
from a portal accessed at a desktop
computer or an array of mobile devices.
Peregrine is headquartered in San
Diego, California and has offices
throughout the world. For more information
on Peregrine, visit http://www.peregrine.com.
About Edifecs
Edifecs (http://www.edifecs.com) is
the proven provider of solutions for
rapidly deploying and managing today's
trading partner networks. The Edifecs
solution suite encompasses the CommerceDesk™
and SpecBuilder™ product families,
and a Professional Services group
with demonstrated expertise in B2B
standards---all designed to reduce
cost and time-to-market for companies
building complex trading partner networks.
Founded in 1996, Edifecs serves an
installed base of more than 1,000
customers including Microsoft, IBM,
Ingram Micro, Eastman Kodak and Dura
Automotive. The company partners with
numerous B2B providers such as: GE
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. More information can be
found at www.edifecs.com or call Kevin
Briody at 425-895-3064.
CommerceDesk is a trademark of Edifecs.
Peregrine Systems is a registered
trademark of Peregrine Systems, Inc.
All other company and product names
are the property of their respective
owners.
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Contact:
Peregrine
Wendy Gold
Peregrine Systems, Inc.
404.467.3343
wendy.gold@peregrine.com
Edifecs
Kevin Briody
Edifecs, Inc.
425-895-3064
kevinb@edifecs.com
