Intelisys and Enable Systems Partner to Bring Cutting-edge Order Management Technology to Intelisys' On-line Purchasing Communities
NEW YORK, New York and INVERNESS, Illinois, April 20, 2000 – Intelisys Electronic Commerce Inc., a global leader in business-to-business e-commerce, and Enable Systems, a leading provider of complete business-to-business electronic commerce solutions, announced today, that Enable Systems will provide world-class order and content management technology to the suppliers that use Intelisys’ global purchasing communities. Enable Systems will also provide purchasing community members access to products from over 1100 manufacturers. “Our order and content management technology coupled with Intelisys’ purchasing communities are a powerful combination,” said Tony Graffia Jr., President of Enable Systems. “Using the two, we can turn any business into an e-business very rapidly.” Enable Systems will use its order and content management expertise to help small and medium-size suppliers track and manage the orders they receive from the Intelisys online purchasing communities using web-based, open, interoperable technology where suppliers integrate just once and are instantly able to transact business with any participant. Suppliers will benefit from the new business opportunities that result from participating in Intelisys e-procurement communities, the reduction in time needed to complete the purchasing cycle, and ease-of-use, enhanced by Enable Systems technology. Community users will be able to access a multi-supplier, transaction-ready network of suppliers for their total procurement solution. Users will be able to streamline their internal purchasing processes while realizing the financial benefits of the greater buying power participation in the purchasing community brings them. Users also benefit from the automated process, which reduces errors, rework, inventory requirements and returns. The five Intelisys purchasing communities that will be powered by Enable’s order and content management technology include: · Intuit’s QuickBooks Purchasing Service -- Scheduled to be functional later this spring, this online community includes over two million small business customers who purchase more than $500 billion a year of goods and services. · Chase.com – A horizontal and vertical purchasing community serving Chase Manhattan Bank's 350,000 business customers, which is part of a broader business portal that Chase has been developing. · Autolink.com – A vertical automotive purchasing community serving 300,000 automotive dealers and aftermarket repair facilities. · First Union Corp. – An e-marketplace for First Union Corp.’s 700,000 small and mid-sized business customers, that is scheduled to be functional in the third quarter of 2000. · Commonfund – A purchasing community sponsored by the leading financial manager for educational institutions nationwide, to be available this fall to colleges and universities around the country, who spend more than $100 billion annually on supplies and services. “In addition to directly connecting our suppliers to millions of potentially new business customers, this partnership with Enable Systems allows us to provide our suppliers with the best order management technology on the market,” said Lloyd O’Connor, Chief Executive Officer of Intelisys. “This is another step forward for our product, which is already the best technology in its breed.” Intelisys’
powerful IEC-PortalTM technology enables suppliers to leverage existing
cataloging infrastructure to sell products and services to a buying organization using any open standards-based procurement
application. Intelisys connects buyers and suppliers directly, links their existing
online catalog to the portal, eliminating the necessity of aggregating product content on
a third- Intelisys’ patented Supplier Managed ContentÔ solutions allow suppliers of all sizes and varieties to become Internet-enabled. Suppliers well versed in Internet-based e-commerce, can integrate their existing e-commerce catalog into the system quickly and easily. Those without existing online catalogs can use a third party catalog builder or a simple browser-based e-commerce tool kit to create a new one. Using the Supplier Managed ContentÔ solutions, suppliers can automate the entire process from requisition to payment. The leading value of the Enable Systems solution is the Company’s expertise and capabilities in the realm of order and content management. The solution features order and content management technologies that can assist customers throughout the procurement process; from finding the right products to buy to managing the resulting orders, facilitating end-to-end electronic connections between buyers and their many suppliers, and consolidating invoices for customers across all their suppliers of various types of goods. About Enable Systems, Inc. Enable Systems, Inc. is a leading provider of order and content management solutions for corporations who wish to reduce the cost of procuring direct and indirect goods using the Internet. Headquartered in Inverness, Illinois, a Chicago suburb, the company has more than 20 years of experience in providing direct and indirect goods sourcing and order management expertise to Fortune 1000 companies throughout the United States. Enable Systems, Inc. provides a unique value in the eProcurement marketplace because of the breadth and modular nature of its Internet based solution. For more information visit Enable’s web site at www.enablesystems.com, contact sales@enablesystems.com or call (847) 934-0077. About Intelisys CommerceHeadquartered in New
York City, Intelisys Electronic Commerce, Inc. (www.Intelisys.com) provides a powerful B2B
e-commerce solution that brings together Global 2000 and public sector enterprise buyers
and e-marketplace sponsors with all their small and medium-size business customers.
Within this unique framework each may act both as buyer and supplier, to deliver the true
promise of B2B Internet commerce. Intelisys’ suite of products, based on open
standards and supplier managed content, provides the easiest and fastest way to use the
Internet to dramatically reduce the high cost of procuring goods and services and to
develop new revenue streams for e-marketplace sponsors. CONTACT: Intelisys Contact:
Robinson Lerer Montgomery, New York or
Enable Systems
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