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- COMMERCE NET SPONSORED EDI INTEROPERABILITY
TESTING OPENS NEW AREAS FOR INTERNET COMMERCE
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- Four Major EDI Vendors Complete Suite of
Interoperability Tests and Receive CommerceNet's
- Outstanding Achievement Award
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- PALO ALTO, Calif., June 2 /PRNewswire-- CommerceNet,
the premier industry association for Internet commerce,
today announced that four leading-edge vendors have
completed formal interoperability testing and
successfully demonstrated the secure exchange of
electronic data interchange (EDI) information over the
Internet. The successful testing makes it possible for
businesses to exchange EDI transactions over the Internet
with confidence in the security and interoperability of
the vendors' EDI software.
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- During May 1997, Actra Business Systems, Digital
Equipment Corp. (NYSE:DEC), Premenos (Nasdaq:PRMO) and
Sterling Commerce (NYSE:SE) successfully completed all of
the CommerceNet interoperability tests based on the
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) EDIINT Workgroup
recommendations for secure EDI over the Internet. The
fourteen tests included the successful exchange of
certificates, signed messages, encrypted messages and
signed receipts (non-repudiation of receipts) for EDI and
general electronic commerce data over the Internet.
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- Two other EDI software developers, Harbinger
Corporation and Atlas Products International, have
completed interoperability testing with each other and
expect to confirm interoperability with the other vendors
shortly.
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- Awards and Honors
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- These companies will receive the ``CommerceNet
Outstanding Achievement Award'' on June 24 at Business
Online '97, a conference jointly sponsored by GIGA,
Arthur D Little and CommerceNet in San Francisco. The
CommerceNet Outstanding Achievement Award is presented to
companies and individuals who make major contributions to
the advancement of Internet-based electronic commerce.
Additionally, those individuals in each company who lead
the testing program will be honored for their ground
breaking effort. For further information on the Business
Online '97 Conference, consult
http://www.gigaweb.com/events/BOL97USA.htm.
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- Drummond Group
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- Rik Drummond, of The Drummond Group, a consultancy
specializing in Electronic Commerce, and also the
CommerceNet Executive Director for the EDI and Network
Services Portfolio, says, ``This is the dawn of a new era
in business-to-business electronic commerce. Now
businesses may exchange critical business data over the
ubiquitous Internet with confidence because of these new,
ground-breaking, interoperable, secure EDI products which
have and will result from the tests.''
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- Actra
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- Commenting on the creation of the EDIINT standard and
Actra's completion of the interoperability tests, Jim
Sha, Actra CEO said, ``Actra has worked conscientiously
as part of the EDIINT workgroup to drive forward this
crucial standard. Interoperability and openness is a
fundamental design point of Actra CrossCommerce and
specifically for ECXpert, our EDI over the Internet
product. We believe that in order for true Internet
commerce to take place, standards such as EDIINT have to
exist. We are pleased to have been part of such a group
and to have delivered EDIINT compliant software --
ECXpert -- to initiate a new era of non-proprietary
communication.'' For more information about Actra, see
http://www.actracorp.com.
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- Digital Equipment Corporation
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- ``The successful completion of the CommerceNet
interoperability tests is a major step forward in
providing customers with secure and interoperable
Internet-based electronic commerce solutions,'' said
Wayne Toye, Marketing Manager for DEC/EDI software at
Digital Equipment Corporation. ``We are excited to
contribute to this ground-breaking effort and to deliver
the benefits of our DEC/EDI software to customers as part
of secure and interoperable electronic commerce
solutions.'' For more information on Digital EDI and
electronic commerce solutions, please see
http://www.digital.com/edi/ or contact the company at
edi-info@digital.com.
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- Premenos
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- ``We're pleased about CommerceNet's effort to certify
the interoperability of standards based Internet EDI
products,'' commented Greg Vesper, director of Templar
product marketing at Premenos. ``Premenos was the first
to make Internet EDI possible with the release of our
ground breaking Templar product in May of 1995. Templar
supports all relevant EDI standards, and it's currently
being used by more than a hundred customers transmitting
millions of dollars daily.'' For more information on
Templar or Premenos, please visit
http://www.premenos.com.
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- Sterling Commerce
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- ``Sterling Commerce is pleased to be a key
participant in the successful series of CommerceNet
interoperability tests,'' said Dave Pond, Vice President
of Labs for Sterling Commerce's Commerce Services Group.
``As a leading global provider of Internet-enabled
electronic commerce services and software, we believe the
Internet and World Wide Web will play major roles in
extending the benefits of electronic commerce to a
broader trading community.'' For more information about
Sterling, see http://www.stercomm.com.
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- CommerceNet
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- CommerceNet is the premier industry association for
promoting and building electronic commerce solutions on
the Internet. Launched in April 1994 in Silicon Valley,
CA, its membership has grown to over 500 companies and
organizations worldwide. They include the leading banks,
telecommunications companies, VANs, ISPs, online
services, and software and services companies, as well as
end-users, who together are transforming the net into a
global electronic marketplace. CommerceNet can be
contacted at Tel: 415-858-1930; Fax: 415-858-1936; URL:
http://www.commerce.net.
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- Contact: Stacey Bressler of CommerceNet,
415-858-1930, or
stacey@commerce.net
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- More news for referenced ticker symbols: DEC, PRMO,
SE, and related industries: Computer-Hardware, banking,
internet.
- Additional news and quotes: Harbinger Corp - HRBC.
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