FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
GE INFORMATION SERVICES TO
DISTRIBUTE ACTRA'S ECXPERT FOR WINDOWS NT
Product to ship in next 30
days
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, SEPTEMBER, 23 1997, i+e
Conference—GE Information Services today
announced it will serve as a worldwide distributor
for ECXpert for Windows NT, one product in a full
line of Internet Commerce software solutions
developed by Actra, a joint venture of GE Information
Services and Netscape Communications. ECXpert is a
business document gateway based on state-of-the-art
Internet technology that allows companies to conduct
Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) on the Internet in
a quick, cost-effective and highly secure way. This
new announcement is a key step in GE’s strategy
to extend the benefits of traditional EDI and
electronic commerce over the Internet.
ECXpert is the flagship product of Actra’s
CommerceXpertTM portfolio. This electronic
commerce system, built upon open standards-based,
Internet technologies is a comprehensive software
solution that addresses the growing demand for secure
EDI on the Internet. With a framework that handles
secure data communications over private and public
networks, ECXpert employs certificates, encryption,
authorization and digital signatures to ensure data
integrity and security. ECXpert enables a company to
extend its existing e-commerce/EDI program via the
Internet or build a new Internet-centric program,
utilizing today’s most advanced technologies.
ECXpert on Sun Solaris is available now from GE
Information Services. ECXpert NT will be available in
the next 30 days.
"To complement ECXpert, GE Information
Services will deliver world class services including
map development and implementation, project
management, community ramp, and business/EDI
consulting and training. Ensuring easy client
implementation is key to increasing ECXpert’s
value to the customer," said Dan Tuten, vice
president of Global Product Engineering, GE
Information Services. "GE will have a
client’s ECXpert system installed, implemented
and tested within days, allowing customers to quickly
and efficiently begin developing and/or expanding an
Internet-centric e-commerce program."
The benefits of ECXpert include:
- Leverage of Internet standards while taking
advantage of ECXpert’s ability to
integrate with existing business
applications;
- Easy-to-use, browser based interface for
installation, document management,
administrative tasks and reports;
- Standard-compliant support of SMTP and S/MIME
for secure EDI transactions over the Internet
protocols;
- Cost control of e-commerce programs;
- A single control point for managing and
tracking all Extranet traffic; and
- Business document Processing including EDI,
proprietary formats, binary files and desktop
business documents.
"These features will allow customers to unify
electronic commerce strategies across their
organizations and create comprehensive e-commerce
solutions to span their Intranets, Extranets and the
Internet," Tuten added. "When you purchase
ECXpert from GE Information Services, you invest in
an easy-to-use, cost-effective, total,
Internet-centric solution--a solution that will
position your company both for immediate success and
long-term growth."
GE Information Services is a global leader in
business-to-business electronic commerce solutions,
managing the world's largest electronic trading
community of more than 40,000 trading partners. GE
global networked solutions include EDI and messaging
services, Internet, Intranet and Extranet services,
and a full suite of applications that help streamline
supply chain management processes. GE Information
Services is one of twelve key businesses of the
General Electric Company, and is headquartered in
Rockville, MD, USA. (www.geis.com)
Founded in April 1996, Actra is a
joint venture between Netscape Communications
Corporation and GE Information Services (GEIS).
Benefiting from GEIS' market expertise as the world's
leading provider of business-to-business Internet
commerce services and Netscape's leading position in
developing and marketing software for the Internet,
Actra provides next-generation Internet commerce
applications solutions for both business-to-consumer
and business-to-business commerce markets.
Additionally, Actra is taking an active role in
promoting open standards for Internet commerce. For
more information about Actra:
http://www.actracorp.com.
Actra contact:
Suzanne Burnip
(408) 542-3181
