FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
GE INFORMATION SERVICES TO
DISTRIBUTE
ACTRA'S SELLERXPERT
Product to ship in next 30
days
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Sept. 23, 1997, i + e
Conference—GE Information Services today
announced it will serve as a worldwide distributor
for SellerXpert, part of the CommerceXpertTM
family of Internet Commerce solutions developed by
Actra, a joint venture of GE Information Services and
Netscape Communications. SellerXpert is a highly
scaleable software product that allows a corporation
to provide an online selling presence to its
customers, partners and suppliers via the Internet.
SellerXpert provides secure, managed self-service
ordering 24 hours a day, reducing operational costs
and improving customer satisfaction. Integrated with
enterprise applications, SellerXpert creates a
seamless ordering solution providing users with a
strong competitive and marketing advantage.
SellerXpert provides out-of-the-box functionality
that delivers results quickly for a fast and
substantial return on investment. Additionally,
SellerXpert centrally manages up-to-date product
information, tracks sales and analyzes purchasing
patterns while eliminating the need for print catalog
distribution. By improving sales order and accuracy
and reducing sales order processing costs,
SellerXpert helps to improve bottom-line as well as
top-line revenue.
"To complement SellerXpert, GE Information
Services will deliver world class services including
catalog configuration and implementation, project
management, community ramp, and business/EDI
consulting and training," said GE’s Dan
Tuten, vice president, Global Product Engineering.
"SellerXpert features allow our clients to
customize their electronic commerce solutions,"
Tuten added. "The investment in SellerXpert will
give a company the tool to remain competitive as
electronic commerce purchases gain predominance over
traditional ordering channels."
This announcement is a key step in GE’s
strategy to extend the benefits of traditional EDI
and electronic commerce over the Internet. GE
Information Services, who has been a leader in the
electronic commerce marketplace for many years, is
pursuing its strategy of expanding the benefits of
using EDI and electronic commerce to a wider audience
with a focus on ease of use and cost-effectiveness.
Jim Sha, Actra CEO said, "Since our formation
in April 1996, Actra's mission has been to deliver
Internet commerce applications for Fortune 1000
companies. CommerceXpert includes five products, four
of which will be shipping by mid-October 1997,
available through GE Information Services. Actra is
delivering on its promise to the marketplace by
supplying scaleable, flexible high-end commerce
applications to allow companies to extend and
leverage their current legacy investments."
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
