FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
ACTRA ANNOUNCES NEW VICE
PRESIDENT OF COMMERCEXPERT PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT
ARCHITECTURE
Steve Savignano Joins Actra
From Manugistics
SUNNYVALE, Calif. (October 7th, 1997) - Actra
today announced that Steve Savignano has joined the
company as vice president of product development and
architecture strategy. In his new role Steve is
responsible for defining product and technology
direction and overseeing the development and delivery
of Actra's CommerceXpert family of Internet commerce
application solutions, the next generation of
inter-enterprise applications. He joins Actra from
Manugistics, the leading provider of Global Supply
Chain Management software, where he was vice
president of product development. In his position at
Manugistics, he built a global product development
team and technology strategy, which led the company
to record growth.
Before joining Manugistics in 1994, Steve held
senior management positions at Digital Equipment
Corp. from 1984-1994, including within the
development groups responsible for Digital's Software
Development Environment Products, UNIX development,
and the Artificial Intelligence Technology Group.
Steve has an MS in Computer Science from the
University of Lowell, an MBA from Northeastern
University, and attended Stanford University
Executive Program for Growing Companies.
Actra CommerceXpert is an integrated family of
Internet commerce application solutions for
conducting commerce over the Internet. The family
consists of five products focused on buying, selling
and merchandising over the Internet: ECXpert,
SellerXpert, BuyerXpert, PublishingXpert and
MerchantXpert. All products are now shipping with the
exception of BuyerXpert, which goes into beta in Q4
1997. MerchantXpert is currently in its v1.6 release
and is currently known in the market place as the
Netscape Merchant System.
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.
