BEA Systems
BEA WebLogic Process Integrator
BEA WebLogic Process Integrator is a workflow engine for BEA WebLogic application servers that automates workflow, business-to-business processes, and application assembly.
BEA WebLogic application servers can be deployed for e-commerce applications that must be integrated with back-end systems, and for e-markets that support B2B trading communities.
Using a flowchart paradigm, business analysts use the BEA WebLogic Process Integrator Design Studio to define business processes that span these applications or to automate human interaction with these applications.
Pricing: on application
Contact: 1800 678 024
http://www.bea.com/products/weblogic/integrator/index.html
Compaq Computer Australia
Business Supply Chain Management solutionsCompaq eBusiness solutions enable corporations to have continuous and real-time responsiveness in a dynamic marketplace and keeps e-businesses online and interacting with their business partners. Incorporating highly available and scalable platforms to suit all needs, specific supply chain management applications and a complete portfolio of lifecycle services, Compaq enables customers to improve collaboration with their supply chain over the Internet.
Compaq's Internet architecture is based on its open industry-standard servers and storage applications.
Pricing: on application
Contact: 1300 638 369
www.compaq.com.au
Congex
Congex B2B ASP
Congex B2B ASP is a supplier enablement offering that does away with the need for complex IT infrastructure or expertise yet keeps the business/supplier in control of their own data. Key to the solution is the eCatalog Suite (eCS), a self-service software solution that lets companies create, manage and distribute customised electronic catalogue data. It enables suppliers to cleanse and normalise data, map product codes to universally recognised codification systems (such as UNSPSC), manage customer-specific pricing profiles and output catalogues to all known mainstream e-procurement vendors. The supplier has 24x7 access to data and can make changes as often as needed.
Price: monthly subscription fee
Contact: (02) 8920 2220
www.congex.com
Epicor eProcurement
Epicor eProcurement enables integration of the procurement process, delivering to the enterprise. It covers employee-direct purchasing, control of catalogue management and policy enforcement, a strategic approach to building supplier relationships and buyer discounts. It includes reporting data to track spending trends and various drilldown options to pinpoint source information.eProcurement is an integrated Web commerce application that lets organisations gain and improve control of operational resources by leveraging Web technology to connect large populations of frontline employees, management and suppliers. eProcurement provides planning, execution and analysis in a closed-loop system and facilitates a trading network, allowing buyers and suppliers to maintain control over their trading relationships.
Pricing: on application
Contact: 1800 033 857
www.epicor.com
GE ECXpress
GE Electronic Marketplace Solutions
GE ECXpress, the Australian joint venture company of GE Global eXchange Services (GXS) and the Ecomm Group, provides services for building and managing e-marketplaces.
GE ECXpress can provide marketplace solutions which enable participant companies to interface with each other, regardless of any disparate data formats, communication protocols and integration technologies.
The solution operates using Internet- based electronic catalogue technology and EDI for establishing buy and sell side e-catalogues for procurment and supply change solutions, materials forecasts, purchase order tracking, settlement and conversion, and online quote and bid management via the Web.
Pricing: on application
Contact: (02) 9957 9200
www.gegxs.com
i2 Technology
TradeMatrix
TradeMatrix is an electronic business solution that lets companies deploy both private and public B2B and B2consumer portals. I2 has developed a number of industry and service trading portals under the umbrella of TradeMatrix spanning different industry verticals and providing e-business services for each industry. TradeMatrix can be implemented in five to eight weeks.
Pricing: depends on customisation
Contact: (03) 9865 9918
www.i2.com or www.tradematrix.com
IBM Australia
WebSphere Commerce Suite Marketplace EditionThis offers the functions and tools for building a successful and scalable marketplace, including various dynamic trading models, such as exchange, RFP/RFQ and auctions.
It supports a broad range of business models (B2B, B2C, eMP and service providers), and transactions over wireless devices. It facilitates various dynamic trading models including auction, RFQ/RFP (reverse auction) and exchanges; integrated marketplace functions including dynamic pricing, membership registration, order management, catalogue, business intelligence, and approvals. Lotus Sametime support lets buyers and sellers receive online customer assistance.
Integration with high-performance middleware (WebSphere, MQSeries and LDAP). MQSeries runs on more than 35 different operating systems.
It is based on open standards, including Java, XML, LDAP, WAP and TPAs (Trading Partner Agreements) to facilitate back-end application integration and external business integration with trading partners.
Pricing: on configuration
Contact: 13 2426
http://www.ibm.com/software/websphere/commerce
Inprise/Borland
AppCenter
AppCenter addresses the challenges associated with distributed architectures by providing software-based centralised management and control for distributed applications running on multiple hardware and software platforms. AppCenter provides tools that to model, monitor and manage applications. Distributed architectures provide the opportunity for developing new types of applications, with new levels of fault tolerance, scalability and performance.
Pricing: on application
Contact: 1800 632 266
http://www.borland.com.au
InterBiz
BizWorks
InterBiz, the eBusiness applications division of Computer Associates offers BizWorks - the eBusiness Intelligence Suite to bridge existing systems and the Internet, and leverages information sources, to provide a single, consolidated view of a business. The suite collects operational data from one or all transaction systems, shop floor equipment and devices, the Web and systems of cooperating customers and suppliers. It then translates, correlates and presents this information using advanced contextual visualisation techniques allowing data points from across an enterprise to be compared, contrasted and analysed. With CA's nugent (neural learning agent) technology, BizWorks can use past events to predict future events and trends.
Pricing: on request
Contact: (02) 99370823
www.cai.com
iPlanet e-commerce solutions
iPlanet Portal Server
The iPlanet Portal Server, portal platform, enables delivery of content, services, business processes, and applications in personalised portals for enterprises competing in the Net economy. iPlanet Portal Server enables connection and interaction with suppliers, employees, partners, and customers in a scalable, secure portal environment. The server enables community creation and management; achieves multitiered portal personalisation, and delivers integrated content, applications and services through customisable portal channels. It allows secure extranet access to portals by mobile and remote employees, suppliers, and partners that requires no additional client software to install and maintain. The server leverages existing technology and digital asset investments.
Pricing: configuration per CPU
Contact: (02) 9409 1700
www.iplanet.com
JD Edwards
JD Edwards Marketplace
JD Edwards Marketplace enables the development and administration of marketplaces and e-business portals, and has adaptable fee structures and relationship management capabilities. The component-based architecture is extensible and agile, and includes a messaging layer for integrating processes across buyers and suppliers. Marketplace also offers self-service administration and a broad set of browser-based utilities, so each participating organisation can remotely administer its specific user profiles, access rules, and workflow processes. The system supports a full range of fixed and dynamic pricing, including auction, quotes and bids, and electronic catalogues. Marketplace is scalable and open to tailor messaging capabilities to the requirements of selling and buying organisations.
Pricing: on application
Contact: (02) 8879 2500
www.jdedwards.com
Open Text Corporation
Livelink and myLivelink
* Livelink: is a scalable e-business application for organisations and industries that span the globe to develop virtual communities that are able to work and share information effectively. From the creation of complex e-community relationships to the automation of simple e-business processes, Livelink delivers dynamic collaboration between individuals, organisations, and large trading communities.
* myLivelink is a collaborative knowledge portal solution for business. It connects users to information from within their enterprise business systems, intranets, extranets and global e-community from a single Web interface.
A hub for navigating and accessing a variety of information sources, myLivelink enables users to personalise access to corporate information, industry data, enterprise business systems, consumer links, e-mail, conferencing, calendaring, forms processing, news feeds, and more.
Pricing: on request
Contact: (02) 9552-3334
www.opentext.com
Oracle Corporation
Oracle Exchange
Oracle Exchange is for companies that want to create global, online marketplaces and connect their supply chains via the Internet.
The Exchange is arranged in several categories including: exchange administration, company and user registration and profiling, billing and revenue collection, catalogue purchases, buyer/reverse auctions or requests for quotation, seller/forward auctions, catalogue management, and marketplace intelligence. The unified catalogue in the exchange marketplace allows content to be aggregated from multiple sellers into a single catalogue. Sellers can load the content once to reach the entire buying community. Participants can conduct a variety of transactions that range from complex auctions for configured production goods, or high velocity, repetitive purchases of frequently used items.
Pricing: on application
Contact: 1300 657 226
http://www.oracle.com/applications/exchange
PSDI
Mro.Com?
MRO.com? is a wholly-owned subsidiary of PSDI and provider of Internet-based B2B systems for the MRO (maintenance, repair and operations) materials procurement market. Mro.Com? links an online community of MRO suppliers and buyers to a group of Internet-based desktop requisition and online procurement software products. Mro.Com? for Buyers addresses the spectrum of MRO procurement needs, and eliminates downtime due to parts unavailability. As a single catalogue, personalised by customers, Mro.Com? for Suppliers lets companies create and maintain an online catalogue with text, photos, drawings and item-specific Web links. A single repository of catalogue content, accessible to customers anywhere via the Mro.Com?
Mro.Com? Exchange is an online auction tool, which enables companies to expand the reach of their traditional purchasing processes.
Pricing: on application
Contact: 1800 037 788
http://www.mro.com
QAD
QAD eQ is a suite of B2B applications for any sized enterprise to bridge between the company Web site and multiple back-end enterprise systems. It is built on a highly adaptable model of customer and supplier relationships using Java and XML technologies. The model allows the system to recognise how to deal with an incoming B2B transaction and pass it to the appropriate distributed ERP system.
Using personalised profiles that reflect supply chain roles and organisational policies, QAD eQ executes each transaction based on the agreements and preferences of the parties involved.
QAD eQ also allows you to leverage existing investments in hardware and software, provides real-time integration with enterprise applications. It bridges the disparate systems of multiple trading partners and scales to handle large volumes of transactions.
Pricing: on application
Contact: (02) 9857 3000
www.qad.com
SAP Australia
SAP Business-to-Business Procurement
The SAP Business-to- Business Procurement solution enables open, full-cycle, inter-enterprise procurement from the desktop. The solution facilitates all processes associated with the procurement of maintenance, repair, and operation of both goods and services.
Employees can purchase goods and services directly from their desktops with or without an electronic catalogue. At the same time, purchasing managers can leverage the benefits of centralised control and vendor management while focusing on strategic sourcing.
It also enables links for source information to thousands of different suppliers and to efficiently search for and compare purchasing options. The SAP B2B Procurement solution offers an open catalogue interface.
Contact: (02) 9935 4500
http://www.sap.com
Streamlink
Streamlink is an e-procurement solution that manages non-inventory purchasing, such as office equipment, stationery and services. It leverages the Internet to remove internal and supplier process inefficiencies and to control and co-ordinate spending.
By controlling purchasing, organisations can deliver purchasing control and a paperless environment to both internal customers and trading partners. Streamlink connects buyers to suppliers and requesters to approvers. It provides catalogues and budget control, manages the request process and delivers a comprehensive level of supplier performance data, all electronically.
Streamlink uses Internet standards, so can be deployed internally or with an ISP or buying network. Streamlink is a Web application. The server uses any JDBC-compliant relational database and Java Servlets. Administration client is a stand-alone Java application.
Pricing: on application
Contact: (02) 8243 1282
www.streamlink.com.au
Sybase
Enterprise Portal
Sybase Enterprise Portal enables customers to execute both business to business and business to consumer transactions. Established bricks and mortar enterprises, dotcoms, and vertical industries have different e-business requirements. Sybase has vertical e-business solutions using the Enterprise Portal foundation, and is able to tailor a solution for a specific audience.
The Sybase Enterprise Portal is a nonstop enterprise portal assuring continuous availability. Built in are core portal components like content management, personalisation, content retrieval and an extensive array of integration options for data, events and applications.
Pricing: on application
Contact: 1800 805 349
www.sybase.com.au
Tibco ActiveExchange
Tibco ActiveExchange provides end-to-end, real-time e-business infrastructures to enable B2B exchanges. The software builds the platform that joins together a suite of enterprise applications.
ActiveExchange offers a B2B platform to enable enterprise hubs and e-marketplaces to connect suppliers, distributors and partners. It enables secure and real-time commerce transactions directly with other enterprises and through B2B commerce intermediaries.
The first two products in the ActiveExchange family are TIB/BusinessConnect which interconnects a company's systems and processes directly with partners, customers and vendors while TIB/BusinessPartner enables distribution to partners, customers and vendors that don't have B2B commerce systems.
Pricing: on application
Contact: (02) 92663334
www.tibco.com
Viewlocity
AMTrix is an application integration engine for B2B, dynamic trading communities, EAI and supply chain synchronisation. By leveraging Internet-based supply chain integration, customers, partners and suppliers can achieve measurable benefits in inventory visibility, order fulfilment and logistics asset utilisation. AMTrix is an integration tool that supports business processes, workflows, and associated information flows by capturing and processing business events in real time.
It supports messaging formats from EDI to XML.
Pricing: on configuration
Contact: (02) 9911 7788
www.viewlocity.com
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